Concerning Questions of Acculturation with Respect to Ceramics of the Late Roman Period in Moravia
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The Barbaricum-Roman contacts are often evidenced throughout the presence and abundance of items which are believed to be of Roman provincial origin. Roman provincial artifacts recovered in settlement or burial grounds are, for many authors, assumptions on which patterns, intensity and impact of the actual interactions are reconstructed. The pottery, too, holds evidence of socio-cultural interactions and bilateral influences. In majority it is indicated throughout imitating of original Roman products, which in Moravia was customized particularly during the Early Roman Period. In an association with the presence of local wheel-made ceramic production, the Late Roman Period in turn, is more suitably characteristic of a transition of Roman pottery techniques and technology onto local craft. In general, tracing singular trends and directions of the transition process is among long-term goals of researches dealing with wheel-made pottery. A model which would combine a genesis of local pottery with a broader context of acculturation processes could advance our knowledge of local wheel-made ceramic production, a trans-cultural phenomenon which in the Upper and Late Roman Period took on the majority of the Barbaricum. |