COMMODITIES CARRIED IN AMPHORAE AD 600-1200 – NEW RESEARCH FROM SICILY

In this paper we present briefly some of the aspects of trade in amphorae that we intend to confront within the project SicTransit which began in 2016. This research concerns the people of Sicily and their trade with neighbouring countries in the period 5th to 13th century. The aim of the project is...

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Published inArcheologia medievale Vol. 45; p. 269
Main Authors Drieu, Léa, Carver, Martin, Craig, Oliver E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Italian
Published Florence Archeologia Medievale 01.01.2018
Subjects
Archaeology
Collaboration
International trade
Medieval period
Provenance
Sicily Italy
Italy
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Summary:In this paper we present briefly some of the aspects of trade in amphorae that we intend to confront within the project SicTransit which began in 2016. This research concerns the people of Sicily and their trade with neighbouring countries in the period 5th to 13th century. The aim of the project is to understand social and economic change through consecutive regimes, broadly characterised as Byzantine, Aghlabid, Fatimid, Norman and Swabian, with special reference to rural and urban contexts. In addition to drawing on research on Sicilian amphorae typology and provenance, we shall be applying organic residue analysis and a variety of other approaches to determine crops and diet. The work will be undertaken in close collaboration with other analytical and field programmes currently underway in pursuit of the changing diet, demography and agricultural landscapes of Sicily, using plant remains, animal remains, stable isotope analysis and aDNA to compare the predilections of the producers with the form of ceramic containers and their detected contents (MOLINARI 2013, 2015). In this way we hope to define a more precise context in which commodities are being circulated in amphorae, both within the island and between Sicily and the destinations of its exports and the sources of its imports, across three surrounding seas. The project is a collaboration between archaeology and science departments at the Universities ofYork, Rome Tor Vergata and Lecce (see also papers by Molinari, Capelli, Orecchioni).
ISSN:0390-0592