H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2023

SandMan · Shapes and Meaning. The matt-painted pottery of the North-Lucanian district: culture, identity, symbols and Gender. An interdisciplinary study of a local community in Southern Italy.

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-09-01 → 2023-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 184 708 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Матово оцветената керамика от Южна Италия, нейните форми и символи, се анализират чрез археология и семиотика. Това помага да се разберат идентичността и комуникацията между местните общности, които не са използвали писменост.

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Shapes and Meaning. The matt-painted pottery of the North-Lucanian district: culture, identity, symbols and Gender. An interdisciplinary study of a local community in Southern Italy.

Can shapes and decorations of ancient pottery help us gain a better understanding of the systems of exchange and communication “language” between communities that lived in the same geographical area but that lacked conventional writing systems? The aim of the SandMAN project was to conduct a systematic study of the indigenous material culture - more precisely the matt-painted pottery – discovered among the grave goods in local cemeteries of the ancient district of southern Italy called the North-Lucanian district, an area located in today’s Campania region. The matt-painted pottery is characterized by a variety of artistic styles that are part of identity of each different indigenous community group in South Italy. Nevertheless, the shapes and decorative motifs of the matt-painted pottery, produced by groups within the same district, show a substantial cultural coherence. In fact, the area taken into exam by SandMAN, occupied by eleven modern villages, is known in literature as "North-Lucanian culture", developed between mid-7th to mid-5th century BC. The definition of this cultural area was made possible through the observations of two main characteristics that distinguished the local communities that lived there, from the other surrounding populations: they practiced different funeral rites (they were buried in a more or less contracted position and not in supine one) and their matt-painted pottery bored recognizable symbols and decorations that identifies their particular ceramic production. The SandMAN project proposed an innovative study that took into exam the pottery shapes and decorations of that particular production through an interdisciplinary analysis: Semiotic study of vase decorations (Goal 1), Archaeometric analysis (Goal 2), and Archaeological classification (Goal 3). This research had the aim to highlight the different roles of material culture in all its aspects (physical and symbolic): as means of communication, as “channels” for the transmissions of knowledge, as instruments for the comprehension of gender identification/distinction.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

What were the communication systems of ancient societies without writing? Is it possible to use the decorations and symbols painted on the vases like a new Rosetta Stone? Is it possible to reconstruct the language of archaic communities that have disappeared? Objects convey ideas, memories and messages, and the ceramic decorations are certainly one of these vectors, of conservation but also dissemination of identity and cultural messages. Although it has all the potential to represent a privileged means of knowledge, most of its meanings still elude us. The objective of project SandMan (Shapes and Meaning) is to understand the ways of communication between the archaic communities of southern Italy, free of conventional forms of writing, between the end of Iron Age and the Archaic Period (mid-7th/mid-5th cent. BC). To achieve this goal, the project will use three different approaches: semiotic, archaeometric, and typological. The research aims to conduct a holistic, thus innovative, study of the symbols of ceramics in order to understand the meanings of this symbolic ""lexicon"", better understand how they were important for gender identification/distinction, how they were used as a way to communicate and how that knowledge was passed on to others. SandMan also proposes a systematic study of the matt-painted vases of southern Italy (to create a precise and reliable typology) and a chemical-physical analyzes, will investigate the fabric of vases with matt-painted decorations for to create a reference database of local workshops. In general, the studies have always focused on Greek (or Greek-colonial) objects present in the indigenous contexts, relegating the discovery of indigenous ceramics to a secondary position. This research, instead, using a post-colonial approach, will shift the perspective onto the indigenous material culture, for the understanding of certain bidirectional dynamics of exchange and acculturation between Locals and the ""Others"". ""

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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