Feasting at Roca
Cross-Cultural Encounters and Society in the Southern Adriatic during the Late Bronze Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7175000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francesco Iacono (0000-0002-2689-2022) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-281 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-9571 • E-ISSN: 1741-2722 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1179/1461957114y.0000000074 |
| OpenAlex | W2041694153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 24 |
This study examines some assumptions related to Late Bronze Age interaction between the Aegean world and central Mediterranean societies. It asserts that, contrary to what is often assumed, this relationship was extremely important and had considerable social consequences. It is argued that such an importance can be appreciated only by acknowledging that interaction is constituted by real-world social encounters. On the basis of this insight, the contextual evidence from the site of Roca in Apulia is analysed. It is proposed that archaeological remains here represent a series of public events—i.e. large feasts—possibly entailing the participation of people of different cultural backgrounds and in which a subtle strategy of representation of relative distance and closeness was adopted to promote interests within Roca's community. Such interests are interpreted with reference to the increasing connections between the eastern and western portions of the Mediterranean, substantiated in the circulation of metal and pottery models and types
Archaeology · Bronze Age · Closeness · Ethnology · Geography · Mediterranean climate · Political science · Politics · Pottery · Representation (politics · Social complexity · Sociology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
The Central Mediterranean and the Aegean
Widening horizons and close encounters
A landmark for local communities. Compositional analysis of the early Iron Age sanctuary at Polizzello Mountain (Sicily, Italy)
Towards an Archaeology of Disentanglement
Establishing the Middle Sea
Sicily without Mycenae
Sardinia and Cyprus
The Aegean Meets Europe
Go the Distance
Crafting resilience
Food and tension
The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory
Newcomers to the world of goods
Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe
The Social Life of Things
The ʺBig Houseʺ at Vronda and the ʺGreat Houseʺ at Karphi
What Would a Bronze-Age World System Look Like? Relations Between Temperate Europe and the Mediterranean in Later Prehistory
A Population Estimate of Ancient Ugarit
The Global Origins and Development of Seafaring
Some Comments on Interpreting the Dark-Surfaced Handmade Burnished Pottery of the 13th and 12th Century BCE Aegean
The metal industry of continental Italy, 13th to the 11th century BC, and its connections with the Aegean
The Mycenaeans in Italy
Aegean Feasting
The Mycenaeans and Europe
Archanes
Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy
Interregional Interaction in Prehistory
From Passive Periphery to Active Agents
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |