Phoenician Unguent Factories in Dark Age Greece

Social Approaches to Evaluating the Archaeological Evidence

Bibliographic Data

ID9345519
AuthorsDonald W Jones (0000-0001-9604-1875, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume12
Issue3
Pages293-303
Publication date1993-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOxford Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0262-5253 • E-ISSN: 1468-0092
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-0092.1993.tb00334.x
OpenAlexW1970902937
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited9

Several cases of overseas branches of Phoenician unguent factories have been hypothesized for Dark Age Greece. Efforts to evaluate the hypotheses to date have focused on technical and artistic characteristics of artifactual remains. This paper shifts that focus to examination of social and economic prerequisites and concomitants of foreign branch plants, and implications for archaeological testing. the economic structure of the problem is characterized as involving factory location and foreign direct investment; these concepts are examined for anachronisms. the size of establishment required to make the branch factory hypothesis plausible may not have been an insuperable problem, but the capacity to repatriate profits in the Greek Dark Age places more serious restrictions on the branch plant hypothesis. One of the more reasonable alternatives to the branch plant hypothesis is the immigrant craftsman, the implications of which are discussed

Archaeological evidence · Archaeology · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Factory (object-oriented programming · Geography · Investment (military · Phoenician · Political science · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · History · Law

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