OREA - Institut für Orientalische und Europäische Archäologie, ÖAW –
Institut für Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie - Universität Wien (Hg.)
Archaeologia Austriaca 101/2017
Zeitschrift zur Archäologie Europas
Journal on the Archaeology of Europe
Barbara Horejs
S. 205 - 268
doi:
10.1553/archaeologia101s205
doi:
10.1553/archaeologia101s205
Abstract:
This study represents the first publication of a complete find assemblage from a Late Bronze Age house at Ada Tepe. The inventory of House 7 offers a preliminary insight into the everyday life of the Ada Tepe gold-mining society in the 15th century BC. Detailed study of the pottery shapes and fabrics shows that there was a homogeneous spectrum of nearly standardised types and wares. Their functional and contextual evaluation demonstrates that House 7 was used principally for storage and to a lesser degree for consumption. The shapes that clearly dominate the material, amphorae and narrow-mouthed jars, seem to have been used mainly for the storage of food and liquids. The less common table ware, belonging to a set of shallow bowls, deep bowls, cups or beakers and kantharoi, probably relates directly to the consumption of food and drink inside the storage building, in which various household activities are also attested, such as grinding, cutting and sawing. On the basis of these analyses, House 7 can be interpreted as a separate space for storage and craftwork which allows us to assume that the gold miners organised their supply and storage systems. This assessment of the pottery assemblage in a regional and supra-regional setting indicates a society that was principally embedded in the local culture of the Rhodope mountains, but has recognisable links to the regions of central and north Bulgaria and also, to the south, with the north Aegean.
Ada Tepe, Late Bronze Age, settlement, pottery, contextual analysis, everyday-life.
Published Online:
2017/12/27 09:06:15
Document Date:
2017/12/21 06:13:00
Object Identifier:
0xc1aa5576 0x00374285
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Estella Weiss-Krejci, Barbara Horejs
Editorial – 7
Artikel / Articles
Brigitta Mader
Zwischen Stillstand und Aufschwung. Die Prähistorische Kommission der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften von 1918 bis 1938 – 11
Wolfgang F. A. Lobisser, Daniela Kern
Lanze, Pfriem und Muschelschmuck. Experimentelle Nachbauten von Objekten aus tierischen Rohstoffen nach Originalen aus endneolithischen Gräbern des Unteren Traisentals – 45
Eleftheria Kardamaki
The Late Helladic IIB to IIIA2 Pottery Sequence from the Mycenaean Palace at Ayios Vasileios, Laconia – 73
Berichte / Reports
Robert Schumann
Ein außergewöhnliches Fundensemble aus dem Bereich eines spätbronze-/urnenfelderzeitlichen Bestattungsplatzes bei Tarsdorf, Bezirk Braunau am Inn, Oberösterreich. Vorbericht zur Fundbergung 2010 und zur Grabung 2012 – 145
Themenspecial / Special Section
Ada Tepe und die Rhodopen in der Spätbronzezeit / Ada Tepe and the Rhodopes in the Late Bronze Age
Hristo Popov, Marina Koleva, Antoaneta Andonova, Jana Dimitrova, Ivan Vălčev
Das Goldbergwerk auf dem Ada Tepe. Zu Topografie, Stratigrafie, Chronologie und Interpretation des Nordareals – 161
Barbara Horejs
Zum Alltagsleben der Ada Tepe Goldproduzenten im 15. Jh. v. Chr. Das Fundensemble aus Haus 7 in funktionaler und kontextueller Analyse – 205
Reinhard Jung, Stefan Alexandrov, Elena Bozhinova, Hans Mommsen
mit einem Appendix von Anno Hein und Vassilis Kilikoglou
Mykenische Keramik in der Rhodopenregion. Herkunft, regionaler Kontext und sozialökonomische Grundlagen
– 269
Nachruf / Obituary
Barbara Horejs
Bernhard Hänsel und die Berliner Schule. Ein Nachruf auf einen großen europäischen Archäologen – 305
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