Prehistoric pottery production and distribution in the Shkodër region of northern Albania

Author(s): Anisa Mara

Year: 2017

Summary

The aim of my poster is to present new provenience data regarding pottery sherds from several prehistoric archaeological sites in Shkodër, Albania. The pottery samples to be analyzed are from survey and excavation and were collected by the Shkodra Archaeological Project (PASH). Pots appear to have played important social and economic roles in Shkodër, but we do not yet know where they were made. Previous studies based on stylistic analysis refer to the large hill fort site of Gajtan as a center for pottery production during prehistory. My research tests this assumption using methods of petrographic analysis. Petrography points to multiple production centers and some limited ceramic exchange.

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Prehistoric pottery production and distribution in the Shkodër region of northern Albania. Anisa Mara. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 429560)

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min long: -11.074; min lat: 37.44 ; max long: 50.098; max lat: 70.845 ;

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Abstract Id(s): 15136