FRANCHTHI NEOLITHIC POTTERY V0

KAREN D. VITELLI is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chairperson, Graduate Program in Classical Archaeology at Indiana University.

This fascicle is the first of two detailed reports on the more than one million pieces of pottery (and three complete vessels) recovered from Franchthi Cave and Paralia. These accounts will significantly increase our understanding of Neolithic pottery and Neolithic society in southern Greece. The enormous amount of pottery and the detailed stratigraphic sequences at Franchthi have enabled Vitelli to propose finer chronological distinctions than ever before possible and to talk meaningfully about the people who made and used that pottery. Vitelli's report describes a new classification system she developed for Aegean Neolithic ceramics that makes it possible to address questions about social and economic organization in Neolithic Greece. Part I of this volume explains the new classification system developed by Vitelli and its rationale, describes the analyses performed on the sherds, and describes and explains the establishing of ceramic phases within the stratigraphic record. Part II discusses in turn each of the ceramic subphases for the period covered by this volume (Early and Middle Neolithic). of pottery found at the site. Part IV begins the task of assessing the implications of the analyses reported here.

Foreword (T.W. Jacobsen)PrefaceIntroductionPart I Theory and MethodsChapter One: The Ceramic Classification/Introduction/Rationale and Procedures/Ceramic Production at Franchthi/TerminologyChapter Two: The Characterization AnalysesChapter Three: The Ceramic Phasing/Procedures/The Ceramic Phases/The Ceramic Subphases/The BoundariesPart II Excavation Contexts: FCP 7 and FCP 2Chapter Four: IntroductionChapter Five: Ceramic Interphase 0/1 (Int 0/1)/Definition/Contexts/Summary: The Beginnings of Pottery Use at FranchthiChapter Six: Franchthi Ceramic Phase 1 (FCP 1)/Definition/Contexts/Summary: The Nature of FCP 1 OccupationChapter Seven: Franchthi Ceramic Phase 2 (FCP 2)/General IntroductionChapter Eight: Ceramic Interphase 1/2 (Int 1/2)/Definition/Contexts/Summary of Int 1/2 ContextsChapter Nine: Ceramic Subphase 2.1 (FCP 2.1)/Definition/Contexts/Summary of FCP 2.1 ContextsChapter Ten: Ceramic Subphase 2.2 (FCP 2.2)/Definition/Contexts/Summary of FCP 2.2 ContextsChapter Eleven: Ceramic Subphase 2.3 (FCP 2.3)/Definition/Contexts/Summary of FCP 2.3 ContextsChapter Twelve: Ceramic Subphase 2.4 (FCP 2.4)/Definition/Contexts/Summary of FCP 2.4 ContextsChapter Thirteen: Ceramic Subphase 2.5 (FCP 2.5)/Definition/Contexts/Summary of FCP 2.5 ContextsChapter Fourteen: The FCP 2/FCP 3 BoundaryPart III The PotteryChapter Fifteen: Introduction to the Pottery AnalysisChapter Sixteen: FCP 1 Lime Ware/Introduction/Calcareous Class: Lime WareChapter Seventeen: FCP 1 Sandy Ware/Noncalcareous Class: Sandy WareChapter Eighteen: FCP 1 Minor Wares/Noncalcareous Class: Andesite Ware/Calcareous Class: Ungritted Ware/Calcareous Class: Serpentine WareChapter Nineteen: FCP 2 Lime Ware/Introduction to the Pottery of Int 1/2 and FCP 2/Calcareous Class: Lime WareChapter Twenty: FCP 2 Sandy Ware/Noncalcareous Class: Sandy WareChapter Twenty-one: Int 1/2 and FCP 2 Minor Wares/Noncalcareous Class: Andesite Ware/Calcareous Class: Ungritted Ware/Calcareous Class: Serpentine Ware/Calcareous Class: White WareChapter Twenty-two: Introduction to Int 1/2 and FCP 2 Urf Ware/Calcareous Calss: Urf WareChapter Twenty-three: Int 1/2 Urf WareChapter Twenty-four: FCP 2.1 Urf WareChapter Twenty-five: FCP 2.2 Urf WareChapter Twenty-six: Early Urf VarietiesChapter Twenty-seven: FCP 2.3 Urf WareChapter Twenty-eight: FCP 2.4 Urf WareChapter Twenty-nine: Late Urf VarietiesChapter Thirty: FCP 2.5 Urf WareChapter Thirty-one: Coarse Urf: Building Procedures and Vessel Function/Coarse Urf Bottomless Vessels/Coarse Urf Gouged BowlsChapter Thirty-two: Urf Decorative Styles/The Patterned Urf Sample/The Nature of the Patterned Urf Style/The Decorative Style of Pattern-Burnished UrfChapter Thirty-three: Urf Firing Practices and Technological DevelopmentPart IV From Potsherds to People: The Implications of the AnalysesChapter Thirty-four: The Location and Scale of Production/The Location of Pottery Production/The Scale of Pottery ProductionChapter Thrity-five: Pots, Potters, and Neolithic Society/Cooking Pots/Pots and Cooking/Pots for Purposes Other than Cooking/Pots as Symbols/Specialist Potters/Potters as Shamans?/Pots as Markers of Social ChangeDocumentsDocument 1: Frequency TablesDocument 2: Pottery JoinsDocument 3: Phasing within TrenchesReferencesIndexTablesPlansFiguresPlates