Pottery Workshops in the Coastal Area of Roman Dalmatia: landscape, spatial organization, ownership
The paper’s aim is to try to assess pottery and ceramics production models present in the Roman province Dalmatia, more specifically for its northernmost part (Liburnia), by summarising known data on production facilities, location and landscape exploitation as well as products and their distribution. A wide array of typologically different data, spanning from archaeological and historical to geological and palinological, is used to reconstruct the onset and the chronology of pottery and ceramic production in Dalmatia and Liburnia, and to link this industry to other branches of the ancient economy. Though still in progress, recent research shows that some general models can be discerned, helping understanding rural settlement organisation, urban production and market demands as well, and finally aiding the reconstruction of all those cultural changes and social processes that marked the early Imperial period on the eastern Adriatic, but also the economic developments occurring at later periods.