Descrizione del progetto
Scavare nelle ceramiche grazie all’archeologia forense e sperimentale
L’industria ceramica è una delle più antiche al mondo e lo studio della sua lunga storia può contribuire a migliorare la nostra comprensione del trasferimento di conoscenze, dei ruoli di genere e della mobilità, oltre che dell’adattamento culturale nell’antichità. Partendo da questo assunto, il progetto AGATHOCLES, finanziato dall’UE, indagherà i modelli di formazione e le reti di collaborazione in uno dei settori più dinamici del mondo antico. Grazie all’uso dell’archeometria, dell’immaginografia computazionale e di altri strumenti innovativi, questo progetto si concentrerà sul caso di studio dei laboratori di ceramica a figure rosse in Italia meridionale e in Sicilia (V-IV secoli a.C.). L’approccio di AGATHOCLES sarà altamente interdisciplinare e prevederà l’applicazione dell’archeologia forense e sperimentale, nonché di discipline umanistiche digitali. Un’analisi delle reti sociali potrà inoltre introdurre profonde innovazioni nelle metodologie impiegate per identificare i laboratori, nonché fornire nuove procedure per identificare tutti gli elementi alla base di reti prolifiche come quelle dell’industria ceramica.
Obiettivo
A.G.A.T.H.O.C.L.E.S. is an innovative approach that allow us to switch our perspective from an ‘archaeology of production’ towards an A.(rchaeology) of G.(esture): A.(pprenticeship), T.(ools), H.(ands), O.(rganization), C.(ollaborations), L.(earning) E.(xperience) and S.(ocial Network Analysis).
The project aims to explore training models and collaboration networks in one of the most dynamic industries of the ancient Classical World: the pottery productive tradition. For this purpose, For this purpose, the ceramic industry is the most common reality in the ancient world to address issues of knowledge transfer, gender division and mobility.
Nowadays, the study on craftsmen’s mobility needs to shift towards the analysis of hidden ancient gestures and technological procedures. Numerous technological aspects related to the ancient artisanal ‘hands’ and tools, usually invisible to the naked eye, can now become visible thanks to advances in archaeometry, computational-imaging and other innovative toolkit this project intends to adopt through an highly-interdisciplinary approach, which also include forensic and experimental archaeology).
Digital humanities is also involved. In particular, Social Network Analysis can deeply innovate the methodologies used to identify workshops and provide new procedures to define groups, relationships, dependencies, and elements that can explain the organization of a complex productive network such as that of ceramic industry.
Moving across from microscopic analyses to macroscopic data-processing (related to the ancient dynamics of apprenticeship), the project specifically focuses on the case-study of red-figure workshops in Southern Italy and Sicily (5th-4th century BCE). These ateliers are ideal to investigate learning experience and collaboration by focusing on five key aspects: a) collaborative patterns within the workshop; b) collaborative patterns with other workshops; c) age and gender differentiation of workforce; d) workers’ mobility; and e) capacity of cultural adaptation.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinatore
10124 Torino
Italia