Del campo a la ciudadproducción y comercialización de recipientes anfóricos en el bajo Guadalquivir durante la II Edad del Hierro

Abstract

This Doctoral Thesis studies the production and commercialisation of the rural surplus of the lower Guadalquivir Valley, focusing on the analysis of the distribution networks of the commodities through the consideration of their containers, the Pellicer BC and Pellicer D amphora types. Chronologically, this production concentrates on the Late Iron Age, the end of the Protohistory, more concretely from the beginning of the 5th century BC to the end of the 1st century BC. The research of the transport and distribution of the agricultural surplus has been conducted through the multi-perspective analysis of the amphorae. The riverbanks of the lower Guadalquivir and the countryside of Seville are an ideal geographical area for developing such a study, considering the evolution of the region during this historical period due to the external connections that influenced the Pre-Roman Turdetanians at a local and regional scale. This Dissertation offers a typological, compositional and technological definition of the variability in the production of amphorae in the lower Guadalquivir Valley. On the basis of these characterisations, several associations between morphological or archaeometrical features and specific pottery workshops have been established. Consequently, these relations lead to a better understanding of the economic roles of the main settlements of the region in the alimentary surplus distribution and consumption network. The study of the ceramic assemblages have considered productive questions, from the establishment and the activity of the workshops to the technological choices of the potters, but also commercial and organization problems, as the movement of the amphorae, their content, their registration system or the identification of the product by the recipients.