The Sociology of Pottery in Ancient Palestine —— The Ceramic Industry and the Diffusion of Ceramic Style in the Bronze and Iron Ages

----- 古代巴勒斯坦的陶器社会学：陶瓷业与陶瓷风格在青铜和铁器时代的融合

ISBN: 9780567129840 出版年：1991 页码：153 Bryant G Wood Bloomsbury Publishing

This fundamental study offers a reconstruction of the social world in which pottery was manufactured, distributed and used in ancient Palestine. Part I concludes that ceramic wares in the Bronze and Iron Ages were mass-produced for commercial sale by small workshops, probably family owned and operated. The technological level was high, with potters' wheels and permanent kilns being used. Part II argues that ceramic styles were rapidly spread throughout Palestine, primarily by itinerant merchants who sold ordinary household wares over great distances.