O EXAMINARE A OLĂRIEI MEDIEVALE TIMPURII DIN PARTEA RĂSĂRITEANĂ A BAZINULUI CARPATIC (SECOLELE VII–IX), ÎN LEGĂTURĂ CU FOLOSIREA ROŢII OLARULUI
AN EXAMINATION OF THE EARLY MEDIEVAL POTTERY PRODUCTION CONCERNING THE USE OF THE POTTER’S WHEEL IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE CARPATHIAN BASIN (7TH–9TH CENTURIES)

Summary/Abstract: The production, distribution and consumption of pottery reflects an important area of economic life, but also social behaviours, including the perpetuation or abandonment of certain traditions in this field. Mainly, the present contribution proposes an examination of the changes in the production of early medieval pottery in the eastern part of the Carpathian Basin, in connection with the use of the potterʼs wheel. The changes in pottery production illustrate only one aspect of the complex and not easily decipherable transformations that took place during the transition period from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. About this process, the opinions expressed regarding the spread of slow-wheel pottery within the Avar Khaganate and its neighbourhoods are commented. The explanation for the association in the same area and in the same location of slow-wheel pottery with the one made on the fast wheel remains obscure, in any case it is about the simultaneous presence of two different technological traditions, both with origins in Late Antiquity. The forms in which the production of pottery was organized over time did not register a linear evolution, they were always influenced by the economic and social organization, as they responded to external impulses. Transitions, especially sudden ones, from one model to another are difficult processes to explain.

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