Il mio progetto di ricerca ha avuto come focus il Salento nell’età del Ferro partendo dallo studio contestuale di un sito scoperto recentemente a Vaste, nel sud della provincia di Lecce. Si tratta di un sito inedito rivelatosi particolarmente importante perché è uno dei pochi contesti ritenuti cultuali documentati nel Salento per l’età del Ferro. Si tratta di una vasta area caratterizzata dalle presenza di buche terragne i cui depositi si sono rivelati di natura rituale. È stato uno dei pochi contesti salentini che ha restituito materiale iapigio integro. La cronologia del contesto è prima metà del VII sec. a.C. L’analisi del contesto di Vaste è stata preceduta da una schedatura dei siti dell’età del Ferro editi nel Salento. L’altra parte importante del progetto è stata l’analisi chimica tramite tecnica XRF svolta presso il CEDAD su un campione di ceramica d’importazione databile tra fine VIII e VII sec. a.C. proveniente da alcuni siti salentini (Vaste, Otranto e San Vito dei Normanni) e della Basilicata (Policoro e Torre di Satriano). Il lavoro ha permesso di stabilire i luoghi di produzione delle varie classi ceramiche analizzate. / My research project will focus on the Salento region during the Iron Age; beginning with the study of a site that was recently discovered in Vaste, in the Southern province of Lecce. Little is known or has been published about the site, but as studies of the area continue it was discovered to have been one of the few sites to be officially religious in Salento during the Iron Age. Interestingly, it is a vast area characterised by the presence of ‘earth pits’, which are earthy deposits of a ritualistic nature. It is also one of the few areas in Salento where undamaged ‘Iapygian’ artefacts have been discovered. This period chronologically dates from the 7th century B.C. Further studies for this project have been done using chemical analysis (an XRF technique done in CEDAD laboratories) on pottery samples dating from the 8th to the 7th century B.C. from various sites in Salento, such as, Vaste, Otrano and San Vito dei Normanni and sites in Basilicata, such as, Policoro and Torre di Satriano.

La distribuzione della ceramica geometrica daunia in Croazia e Slovenia, la sua influenza lungo la via dell'ambra per l' Europa Centrale Dott.ssa Lucilla Barresi ABSTRACT This PhD thesis deals with Daunian pottery produced in Daunia (South Italy) during the Iron Age and its distribution in Croatia and Slovenia. A systematic analysis of the pottery stored in museums has been made for Histria, Dolenjska and Notranjska. Thanks to this approach, not only it has been possible to identify the sites where this pottery was found, but also to define its style and typology, to specify its chronology, to provide for a quantitative analysis of the findings and produce maps of distribution. As regards Daunian pottery from Liburnia and Central Dalmatia, only published findings have been analyzed mainly from the point of view their style, typology and chronology. Results of the study enabled to clarify the nature of the relations between Daunia and the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, the flows of distribution of the Daunian geometric pottery and to evaluate the impact of its presence on local communities. Key words: Daunian pottery, Stelae, ornaments, Iron Age, Croatia, Slovenia, Amber Route.

Cette thèse de doctorat met en oeuvre une analyse morphofonctionnelle et historico-archéologique d’une productioncéramique indigène décorée inédite de l’âge du Fer provenant du site de l’Incoronata en Italie du Sud (Basilicate, commune de Pisticci).L’objet de cette enquête est multiple : par l’examen attentif des formes, décors et techniques, un catalogue complet de notrecorpus céramique a été constitué, accompagné d’un dense faisceau de comparaisons. Celles-ci appartiennent à un horizon historico-culturel sud-italien cohérent, resserré entre les vallées du Cavone et du Bradano, entre IX e et VIIe siècles av. J.-C.Le site de l’Incoronata est caractérisé par une période de fréquentation mixte : il accueille à partir du VII e siècle av. J.-C.une composante grecque, plus particulièrement des potiers, dans un établissement indigène éminent déjà caractérisé par une production et une consommation locales importantes des produits céramiques. La contextualisation des données a donc constitué un autre pôle fort de cette recherche. Les problématiques se sont naturellement orientées vers lacaractérisation des modalités d’interaction entre communautés indigènes et grecques, en cherchant des comparaisons dans les espaces – non-coloniaux – qui témoignent pourtant d’intenses relations entre les deux composantes. Bien conscient de la difficulté de manipuler le concept même d’identité, un travail de mise en perspective anthropologique, ethno-archéologique et historique a été initié.La possibilité atteinte de caractériser une production céramique indigène locale de l’âge du Fer dans toutes ses phasesd’élaboration permet, avec ce premier jalon et pour la première fois, de raisonner de manière renouvelée avec des donnéessolides sur le processus productif, sur l’évolution d’un répertoire formel et décoratif et l’impact de l’arrivée grecque sur tous ces aspects, et enfin sur le rôle et la diffusion d’une catégorie céramique spécifique, autorisant dans le même temps àréévaluer les modalités d’occupation du site de l’Incoronata et son rôle nodal dans la compréhension et l’analyse en senshistorico-anthropologique des relations culturelles qui ont caractérisé, le monde méditerranéen archaïque. / This doctoral thesis implements a morpho-functional and historical-archaeological analysis of an unpublished mattpaintedpottery production from the Iron Age site of Incoronata in Southern Italy (Basilicata, com. Pisticci).The subject of this inquiry is multiple: using a careful examination of the forms, decors and techniques, a completecatalog of our ceramical corpus has been constituted accompanied by a dense bundle of comparisons which belong toa coherent South-Italian historical-cultural horizon, tightened between the valleys of Cavone and Bradano, between 9th and 7th centuries BC.The site of the Incoronata is characterized by a period of mixed occupation. From the beginning of the 7th century BC, Incoronata welcomes a Greek component, more particularly potters, in an eminent indigenous establishment alreadycharacterized by a significant local production and consumption of ceramic products. Contextualization of data has thusconstituted another strong pole of this research. The problematics have naturally focused on the characterization ofthe modalities of interactions between indigenous and Greek communities, looking for analogies in non-colonial spaces that nevertheless show intense relations between the two components. Aware of the difficulty of manipulating the veryconcept of identity, some anthropological, ethnoarchaeological and historical perspectives have been initiated. The possibility of characterizing a local indigenous ceramic production of the Iron Age in all its stages of development,allows us to re-think, with this first milestone and for the first time, with solid data on the production process. The evolutionof a formal and decorative repertory and the impact of Greek arrival on all these aspects. The role and the diffusion of aspecific ceramic category could be approached, allowing at the same time to re-evaluate the modalities of occupation of the site of Incoronata and its nodal role in the understanding and the analysis in the historico-anthropological sense of the cultural relations which have characterized the archaic Mediterranean world.