| title: | Late Iron Age pottery in Estonia |
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| reg no: | ETF5314 |
| project type: | Estonian Science Foundation research grant |
| subject: |
6.1. History (incl. Archeology) |
| status: | completed |
| institution: | University of Tartu |
| head of project: | Andres Tvauri |
| duration: | 01.01.2002 - 31.12.2004 |
| description: | The main aim of the project is to establish the typology and chronology of Estonian Late Iron Age pottery. To achieve this aim, all the pottery finds, gathered from the antiquities of Estonia, dating to Late Iron Age and the 13th century, will be thoroughly studied, and they will be compared with similar finds from the neighbouring countries. In addition to that, the project will try to answer at least the following questions: 1. How and when did the transition from the use of hand-made pottery to that of wheel-thrown pottery take place? 2. In which context was pottery used in Estonia during Late Iron Age? 3. Where and by whom were the vessels made; how and across which routes did trading with pottery take place? 4. Which impact did the transition from Late Iron Age to the Medieval period in the 13th century have on the usage of pottery in Estonia? A scientific monograph on this topic will serve as the outcome of the project. This study would have a great importance for the Estonian archaeological science. Pottery is and will remain the most numerous type of finds. The Late Iron Age in Estonia, on the other hand, is the richest period in antiquities and finds, during this period great and fatal changes take place in the material as well as intellectual culture, in addition to changes in the political and cultural status of the Estonian territory. |
| project group | ||||
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Andres Tvauri | University of Tartu | researcher | |