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Monday, March 3, 2025 6pm
About this Event
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202, USA
In the 7th century BCE, a large, open-air workshop sat atop the Etruscan settlement site of Poggio Civitate. Archaeological evidence indicates that a variety of crafts were practiced within the structure, including metallurgy, ceramics, bone carving, and textile production, largely for internal consumption. The multicraft nature of the workshop, along with its context—within the site’s elite monumental complex and at a remove from known non-elite spaces—raises questions about the experience of craft production at the site. What was the nature of the crafting community? How did they experience the space in which they worked? This lecture will demonstrate how analysis of the technical and material styles of craft production at Poggio Civitate, when interpreted through the lens of practice-based theory, can shed light on these and related questions. The resulting picture of craft production in Poggio Civitate’s monumental workshop—one of a close-knit group of craftspeople, interacting frequently despite differing enterprises—has important implications for understanding both the site’s internal social dynamics and its role in the broader region, as well as for developing future investigations of daily life in the Etruscan world.
Sponsored by the department of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America. Free and open to the public.