Different pots - different province? The difficulty of identifying frontiers through material culture. (original) (raw)

Different pots - different province? The difficulty of identifying frontiers through material culture, in: P. Della Casa - E. Deschler-Erb (Hrsg.), Rome`s Internal Frontiers, Proceedings of the 2016 RAC session in Rome, Zurich Studies in Archaeology 11 (Zurich 2016), 79-90. Abstract: Based on the ceramic material of the Roman Vicus of Kempraten (Rapperswil/Jona, CH), which is located close to the provincial border to Raetia, this article asks about a theory of frontiers explaining the almost invisible differences between the material culture of Germania Superior and Raetia. The following mapping of two vessel types regarding technological characteristics points to hidden patterns in distribution.