An ancient industrial district in the southern Eifel – technology, economy and settlement archaeology of the Roman potteries of Speicher

埃菲尔南部的一个古老工业区——斯派克罗马陶器的技术、经济和定居点考古学

• 批准号: 427122341
• 负责人: Dr. Marcus Reuter
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung II: Archäologie, Geschichte d römischen Provinzen sowie Archäologie v Münze, Geld u v Wirtschaft i d Antike
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/427122341?language=en
• 关键词: ancient; industrial; district; southern; Eifel

The area near Speicher, Herforst and Binsfeld (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) was one of the large-scaled pottery centres in the north-western Roman provinces. Preliminary work for this application has shown that in an area of approximately 4 square kilometres, up to 240 pottery works may have existed, where from the 2nd to the 5th centuries large quantities of ceramics were produced for an export area, which reached out far beyond the local market. Finds of exported Speicher ceramic stretch from the North Sea to Switzerland. Evidently there was a Roman industrial district in the hinterland of Trier – which itself was the metropolis Augusta Treverorum and later an Imperial Residence.The Roman potteries of Speicher have been known for a long time. But just the enormous expanse and density of finds, which actually imply excellent research conditions, have prevented a comprehensive investigation to date. Now, a combination of modern prospection methods, scientific analysis techniques, geographical information systems and archaeological studies would facilitate for the first time a systematic interpretation of the entire pottery district and its integration into the settlement landscape. This methodically broad approach will be used to research the economic significance of Speicher in Roman times. Besides the spatial and chronological reconstruction of the pottery centre and its organisational structure, the interactions between the production, society and environment are the focus of the project. At the same time, the necessary preconditions for future studies on the export area are established.The project is directly integrated into the long-standing research on pre-modern industrial districts at the RGZM. Particularly such export-oriented production sites which operate beyond the local market facilitate to evaluate the productivity of the ancient economy from an archaeological perspective. Only in this way, economic cycles in the Roman Empire can be determined over a longer period of time. The large-scale potteries near Speicher can make an important contribution to this.

斯派克、赫福斯特和宾斯费尔德（德国的莱茵兰-腭骨的）附近的地区是罗马西北部省份的大型陶器中心之一。这项申请的初步工作表明，在大约4平方公里的区域内，可能存在多达240个陶器厂，从2世纪到5世纪，在那里生产了大量陶瓷，用于出口地区，远远超出了当地市场。从北海到瑞士，都能找到出口的斯派歇尔陶瓷。很明显，特里尔的腹地有一个罗马工业区--特里尔本身就是大都会奥古斯塔·特雷弗伦，后来又成为帝国的官邸。但是，仅仅是发现的巨大范围和密度，实际上意味着良好的研究条件，阻碍了迄今为止的全面调查。现在，现代勘探方法、科学分析技术、地理信息系统和考古研究的结合将首次促进对整个陶器区的系统解释，并将其融入定居点景观。这种方法将被用来研究Speicher在罗马时代的经济意义。除了陶艺中心的空间和时间重建及其组织结构外，生产、社会和环境之间的相互作用也是该项目的重点。与此同时，也为今后的出口区研究奠定了必要的前提。该项目直接融入了RGZM长期以来对前现代工业区的研究。特别是这种在当地市场之外运作的出口导向型生产场所，有助于从考古学的角度评估古代经济的生产力。只有这样，罗马帝国的经济周期才能在更长的时间内确定。斯派克附近的大型陶器厂可以为此做出重要贡献。