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The present research aims at examining the ceramic documentation (“ceramica zonata”, “ceramica etrusco-padana”, grey pottery etc.) found in the plain of Verona and datable from the 5th to the Roman epoch. During this period, the territory was initially controlled by the population of the ancient Veneti; later, it was partially influenced by the Etruscan Po-valley culture and finally was occupied by the Celts in its western part. We have considered both published materials (and we have autopticaly examinated a great part of them) and part of unpublished materials from settlements in Oppeano/Isolo and Corte Vivaro. On the basis of these data a typology of the different pottery groups (imported and of local production) has been created. For every group this plan has been followed: - short history of studies; - characteristics, distribution and chronology; - evidence in the area (chronology, distribution, use); - catalogue of types. After considering all these data it comes out that in this area during the considered period there was not a specific production, but in the ceramic koinè, first essentially Venetic and after that Celtic, there were many external elements: imported materials and expecially in the later period external models that were imitated from local workshops. Certainly the rule of geopolitical location of the area near different populations was important and also it was relevant the existence of important communications routes, first of all along the rivers Atesis and Tartarus. |
