Miniature vessels from the Neolithic site at Čatež-Sredno polje. Were they meant for every day use or for something else?

• Published in: Documenta Praehistorica
• Main Author: Tomaž, Alenka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakulte / Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts 2005
• Subjects: Neolithic; Slovenia; pottery; miniature vessel; sami
• Online Access: https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/32.20; https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.32.20

Archaeologists use models based on ethnographic analogy and theory to recreate the meanings of symbols, but rarely can the archaeological data by itself provide us with a story. The extensive excavation at Neolithic Čatež-Sredno polje provided us with new information concerning Neolithic society in the first half of the 5th millennium B.C. in Slovenia. The abundance of pottery finds offered a huge opportunity to explore several aspects of pottery production. In this article a closer look at one group of pottery finds will be presented. A detailed picture of the symbolic aspects of miniature vessels will be presented in terms of their production, use, function, and distribution. Arheologi pogosto uporabljamo modele, ki temeljijo na etnografskih analogijah in teoriji, da bi z njimi pojasnili pretekli simboličen pomen, saj arheološki podatki sami le redko lahko ponudijo razlago. Obsežna izkopavanja na neolitskem najdišču Čatež-Sredno polje so ponudila nova spoznanja o neolitski družbi iz prve polovice 5. tisočletja B.C. v Sloveniji. Obilica odkritih keramičnih najdb je ponudila izjemno priložnost opazovanja različnih aspektov keramične produkcije. V prispevku podrobneje predstavljamo segment odkritih keramičnih najdb iz najdišča Čatež-Sredno polje. Predstavljen bo oris simbolnega pomena miniaturnih posod z ozirom na njihovo produkcijo, uporabo, funkcijo in distribucijo.