Open AccessPia Guldager Bilde & Mark L. Lawall (eds.), Pottery, Peoples and Places. Study and Interpretation of Late Hellenistic Pottery (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2014)
Author(s) -
Giorgio Baruchello
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
nordicum-mediterraneum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1670-6242
DOI - 10.33112/nm.10.1.15
Subject(s) - pottery , prehistory , interpretation (philosophy) , archaeology , face (sociological concept) , history , ancient history , art , classics , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , social science
Getting to know the past is never easy and the challenge is even more arduous when one faces prehistory or, as in this case, antiquity. Lack of material evidence, unevenness in its distribution, absence of or conflicting written sources are just some of the obstacles that historians and archaeologists must face.