Summary The article examines pottery groups manufactured in non-Mycenaean traditions from the site of the Menelaion in Laconia (southern Peloponnese, Greece) during the middle stages of the Late Bronze Age. Pottery traditions are first defined using macroscopic study of surface and break features. Two distinct handmade traditions, and another one employing the wheel but with some links to traditional handmade pottery manufactured on the island of Aegina, were recognized and subjected to petrographic analysis. Its results confirmed that potters’ choices regarding clay preparation were different in the case of each identified tradition, being most distinct for the largest group of handmade undecorated water jars. The study highlights survival of pottery traditions with roots in the Middle Helladic period well into the Late Bronze Age, a fact that has not received appropriate attention in the scholarly discourse. It captures the very last stage of their existence, as just a few decades later the production and consumption are entirely dominated by Mycenaean pottery.

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青铜时代中期中期希腊大陆陶瓷产量和消费量的变化：斯巴达州Menelaion的水罐

结束语本文考察了晚期青铜时代中期从Laconia的Menelaion遗址（希腊伯罗奔尼撒南部）生产的非迈锡尼传统陶器群。陶器传统首先通过对表面和断裂特征的宏观研究来定义。人们认识到两种截然不同的手工传统，其中一种采用滚轮，但与埃伊纳岛上生产的传统手工陶器有一些联系，并进行了岩相分析。其结果证实，在每种已确定的传统情况下，陶工对粘土制备的选择是不同的，对于最大数量的手工未装饰的水罐而言，差异最大。这项研究着重介绍了起源于古希腊中古时期直至青铜时代晚期的陶器传统的生存，在学术话语中没有得到适当重视的事实。它捕捉了它们存在的最后阶段，仅仅几十年后，生产和消费就完全由迈锡尼陶器主导。