Pottery between East and West: research on long distance contacts during the Early Iron Age

Abstract

For the Early Iron Age large numbers of contacts between distant regions are known of. Often the communicated elements are elsewhere incorporated in a local craft tradition, making it difficult to identify them at first sight. This might be the case for several pottery objects from the Hallstatt cemeteries Rottenburg »Lindele« and Tübingen »Geigerle«. A number of vessels clearly locally produced are decorated in a style which is related to the East Hallstatt culture. It is likely that they are either copies of foreign pieces or products of an immigrated potter.