As ânforas e a conteinerização de produtos no mediterrâneo

Abstract

The use of amphoras as a method of conditioning was practiced by all Mediterranean peoples, highlighting a common technological aspect that can be proven by Archaeology under extensive temporal and geographic cut. New studies on Greek and Roman amphoras are condemning at sunset the minimalist vision for the ancient economy and its notion that only luxury goods were marketed, since the use of amphorae is associated with the transportation of food products. I will present some perspectives from my master's research that pointed to amphorae as the first large-scale consumer packagings, as well as their progressive replacement by the barrels, demonstrating that the evolution of the containers did not follow the linear sequence that common sense allows.