CRAFTER: Reviving Bronze Age Pottery in EU-funded Project

Common to several societies of Bronze Age Europe was the manufacture of burnished drinking vessels and other high-quality tableware (e.g. Dietler 1996: 106), which became central to new ways of commensality. Commensality or ‘table-sharing’, is well in line with the goal of sharing common spaces and values which characterises the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH). A project named Crafting Europe in the Bronze Age and Today (CRAFTER) which will draw inspiration from Europe’s Bronze Age pottery to help revive modern-day artisanship.