A Mandatory Stop: The Trade of Imported Pottery in Asturias (NW Iberian Peninsula) during the Early Modern Period

Abstract

This research presents the analysis of 3066 sherds, which were found in thirty-four archaeological excavations carried out across six regions of Asturias (NW of the Iberian Peninsula, Spain). The fragments come from twenty-one different pottery production sites and date between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The archaeological study of this ceramic material has offered new insights into the pottery trade in Asturias during the early modern period. The results of this study help us to reconstruct the historical processes that shaped the society of Asturias in that period.