Teglie, piastre e forni per la cottura degli alimenti: aspetti formali e funzionali in contesti archeologici ed etnografici

Both fabrication and use of clay-made objects, not necessarily vases, related to bread cooking, are widely documented in
regions where current manufacture of hand-thrown pottery offers an useful base for observation, reconstruction and
crosscheck of ancient production processes. Analogies with Italian mainland and Tyrrhenian islands particularly connect
the prehistoric and the pre-roman periods. Starting by the documentation collected in north Tunisia, vertical ovens and
traditional impasto devices used in ancient and contemporary Mediterranean area are discussed.