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1. Introduction : Greek pottery in new contexts -- 2. Greek colonization in the West : a historical and cultural survey -- 3. Comparison of significant sites -- 4. Developing a theoretical basis for understanding consumption -- 5. Greek pottery at home and in the West -- 6. Analysis of the dataset -- 7. Interpreting the evidence : consumerism, signaling, and identity.

Greek pottery was exported around the ancient world in vast quantities over a period of several centuries. This book focuses on the Greek pottery consumed by people in the western Mediterranean and trans-Alpine Europe from 800-300 BCE, attempting to understand the distribution of vases, and particularly the reasons why people who were not Greek decided to acquire them. This new approach includes discussion of the ways in which objects take on different meanings in new contexts, the linkages between the consumption of goods and identity construction, and the utility of objects for signaling pos