The Augustean horizons in Northern Gaul pottery

The Augustean period features the progressive installation of the material Gallo-Roman culture of the 1st century A.D.. The pottery artifacts in use b etween years 30 B.C.. and 20 A.D. can be ordered along four horizons whose datation rests of the chronology of the Italic sigilla earthenware, actual clew to this period. This ordering in four periods highlights the deep and fast romanization of the native material culture and the birth of a purely Gallo-Roman pottery craftsmanship at the beginning of Tiberius' reign. The extension of the first Mediterranean imports (Italic sigilla, thin-walled, etc.) and the development of Belgian pottery outline the major commercial r outes of Higher-Empire pottery in Northern Gaul.