Abstract
Performative methods in archaeology provide a valuable heuristic tool
for investigating the many behaviours and interactions of both producers
and consumers of material culture. Focusing on the potter’s wheel at
Bronze Age Akrotiri as a socially embedded performance of technical
know-how, this chapter outlines an integrated approach to material
engagement across three arenas of archaeological action – experiment,
analysis, and visualisation – connected by an explicit engagement with
the chaîne opératoire approach. An innovative tool-kit is presented for the
investigation of this technology by the wider archaeological community.
Given the large-scale regional and diachronic questions that the adoption
and adaptation of ancient technologies can raise, a collective approach
is proposed for the interpretation of the potter’s wheel.
for investigating the many behaviours and interactions of both producers
and consumers of material culture. Focusing on the potter’s wheel at
Bronze Age Akrotiri as a socially embedded performance of technical
know-how, this chapter outlines an integrated approach to material
engagement across three arenas of archaeological action – experiment,
analysis, and visualisation – connected by an explicit engagement with
the chaîne opératoire approach. An innovative tool-kit is presented for the
investigation of this technology by the wider archaeological community.
Given the large-scale regional and diachronic questions that the adoption
and adaptation of ancient technologies can raise, a collective approach
is proposed for the interpretation of the potter’s wheel.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Editors | Sven Dupré, Anna Harris, Julia Kursell, Patricia Lulof, Maartje Stols-Witlox |
| Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
| Chapter | 2 |
| Pages | 63-90 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789048543854 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- material engagement
- ceramic technology
- experiment
- analysis
- visualisation