TRAVELLING WITH THE POTTER'S WHEEL IN THE EARLY BRONZE AGE AEGEAN
| Autor: | Maria Choleva |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
Archeology History 060102 archaeology Visual Arts and Performing Arts media_common.quotation_subject Potter's wheel 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences Visual arts Craft Appropriation Bronze Age Social system 0601 history and archaeology Psychological resilience Pottery Classics Social identity theory 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Annual of the British School at Athens. 115:59-104 |
| ISSN: | 2045-2403 0068-2454 |
| Popis: | By adopting thechaîne opératoireapproach as a dynamic theoretical and methodological framework for studying ancient technologies, this paper investigates the modalities behind the appearance of the potter's wheel in the Aegean during the Early Bronze Age II (c.2550–2200bc). Based on the comparative examination of ceramic assemblages from different Aegean sites, an extended technological study has been carried out in order to track the earliest wheel-made pottery and reconstruct the craft behaviours perpetrated by the use of the potter's wheel across the Aegean. The paper presents the results of this multi-site study and aims to (a) trace out the wheel-based technological traditions, (b) explore the contexts of the learning and transmission of the new tool, (c) shed light on the connectivity among Aegean and western Anatolian communities that enabled the transfer of the new craft knowledge, and, finally, (d) bring into view the mechanisms behind its emergence and appropriation. By considering technologies as representing an entire social system of knowing, perceiving and acting on the material world, it will be argued that the spread of the potter's wheel in the Aegean does not reflect a moment of linear diffusion of a technological innovation, adopted thanks to certain techno-functional advantages. Instead, it discloses the resilience of social identities and values embedded through the practical engagement of individuals in the production of their material culture. The potter's wheel, in fact, emerges as a socially and culturally mediated practice, specific to small groups of potters trained within a technological tradition of Anatolian origin, performing their craft in the Aegean socio-cultural milieus. Furthermore, its transfer reveals a multidirectional and dynamic crossing of material cultures that designated a navigable world where traditions, objects and people travelled, mixed and merged in unpredictable ways. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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