Gazed Pottery: an Archaeometric-Cognitive Approach to Material Culture Visuality

Autor: Criado-Boado, Felipe, Martínez, Luis M., Blanco Rial, Manuel José, Alonso Pablos, Diego, Porto, Yolanda, Barrio Álvarez, Elena del
Přispěvatelé: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Commission, Criado-Boado, Felipe [0000-0003-4235-706X], Criado-Boado, Felipe [felipe.criado-boado@incipit.csic.es], European Research Council, Criado-Boado, Felipe, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Organizacional, Xurídico-Forense e Metodoloxía das Ciencias do Comportamento
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Popis: This paper presents a study of visual perception through the application of eye-tracking of prehistoric ceramics. The study is a feasible methodology to understand the agency of material culture through quantitative techniques, which allows for the analyses of possible relationships between visual-perceptual behaviour, material culture and social complexity. In particular, the horizontality of gaze is shown to be associated with pottery from early periods and its verticality increases in pottery materials from later, more complex societies. These, and other results, confirm that differential patterns of visual response by observers are determined by the material characteristics of each ceramic style. Implications for improved interpretation of archaeological phenomena are discussed including the possibilities of new applications for heritage management. Therefore, eye-tracking analysis appears to be a powerful and profitable archaeometric technique.
The current paper presents the pilot research that led to the XSCAPE project (ERC-SyG-2020 951631). This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competitiviness, Program Consolider-Ingenio 2010, as part of the “Research Program on Technologies for conservation and valorization of Cultural Heritage” (CSD 2007-00058). Work in the laboratory of LMM was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Grant BFU 2014-58776-r), co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and the Severo Ochoa Program for Centers of Excellence in R&D (SEV-2013-0317).
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