The Temporality of Shapes: A Genealogy of Early Pottery-Making Practices in the Andean?Amazonian Borderland
The Temporality of Shapes: A Genealogy of Early Pottery-Making Practices in the Andean?Amazonian Borderland
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形状的暂时性:安第斯山脉和亚马逊边境地区早期陶器制作实践的谱系
DOI:
10.1007/s10816-022-09587-1
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Omori Takayuki
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作者:
Kanezaki Yuko;Omori Takayuki
This study explores a different way of writing history as an alternative to the “master narrative” by rethinking the fundamental practice of archaeology—the construction of chronology. Archaeological chronology has often been used as a calendar-like time axis, imposing a uniform temporality on the history of diverse things, each with its rhythm and pace of change. We focused on the arguments of George Kubler, who criticized it and proposed a new chronological framework based on his “formal sequence” concept. This new chronological framework enabled us to recreate the internal temporality oftaskscapesof making things. We conducted a case study in the Andean–Amazonian borderland, where a radical change in pottery styles occurred in the second millennium B.C. Here, the methodologies for typology, seriation, and age estimation were all reconsidered to rebuild the regional chronology. We observed a “break” in the local pottery-style structure around the fourteenth century B.C. The changes that occurred at the time were not merely the addition of new technology to the local tradition but the transformation of the system governing the material relationships among potters’ bodies, making tools, and materials, composing the task of pottery-making. We cannot reach the complex and diverse historical narratives from a single, mono-linear chronology. Instead, we revisit the temporality of varioustaskscapesthrough the pursuit of the multilineartemporality of shapes. Subsequently, a regional history can be created by interweaving them together.