Is Acheulean Handaxe Shape the Result of Imposed ‘Mental Templates’ or Emergent in Manufacture? Dissolving the Dichotomy through Exploring ‘Communities of Practice’ at Boxgrove, UK
Is Acheulean Handaxe Shape the Result of Imposed ‘Mental Templates’ or Emergent in Manufacture? Dissolving the Dichotomy through Exploring ‘Communities of Practice’ at Boxgrove, UK
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DOI：
10.1017/s0959774321000251
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发表时间：
2021-04
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
L. Hutchence;Christopher Scott
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作者：
L. Hutchence;Christopher Scott
这篇论文考察了关于阿舍利的手斧形状是否是故意将先前持有的心理模板强加于石质材料衬底上的争论，或者，砍手者与形状相关的意图是否通过人的代理和物质负担的参与(在行动中)“显现”。我们认为，形式的强加和形式的出现并不是相互排斥的，并用拉夫和温格的“实践共同体”概念将这些对立的观点联系在一起，解释了50万年前博克斯格罗夫同质手斧形状的巩固。在这里，我们提出，在像Boxgrove这样的地点发现的手斧形状的一致性是个别砍手的紧急行动同时受到社会规范强加的限制的结果。社会规范在行动中被提及，并在更广泛的群体层面上得到协商、理解和遵守。因此，我们认为，将阿舍利手斧制造放在更广泛的社会语境中，将表明手斧形状既是强加的，也是新兴的，而不是其中之一。
This paper examines the debate over whether Acheulean handaxe shape results from the intentional imposition of a priorly held mental template upon the lithic material substrate or, alternatively, whether a knapper's intentions related to shape ‘emerge’ through the engagement (in action) of human agency and material affordances. We suggest that imposition of form and emergence of form are not mutually exclusive, and use Lave and Wenger's concept of ‘communities of practice’ to knit these opposed views together to explain the consolidation of homogenous handaxe shape at Boxgrove, c. 500,000 years ago. Here we propose that the consistency in handaxe shape found at sites like Boxgrove is a consequence of the emergent actions of individual knappers being simultaneously constrained by the imposition of social norms. Social norms are referred to in action and are negotiated, understood, and adhered to at the wider group level. Therefore, we propose that contextualizing Acheulean handaxe manufacture within its wider social context will show that handaxe shape was both imposed and emergent, not one or the other.