A Field Map for Untangling the Entangled Sea

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ID13048094
AuthorsDiane Harris Cline (corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume8
Issue3-4
Pages226-249
Publication date2020-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2166-3548 • E-ISSN: 2166-3556
PublisherThe Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.8.3-4.0226
OpenAlexW3091923376
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited51

This article is situated at the intersection of ships, the sea, humans, and the nonhuman things on board and ashore. It explores the role of objects in maintaining social relations, inspired by materiality studies, entanglement, and Actor-Network Theory. The seafarer-thing relationship is the primary focus of this study through which I argue that archaeologists must not only catalog and classify the artifacts they find but also consider their object biographies, use-lives, and the stories, which can be told in the space between human-thing and thing-thing codependencies. The visualizations model the entanglement inside the complex systems of a merchant ship, the things carried on board, the humans, and activities on the ship, using the Polyaigos shipwreck as the protagonist in our thought experiment. I introduce “field maps,” which combine network sociograms with an interpretive layer of fields (economic, social, technological, infrastructure, religious) to analyze the ways humans and things are entangled

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Cartography · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Focus (optics · Geography · Intersection (aeronautics · Materiality (auditing · Object (grammar · On board · Quantum entanglement · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence

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