Beyond the technological chain

Neolithic potters in social networks

Bibliographic Data

ID20377293
AuthorsPetr Květina (0000-0001-8398-8015, Czech Academy of Sciences), Louise Gomart (0000-0003-0793-2292, Université Paris Nanterre), Richard Thér (0000-0001-6253-5148, University of Hradec Králové), Klára Neumannová (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Year2017
Volume69
Issue2
Publication date2017-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArcheologické rozhledy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0323-1267 • E-ISSN: 2570-9151
PublisherInstitute of Archaeology of the CAS - Prague, v.v.i (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.35686/ar.2017.10
OpenAlexW4317830041
LanguageEN
References cited8

Formal and technological attributes of pottery mirror potters’ habitus, actions, and decisions inhibited or stimulated by users of pottery. The variability of these attributes in time and space reflects networks of producers embedded in a complex social network. But how the knowledge of pottery manufacturing processes can be used to gain more accurate understanding of the society behind the “chaînes opératoires” when the basis for the interpretation is archaeological evidence? Can archaeologists reach reliable picture on relations between pottery technology and society? Can the interpretations be built on testable hypotheses? Those are painful issues accompanying all the archaeological attempts to understand variability and changes in pottery technology, the issues that motivate the main theme of the thematic issue of Archeologické rozhledy: the pursuit of archaeologists to integrate pottery technology analysis to the complex interpretation of the Neolithic societies

Archaeology · Linguistics · Pottery · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction · Philosophy

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