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Mobility and Pottery Production, what for? Introductory remarks
No full textThis edited volume deals with the mobility of humans, materials and things. Pottery studies of ancient Europe and contemporary Africa are taken as examples to illustrate how pottery vessels were made in different ways. Whether they were used, sold, given away or passed on over generations, they participated in human practices and mobilities, ranging from everyday life to single long-term migration events. By studying the making and the mobility of pots, potters, pottery mongers and pottery users, the focus shifts from ideas of one-sided notions of stable ‘cultures’ to ideas of appropriations, transformations and thus the negotiation of cultural forms.
In the book’s first section, the relationship between anthropology and archaeology is illuminated and the disciplines’ different takes on ‘culture’, ‘practice’, ‘mobility’ and ‘things’ throughout major paradigmatic shifts are addressed. The second section unites empirical, object-centred archaeological case studies in which the examination of materials and pottery styles reveals that notions of fixed cultural entities are empirically untenable. The contributions in the third part argue from more actor-centred or symmetrical
perspectives. It can be shown how humans and things are intertwined through
practices and various rhythms of movement and mobility. Thus, they offer alternative ways to approach the (re)production, negotiation and transformation of cultural practices and their material forms
Radiokohlenstoffdatierungen heute
No full textOhne Radiokohlenstoffdatierung sähe unser Geschichtsverständnis ganz anders aus. Sie hat es geschafft, die vielen relativen Chronologien in einen absoluten zeitlichen Rahmen zu setzen. Und schon von Anfang an waren Forscher der Universität Bern ganz vorne an der Spitze mit dabei
Portable Röntgenfluoreszenzanalytik (pXRF): Mit dem "Labor in der Hand" der Vergangenheit auf der Spur
No full textHerkunft und Herstellungstechnik archäologischer Keramik: die erdwissenschaftliche Perspektive
No full textAfterword: The pot and the archaeologist – changing each other in an (un-)happy marriage?
Full text linkPlouderpfoschte Kehrsatz - Archäologie
No full textDass die Agglomeration Bern ab dem 8 Jh. bis in die 60er Jahre durch eine landwirtschaftliche Nutzung geprägt war ist bekannt. Bereits in der Bronzezeit war die Geländeterrasse von Wabern bis Kehrsatz jedoch nachweislich besiedelt. So hat der Archäologische Dienst des Kantons Bern im Rahmen einer Rettungsgrabung auf dem Breitenacher unzählige Besiedlungsspuren gefunden. Und nur wenige hundert Meter nördlich davon wurde bereits in den 70er Jahren der römische Gutshof von Chlywabere gefunden.
Regine Stapfer, Leiterin prähistorische und Unterwasser-
archäologie des Kantons Bern hat die Grabungen wissenschaftlich begleitet und erzählt die Geschichte der hier abgebildeten Grabungsbilder und -funde
Mobility and Pottery Production: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
No full textFor many past and present societies, pottery forms an integral part of material culture and everyday practice. This makes it a promising case example to address human-thing-relations on a more general level, as well as social life itself. Humans organise their lives not only by engaging with materials and things but also by oscillating between movement and stasis. In these various rhythms of mobility – from daily subsistence-based movements to long-term migrations – things like ceramic vessels are crafted, but also act as consumer goods. From their production until their deposition as waste, grave-goods, collectibles etc. pottery vessels can move with their owners or be passed on and may thus shift between spatial, temporal, social, economic and cultural contexts.
This volume unites contributions addressing such phenomena from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Evolved from an interdisciplinary workshop held at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences (University of Bern) in 2015, the aim is not to promote one single epistemic approach or any elaborated empirical findings but to trigger thoughts and foster discussions.
While the first part of the book contains introductory texts, the second part includes archaeological contributions that address mobility and social ties by focussing on variability in pottery production within, as well as between, settlements and regions. Taking a more object-centred perspective, they comprise attempts to think beyond established concepts of ‘archaeological cultures’ and chronological issues. The third part unites anthropological and archaeological texts that take more actor-centred perspectives of making, distributing and using pottery. These texts examine how humans and things are intertwined though practices and various rhythms of movement and mobility. Thereby it can be shown how cultural forms are reproduced but also transformed by humans and things, like pots, potters, pottery mongers and pottery users that are intermittently on the move
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