O Projeto Outeiro do Circo estará presente no II Congresso Internacional sobre Estudos Cerâmicos subordinado ao tema "Etnoarqueologia e Experimentação: para além da analogia" a celebrar na Universidade de Granada (Espanha) entre 5 e 9 de Março
Aqui fica o resumo da comunicação a apresentar no dia 7 de Março:
Título:
Pottery inside out: Exploring the “chaine operatoire” of production
through analysis, ethnography and experimental archaeology
Palavras-chave:
“Chaine operatoire”; experimental
archaeology; Late Bronze Age; pattern burnished pottery; modelling; firing; use
Autores:
Ana Bica Osório, Project Outeiro do
Circo; CEMUC and CEAUCP/CAM; PhD student funded by FCT (SFRH / BD / 42397 /
2007).
Sofia Silva and Diana
Fernandes, Project Outeiro do Circo.
Eduardo Porfírio and Miguel Serra, Project
Outeiro do Circo; Palimpsesto Lda; CEAUCP/CAM;.
Raquel Vilaça, Project Outeiro do Circo. Department of History, Archaeology and Arts, University of Coimbra;
CEAUCP/CAM.
Teresa
Vieira, CEMUC, University of Coimbra.
Resumo:
In pottery studies the analysis of shape and style frequently lead to
the creation of typological series and to the identification of
chronological-cultural differences and similarities (some equated with
different human groups, others with temporal change, etc.). However, the final shape and style are not the only
evidences of human interaction left on these objects. The gestures and
practices made during production and use also leave marks which can reflect
cultural diversities, encompassing traditional know-hows and “habitus” that may
be specific of particular communities. If we consider that material culture has
an active role over the cultures and societies, it is clear that this active
role of engaging mankind has to be searched for at various levels. One level of
engagement is clearly technical activity or production.
One of the most useful methodological concepts to address technical
processes is that of “chaine operatoire”. It clearly directs us to search for
the main stages of practice involved in any technical activity and search for
their evidences and connections. However, despite all the ethnographic and
theoretical modelling that one may try, the interpretation of the data present
in archaeological sherds is not as straightforward as desired. While some
“operations” or practices leave well identified traces on pottery, others are
erased; some can have several explanations and others can be transformed by
latter “chaines operatoires” such as those of its use/reuse.
In this presentation the authors address a specific
type of Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age decorated pottery from the Southwest of
the Iberian Peninsula (pattern burnished pottery) and research their production
“chaines operatoires”. The analysis of specific characteristics such as fabric,
colour, fracture and burnishing effects, raised many doubts and questions. In
order to enlighten some of the questions posed by the materials several
experiments were planned for the stages of clay shaping, firing and test-use.
Although simple, the results of such experiments are still a work in progress
but already provide interesting clues to question the interpretation of pottery
evidences and to emphasise the necessary link between pottery studies and
experimental archaeology.
Session 3 – “Tipologías? Nuevas metodologías
aplicadas en los estudios ceramológicos”
