Evocative Monuments in the Late 3rd Millennium BC: Reassessing Depositional Practices beyond Funerary and Domestic Realms

González, Antonio Blanco

doi:10.1080/00293652.2014.897749

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“…An assemblage-oriented strategy (Lucas, 2012: 75, 91–123) was implemented. It consists of an integrated refitting and taphonomic protocol (Blanco-González and Chapman, 2014a, 2014b; Blanco-González et al., 2014) designed to evaluate a series of variables informative of the final stages of ceramics: number of conjoining and ‘orphan’ sherds (i.e. items lacking local refit, cf.…”

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“…6) (Rojo et al., 2014: 33–34) or Los Tiesos I and El Morcuero (Figure 1, nos. 11 and 13) (Blanco-González, 2014a: 4–6). These two monuments show over 75% of ‘orphan’ sherds, and a third of their assemblages are highly abraded (Table 2), indicating off-site breakage and prolonged degradation (Table 1).…”

Section: Depositional Stories In the Chalcolithic (C 3300–2200 Bc)mentioning

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Past fragments: From ceramics to social practices in later prehistoric Iberia

González

2015

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Sunken features backfilled with domestic refuse represent the prevailing depositional context-type in later prehistory worldwide. Despite being so, this evidence remains poorly understood and has only received sporadic attention, chiefly within Anglophone archaeologies. This paper focuses on ceramics from a suite of such intricate contexts (cut features, burials, settlements, barrows) from Iberia in a diachronic and comparative perspective, from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (5500–1100 BC). A total of 10,800 potsherds were examined with a taphonomic and refitting protocol attentive to formation dynamics and tracking intentionality. Results suggest that most of the studied assemblages are unplanned by-products of social life. From the earliest pottery-using communities, habitual actions conditioned the eventual preservation of the extant archaeological record. Fragmentation and deposition were key social practices, ultimately representing enduring trans-cultural phenomena. This research challenges uncontested interpretive premises, namely the ‘reflectionist’ standpoint, and disproves consensual and undue concepts frequently used in mainstream accounts of later prehistory.

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Section: Fragmentation and Intentionalitymentioning

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Section: Depositional Stories In the Chalcolithic (C 3300–2200 Bc)mentioning

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Past fragments: From ceramics to social practices in later prehistoric Iberia

González

2015

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“…By focusing on practice rather than meaning, studies inspired by the critical turn have weakened the sharp distinctions traditionally made between the secular and sacred, and the domestic and funerary, and transformed research agendas focused on classification and typology. Along this vein, memory studies and related investigations into object and monument biographies have left their mark (García Sanjuán and Wheatley 2010;Blanco-González 2011, 2014aand 2014bGarcía Sanjuán and Díaz-Guardamino 2015;Tejedor et al 2017). These works have enriched and complicated traditional cultural historical narratives.…”

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Veinte años de arqueología de la Prehistoria tardía en la Península Ibérica. Mirando hacia atrás y hacia adelante

Lillios

2018

Trab. prehist.

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Las investigaciones arqueológicas de las comunidades agrarias del VI al II milenios a. C. en la Península Ibérica han sufrido transformaciones fundamentales en los últimos 25 años. Este artículo trata de proporcionar una visión general de esta investigación considerando tres temas: 1) los cambios en la teoría, la perspectiva y la práctica, 2) el descubrimiento de nuevos sitios o tipos de sitios, y 3) la evolución de las metodologías y técnicas analíticas. Se concluye con algunas reflexiones sobre posibles futuros desafíos y direcciones para la investigación.

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Who Was Buried at the Petit-Chasseur Site? The Contribution of Archaeometric Analyses of Final Neolithic and Bell Beaker Domestic Pottery to the Understanding of the Megalith-Erecting Society of the Upper Rhône Valley (Switzerland, 3300–2200 BC)

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The Petit-Chasseur megalithic necropolis is a key archaeological context for analyzing the social and ideological changes at the end of the Neolithic in the Alpine region of Central Europe. The link between the funerary monuments and settlement sites was established by means of ceramic archaeometric analysis. Domestic pottery from settlement sites were thoroughly characterized using multiple spectroscopic and microscopic techniques. Twelve ceramic fabrics were identified along with three types of clay substrate: illitic, muscovitic, and kaolinitic. Reconstructed paste preparation recipes largely involved the tempering of the raw clays with crushed rocks or coarse sediments. Types of raw material were not picked up randomly but were selected or avoided due to their particular compositional properties and attest to the exploitation of glacial, gravitational, eolian, and fluvial deposits. Compositional correspondence between ceramic grave goods and domestic pottery allowed identification of a link between the megalithic tombs and settlement sites, thus providing new data contributing to the investigation of the social dimension of monumental burials. Ceramic grave goods were revealed to be intertwined with the social instability affecting the 3rd millennium BC communities of the Upper Rhône Valley.

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Evocative Monuments in the Late 3rd Millennium BC: Reassessing Depositional Practices beyond Funerary and Domestic Realms

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Past fragments: From ceramics to social practices in later prehistoric Iberia

Past fragments: From ceramics to social practices in later prehistoric Iberia

Veinte años de arqueología de la Prehistoria tardía en la Península Ibérica. Mirando hacia atrás y hacia adelante

Who Was Buried at the Petit-Chasseur Site? The Contribution of Archaeometric Analyses of Final Neolithic and Bell Beaker Domestic Pottery to the Understanding of the Megalith-Erecting Society of the Upper Rhône Valley (Switzerland, 3300–2200 BC)

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