Technology Studies and Material Culture Studies: Possibilities of Cooperation in the Case of Bone Artefacts

Vitezović, Selena; Vranić, Ivan

doi:10.21301/eap.v12i3.2

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“…Drugo polazište je delatnost predmeta, odnosno stavljanje predmeta u istu ravan sa ljudima. S tog stanovišta predmeti mogu imati život, životni ciklus, životnu istoriju, biografiju (Appadurai 1986;Ćosić 2015;Gosden, Marshall 1999;Kopytoff 1986;Skibo, Schiffer 2008;Shanks 1998, 24;Vitezović, Vranić 2017). I mogu aktivno delovati u društvenom diskursu.…”

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Biography of a Painted Vessel from Starčevo: Discovering Layers of Meaning

Bajčev

2020

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Scientific interest in the painted pottery of the Starčevo culture in Serbia dates back to the very beginnings of research and the first works on the relative-chronological systematization of the Early and Middle Neolithic of the central Balkans. This paper presents the deconstruction of our established notion of painted ceramics as the ultimate parameter of relative-chronological dating, the most representative material reflection of the cultural identity of the people of Starčevo culture and the highest achievements of Starčevo culture. The paper discusses circumstances and archaeological practices through which this ingrained view and knowledge of painted pottery was formed. The research is based on the analysis of the biography of a painted vessel from the Starčevo-Grad site, having in mind that a detailed life history of an object can shed light on wider phenomena in the archaeological discipline. The aim of this paper is to remind that objects do not have a single essential meaning, but that their meaning shifts and builds through changes in the historical and social context, as well as through changes of actors gathered around certain practices in which the objects are used. The biography of the painted vessel is therefore viewed as a series of assemblages of relations in two planes, through which its identity and layers of meaning were built. The first plane is the Neolithic, in which the focus is on the practices of painting and use, and the second is her life in the role of an archaeological artifact, during which she moves from the sphere of scientific research and musealization to the sphere of negotiating contemporary cultural identities. By applying a new analytical approach, we discovered that this vessel was not very skilfully and carefully painted, and that as such it does not testify to the highest achievements of Starčevo culture, but to a social practice, learning, apprentices and mastering the skill of pottery painting. Therefore, I believe that by reducing painted pottery to relative-chronological parameters and luxury objects, we lose sight of the possibilities through which we can build much more diverse interpretations of the past.

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Biography of a Painted Vessel from Starčevo: Discovering Layers of Meaning

Bajčev

2020

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Výrobky z tvrdých živočišných materiálů ve starší době bronzové na jižní Moravě

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2023

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The presented article focuses on Early Bronze Age artefacts made from hard animal materials found in the south Moravia region. This topic tends to be neglected in the literature, as these artefacts are not as numerous as ceramics or bronze objects. However, their study can bring important knowledge. Open rural settlements of the Early Bronze Age are compared. Two sites are dated to the Únětice culture, the third to the Věteřov group. Processed assemblages are the largest known collections of artefacts from the period in south Moravia. The main aim of the thesis is a detailed analysis of the assemblages, which consist mainly of objects assembled from bones and antlers; the use of other raw materials is rare. The article compares the production of artefacts between the earlier Únětice and later Věteřov phases. It briefly addresses the find circumstances and contexts of individual artefacts. The analytical part includes an osteological determination of raw materials used for the production of artefacts. It focuses on a morphological and typological description of objects based on new descriptive standards in an effort to revise previously used subjective terms such as awl. The third part of the analysis is devoted to a study of use-wear marks created in the production and use of individual artefacts or their archaeologisation. The discussion addresses the possibilities of interpreting and identifying the function of individual objects on the basis of the above analyses.

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Technology Studies and Material Culture Studies: Possibilities of Cooperation in the Case of Bone Artefacts

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Biography of a Painted Vessel from Starčevo: Discovering Layers of Meaning

Biography of a Painted Vessel from Starčevo: Discovering Layers of Meaning

Výrobky z tvrdých živočišných materiálů ve starší době bronzové na jižní Moravě

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