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Handbook of Landscape Archaeology

Objects are a key aspect of archaeological evidence and theories about them should contribute to interdisciplinary debates on materiality and material culture. Despite the primacy of this evidence there is considerable scope for further debate about the role of materials in concepts of materiality and the social construction of sensory perception. This is as true for a past society as it is for our own but the two world views may be ill-matched and archaeology can miss important sensory issues in the societies it studies. The way in which archaeology deals with objects is deconstructed to offer some criticism of present practice, and some ideas for new ways of thinking about the role of sensory perception in constructing concepts of materiality for past societies by a focus on attention. Further exploration of the role of the senses in the modern craft of finds analysis is advocated, in order to elucidate the passing on of such skills and the way in which material experiences colour modern percep...

A sense of materials and sensory perception in concepts of materiality

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Relational identities and other-than-human agency in archaeology

The value and diversity of experimental archaeology as a research tool are explored with reference to organic material culture, also termed ‘perishables’. Ethnographic and contemporary data clearly show that the majority of all material culture is composed of materials which do not survive well in temperate conditions. Perishable material culture is therefore the ‘missing majority’ of archaeological material culture. Yet no society isolates materials: material culture exists holistically. Thus the more prevalent archaeological finds of inorganic materials provide opportunities for considering issues of organic material culture. Experimental archaeology has proved a rich and diverse tool to explore a variety of different approaches to this research theme. The focus here is the plant-based craft spheres. An overview of four different research strands is presented: plant chaines operatoires; stone-tool wear traces from processing plants for crafts; ceramic impressions of cordage, basketry and textil...

Organics from inorganics: using experimental archaeology as a research tool for studying perishable material culture

The San Salvador River in northern Chile is a tributary of the Loa, the only river that traverses the Atacama Desert from the mountains to the Pacific. Recent investigations along the San Salvador River revealed the presence of a Formative period village site and associated cemetery approximately 110 km inland from the Pacific Ocean. Bioarchaeological and biogeochemical analyses conducted on human skeletal remains recovered from the San Salvador Cemetery allowed us to better understand the site’s role as an intermediary for coast/interior relations during the Middle Formative (500 B.C.‐A.D. 100). Evidence from material culture and human remains at San Salvador suggests that this population was involved in exchange networks that united the oases of the Atacama Desert with the Pacific Ocean. Isotopic data support this notion, as the population demonstrates great variability in both the protein (marine and terrestrial) and carbohydrate components of their diet. During this period, communal economies produced surpluses used in a network of exchange for foods, prestige goods, and ideas. These ties were not coincidental but, rather, part of a regional economic structure that remains only partly explored. El Rio San Salvador del norte de Chile es un afluente del Rio Loa, el unico curso de agua dulce que atraviesa el desierto de Atacama desde las montanas hasta el Pacifico. Recientes investigaciones en San Salvador revelaron la presencia de una aldea y un cementerio del periodo Formativo emplazados a unos 110 km. de la costa del Pacifico. Analisis bioantropologicos y biogeoquimicos llevados a cabo en restos oseos humanos recuperados del cementerio permitieron comprender el funcionamiento del sitio como intermediario en las relaciones entre la costa y el interior en el Formativo Medio (500 a.C.‐100 d.C.). La evidencia de la cultura material y de los restos humanos en San Salvador indica que esta poblacion estuvo involucrada en las redes de intercambio que ligaban los oasis del desierto de Atacama y el Oceano Pacifico. Los datos isotopicos apoyan esto, pues la poblacion muestra una gran variabilidad tanto en el consumo de proteina (marina y terrestre) como en los componentes de carbohidratos en su dieta. Durante este periodo las economias comunales produjeron excedentes utilizados en una red de intercambio de alimentos, bienes de prestigio e ideas. Estos lazos no fueron circunstanciales, sino parte de una estructura economica regional que hasta ahora ha sido parcialmente explorada.

Eating fish in the driest desert in the world: osteological and biogeochemical analyses of human skeletal remains from the san salvador cemetery, north chile

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