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By J. Theodore Peña

This ebook examines how Romans used their pottery and the consequences of those practices at the archaeological list. it's geared up round a circulate version for the lifestyles cycle of Roman pottery that features a set of 8 exact practices: manufacture, distribution, major use, reuse, upkeep, recycling, discard, reclamation. J. Theodore Peña evaluates how those practices operated, how they've got formed the archaeological checklist, and the consequences of those procedures on archaeological examine during the exam of a wide range of archaeological, textual, representational, and comparative ethnographic proof. the result's a wealthy portrayal of the dynamic that formed the archaeological checklist of the traditional Romans that might be of curiosity to archaeologists, ceramicists, and scholars of fabric tradition.

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Roman Pottery in the Archaeological Record

This booklet examines how Romans used their pottery and the consequences of those practices at the archaeological checklist. it truly is geared up round a circulation version for the lifestyles cycle of Roman pottery that features a set of 8 designated practices: manufacture, distribution, top use, reuse, upkeep, recycling, discard, reclamation.

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The main elements of Thomas’ critique can be stated as follows: 1. The formation processes school wrongly assumes the existence of a sharp distinction between nature and culture. 2. The formation processes school wrongly conceives of the archaeological record as being akin to the fossil record, whereas it is more fruitful to consider it as being similar to a text, in that it contains encoded information, is the object of interpretation, and is susceptible to multiple interpretations. 3. Human beings retain ongoing relationships with material culture from the past, and artifacts do not therefore “die,” passing from a systemic context to an archaeological context, as is assumed to be the case by the formation processes school.

2 In some cases this would have been a gradual and/or planned abandonment, as may have occurred, for example, when a family migrated from the countryside to a town for economic reasons, whereas in others it would have been a sudden and/or unplanned abandonment, as frequently occurred in the case of shipwreck, military attack, or a natural disaster, such as an earthquake or a volcanic eruption ( Joyce and Johannessen 1993: 139). The model for the pottery life cycle employed in this study embodies certain limitations.

In the chapters that follow an effort is made to illustrate the nature of the eight behaviors included in the model and the ways in which these governed the passage of pottery through the life cycle and its incorporation into the archaeological record. The three behaviors that constitute the initial part of the life cycle – manufacture, distribution, and prime use – played only a limited role in the incorporation of pottery into the archaeological record and are accordingly provided a somewhat abbreviated treatment that focuses primarily on those aspects that are of interest from this point of view.

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