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- Title
Tracking the social lives of things: biographical insights into Bronze Age pottery in Spain.
- Authors
Blanco-González, Antonio
- Abstract
Pottery has sometimes been compared to a living organism in its cycle of birth, life and death or discard. A biographical approach to an unusual assemblage of pottery from the Late Bronze Age site of Pico Castro in central Spain suggests that they had been used together at a communal feast. The shared social memory that they acquired thereby conferred on them a special status that resulted in their eventual placement in the pit, fine wares and coarse wares together. Thus the varied biographies of the individual vessels--and the individual sherds--eventually converged not only in their discard but in the episodes that preceded it
- Subjects
IBERIAN Peninsula; SPAIN; IBERIAN art; BRONZE Age pottery; HISTORY of pottery; POTTERY; SPANISH antiquities; ART &; society
- Publication
Antiquity, 2014, Vol 88, Issue 340, p441
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00101103