A Return to the Wheel: Rethinking Experimental Methodologies for the Study of the Potter’s Wheel

IF 0.2 Q4 ANTHROPOLOGY Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI:10.24916/iansa.2021.2.2
Chase A. M. Minos
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Research into the study of wheel-making techniques has grown, but studies of the tool or the wheel and its properties have remained understudied or considered insignificant until recently. In order to develop this research, the wheel and its practicalities, such as the physics, should be incorporated more into research of making techniques. Through the application of chaîne opératoire and experimental archaeology, this research questioned whether different wheel types produce different macroscopic traces on pots produced by the same technique. There are several results presented here that can shed light on the way archaeologists should investigate and understand early wheel potting, in particular the physics of rotation, which has received minimal attention as a result of a predominance for researching techniques over the tool (the wheel). The application of this research is used to better understand pottery and potter’s wheels from their adoption and development during the Middle Bronze Age on Crete, c. 2000 to 1500 BCE. A revision of experimental work and methodologies is combined with archaeological experimentation in order to help clarify not only how tools such as the wheel were used but subsequently what roles these craftworkers played in past societies.
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回到轮子:重新思考研究陶工轮子的实验方法
对车轮制造技术的研究已经有所增长,但直到最近,对工具或车轮及其特性的研究仍然没有得到充分的研究,或者被认为是微不足道的。为了开展这项研究,车轮及其实用性,如物理,应更多地纳入制作技术的研究。本研究通过cha ne opsamatoire和实验考古学的应用,质疑不同车轮类型是否会在同一技术生产的陶器上产生不同的宏观痕迹。这里提出了几个结果,可以阐明考古学家应该如何调查和理解早期的车轮灌制,特别是旋转的物理学,由于研究技术的优势而不是工具(车轮),这一点很少受到关注。这项研究的应用是为了更好地了解陶器和陶工的轮子,从它们在克里特岛青铜时代中期(公元前2000年至公元前1500年)的采用和发展。对实验工作和方法的修订与考古实验相结合,不仅有助于阐明车轮等工具的使用方式,而且有助于阐明这些手工艺者在过去社会中扮演的角色。
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Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica
Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica Arts and Humanities-Archeology (arts and humanities)
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