Pots, pans, and people: material multure and nature in Mesoamerican ceramics

This book explores material culture and human adaptations to nature over time, with a focus on ceramics. The author also explores the role of ethnoarchaeology and ethnohistory as key elements of a broad research strategy that seeks to understand human interaction with nature over time.

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Main Author: Williams, Eduardo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Archaeopress Publishing [2024]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Archaeopress pre-Columbian archaeology 20
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Online Access:DE-188
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Summary:This book explores material culture and human adaptations to nature over time, with a focus on ceramics. The author also explores the role of ethnoarchaeology and ethnohistory as key elements of a broad research strategy that seeks to understand human interaction with nature over time.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Figure 1. In ancient Mesoamerica, objects made of gold, silver, and other precious minerals were symbols of power and wealth, like this miniature golden mask found in an elite tomb in Monte Albán, Oaxaca (after Caso 1969: Frontispiece). -- Figure 2. This artist's reconstruction shows how the cattle heads may have looked in their original context at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey (after Oates and Oates 1976: Figure p. 91). -- Figure 3. Handaxes like this one from the Acheulean period (ca. 1.7 million-1.5 million years BP) are examples of things that persisted for long periods of time. This item is from Boxgrove, Sussex, England (courtesy of the British Museum, Creative Commons -- Figure 4. Many cultural actions, such as making a fire, involved an assemblage of objects and features: fire-making tools, the pit where the fire was made, the wood or other fuel, and the containers or tools used to cut or collect fuel, among other items -- Figure 5. This illustration from the 16th-century Codex Mendoza shows the cooking assemblage usually found in an Aztec household. The young girl is grinding maize dough on the metate, or grindstone. The molcajete, or mortar, is in front of her -- below is t -- Figure 6. Entanglement between humans and things, as defined by Hodder, may involve four sets of relationships: (Human Thing) + (Thing Thing) + (Thing Human) + (Human Human). Drawing by Teddy Williams (artwork after Jean-Michel Basquiat -- Buchhart 2019). -- Figure 7. Artistic reconstruction of a shaft-tomb from the West-Mexican Teuchitlán tradition (ca. 300 BC-AD 400). The objects deposited as offerings provide an example of the entanglement of symbolic elements and precious commodities that are meant to las.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 470 Seiten) Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:9781803278100
DOI:10.32028/9781803278094

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