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- by Eva Riediker-Liechti
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  Roman Pottery, Roman Sicily

Short article about the topic of my master's thesis. Published in "Bulletin der Schweizer Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Klassische Archäologie 2012".

Zwischen 1992 und 2007 wurde auf dem Monte Iato in Sizilien durch das Institut für Archäologie der Universität Zürich eine römische Garküche (popina) freigelegt. Der Bau wurde wohl bei einem Erdbeben in der frühen Kaiserzeit zerstört. Die... more

Takeout meals and drinks are not only a modern phenomenon but were already popular in the Roman period. A lot of examples of taverns or bars were found in Pompeii, buried by the eruption of Vesuvius. In Roman Sicily only a few taverns are... more

This article analyses whether Villanovan girdle-plates are mere jewellery or whether they could be understood as symbols. My study is based on 191 fragments, which were published until 2011. Villanovan girdle-plates are made of bronze and... more

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Ziel der Veranstaltung (9. - 23. August 2015) ist es, Bildhauerei und Archäologie in größerer Gruppe zusammentreffen zu lassen. Zwei Blickwinkel sollen dabei voneinander profitieren: Während Archäologen mit zeitlicher Distanz das... more

This poster was presented at the EAA Conference 2015 in Glasgow. As part of my doctoral thesis it descibes the perspective of the producer and some of my experiments in a modern school for pottery apprentices. Fascinated of the theories... more

Different pots - different province? The difficulty of identifying frontiers through material culture, in: P. Della Casa - E. Deschler-Erb (Hrsg.), Rome`s Internal Frontiers, Proceedings of the 2016 RAC session in Rome, Zurich Studies in... more

This article engages in the distribution of superordinate ideas of forms of common pottery ware. Therefore, pottery fragments from an archaeological context are judged as a mirror for past people’s value systems in crafts, which... more

Content: The interplay between archaeology, (neuro-)anthropology, ethnology and sociology brought new approaches into focus as for instance what we call the field of implicit knowledge, embodiment of knowledge or what has been more... more

Content: The interplay between archaeology, (neuro-)anthropology, ethnology and sociology brought new approaches into focus as for instance what we call the field of implicit knowledge, embodiment of knowledge or what has been more recently discussed as extended mind. As a consequence archaeological objects were given two new levels of consideration: One the one hand things could show us an ongoing or completed process of appropriation of materials and tools by a craftsperson, who acts within a knowledge system. On the other hand things reflect the practices of the consumers and thus also the habitualized activities guided by their body knowledge. Therefore our sensual experience with things as a source for relevant information revealed itself. This session seeks not only to discuss the theoretical background but most of all tries to take the next necessary step-the application in the archaeological routine. Our interpretations of objects are usually (and understandably) generated from drawings, photographs and description but the information pool of the sensory dimension is still neglected. A focused discussion on the process of acquisition in crafts or on the daily usage of things could open another level of consideration, which will enrich our previous interpretations. An intensive exchange with craftspeople helps to understand how things are made within a system of values and well directed experiments may replace the selective use of existing ethnological studies. Will we recognise which marks of an object are culturally bound and which are an effect of a law of nature expressed during the process of making? Contributions presenting the cooperation with craftspeople/schools of craft are welcome. Process-based or experimentally/ethnoarchaeologically supported methods and their application to archaeological material will be discussed with their advantages or disadvantages. Also welcome are contributions regarding chances and challenges within the interdisciplinary exchange between the different mentioned sciences and crafts.

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- by Nadja Melko and +1
  Constance Von Rueden
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  Archaeology, Tacit Knowledge, Ethnoarchaeology, Embodiment

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