河流内外:过去两千年来刚果盆地粘土来源和制备策略的变化

IF 1.5 2区 历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY
Dirk Seidensticker , Wannes Hubau , Florias Mees , Géraldine Fiers , Veerle Cnudde
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摘要

陶器构成了考古学家在中非遇到的最突出的发现类别,并被用作各种区域年代史类型学的基础。由此产生的相互关联的陶器风格序列通常被认为是陶工实践谱系中知识转移的代表,尽管人们对古代陶工社区所遵循的技术方法知之甚少。本文首次提出了化学和岩石学数据,不仅旨在推断容器单元的“本地、中间或跨本地性质”,而且更重要的是,在过去两千年中,陶工社区的粘土来源和制备策略。本分析选择的两个案例研究的结果为粘土来源的不同策略提供了信息,最重要的是陶工完全依赖没有回火的河流粘土和偶尔回火的未知来源的粘土。前一种类型在撒哈拉以南非洲只被肤浅地称为喷气机。一种独特的田野调查策略,特别是沿着刚果河的主要支流进行的河流调查,在很大程度上塑造了刚果盆地的考古记录。这项研究结合了在远离河流一段距离的陆地上的发现,与靠近河流的附近地点的清单相比,这些发现显示出独特的特征。这些发现是在古环境研究期间发现的,对早期河流研究的潜在偏差提供了信息。
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On and off the rivers: Changes in clay sourcing and preparation strategies in the Congo Basin throughout the past two millennia
Pottery constitute the most prominent find category encountered by archaeologists in Central Africa and is utilized as basis for various regional chrono-historical typologies. The resulting sequences of inter-related pottery styles are often regarded as proxies for the transfer of knowledge within potters’ genealogies of practice, despite little being known about the technical approaches ancient potters’ communities followed. This paper presents, for the first time, chemical and petrographic data aiming at deducing, not only the ’local, intermediate or trans-local nature’ of vessel units, but more importantly clay sourcing and preparation strategies of potters’ communities throughout the past two millennia. The results from the two case studies selected for this analysis inform on distinct strategies for clay sourcing, most importantly the exclusive reliance of potters either of fluvial clays that were used without tempering and occasionally tempered clays of unknown provenance. The former type is only superficially known in sub-Saharan Africa as of jet. A unique fieldwork strategy, specifically river-bound surveys along the main tributaries of the Congo River, shaped the archaeological record of the Congo Basin considerably. This study incorporates finds made some distance away from the rivers, on the terra firma, that show unique characteristics when compared to inventories from nearby sites close to the rivers. These finds, made during paleo-environmental research, are informative over the potential biases earlier river-bound research had.
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期刊介绍: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports is aimed at archaeologists and scientists engaged with the application of scientific techniques and methodologies to all areas of archaeology. The journal focuses on the results of the application of scientific methods to archaeological problems and debates. It will provide a forum for reviews and scientific debate of issues in scientific archaeology and their impact in the wider subject. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports will publish papers of excellent archaeological science, with regional or wider interest. This will include case studies, reviews and short papers where an established scientific technique sheds light on archaeological questions and debates.
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