Training course on the ceramic chaînes opératoires approach

DENIS, Soléne, Peter TÓTH and Sébastien MANEM. Training course on the ceramic chaînes opératoires approach. 2023.

Basic information

• Original name: Training course on the ceramic chaînes opératoires approach
• Authors: DENIS, Soléne (250 France), Peter TÓTH (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Sébastien MANEM (250 France).
• Edition: 2023.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Organization of a workshop
• Field of Study: 60102 Archaeology
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/23:00132715
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: pottery; chaînes opératoires
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

This 20-hour course (lecture by Sébastien Manem) is dedicated to ceramic chaîne opératoire analysis – from fashioning to firing operations –, the preliminary stage in any research focusing on the intimate link between technical tradition and social group. The first part will focus on the importance of the notion of the chaîne opératoire and the diversity of technical behaviors observed worldwide. The second part of the course will describe the diversity of diagnostic traits that allow for the identification of the techniques by using different scales of observation from naked eye to microscope. Since the majority of traces have several origins, the training course will emphasize the notion of a body of evidence to identify each technique by using experimental, ethnographic and archaeological examples. The final part will be devoted to the importance of macro-photography – techniques and gear – in analyzing and illustrating the results.

Links

• MUNI/A/1420/2022, interní kód MU: Name: Archeologické terénní prospekce, exkavace a dokumentace III

Investor: Masaryk University, Archaeological field prospecting, excavation and documentation III