In the next
12 and 13 of May, in a Iberian meeting taking place at the Faculdade de Letras of Lisbon University, I will be talking about beakers and their social roles in two
different enclosures: Fraga da Pena in Central/North Portugal and Perdigões in
the South. A walled enclosure and a ditched one.
Some International beakers from Perdigões enclosures
Nailed impressed Beakers from Fraga da Pena walled enclosure.
There are many differences
between these two contexts and between their “beaker expressions”. But there
are also some similarities: the ways the characteristics of both sites are
intrinsically related to the social roles that beakers seem to have been performing there.
Two good examples of a contextualism sound bite: that objects and contexts are meaningfully
bonded. Discussing beakers as an entity
regardless their contextual specificities is a possible approach at a large scale
of analysis, but it would hardly enlighten on the diverse ways they were
historically active and regionalized.
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