Roman Artefacts and Society: Design, Behaviour, and ExperienceOxford University Press, 26 ian. 2017 - 312 pagini In this book, Ellen Swift uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investigate Roman artefacts in a new way, making a significant contribution to both Roman social history, and our understanding of the relationships that exist between artefacts and people. Based on extensive data collection and the close study of artefacts from museum collections and archives, the book examines the relationship between artefacts, everyday behaviour, and experience. The concept of 'affordances'-features of an artefact that make possible, and incline users towards, particular uses for functional artefacts-is an important one for the approach taken. This concept is carefully evaluated by considering affordances in relation to other sources of evidence, such as use-wear, archaeological context, the end-products resulting from artefact use, and experimental reconstruction. Artefact types explored in the case studies include locks and keys, pens, shears, glass vessels, dice, boxes, and finger-rings, using material mainly drawn from the north-western Roman provinces, with some material also from Roman Egypt. The book then considers how we can use artefacts to understand particular aspects of Roman behaviour and experience, including discrepant experiences according to factors such as age, social position, and left- or right-handedness, which are fostered through artefact design. The relationship between production and users of artefacts is also explored, investigating what particular production methods make possible in terms of user experience, and also examining production constraints that have unintended consequences for users. The book examines topics such as the perceived agency of objects, differences in social practice across the provinces, cultural change and development in daily practice, and the persistence of tradition and social convention. It shows that design intentions, everyday habits of use, and the constraints of production processes each contribute to the reproduction and transformation of material culture. |
Cuprins
Introduction | 1 |
Function | 18 |
BehaviourExperience | 102 |
Users | 150 |
Production and Users | 202 |
Conclusion | 229 |
Ringkeys data | 238 |
Pens data | 242 |
Shears data | 244 |
Dice data | 249 |
Chisquared statistics for dice with statistically significant bias | 253 |
Fingerring motifs | 258 |
Roman squaresided glass bottles data Isings Form 50 see Isings 1957 | 264 |
References | 267 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
affordances Antinoopolis archaeological artefacts assemblage associated Augst Avenches axis behaviour blade length bone dice bottles bowl burial century Chapter Colchester Castle COLEM colour plate considered copper alloy Corinium Museum craft cutting data set design features detail discussed documented drinking horns Egypt English Heritage evidence examine examples experience Female finger-rings flat fourth finger gender Germania Inferior grave deposit horizontal inner diameter instance Lankhills late Roman left hand lock male material culture measure modern motifs Museum of Ireland Museum of London narrow National Museum nib shape normative numbers objects occur overall Oxyrhynchus particular Petrie Museum possible production range relation relationship reverse-oblique right-handed right-set blades ring-keys rings Roman Britain Roman period Rustic Capitals script style sextarius sheep shearing similar sizes specific spoons square-cut strigils suggested system function third finger type 5b Uncial use-wear users Verulamium Vindolanda Vindonissa wear wider worn writing