7th May 2008, 10:08 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by BAJR Host
Thre is a difference between stratigraphic and temporal (or as you rightly point out locational stratigraphic process) and it is the locational stratigraphic process that should be recorded onsite...
it does bring in the question of locational data for material... creation, use and deposition (and final archive location) all being different
chaine operatoire: ordered chain of actions, gestures, and processes in a production sequence (e.g. of a stone tool or a pot) which led to the transformation of a given material towards the finished product. The concept, introduced by Andre Leroi-Gourhan, is significant in allowing the archaeologist to infer back from the finished artifact to the procedures, the intentionality in the production sequence, and ultimately to the conceptual template of the maker.
Production sites, trade routes and all that get less attention in (site focussed) PPG16-era than they used to. Fell out of fashion along with processualism too, I suppose. Shame because deposition is generally the least interesting thing about material culture or even structures and features; it's just the foggy lens we view through.
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