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this diagram visualises the results of the pXRF-analyses. the grey dots mark the reference group, the black dots the ribbed bowls made of pottery and the numbers indicate the sherds inventory numbers (graphic: D. Penz; modifications: J. Rabitsch).
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The present paper gives an insight into preliminary results of the analysis of ribbed bowls made of pottery based on the findings from Brigantium/ Bregenz. Therefore, different aspects of research are taken into account: the paper will provide an overview of the known finding spots and the possible origins of the ribbed bowls will be discussed. The...
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... A common and widely debated phenomenon in archaeology are objects which are considered imitations or replications or adaptations, such as local versions of types of objects usually produced elsewhere (with many examples from the Roman and "Barbarian" worlds, such as Germanic ceramic rib bowls imitating Roman glass bowls, e.g. Schuster 2016: 133-41;Rabitsch 2016). Here I rather want to focus on objects manufactured in harder material than the original, which we may call skeuomorphic. ...
Petrification is a process, but it also can be understood as a concept. This volume takes the first steps to manifest, materialize or “petrify” the concept of “petrification” and turn it into a tool for analyzing material and social processes. The wide array of approaches to petrification as a process assembled here is more of a collection of possibilities than an attempt to establish a firm, law-generating theory. Divided into three parts, this volume’s twenty-plus authors explore petrification both as a theoretical concept and as a contextualized material and social process across geological, prehistoric and historic periods.
Topics connecting the various papers are properties of materials, preferences and choices of actors, the temporality of matter, being and becoming, the relationality between actors, matter, things and space (landscape, urban space, built space), and perceptions of the following generations dealing with the petrified matter, practices, and social relations. Contributors to this volume study specifically whether particular processes of petrification are confined to the material world or can be seen as mirroring, following, triggering, or contradicting changes in social life and general world views. Each of the authors explores – for a period or a specific feature – practices and changes that led to increased conformity and regularity. Some authors additionally focus on the methods and scrutinize them and their applications for their potential to create objects of investigation: things, people, periods, in order to raise awareness for these or to shape or “invent” categories. This volume is of interest to archaeologists, geologists, architectural historians, conservationists, and historians.
Petrification is a novel concept for tackling processes in both matter and society, and this paper approaches petrification from diverse angles: social change, innovation, control, imitation, and monumentalization. Although this may seem paradoxical, petrification is about change: While the term petrification points at the solid, permanent, durable, the concept “petrification” focuses on the processual aspects, on transformation over time towards, for example, social stability or growing inflexibility, towards repetition and perpetuation of practices and shapes, or towards demarcation and monumentality. To gain an understanding of possible parallels in such changes in social structures and material culture traditional, processual, post-processual, and evolutionary approaches are compared and general examples are chosen from pottery to architecture to landscape, and from the Neolithic to Roman times to modernity. Attention is paid in particular to the practices related to things: the affordance and manipulability of things and the polysemy and contextuality of their meanings may be part of strategies of groups or individuals to achieve solidity, control, and demarcation, and allows investigating both social and material change at the same time from a praxis-oriented point of view.
The present paper deals with a rare fibula with a lion-shaped bow found in the Roman settlement of Brigantium/Bregenz (A). Since there are very few examples published of this specific type, we know very little about these brooches, however, their similarity indicates a single production centre. Besides thoughts on the origin and dating of this type, a compilation of all known fibulae with lion-shaped bows is included. The general distribution area indicates a Gallo-Roman provenance of the lion-shaped brooches.
