Itinerant Matters and Hybrid Objects: Research on material transfers and contact products

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Anthropological archaeology has moved beyond defining cultural geographical boundaries. Instead we understand the fluidity of territories and identities within and between geographic regions. The crossing of boundaries is often documented first through evidence of foreign products, foreign raw materials and foreign styles or practices. Another line of evidence for tracing boundaries and boundary crossings is hybrid styles or technologies. This session aims to bring together scholars spanning geographic, material and methodological specialties to discuss research on tracking and understanding the effects of interactions between different cultural or environmental worlds. The session participants will discuss transfers of knowledge, styles, technology, raw materials or material culture with a particular focus on the evidence and methods for recovering and interpreting this evidence for transregional and interregional interaction and the broader socio-cultural effects. Topics to be presented include evidence of transfer of raw materials beyond the expected ethnohistorically documented range; emerging and growing evidence of itinerant craftspersons who cross borders; interregional contacts reflected in hybrid ceramic styles or technologies; evidence of different modes of trade and how these are documented in the archaeological record and the evidence of the effects and role such transfers of materials, styles and knowledge played in the past.

Other Keywords
Ceramics • andes • Pottery • Obsidian • Cultural Interaction • Interaction • Ceramic Technology • Source Analysis • Colonialism • Lake Titicaca

Geographic Keywords
South America • Europe • South Asia • Central America

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  1. Alfarería en las fronteras de La Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina (Ceramics at the borders of the Humahuaca Quebrada, Jujuy Argentina) (2015)
  2. Characterizing the Relationship Between Two Early States of the Andes: The Moche, The Wari and the Product of their Contact. An Archaeological and Archaeometric Perspective (2015)
  3. Chimú-Inka Ceramics: Quantifying differences between Colonial forms and their influences (2015)
  4. Cultural Interaction and Cultural Change in the Peruvian Central Highland Valley of Ayacucho (2015)
  5. Cultural transmissions and indigenous influences: Glazed tiles from Mughal India (2015)
  6. Hybridized Objects and Colonization Practices: Ceramics from Minaspata, Cuzco, Peru (2015)
  7. Identifying transcultural processes: the Wayana-Apalai and Tiriyó example (2015)
  8. Imitating from Memory: Hybrid Vessels and Attempted Replications of Stylistic Elements from Central Panama in the Pre-Hispanic Ceramics of Costa Rica (2015)
  9. Local and Inca Cross Regional Interactions: studies from the Northern Ecuador frontier. (2015)
  10. Local, Regional, and Supra-regional Political Economies in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus: Unpacking the Contours of "Interaction" (2015)
  11. Long Distance Material Movement in the Mediterranean: Obsidian Transport, Trade, and Technology (2015)
  12. The Politics of Connectivity at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia (2015)
  13. Revealing the common ground: technological practice, intrusive shapes and hybrid pastes in the Kampos Group pottery of Crete (2015)
  14. Spondylus and Ideology: 5000 Years of Interaction between Manabi, the Circum-Gulf of Guayaquil Region and Northern Peru (2015)
  15. Wares in moving: people, technology and political issues in Northwest Argentina (2015)