An archaeology of affect: art, ontology and the carved stone balls of Neolithic Britain
An archaeology of affect: art, ontology and the carved stone balls of Neolithic Britain
This paper aims to shift debate in the study of archaeological art away from epistemological questions of definition towards ontological approaches. To this aim, the paper proposes a non-representational study of archaeological art based on the twin concepts of affect and agential intra-action. As an example of this approach the paper examines the carved stone balls of Neolithic Scotland. The analysis of carved stone balls focuses on their making and on their inter-regional circulation and exchange as a way of approaching the affective character of these artefacts. The paper finishes with a detailed consideration of the concepts of affect and intra-action and advocates their use in the archaeology of art.
Affect Carved stone ball Intra-action Neolithic
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Jones, Andrew
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1 September 2020
Jones, Andrew
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Jones, Andrew
(2020)
An archaeology of affect: art, ontology and the carved stone balls of Neolithic Britain.
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 27 (3), .
(doi:10.1007/s10816-020-09473-8).
Abstract
This paper aims to shift debate in the study of archaeological art away from epistemological questions of definition towards ontological approaches. To this aim, the paper proposes a non-representational study of archaeological art based on the twin concepts of affect and agential intra-action. As an example of this approach the paper examines the carved stone balls of Neolithic Scotland. The analysis of carved stone balls focuses on their making and on their inter-regional circulation and exchange as a way of approaching the affective character of these artefacts. The paper finishes with a detailed consideration of the concepts of affect and intra-action and advocates their use in the archaeology of art.
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Accepted/In Press date: 30 June 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: July 2020
Published date: 1 September 2020
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The research on carved stone balls in this paper benefited from a Leverhulme Trust award (RPG-2014-193). I would like to acknowledge the help of the participants in the Archaeologies of Media and Technology reading group, Winchester School of Art Spring 2019 amongst whom I have been reading Karen Barad?s ?Meeting the Universe Halfway. ? Thanks for your intelligence, scholarship and generosity. Andrew Meirion Jones is Professor of Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK. Address: Archaeology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BF, UK. Email: amj@soton.ac.uk
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Affect Carved stone ball Intra-action Neolithic
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