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Commentary: Materializing Assemblages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2017

Chantal Conneller
Chantal Conneller*
Affiliation:
Archaeology, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This contribution contrasts ‘Assemblage theory’ with more traditional archaeological understandings of the term ‘assemblage’. It is argued that the flat ontology of assemblage theory is productive, particularly in relation to scale, enabling archaeologists to describe their own materials more precisely. However, more traditional ‘assemblages’, perhaps as a result of the more restrictive view they provide, should not be neglected, as they generate particularly archaeological perspectives and effects.

Type
Special Section: Archaeology and Assemblage
Information
Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , February 2017 , pp. 183 - 185
Copyright
Copyright © McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2017 

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