Aplicaciones del 3D en cerámica prehistórica de contextos arqueológicos gallegosun estudio sobre percepción visual

  1. Prieto Martínez, María Pilar
  2. Irujo Ruiz, D.J.
Journal:
Arqueoweb: Revista sobre Arqueología en Internet
  1. Quintanar Cabello, Vanesa (coord.)

ISSN: 1139-9201

Year of publication: 2005

Issue Title: Arqueología del noroeste peninsular

Volume: 7

Issue: 2

Type: Article

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Abstract

The purpose of this communication is to present an investigation project carried out into prehistoric pottery from the perspective of visual perception, using a virtual reconstruction in 3D to do so, and carrying out a visibility analysis based on the ‘socially relevant choices’ involved in pottery production processes based on the tenets of Landscape Archaeology. This study is of equal interest in two areas: disclosing information and research. We will focus on the latter. As we understand pottery to be a social product that is materialised in a spatial manner, we may define its visibility conditions by ‘casting a glance’ over the elements of which it is comprised. Therefore, if other elements of material culture, such as the social landscape, respond to different strategies of visibility, it is logical to believe that pottery also responds to a ‘wish for visibility’ in line with the social being. This research involves casting a ‘methodological glance’ (from the present) over pottery, with the aim of discovering which are the formal elements that lead to greater or null visibility in the final products. We base this research on the hypothesis that there is a social intention in the technical choices of the different stages of pottery production, and that this intention has a visual effect linked to the visibility strategies of these societies. If this is the case, then the visibility strategies may contribute towards characterising the ceramic styles of different prehistoric periods. We believe that making 3D reconstructions is a useful tool, as it allows us to rebuild pottery which in Galician contexts always appears in a highly fragmented state. This tool allows us to visualise complete objects, giving us the opportunity to contrast our hypotheses regarding their visibility. Three computer programmes were used in the process: Strata Studio CX (for rendering in 3D), Adobe Illustrator (sections/drawings) and Adobe Photoshop (textures and photo retouching), making it possible to present a virtual reconstruction of the pottery in 3D. We offer different examples in 3D of pottery taken from sites in Galicia (in the north western Iberian Peninsula) from Late Prehistory (Early-Mid Neolithic, Late Neolithic, Early Bronze Age and Late Bronze Age), with explanations of their visual features. Pottery is a spatial representation of the society that produces it, expressing transformations in patterns of rationality. Starting out from the hypothesis that formal continuity is as important as formal changes or breaks, and that these lead to transformations in the visibility of pottery, we attempt to discover if we may use this visibility to increase our knowledge about pottery as a materialisation of the social being.

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