La cadena tecnológica operativa como una herramienta teórica y metodológica. Una perspectiva desde los planteamientos de la arqueología del paisaje

We will focus on two main topics: first, the special approach to the Technological Chain (TC) that we have used to study NW Iberian protohistoric and prehistoric pottery from a landscape archaeology viewpoint; and second, the specific problems that we found while trying to perform such work. Regarding the first point, we believe that the most innovative issue is that the TC is not only seen as a mere descriptive tool for technological facts, but we have tried to relate such facts with the social context in which they occur. As a result of it, we have divided the TC into three deeply intertwined aspects: the technical aspects or technological chain, the social aspects or conceptual chain, and the final result of those processes, uiQ final product, which comprises the last link in the chain. Concerning the second point, we have found important obstacles in trying to get to the technological aspects, because the necessary auxiliary techniques are not always readily available. Also, gaining knowledge of the imaginary dimension is even more difficult, as we approach it solely from its material demonstration.