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© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.How might an interdisciplinary approach involving experimental archaeology improve our knowledge of glassmaking in medieval Iberia? Our current limited understanding lacks an appreciation of how surviving remains were created through the actual practice of glassmaking—herein lies the biggest single gap in knowledge. Archaeological experiments show that while the infima glassmaking recipe offers a credible guide to basic glassmaking technology, it is best interpreted as a set of learned instructions rooted in, though not describing, workshop practice. Awareness of the sensory qualities of glass, the conducting of experiments, and observation of glass production practice, all combined within a theoretical framework that embraces embodied knowledge and phenomenological aspects of space and time, suggest the potential existence of an encoded “text” of past glassmaking practice within archaeological workshop remains. The authors advocate further experimental archaeology on a more ambitious scale, exploring the sensory and performative aspects of glassmaking practice, to better learn to read the distinctive handwriting of this “text” in medieval Iberian archaeology.
Author(s): Pearson J, Duckworth CN, Lopez-Rider J, Govantes-Edwards D
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies
Year: 2021
Volume: 13
Issue: 1
Pages: 119-144
Online publication date: 08/01/2021
Acceptance date: 07/01/2021
ISSN (print): 1754-6559
ISSN (electronic): 1754-6567
Publisher: Routledge
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2021.1874615
DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2021.1874615
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