| 英文摘要 |
In this thesis, I would like to answer two questions: 1) Can vessel lot be correctly constructed by attribute analysis? 2) Will it be more efficient to take the vessel lot rather than the sherd as a unit to discuss archeological topics? I take the She-Kou site as an example to answer these two questions.
In archaeological studies, “vessel lot” and “sherd” both refer to the idea of pottery. Although the broken pottery is often excavated from archaeological sites in the form of sherd, in the real world, the unit that people cognize and use is “vessel lot” rather than “sherd”, and some attributes such as typology, diameter and height will also miss if we use sherd as an analytic unit. Being aware of this shortcoming, Chilton (1994) started to advocate taking vessel lot as an analytic unit to deal with archaeological subjects, She believes that we can integrate sherds into vessel lot by using attribute analysis. Although Chilton emphasizes the concept of vessel lot, we still need to consider its feasibility. Only when my two questions lead to positive conclusions can the concept of using vessel lot unit be applied into the research of other regions or archaeological sites. |
