The chaînes opératoires underlying the manufacture of objects are good proxies for studying social groups and how cultural traits are transmitted and modified through the learning process. With the rise of evolutionary archaeology, the evolution of ceramic vessels can be modeled by using cladistics to elaborate kinship relationships between different taxa on the basis of shared derived character states. Here the modeling applies to ceramic fashioning from the European Middle Bronze Age (France and the United Kingdom). The aim is to assess the nature of the evolution and the relationships between three main cultures—in southern England, Normandy, and in the center-west of France. The cladistics analysis highlights that the ceramic traditions largely result from a process of phylogenesis—a result of descent with modification from an ancestral assemblage—rooted in the Early Bronze Age, suggesting a common origin for the Trevisker/Deverel-Rimbury and French Atlantic technical traditions. On the other hand, the Norman appears to be related to the Duffaits tradition, but to the exclusion of the Trevisker/Deverel-Rimbury traditions. This study supports the theoretical premise that some technical sequences are more stable than others. The evolution of sequences requiring motor habits, such as shaping, stabilized fairly quickly, unlike the finishing operations that continued to diverge throughout the Bronze Age. This study suggests that cladistics based on the description of the ceramic material in terms of chaînes opératoires is a useful tool for studying cultural change.

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通过对ChaînesOpératoires的系统发育分析来模拟陶瓷传统的演变：以欧洲青铜时代为例

该CHAINESopératoires物品制造的基础是研究社会群体以及如何通过学习过程传递和修改文化特质的良好代表。随着进化考古学的兴起，陶瓷容器的进化可以通过在共同的派生特征状态的基础上，利用分类学来阐述不同分类群之间的亲属关系来建模。这里的建模适用于欧洲中古铜时代（法国和英国）的陶瓷服装。目的是评估进化的本质以及英格兰南部，诺曼底和法国中西部的三种主要文化之间的关系。进行的分类分析表明，陶瓷传统很大程度上源于系统发育过程（起源于青铜时代的祖先组合后裔的后裔），这暗示了Trevisker / Deverel-Rimbury和法国大西洋技术传统的共同起源。另一方面，诺曼人似乎与Duffaits传统有关，但与Trevisker / Deverel-Rimbury传统无关。该研究支持某些技术序列比其他技术序列更稳定的理论前提。与精加工操作在整个青铜时代持续发散的情况不同，需要运动习惯（例如塑造）的序列的演变很快稳定下来。