SINCE 2008, the island of Inishark, Co Galway, Ireland, has been the subject of archaeological research by the Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast (CLIC) project, directed by Ian Kuijt of the University of Notre Dame. The CLIC project’s excavations have produced new evidence for the use of water-smoothed pebbles within monastic and pilgrimage practices on the island. Using a relational perspective centred on the concept of ‘taskscape’, this article traces the formation, acquisition, manipulation, and deposition of these pebbles by human and non-human agencies and suggests how the stones may have facilitated worshippers’ embodiment of penitential devotion — peregrinatio — by evoking the divine governance of hydrological forces. Relational theory, although inspired by non-Western indigenous perspectives, is shown to be effective in shedding light on the interplay of bodies, language, objects, and environmental phenomena in early medieval and medieval Irish Christian practice.

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Pebbles 和 Peregrinatio：爱尔兰 Inishark 岛上中世纪奉献的任务场景

自 2008 年以来，爱尔兰海岸文化景观 (CLIC) 项目一直对爱尔兰高威郡 Inishark 岛进行考古研究，该项目由圣母大学的 Ian Kuijt 指导。CLIC 项目的发掘为岛上修道院和朝圣活动中使用水磨石卵石提供了新的证据。使用以“任务景观”概念为中心的关系视角，本文追溯了人类和非人类机构对这些鹅卵石的形成、获取、操纵和沉积，并提出了这些石头如何促进了信徒忏悔奉献的体现—— peregrinatio - 通过唤起水文力量的神圣治理。关系理论，虽然受到非西方本土观点的启发，