ABSTRACT

This article addresses the question of how a ‘site’ comes together through flows of materials. It engages with writing by geographers interested in flat ontologies who propose a view of sites as autonomous congealments of matter that have as one of their effects the suspension, rather than simply decentering, of human subjectivity. A case study from Honduras is used to illustrate the distribution of traces of subjectivity across flows of geological material at a scale that exceeds the locale of excavation, producing a new understanding of flows of these materials as phenomena of long duration and wide spatial extension. The article ends by considering the ways in which site ontology converges with Process Archaeology in a shared emphasis on modes of becoming, and the distinction between them introduced by adopting concepts from the agential realism of Karen Barad.

摘要

本文解决了“站点”如何通过材料流聚集在一起的问题。它涉及对平面本体感兴趣的地理学家的写作，他们提出将地点视为物质的自主凝结物，其影响之一是人类主体性的暂停，而不是简单的去中心化。洪都拉斯的一个案例研究用于说明主观痕迹在地质材料流动中的分布，其规模超过了挖掘现场，从而对这些材料的流动作为长期和广泛空间扩展的现象产生了新的理解。文章最后考虑了站点本体与过程考古学融合的方式，共同强调了成为的模式，