This paper presents key results of the Making a Mark project (2014–2016), which aimed to provide a contextual framework for the analysis of mark making on portable artefacts in the British and Irish Neolithic by comparing them with other mark-making practices, including rock art and passage tomb art. The project used digital imaging techniques, including Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), and improved radiocarbon chronologies, to develop a new understanding of the character of mark making in the British and Irish Neolithic. Rather than considering this tradition in representational terms, as expression of human ideas, we focus on two kinds of relational material practices, the processes of marking and the production of skeuomorphs, and their emergent properties. We draw on Karen Barad's concept of ‘intra-action’ and Gilles Deleuze's notion of differentiation to understand the evolution and development of mark-making traditions and how they relate to other kinds of social practices over the course of the Neolithic.

本文介绍了Make a Mark的主要成果项目（2014-2016），旨在通过将它们与其他标记制作实践（包括岩石艺术和通道墓葬艺术）进行比较，为分析英国和爱尔兰新石器时代便携式文物的标记制作提供一个背景框架。该项目使用了包括反射变换成像 (RTI) 在内的数字成像技术和改进的放射性碳年表，以对英国和爱尔兰新石器时代的标记制作特征进行新的理解。我们没有将这一传统视为人类思想的表达方式，而是将其视为人类思想的表达，而是关注两种相关的材料实践，即标记过程和拟物的生产过程，以及它们的涌现属性。我们借鉴了 Karen Barad 的“行动内”和 Gilles Deleuze 的概念