This study explores a different way of writing history as an alternative to the “master narrative” by rethinking the fundamental practice of archaeology—the construction of chronology. Archaeological chronology has often been used as a calendar-like time axis, imposing a uniform temporality on the history of diverse things, each with its rhythm and pace of change. We focused on the arguments of George Kubler, who criticized it and proposed a new chronological framework based on his “formal sequence” concept. This new chronological framework enabled us to recreate the internal temporality of taskscapes of making things. We conducted a case study in the Andean–Amazonian borderland, where a radical change in pottery styles occurred in the second millennium B.C. Here, the methodologies for typology, seriation, and age estimation were all reconsidered to rebuild the regional chronology. We observed a “break” in the local pottery-style structure around the fourteenth century B.C. The changes that occurred at the time were not merely the addition of new technology to the local tradition but the transformation of the system governing the material relationships among potters’ bodies, making tools, and materials, composing the task of pottery-making. We cannot reach the complex and diverse historical narratives from a single, mono-linear chronology. Instead, we revisit the temporality of various taskscapes through the pursuit of the multilinear temporality of shapes. Subsequently, a regional history can be created by interweaving them together.

本研究通过重新思考考古学的基本实践——年表的构建，探索了另一种书写历史的方式，以替代“主叙事”。考古年代学经常被用作类似日历的时间轴，将统一的时间性强加于各种事物的历史上，每个事物都有其节奏和变化的步伐。我们关注乔治·库伯勒的论点，他批评了它，并基于他的“形式序列”概念提出了一个新的时间框架。这个新的时间框架使我们能够重新创建任务场景的内部时间性的东西。我们在安第斯 - 亚马逊边境地区进行了一个案例研究，在公元前二千年，陶器风格发生了根本性的变化。在这里，重新考虑了类型学、系列化和年龄估计的方法，以重建区域年表。我们观察到公元前 14 世纪左右当地的陶器风格结构出现了“断裂”。当时发生的变化不仅是在当地传统中增加了新技术，而且是控制陶工之间物质关系的制度的转变。身体，制作工具和材料，组成陶器制作的任务。我们无法从单一的单线年表中了解复杂多样的历史叙述。相反，我们重新审视各种任务场景的时间性通过追求形状的多线性时间性。随后，可以通过将它们交织在一起来创建区域历史。