0014 - Mini pots

These two very small pots were collected in the Late Neolithic contexts of Perdigões. They are rely small, and inside only a fingers head can enter. It is difficult to propose a functionality for such pots. Something resembling a modern toy status could be an explanation. But if we think that miniaturization, as form of scaling down objects to be handled in symbolic contexts (as it happens with animals and human figures), is one of the practices of the period, then these miniatures may be seen from a different perspective. Handled as thoughts in the mind, to quote (by memory) Tim Ingold about the small figurines.

(Photo copyright A.C. Valera / Era Arqueologia)

They were first published here.