This paper introduces a new perspective on the constitutive role of material culture for memory using the Knossian Kamares pottery style as a case study. It challenges prevalent approaches in mainstream memory studies, which confine memory to individuals’ brains or minds, suggesting a deeper relationship between material culture and memory. Presenting a novel methodology rooted in cognitive archaeology to study the long-term making of Knossian Kamares decorations, I suggest that the Knossian Kamares pottery style is a transgenerational memory that enabled generations of artisans to remember, learn, and update technological skills and knowledge. I also claim that, in assuming this distributed, enactive, and non-representational stance on style as memory, it becomes evident that remembering is something we do: an active engagement that emerges with and through material culture in specific sociomaterial settings.

本文以克诺西安卡马雷斯陶器风格为案例研究，介绍了物质文化对记忆的构成作用的新视角。它挑战了主流记忆研究中的流行方法，这些方法将记忆限制在个人的大脑或思想中，表明物质文化与记忆之间存在更深层次的关系。提出一种植根于认知考古学的新颖方法来研究克诺西安卡马雷斯装饰品的长期制作，我认为克诺西安卡马雷斯陶器风格是一种跨代记忆，使一代又一代的工匠能够记住、学习和更新技术技能和知识。我还声称，在将这种分布式的、主动的、非表征的风格立场假设为记忆时，很明显，记忆是我们所做的事情：在特定的社会物质环境中，随着物质文化并通过物质文化而出现的积极参与。