In this article we put forward an alternative account of the famous wristguards, or bracers, of the European Early Bronze Age. Combining new materialism with empirical microwear analysis, we study 15 examples from Britain in detail and suggest a different way of conceptualizing these objects. Rather than demanding they have a singular function, we treat these objects as ‘multiplicities’ and as always in process. This, in turn, has significant implications for the important archaeological concepts of typology and object biography and our understandings of material culture more widely.

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从类型学和传记到多重性：作为“过程对象”的护腕

在本文中，我们对欧洲早期青铜时代著名的护腕或护腕提出了另一种描述。我们将新唯物主义与实证微磨损分析相结合，详细研究了来自英国的 15 个例子，并提出了一种不同的概念化这些物体的方法。我们并不要求它们具有单一的功能，而是将这些物体视为“多样性”并且一如既往地处于过程中。反过来，这对类型学和物体传记的重要考古学概念以及我们对物质文化的更广泛理解具有重大意义。