The paper examines how materializations of human practices relate to human cognition and to socio-cultural contexts. By combining evidence on the relationship between material culture and perceptual behaviour, we aim to understand the interactions between the mind, objects, and the world. The research is based on data regarding the visual perception of prehistoric pottery that was analyzed using Eye-Tracking techniques in a way that has not been applied previously to archaeological material culture. The datasets come from Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) and range from the Middle Neolithic until the end of the Iron Age (6000–200 BP). They belong to very different contexts that comprise a long-term history through diverse socio-cultural formations. A rigorous methodology makes it possible to unveil cross- and intra-cultural patterns of visual response to materiality, while avoiding presentism and subjective bias. The results provide new insights into the agency of material culture, which contribute to our understanding of the relationship between the mind and the material world, and account for the transitive engagement between the way of thinking, seeing, and making things.

本文探讨了人类实践的具体化如何与人类认知和社会文化背景相关。通过结合物质文化和感知行为之间关系的证据，我们的目标是理解思想、物体和世界之间的相互作用。该研究基于有关史前陶器视觉感知的数据，使用眼动追踪技术进行分析，其方式以前从未应用于考古材料文化。数据集来自加利西亚（伊比利亚半岛西北部），范围从新石器时代中期到铁器时代末期（距今 6000-200 年）。它们属于截然不同的背景，通过不同的社会文化形态构成了长期的历史。严格的方法论使得揭示跨文化和文化内对物质性的视觉反应模式成为可能，同时避免呈现主义和主观偏见。研究结果为物质文化的作用提供了新的见解，有助于我们理解思想与物质世界之间的关系，并解释思维、观看和制造事物的方式之间的传递性参与。