Revisiting Aguabuena Pottery-making Through Discontinuity

rural community in the Colombian Andes. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, I explore the
changes in modes of production and gender division of work during the last decades of the twentieth
century and the fractures in space, memory, and materiality to address discontinuities in ceramic
production. The wheel and its transformations are taken as an important factor of these processes.
Against the common trend in the archaeology of Colombia to see pottery-making as a static craft,
rooted in an indigenous past, this article aims to revisit ethnoarchaeological and ethnographic data to
argue how cracks and gaps, besides empirical facts, can be seen as complex analytical lenses through
which to embrace ruptures and less linear narratives.