{"id":11144,"date":"2026-10-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=11144"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:37:38","slug":"looking-at-ian-hodders-book-2024-entangled-part-7-of-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=11144","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Ian Hodder&#8217;s Book (2024) &#8220;Entangled.&#8221;\u00a0 (Part 7 of 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0078 Hodder strives to capture <em>a complex and nuanced appreciation<\/em> of <em>a suite of actualities<\/em> that associate with <em>the noumenon of archaeology,<\/em> whose observable and measurable facets (or <em>phenomena<\/em>) are recorded during excavations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has only one word, &#8220;entanglement&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0079 The following actualities come from a Peirce-based rearticulation of chapter one (C1) and touch on chapters two through four (C2-C4), on the basis of <em>a Dominican&#8217;s recent survey of post-modern philosophers on the topic of Aristotle&#8217;s hylomorphism<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide21.png 540w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide21-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0080 These three actualities may be cast as &#8220;sensical<sub>2a<\/sub>&#8221; 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mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0083 Four items are required: fire, clay ball, basket with lid and a hunk of meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, one also needs sticks that will work as &#8220;tongs&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0083 If this is a family-based operation, <em>whoever is in charge of the clay ball<\/em> must have the skill to &#8220;tong&#8221; the hot ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that these sticks have ever been found in the ruins of Catal Hoyuk.&nbsp; The baskets that hot clay balls go into have also not been found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0084 Here is a picture of the first step for one of those items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide22.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide22.png 540w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide22-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I suspect that archaeologists figure this out by various residues on excavated clay balls.&nbsp; What <em>a hot little noumenon<\/em> the clay ball is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0085 The author is completely on target with respect to the tong-wielding person and the clay ball.&nbsp; They depend on one another.&nbsp; That is the story of the first edition.&nbsp; The second edition takes the situation under consideration.&nbsp; The situation entangles <em>things other than the hot clay ball<\/em>.&nbsp; <em>Other things<\/em> are necessary for <em>the flow<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide23.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide23.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide23.png 540w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide23-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0086 <em>The little noumenon<\/em> entangles <em>matter that enters the middle noumenon<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entanglement resolves in <em>the substance of flow<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0087 The middle noumenon may be labeled &#8220;a two-level interscope&#8221; 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