UID:
edocfu_9961601418202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (296 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
94-6427-068-3
Serie:
Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology Series ; v.5
Inhalt:
Traditional archaeological ideas about Neolithic societies were shaped by questionable premises. The modern concept of social and cultural coherence of residence groups as well as the ethnic interpretation of 'archaeological cultures' fostered ideas of static and homogeneous social entities with fixed borders. Farming - as the core of the Neolithic way of life - was associated with sedentariness rather than with spatial mobility and cross-regional social networks. Furthermore, the widely used (neo-)evolutionist thinking universally assumed a growing social complexity and hierarchisation during prehistory. After all, such 'top-down'-perspectives deprived individuals and groups of genuine agency and creativity while underestimating the relational dynamic between the social and material worlds. In recent years, a wide array of empirical results on social practices related to material culture and settlement dynamics, (inter-)regional entanglements and spatial mobility were published. For the latter the adoption of the relatively new scientific methods in archaeology like Stable Isotope Analysis as well as aDNA played a crucial role. Yet the question of possible inferences regarding spatial and temporal differences in forms of social organisation has not been addressed sufficiently. The aim of this volume is therefore to rethink former top-down concepts of Neolithic societies by studying social practices and different forms of Neolithic social life by adopting bottom-up social archaeological perspectives. Furthermore, the validity and relevance of terms like 'society', 'community', 'social group' etc. will be discussed. The contributions reach from theoretical to empirical ones and thematize a variety of social theoretical approaches as well as methodological ways of combining different sorts of data. They show the potential of such bottom-up
Inhalt:
approaches to infer models of social practices and configurations which may live up to the potential social diversity and dynamism of Neolithic societies. The contribution shed light on spatial mobility, social complexity, the importance of (political) interests and factors of kinship etc. We hope that this volume, with its focus on the Neolithic of Europe, will contribute to the ongoing critical debates of theories and concepts as well as on our premises and perspectives on Neolithic societies in general - and the practices of social archaeology as such.
Anmerkung:
Intro -- PART I -- Introduction -- Promoting bottom-up approaches to social archaeology -- Maria Wunderlich, Caroline Heitz, Martin Hinz, Martin Furholt -- CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLIGICAL APPROACHES TO FORMS OF SOCIAL ORGANISATION -- PART II -- Anarchy: Anthropological reflections on an unruly concept -- Till Förster -- Negotiating power in Neolithic communities: The politics of cohabitation -- Martin Furholt -- From "communities of practice" to "translocal communities": A practice-theoretical approach to mobility and the sociospatial configurations of Neolithic groups -- Caroline Heitz -- Ethnoarchaeology and agent-based simulation modelling as bottom-up approaches: Perspectives for archaeological research -- Maria Wunderlich, Julian Laabs -- PART III -- MATERIAL DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL ORGANISATION -- The world in a village? Regional and supra-regional transmission of pottery-making practices in southwestern Germany in the early third millennium BC -- Philipp Gleich -- Tracing the evidence of Neolithic social groups' mobility according to the ornamentation on ceramics from the Lysa Hora burial site -- Marta Andriiovych -- Lausanne-Vidy: From single to social? -- Katharina V.M. Jungnickel -- Perversion of the Pareto principle: Using a bottom-up approach to study burial practices in the Late Neolithic Carpathian Basin -- Kata Szilágyi -- SCALES AND FORMS OF SOCIAL ORGANISATION -- PART IV -- Setting the ground for a village: Communal organisation and space at the Early Neolithic site of Altscherbitz (Germany) -- Isabel A. Hohle -- Same but different: Cross-regional cultural entanglement during the first half of the third millennium BC - a view from Franconia -- Thomas Link -- How wide are social frames of cultural diversity and mutual cultural influences? -- Aleksandr Diachenko, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka.
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syntheses: afterthoughts, reflections and outlook -- PART V -- Purging our approach to Neolithic societies: A critical review of the terms, analytical categories, and cultural concepts applied in research -- Brigitte Röder -- Abandoning Neolithic societies: A practice-based approach -- Alexander Veling -- Theory versus data: Dealing with the interpretive dilemma in the biomolecular era -- Maxime N. Brami -- Contact details of the authors -- Blank Page.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 94-6427-066-7
Sprache:
Englisch
