Balkan Dialogues

Negotiating Identity between Prehistory and the Present

AvMaja Gori,Maria Ivanova

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Spatial variation and patterning in the distribution of artefacts are topics of fundamental significance in Balkan archaeology. For decades, archaeologists have classified spatial clusters of artefacts into discrete “cultures”, which have been conventionally treated as bound entities and equated with past social or ethnic groups. This timely volume fulfils the need for an up-to-date and theoretically informed dialogue on group identity in Balkan prehistory. Thirteen case studies covering the beginning of the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age and written by archaeologists conducting fieldwork in the region, as well as by ethnologists with a research focus on material culture and identity, provide a robust foundation for exploring these issues. Bringing together the latest research, with a particular intentional focus on the central and western Balkans, this collection offers original perspectives on Balkan prehistory with relevance to the neighbouring regions of Eastern and Central Europe, the Mediterranean and Anatolia. Balkan Dialogues challenges long-established interpretations in the field and provides a new, contextualised reading of the archaeological record of this region.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-12
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:550 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Archaeology
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367874315

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Maja Gori works as postdoctoral researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (IRISS-CNR). Before this appointment she worked as adjunct faculty member at the University of Heidelberg. Her research interests comprise uses of past in identity building, ceramic technology, mobility, and connectivity in the Mediterranean. Maria Ivanova is lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where she studies the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Eastern and Central Europe, with a particular focus on ancient technology, spheres of exchange, the transmission of technology across Eurasia, and prehistoric warfare and violence.

Innehållsförteckning

Balkan Dialogues. Negotiating Identity between Prehistory and The PresentMaja Gori and Maria IvanovaI. Rethinking Groups and Cultures1. Later Balkan Prehistory: A Transcultural PerspectiveJoseph Maran2. Ethnicity as a Form of Social Organization. Notes on the multiplicity of understandings of a contested conceptHans Peter Hahn3. The transitions between Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in Greece, and the “Indo-European problem” Jean-Paul Demoule4. Let’s stop speaking “cultures”! Alternative means to assess historical developments in the prehistoric BalkansZoï Tsirtsoni5. A tradition in nine maps. Un-layering Niger River polychrome water jarsOlivier P. GosselainII. Identities in Transition6. Socio-spatial organisation and early Neolithic expansion in Western Anatolia and GreeceMartin Furholt 7. Negotiating identities and exchanging values: Neolithic pottery production and circulation in ThessalyAreti Pentedeka8. Inheritance, population development and social identities: Southeast Europe 5200–4300 BCEJohannes Müller 9. Culinary landscapes and identity in prehistoric Greece: an archaeobotanical exploration Soultana ValamotiIII. Frontiers and Boundaries10. Neolithic Assemblages and Spatial Boundaries As Exemplified through the Neolithic of Northwestern TurkeyMehmet Özdoğan 11. Cultivating Identities: Landscape Production among Early Farmers in the Southern Balkans Susan E. Allen12. Erasing Boundaries or Changing Identities? The Transition from Early/Middle to Late Neolithic, New Evidence from Southern