Open AccessBook
The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Constructing Identities in the Past and Present
TLDR
Sian Jones as mentioned in this paper argues for a fundamentally different view of ethnicity, as a complex dynamic form of identification, requiring radical changes in archaeological analysis and interpretation, and presents a comprehensive and critical synthesis of recent theories of ethnicity in the human sciences.Abstract:
The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the traditional identification of 'cultures' from archaeological remains. Sian Jones responds to the need for a reassessment of the ways in which social groups are identified in the archaeological record, with a comprehensive and critical synthesis of recent theories of ethnicity in the human sciences. In doing so, she argues for a fundamentally different view of ethnicity, as a complex dynamic form of identification, requiring radical changes in archaeological analysis and interpretation.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Current Research on the Historical Development of Northern Iroquoian Societies
TL;DR: In the last decade, the rapid accumulation of data and the application of contemporary theoretical perspectives have led to significant advances in Iroquoian archaeology, including new insights about how demographic, ecological, and cultural processes intersect at multiple temporal and spatial scales.
Journal ArticleDOI
New World States and Empires: Economic and Social Organization
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take a critical perspective in discussing recent publications on the archaeological study of the ancient state-level societies of Latin America, and discuss consumption patterns, household studies, social organization and other topics in terms of both data and theory.
Book
Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete: Social Dynamics in the Neopalatial Period
TL;DR: The role of Knossos in wider Minoan culture and politics, variable modes of centralization and power relations detectable across the island, and the role of ritual and cult in defining and articulating elite control is explored and celebrated in this article.
BookDOI
Archaeological Perspectives of Warfare on the Great Plains
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore a series of central topics that are important regionally and to the larger study of warfare in general, including what fortifications tell us about war, representations of war in art, and how war shaped and reflected human societies on the Plains.
Journal ArticleDOI
Late Pleistocene Technology at Rose Cottage Cave: A Search for Modern Behavior in an MSA Context
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of these assemblages revealed that differences occurred between the transition in Europe and that in southern Africa in both the chronology of the transition and the degree to which this complete cultural package is linked to the emergence of Late Stone Age technology.