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The Archaeology of Personhood: An Anthropological Approach
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The Archaeology of Personhood examines the characteristics that define a person as a category of being, highlights how definitions of personhood are culturally variable and explores how that variation is connected to human uses of material culture as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Bringing together a wealth of research in social and cultural anthropology, philosophy and related fields, this is the first book to address the contribution that an understanding of personhood can make to our interpretations of the past
Applying an anthropological approach to detailed case studies from European prehistoric archaeology, the book explores the connection between people, animals, objects, their societies and environments and investigates the relationship that jointly produces bodies, persons, communities and artefacts.
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Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan
TL;DR: The authors examines the role of archaeology in the formation of modern Japanese nation and explores the processes by which archaeological practice is shaped by national social and intellectual discourse, arguing that an understanding of the past has been a central component in the creation of national identities and modern nation states and that archaeology has played an important role in shaping that understanding.
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Debating Roman Imperialism: critique, construct, repeat?
TL;DR: The state of Roman archaeology has attracted much attention over the last 25 years of the Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) as mentioned in this paper, which has made a massive impact on the careers of many Roman archaeologists.
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Gendered perspectives in archaeological narratives of the Danish Bronze Age: deconstructing the binary approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the binary approach customarily employed throughout archaeological narratives pertaining to the Danish Bronze Age and demonstrate that continuous implementation of the binary model in the documentation of funerary remains has effectively corrupted the integrity of the evidence.
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Ochre, Ground Stone, and Wrapping the Dead in the Late Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant: Revealing the Funerary Practices at Shubayqa 1, Jordan
Tobias Richter,Emmy Bocaege,Peter Ilsøe,Anthony Ruter,Alexis Pantos,Patrick Pedersen,Lisa Yeomans +6 more
TL;DR: The appearance of rich and diverse funerary practices is one of the hallmarks of the Late Epipalaeolithic Natufian in the Levant as mentioned in this paper, and numerous burials at a number of sites excavated mostly in the Medit...
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Daggers in the West: Early Bronze Age Daggers and Knives in the South-west Peninsula
Andrew Jones,Henrietta Quinnell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the results from a project to date Early Bronze Age daggers and knives from barrows in south-west England were presented, which revealed that daggers/knives were occasionally deposited in barrow-associated contexts in the southwest from c. 1900 to 1500 cal bc.