Connectivity Matters! : Social, Environmental and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies / edited by Johannes Mueller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Müller, Johannes, 1960- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology.

Sociology.

Belonging (Social psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Sidestone Press, [2022]

Summary:

This book is a presentation of the basic concept of social, environmental and cultural connectivity in past societies, as embodied in a diversity of disciplines in the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS. Thus, rather pragmatically driven ideas of socio-environmental connectivities are described, which form the basis of the Cluster of Excellence in its research. A discussion of the fluidness of the term 'connectivity' and the applicability of the concept opens the arena for diverse interpretations. With various case and concept studies, the reader may advance into the perspectives that develop from the new interdisciplinary interaction. These include both rarely considered dependencies between nomadic and urban lifestyles, and aspects of water supply and water features, which represent an area of connectivity between the environment and agglomerated human settlement structures. Moreover, diachronic aspects are presented in various studies on the role of connectivities in the development of social inequality, the use of fortification or also waste behaviour, and the creation of linguistic features in written media. In sum, facets of connectivity research are revealed that are also being investigated in numerous other disciplines with further results in the Kiel Excellence Cluster ROOTS.

Contents:

Intro

Preface of the series editors

Preface of the volume editor

Introduction

Social, environmental, and cultural connectivity: A concept for an understanding of society and the environment

Johannes Müller, Lutz Käppel, Andrea Ricci, Mara Weinelt

On the concept of connectivity

V.P.J. Arponen

Nodes of connectivity: The role of religion in the constitution of urban sites in nomadic Inner Asia

Jonathan Ethier, Christian Ressel, Birte Ahrens, Enkhtuul Chadraabal, Sampildondov Chuluun, Martin Oczipka, Henny Piezonka

Water supply, settlement organisation and social connectivity

Annette Haug and Ulrich Müller

An archaeological perspective on social structure, connectivity and the measurements of social inequality

Tim Kerig, Johannes Bröcker (†), René Ohlrau, Tanja Schreiber, Henry Skorna, Fynn Wilkes

Connectivity and fortifications

Oliver Nakoinz, Anna K. Loy, Christoph Rinne, Jutta Kneisel,

Tanja Schreiber, Maria Wunderlich, Nicole Taylor

Connecting linguistics and archaeology in the study of identity: A first exploration

John Peterson, Nicole Taylor, Ilja A. Seržant, Henny Piezonka, Ariba Hidayet Khan, Norbert Nübler

The Dimensions of Refuse: Discard Studies as a Matter of Connectivity

Jens Schneeweiß

Ideology and identity in grammar: A diachronic-quantitative approach to language standardisation processes in Ancient Greek

Dariya Rafiyenko and Ilja A. Seržant

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Print version: Mueller, Johannes Connectivity Matters!

ISBN:

9789464270297