Sentient Archaeologies: Global Perspectives on Places, Objects and Practice

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nimura, Courtney, Editor.

O'Sullivan, Rebecca, Editor.

Bradley, Richard, Editor.

Cooper, Anwen, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.) ill

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxbow Books 2023

Summary:

Archaeology in the past century has seen a major shift from theoretical frameworks that treat the remains of past societies as static snapshots of particular moments in time to interpretations that prioritize change and variability. Though established analytical concepts, such as typology, remain key parts of the archaeologist's investigative toolkit, data-gathering strategies and interpretative frameworks have become infused progressively with the concept that archaeology is living, in the sense of both the objects of study and the discipline as a whole. The significance for the field is that researchers across the world are integrating ideas informed by relational epistemologies and mutually constructive ontologies into their work from the initial stage of project design all the way down to post-excavation interpretation.This volume showcases examples of such work, highlighting the utility of these ideas to exploring material both old and new. The illuminating research and novel explanations presented contribute to resolving long-standing problems in regional archaeologies across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and Oceania. In this way, this volume reinvigorates approaches taken towards older material but also acts as a springboard for future innovative discussions of theory in archaeology and related disciplines.

Contents:

Sentient Archaeologies

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Contents

Contributors

List of Figures and Tables

1 Living Archaeology

2 Reflections on Populating the Western Pacific

3 Diversity and Difference in New Britain, Papua New Guinea: Seeking Indigenous Communities in the Archaeological Record

4 Why the Concept of Near and Remote Oceania Fails Island Melanesian Prehistory

5 Storied Landscapes in the Palaeolithic? The View from the Cave

6 A Circular Tomb with ‘Stones’ of Clay: The Tomb of Lord Bai of Zhongli, Anhui Province, Central China, Early 6th Century BC

7 Agricultural Places as Processes

8 A Viereckschanze in Oxfordshire, England? Enclosure and Memory at Marcham

9 A Landscape’s Memory: The Long-term Impact of Proto-industrial Salt Extraction in the Seille Valley in France

10 Taking, Using, and Giving Back Again: The Deposition of Living Matter in Ancient Europe

11 Rock Art: A Marker of Concepts and Practices

12 Celtic Art Beyond Metal: Material Matters in Iron Age and Early Roman Southern England

13 Jet and Gender in Late Roman Britain

14 Using Coinage and Die-studies to Obtain Evidence about Society in the Late Iron Age

15 ‘Keep on Truckin’ – Thoughts from the Back of a Bus

16 Biography and Technology: A Bronze Ding Vessel of the Iron Age in China

17 Rewriting Global Histories of Human–Material Relations in Different Cultural Contexts

18 Collections of Aboriginal Ground Stone Tools from the Murray Darling Basin: Function, Temporality, and Social Context

19 Cultural and Landscape Change in Australia’s World Heritage Wet Tropics Bioregion, Northeast Queensland

20 What’s Involved in Technological Change? Aboriginal Marine Hunting in Tropical North Australia

21 The Yolŋu System as a Regional Polity

22 Anthropology and Archaeology: A Necessary Unity

23 On Ontological Impurity: Conceptualising Time in Archaeology

24 Archaeology, Heritage, and the Heritage of Archaeology Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9781789259339

1789259339

9781789259346

1789259347

OCLC:

1430661520