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- Bengtsson, Lisbet, 1948
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Dilemmas in interpreting a mesolithic site
- 1998
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Ingår i: Proceedings from the Third Flint Alternatives Conference at Uppsala, Sweden, October 18-20, 1996. Eds. L. Holm & K. Knutsson (Occasional papers in archaeology (Uppsala), 16). - 9150612670 ; , s. 55-60
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)
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- Knutsson, Kjel
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Convention and lithic analysis
- 1998
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Ingår i: Third Flint Alternatives Conference at Uppsala. - Uppsala : Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia. - 9150612670 ; , s. 71-95
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Konferensbidrag (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Given the notion of the scientific discource as a culture comparable to the world of social practices by wich we normally live, this culture might be seen as a structural process open to cultural critique by a defamiliarization process. This proces, t is stated, is initiated by a etrn to the conditions that helped to produce central categories that are recursively employed within the practice. It is further stated that, to be able to formulate a critique and a reconstruction of new, meaningful categories, it is important to de define the field of interest and to re-enact or re-live the conditions that can give meaning to this type of classification. Using an example from lithic analyses in Scandinavia during the past tree decades, it is shown how a tradition of categorization of lithic artefacts based on flint assemblages in southernmost Scandinavia has ben recursively recreatedin scientific education and thus has taken thee form of a culture. This construction of a scientific culture has involuntarily been employed to depress the unique character of the north Scandinavian, non-flint assemblages and has structured the interpretation of the north Scandinavian hunter-gatherer societies as a whole. By returning to the situations in which lithics are produced and used, it has been possible to break down the categories which served to disguise a meaningful pattern in the alte5rnative raw maerials and to further a new interpretation of therse materials in relation to their unique character.
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- Olausson, Deborah, et al.
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Battleaxes: Home-made, Made to Order or Factory Products?
- 1998
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Ingår i: Proceedings from the Third Flint Alternatives Conference at Uppsala, Sweden, October 18-20, 1996. - 9150612670 ; , s. 125-140
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Many scholars have claimed that the stone battle axes of the Battle Axe Culture were status objects with a social rather than a pratical function. One way of investigating this is to study the context in which the battle axes were manufactured, and by whom. If any object is to serve as a mark of status, it must be possible for someone who wishes to assert his/her superiority over other community members to limit the object’s availability. This limitation may involve a rare raw material, unusual knowledge about its production, time consuming or labour consuming production, etc. My work aims at analysing a number of possible prehistoric status objects, among them the battle axe, in order to ascertain the organisation of the production. This may in turn be related to the organisation of society
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