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- Frieman, Catherine J., et al.
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Aging well: Treherne’s ‘warrior’s beauty’ two decades later
- 2017
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Ingår i: European Journal of Archaeology. - : Cambridge University Press (CUP). - 1461-9571 .- 1741-2722. ; 20:1, s. 36-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the (slightly more than) two decades that the European Journal of Archaeology (formerly the Journal of European Archaeology) has been in print, we have published a number of excellent and high profile articles. Among these, Paul Treherne's seminal meditation on Bronze Age male identity and warriorhood stands out as both the highest cited and the most regularly downloaded paper in our archive. Speaking informally with friends and colleagues who work on Bronze Age topics as diverse as ceramics, metalwork, landscape phenomenology, and settlement structure, I found that this paper holds a special place in their hearts. Certainly, it is a staple of seminar reading lists and, in my experience at least, is prone to provoke heated discussions among students on topics as far ranging as gender identity in the past and present, theoretically informed methods for material culture studies, and the validity of using Classical texts for understanding prehistoric worlds. Moreover, in its themes of violence, embodiment, materiality, and the fluidity or ephemeral nature of gendered identities, it remains a crucial foundational text for major debates raging in European prehistoric archaeology in the present day.
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- Larsson, Åsa Maria, 1973-
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Breaking and Making Bodies and Pots : Material and Ritual Practices in Sweden in the Third Millennium BC
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In South Sweden the third millennium BC is characterised by coastal settlements of marine hunter-gatherers known as the Pitted Ware culture, and inland settlements of the Battle Axe culture. This thesis outlines the history of research of the Middle Neolithic B in general and that of the pottery and burial practices in particular. Material culture must be understood as the result of both conscious preferences and embodied practices: technology can be deliberately cultural just as style can be un-selfconscious routine. Anthropological and ethnoarchaeological research into craft and the transmission of learning in traditional societies shows how archaeologists must take into consideration the interdependence of mind and body when interpreting style, technology and change in prehistory. The pottery crafts of the Pitted Ware and Battle Axe cultures were not just fundamentally different technologically, but even more so in the attitudes toward authority, tradition, variation and the social role of the potter in the community. The Battle Axe beakers represent a wholly new chaîne opératoire, probably introduced by a small group of relocated Beaker potters at the beginning of the period. The different attitudes toward living bodies is highlighted further in the attitudes toward the dead bodies. In the mortuary ritual the Battle Axe culture was intent upon the creation and control of a perfect body which acted as a representative of the idealised notion of what it was to belong to the community. This focus upon completeness, continuation and control is echoed in the making of beakers using the ground up remains of old vessels as temper. In contrast, the Pitted Ware culture people broke the bodies of the dead by defleshing, removal of body parts, cremation, sorting, dispersal and/or reburial of the bones on the settlements. The individuality of the living body was destroyed leaving the durable but depersonalised bones to be returned to the joint collective of the ancestors. Just as the bodies were fragmented so were the pots, sherds and bases being deposited in large quantities on the settlements and occasionally in graves. Some of the pots were also tempered with burnt and crushed bones. At the end of the Middle Neolithic the material and human remains show evidence of a growing effort to find a common ground in the two societies through sharing certain mortuary rituals and making beakers with a mix of both traditions, stylistically and technologically.
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- Vandkilde, Helle, et al.
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Cultural Mobility in Bronze Age Europe
- 2015
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Ingår i: Forging Identities. The Mobility of Culture in Bronze Age Europe: Volume 1, Edited by Paulina Suchowska-Ducke, Samantha Scott Reiter, Helle Vandkilde. - Oxford : British Archaeological Reports. - 0143-3067. - 9781407314334 ; , s. 5-37
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of the following introduction is threefold. First, it sets out to provide an outline of archaeological research into cultural mobility while highlighting the Bronze Age as a major epoch of connectivity in European prehistory. This will serve as the background for the second section, which summarises the main research incentives driving the investigation of mobility in the EC research and training programme Forging Identities – The Mobility of Culture in Bronze Age Europe (FI)1
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