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Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context: An Exploration Into Culture, Society and the Study of European Prehistory. Part 1 - Critique: Europe and the Mediterranean (Paperback)
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Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context: An Exploration Into Culture, Society and the Study of European Prehistory. Part 1 - Critique: Europe and the Mediterranean (Paperback)
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This study challenges current modelling of Bronze Age tell
communities in the Carpathian Basin in terms of the evolution of
functionally-differentiated, hierarchical or 'proto-urban' society
under the influence of Mediterranean palatial centres. It is argued
that the narrative strategies employed in mainstream theorising of
the 'Bronze Age' in terms of inevitable social 'progress' sets up
an artificial dichotomy with earlier Neolithic groups. The result
is a reductionist vision of the Bronze Age past which denies
continuity evident in many aspects of life and reduces our
understanding of European Bronze Age communities to some weak
reflection of foreign-derived social types - be they notorious
Hawaiian chiefdoms or Mycenaean palatial rule. In order to justify
this view, this study looks broadly in two directions: temporal and
spatial. First, it is asked how Late Neolithic tell sites of the
Carpathian Basin compare to Bronze Age ones, and if we are entitled
to assume structural difference or rather 'progress' between both
epochs. Second, it is examined if a Mediterranean 'centre' in any
way can contribute to our understanding of Bronze Age tell
communities on the 'periphery'. It is argued that current
Neo-Diffusionism has us essentialise from much richer and diverse
evidence of past social and cultural realities. Instead,
archaeology is called on to contribute to an understanding of the
historically specific expressions of the human condition and human
agency, not to reduce past lives to abstract stages on the
teleological ladder of social evolution.
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