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Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context: An Exploration into Culture, Society, and the Study of European Prehistory. Part 2 - Practice - The Social, Space, and Materiality (Paperback)
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Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context: An Exploration into Culture, Society, and the Study of European Prehistory. Part 2 - Practice - The Social, Space, and Materiality (Paperback)
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Practice - The Social, Space, and Materiality forms the second part
of Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context: An exploration into
culture, society, and the study of European prehistory. It studies
Bronze Age tells and our approaches towards an understanding of
this fascinating way of life, drawing on the material remains of
long-term architectural stability and references back to ancestral
place. While the first volume challenged Neo-Diffusionist models of
the influence of Mediterranean palatial centres on the development
of tell communities in the Carpathians and an attendant focus on
social stratification, the second part sets out an alternative
theoretical approach, which foregrounds architecture and the social
use of space. Unlike the reductionist macro perspective of
mainstream social modelling, inspired by aspects of practice theory
outlined in this book, the account given seeks to allow for what is
truly remarkable about these sites, and what we can infer from them
about the way of life they once framed and enabled. The stability
seen on tells, and their apparent lack of change on a macro scale,
are specific features of the social field, in a given region and
for a specific period of time. Both stability and change are
contingent upon specific historical contexts, including traditional
practices, their material setting and human intentionality. They
are not an inherent, given property of this or that 'type' of
society or social structure. For our tells, it is argued here,
underneath the specific manifestation of sociality maintained, we
clearly do see social practices and corresponding material
arrangements being negotiated and adjusted. Echoing the argument
laid out in the first part of this study, it is suggested that
archaeology should take an interest in such processes on the micro
scale, rather than succumb to the temptation of neat macro history
and great narratives existing aloof from the material remains of
past lives.
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