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Spatial variation and patterning in the distribution of artefacts
are topics of fundamental significance in Balkan archaeology. For
decades, archaeologists have classified spatial clusters of
artefacts into discrete "cultures", which have been conventionally
treated as bound entities and equated with past social or ethnic
groups. This timely volume fulfils the need for an up-to-date and
theoretically informed dialogue on group identity in Balkan
prehistory. Thirteen case studies covering the beginning of the
Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age and written by archaeologists
conducting fieldwork in the region, as well as by ethnologists with
a research focus on material culture and identity, provide a robust
foundation for exploring these issues. Bringing together the latest
research, with a particular intentional focus on the central and
western Balkans, this collection offers original perspectives on
Balkan prehistory with relevance to the neighbouring regions of
Eastern and Central Europe, the Mediterranean and Anatolia. Balkan
Dialogues challenges long-established interpretations in the field
and provides a new, contextualised reading of the archaeological
record of this region.
Spatial variation and patterning in the distribution of artefacts
are topics of fundamental significance in Balkan archaeology. For
decades, archaeologists have classified spatial clusters of
artefacts into discrete "cultures", which have been conventionally
treated as bound entities and equated with past social or ethnic
groups. This timely volume fulfils the need for an up-to-date and
theoretically informed dialogue on group identity in Balkan
prehistory. Thirteen case studies covering the beginning of the
Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age and written by archaeologists
conducting fieldwork in the region, as well as by ethnologists with
a research focus on material culture and identity, provide a robust
foundation for exploring these issues. Bringing together the latest
research, with a particular intentional focus on the central and
western Balkans, this collection offers original perspectives on
Balkan prehistory with relevance to the neighbouring regions of
Eastern and Central Europe, the Mediterranean and Anatolia. Balkan
Dialogues challenges long-established interpretations in the field
and provides a new, contextualised reading of the archaeological
record of this region.
The sixth issue of Ex Novo explores how 'peripheral' regions
currently approach both the practice and theory of public
archaeology placing particular emphasis on Eastern and Southern
Europe and extending the analysis to usually underrepresented
regions of the Mediterranean.
Who owns the past? Archaeological heritage between destruction and
idealization. This volume, part of the wider Ex Novo series, hosts
papers exploring the various ways in which the past is remembered,
recovered, created and used. In particular, contributions discuss
the role of archaeology in present-day conflict areas and its
function as peacekeeping tool or as trigger point for military
action.
It has been abundantly demonstrated that theories and paradigms in
the humanities are influenced by historical, economic and
socio-cultural conditions, which have profoundly influenced
archaeology's representation of migration. This was mostly
conceived as the study of the movement of large and homogenous
population groups, whose identity was often represented as
ethnically characterized. The present-day shift of attention from
collective to individual agency and the countless facets of
migration goes hand in hand with new socio-political and cultural
scenarios such as the extraordinary migratory flows into Europe,
shifting boundaries, alternative forms of citizenship and identity,
and the emergence of emotive reactionism. The third volume of Ex
Novo gathers multidisciplinary contributions addressing mobility to
understand patterns of change and continuity in past worlds;
reconsider the movement of people, objects, and ideas alongside
mobile epistemologies, such as intellectual, scholarly or educative
traditions, rituals, practices, religions and theologies; and
provide insights into the multifaceted relationship between mobile
practices and their shared meanings and how they are represented
socially and politically.
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