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Trinacria, the ancient name for Sicily extending back to Homeric
Greek, has understandably been the focus of decades of
archaeological research. Recognising Sicily’s rich prehistory and
pivotal role in the history of the Mediterranean, Sebastiano Tusa -
professor, head of heritage agencies and councillor for Cultural
Heritage for the Sicilian Region - promoted the exploration of the
island’s heritage through international collaboration. His
decades of fostering research initiatives not only produced rich
archaeological results spanning the Palaeolithic to the modern era
but brought scholars from a range of schools and disciplines to
work together in Sicily. Through his efforts, uniquely productive
methodological, theoretical and interpretative networks were
created. Their impact extends far beyond Sicily and Italy. To
highlight these networks and their results, the Institutum Romanum
Finlandiae, the Swedish Institute in Rome, the Norwegian Institute
in Rome, the British School at Rome and the Assessorato dei Beni
Culturali of Sicily, with generous support from the Swedish
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, assembled this anthology of papers. The
aim is to present a selection of the work of and results from
contemporary, multi-national research projects in Sicily. The
collaboration between the Sicilian and international partners,
often in an interdisciplinary framework, has generated important
results and perspectives. The articles in this volume present
research projects from throughout the island. The core of the
articles is concerned with the Archaic through to the Roman period,
but diachronic studies also trace lines back to the Stone Age and
up to the contemporary era. A range of methods and sources are
explored, thus creating an up-to-date volume that is a referential
gateway to contemporary Sicilian archaeology.
This book will suggest new agendas for identity and heritage
studies by means of presenting contentious issues facing
archaeology and heritage management in a globalized world. The book
is not only present the variability of heritage objectives and
experiences in the New and Old World, and opens a discussion, in a
shrinking world, to look beyond national and regional contexts. If
the heritage sector and archaeology are to remain relevant in our
contemporary world and the near future, there are a number of
questions concerning the politics, practices and narratives related
to heritage and identity that must be addressed. Questions of
relevance in an affluent, cosmopolitan setting are at odds with
those relevant for a region emerging from civil war or ethnic
strife, or a national minority battling oppression or ethnic
cleansing. A premise is that heritage represents a broad scope of
empirically and theoretically sound interpretations - that heritage
is a response to contemporary forces, as much as data. It is
therefore necessary constantly to evaluate what is scientifically
accurate as well as what is valid and relevant and what can have a
contemporary impact.
This brief is the proceedings of two roundtables and forums
organized by Eszter Banffy, Peter Biehl, Douglas Comer, and
Christopher Prescott and sponsored by the European Association of
Archaeologists (EAA) and the Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
held at the 76th SAA annual conference in Sacramento in April 2011,
and the 17th EAA annual conference in Oslo in September 2011. The
book is organized around five main issues with the goal to
stimulate discussion, research and practices within the field:
Traditions and legal regulations of heritage and its management The
teaching of cultural heritage; public outreach and university
training Heritage and national identity The future of cultural
heritage in a globalized and digitized world This book is thus be
an exploration of the various experiences in Europe and the
Americas to better understand, in the vast field of archaeology and
cultural heritage management, where we are today, where we might
be, and where we hope to be in the near future.
It can be argued that elements of European heritage can be
identified not only as a national strategy of the present but also
as a process in prehistory - the cultural and political
transformations of the third millennium BC in European prehistory
sparking off this process. These transformations initiated the
processes and mechanisms that led up to the complex political,
social and cultural institutions of the first half of the second
millennium BC. From this time on, an authentic historical continuum
leading towards present-day society can be identified. The papers
in this anthology provide an up-to-date survey of trends in Bell
Beaker research, with a focus on western and northern Europe, as
well as developments in the northern and eastern Scandinavian and
Baltic regions. The geographical focus, along with the
interpretative perspective, hopefully demonstrates some of the
progress in understanding the histories of third millennium Europe.
This study of the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age in Inner Sogn,
western Norway, is based on material from an area on the periphery
of southern Scandinavia. Though this mountainous region was
peripheral and agriculturally marginal, it was not marginal in
regard to pastoral and wildlife resources. Prescott explores how
this area was exploited, responding to the extensive archaeological
material from Ardal as well as to theoretical and methodological
approaches in previous studies of Late Neolithic and Bronze Age
material. He attempts to analyze aspects of human behaviour, social
organization, and land use in this particular period and region.
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