Naslov
“IT’S CURIOUS HOW OFTEN YOU HUMANS MANAGE TO OBTAIN THAT WHICH YOU DON’T WANT.” CHALLENGING INTERPRETATIONS OF PREHISTORIC COMMODITIES PROCUREMENT

Autori
Šošić Klindžić, Rajna

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
25th EAA Annual Meeting (Bern, 2019) – Abstract Book / Kleinová, Kateřina - Bern : EAA, 2019, 177-177

ISBN
978-80-907270-6-9

Skup
25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA 2019)

Mjesto i datum
Bern, Švicarska, 04.09.2019. - 07.09.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
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Ključne riječi
prehistoric behavior ; raw material procurement ; complexity

Sažetak
Archaeological interpretation reflects our mental image of the past. It is often the image of the development of human society formed in antiquity, defined by Rousseau and widely accepted during 19th century, that we accept as a fact. It is especially com-mon for the archaeological interpretation of objects of everyday use. The artifacts of everyday use are often taken for granted and are rarely subject of more detailed inquiry into human behaviour, as if only the luxurious and rare objects were evidence of so-cial complexity. Even when attempt towards recognition of complexity is made, it is often through the prism of religious feelings of prehistoric people manifested in their material culture. Additionally, scientific analyses of artifacts leaves us with the illusion that the results are objective and conclusive. So, we form our interpretation around the assumption that people in prehistory were simple, rules abiding, deeply spiritualistic, guileless yet always rational and very adaptive peasants. This narrative is peri-odically challenged in archaeology, as recently by Graeber & Wengrow in ”How to change the course of human history”. In other disciplines it is already recognised that ”primitive man” ; is an ethnocentric projection, rather than (yet another projection) homo economicus from prehistory. We often fail to acknowledge that we are not just biologically same as prehistoric homo sapiens sapiens, but that our intellectual capacity is the same and that archaeological record is evidence of very complex behaviour, both on individual and communal level. We have to start to observe prehistoric people as our intellectual peers not just in big synthesis or theoretical papers, but on every level of archaeological interpretation to build new theories. In this paper I will confront my previous work and on Neolithic raw material procurement and ”economy” ; with other possible scenarios rather than through the cliche of adaptive strategies.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arheologija

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