Naslov
That’s not the shape of my site

Autori
Šošić Klindžić, Rajna

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

Izvornik
8th International Scientific Conference Methodology & Archaeometry Book of Abstracts / Miloglav, Ina - Zagreb : Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb & Croatian Archaeological Society, 2020, 31-31

ISBN
978-953-175-882-6

Skup
8th International Scientific Conference Methodology and Archaeometry (MetArh 2020)

Mjesto i datum
Online, 03.12.2020. - 04.12.2020

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Neolithic ; settlement ; interpretation ; Gorjani

Sažetak
This presentation will be refection on 5-year work on Neolithic site Gorjani Kremenjača and changes in the perception and interpretation that the site underwent during this period. The research questions at the beginning were significantly different than those right now. The major change in research trajectory was not the results of an elaborate research plan but more a matter of circumstances. Most of the research activities, especially on a single site, is deeply embedded in the standard ar-chaeological practices and rely heavily on poorly formulated, yet rarely challenged theoretical back-ground. In archaeological practice, theoretical background frequently transforms into dominant, yet unconscious assumptions on scale and type of prehistoric societies and settlements. The underly-ing and conjoining “common ground” is simplicity. When it comes to defining habitational spaces, scales shrink significantly, and features are rarely observed through space needed for everyday life through analogy with modern villages, but instead forming some imaginary “concentrated” spaces, more resembling videogames scenery like Age of Empires. One of the reason is that archaeological trenches are usually small in size. Adding to that is another embedded assumption, that of the sim-ple primordial society that started to evolve right around the Neolithic period. Emerging evidence of complexity vs usual evidence of simplicity urge archaeology to move from those traditional ex-planatory models where we created prehistoric man and his life based on the image of our simple cousin and create new ones. In this presentation, I will build my arguments around work of D. Clarke, D. Graeber and D. Wengrow on the restrictions of the archaeological/anthropological method and theory and discuss alternative approaches and ideas for better interpretation of prehistoric sites us-ing site Gorjani Kremenjača as a case study.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arheologija

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