Naslov
LET THEM WEAR HELMETS On the rapport between craftspeople and the elites in the Bronze Age of southern Pannonia

Autori
Mihelić, Sanjin ; Ložnjak Dizdar, Daria

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

Skup
19th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists

Mjesto i datum
Pilsen, Češka Republika, 04.09.2013. - 08.09.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
helmets; elites; craftspeople; Late Bronze Age

Sažetak
The paper discusses the role craftspeople played in the shaping of group identity, often exemplified by trademark objects of material culture, above all prestigious goods as the preserve of elites. It is argued that, hand in hand with the elite-appropriated primacy in the socio-political and economic arenas of the world of latter prehistory, the mastery of technological know-how equipped the artisan class with a tool to influence, or sometimes even dictate cultural trends. The complex interplay between elites on one hand and the craftspeople on the other comes to the fore in the prerogative of the latter to give shape to the different means of material expression of the dominant class. The argument is based on the evaluation of a range of Early to Late Bronze Age contexts from Southern Pannonia, with a special emphasis placed on the Urnfield metallurgical assemblages from Northern Croatia.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arheologija

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