Social Organisation (Archaeology)
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“The study of ceramic technological traditions at the LMI building complex of Vathypetro at Archanes, as a means of investigating the society and economy of neopalatial north-central Crete” (PhD Thesis, 2022, University of Athens)"
Evidence from house structures, artifacts and fauna are used to infer political and economic changes at the Benson site, a late sixteenth century Huron village near Balsam Lake, Ontario. It is suggested that one household acquired trade... more
La présente contribution vise à préciser les aspects géographiques et chronologiques liés à l’apparition, au développement et au déclin d’un type de construction en pierre sèche localement appelée « torre ». Ces édifices monumentaux, qui... more
The Malay World is a region of much greater indigenous socio-cultural complexity than the label would suggest. In addition to speakers of Austronesian-derived Malayic languages in the Peninsula, Sumatra and coastal Borneo, there are some... more
Bronze ornaments of the Nordic Bronze Age (neck collars, belt plates, pins and tutuli) were elaborate objects that served as status symbols to communicate social hierarchy. The magnificent metalwork studied here dates from 1500-1100 BC.... more
This paper focuses on the analysis of the cemetery of Demircihöyük-Sarıket, for which exists one of the largest Early Bronze Age funerary datasets published to date in Anatolia. The size and quality of the sample allow the dataset to be... more
The primary focus of this article is on the so-called Negritos of Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand, but attention is also paid to other parts of Southeast Asia. I present a survey of current views on the “negrito” phenotype—is it... more
During the Late Bronze Age and Early Pre-Roman Iron Age the landscape of Northwestern Europe underwent great changes. The landscape was opened up and to a large extent parceled into extensive systems of fields, the hitherto scattered... more
The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the pre-eminence of stratified or class society... more
The Late Iron Age coinage of England has long been recognised as an invaluable potential source of information about pre-Roman Britain, although its purpose has been much debated and never clearly established. Most research using this... more
In this paper the author assembles the evidence for Mesolithic dwelling places surviving as posts, floors and assemblages. This evidence can be used to show how space was organised, where men and women slept, and how some of the implied... more
In this paper I analyse the funerary ideology of the communities which occupied the Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula between c. 3300 and 850 cal BC (Copper and Bronze Age). The definition and critical discussion of the funerary patterns... more
Cultural values and human ecology primarily concern power and history; "systems" emerge only when conducting studies on a prehistoric time-scale. The Malay Peninsula provides linguistic, archaeological and sociological evidence for the... more
Long-term data are fundamental to the explanation of socio-cultural situations. The various indigenous societal traditions of the Malay Peninsula (Semang, Senoi, Malayic) have resulted from mutual in situ cultural assimilation and... more
The different types of socio-religious patterns followed in Southeast Asia relate directly to certain institutionalised ways of orientating people’s apperceptions and ways of talking about the world. However, and despite what much of the... more
The paper discusses the use of ethnoarchaeology in the interpretation of prehistoric hunter-gatherer cultures, and takes as a case study the application of observations made on the Evenk reindeer hunters (Olenok area, Siberia) to... more
The main topics of this thesis are the burial practices carried out at the time of early Christianity in Norway and how the burial practices relate to the burial regulations given in the provincial laws (Gulating, Frostating, Eidsivating,... more
This paper deals with the gathering practices in Eastern-Central Sweden during the middle and late Mesolithic. Following the post-processual paradigm, the idea of women as hunters has come to be accepted.... more
Commensality is shown in connection with an unequal distribution of drinking vessels in Late Chalcolithic sites. The connection between commensal drinking and social organisation is discussed.
in Nature Communications, volume 9, Article n. 3547 (11 sett. 2018), www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06024-4
Despite centuries of research, much about the barbarian migrations that took place between the fourth and sixth centuries in Europe remains hotly debated. To better understand this key era that marks the dawn of modern European societies,... more