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The archaeology of equality
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Title:
The archaeology of equality
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Series:
World Archaeology
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Volume:
39 (2)
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Journal
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Editor:
Chris Gosden
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Issue Editor:
Robin Osborne
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Routledge Journals
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Year of Publication:
2007
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Is Portmanteau: 1
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.informaworld.com/0043-8243
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28 Sep 2007
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The archaeology of equality
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Special issue on evidence for or against social equality in the archaeological record. The papers concern themselves not only with equality in political organisation and between political organisations but with ways in which day-to-day equality is managed in the communities of the household or among particular social groups united by factors such as gender. Contributions include
Is archaeology equal to equality?
Robin Osborne
143 - 150
in an introduction to the special issue, the author argues that limiting questions of equality to questions of political authority misses those areas of life where the practical and operative presence or absence of equality makes most difference to the individual and to social relations -- areas of life which archaeology is in fact much better equipped to explore than it is equipped to explore political institutions and organisations
For equalities are plural: reassessing the social in Europe during the third ...
Mark Vander Linden
177 - 193
following a critique of previous uses of the evolutionary frame of reference to model understandings of the material culture for the third millennium bc in Europe, the author suggests an alternative reading on the basis of a polythetic analysis of several categories of data (funerary practices, ceramics, settlement pattern). The two major archaeological complexes involved are characterized by the widespread diffusion of categories of artefacts and associated ideas. The networks therefore established are paralleled by a series of other interaction processes indicated by regionally homogeneous patterns in material culture. In sum, it is argued that this entire system functions because it draws on a relationship of equality between the involved partners, individuals or communities, rather than social hierarchy