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Cambridge Archaeol J 16 (3)
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Cambridge Archaeol J 16 (3)
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal
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16 (3)
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John Robb
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Cambridge University Press
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2006
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03 Nov 2006
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Post-processual landscape archaeology: a critique
Andrew Fleming
267 - 280
The author contends that post-processual theorists have characterized landscape archaeology as practised in the second half of the twentieth century as over-empirical; that they have asserted that the discipline is sterile, in that it deals inadequately with the people of the past, and is also too preoccupied with vision-privileging and Cartesian approaches; and that they have argued that it is therefore necessary to `go beyond the evidence' and to develop more experiential approaches, `archaeologies of inhabitation'. The article argues that such a critique is misguided, notably in its rejection of long-accepted modes of fieldwork and argument and in its annexation of Cosgrove's rhetoric. `Post-processual' landscape archaeology has involved the development of phenomenological approaches to past landscapes and the writing of hyper-interpretive texts (pioneered by Tilley and Edmonds respectively). It is argued that phenomenological fieldwork has produced highly questionable `results'. Some of the theoretical and practical consequences of adopting post-processual landscape archaeology are discussed; it is concluded that the new approaches are more problematic than their proponents have allowed, and that although new thinking should always be welcomed, it would not be advisable to abandon the heuristic, argument-grounded strengths of conventional landscape archaeology.
The study of finger flutings
Kevin Sharpe
Leslie Van Gelder
281 - 295
The article develops a nomenclature for parietal finger flutings, especially non-figurative and non-symbolic lines, and defines four forms to provide a descriptive structure from which to build analyses. It then develops methods for such investigations, using experiments and studies of physiology to derive information about the fluters from the flutings. The methods are applied to each of the four forms of fluting, showing which approaches may be most useful for each form. Broader questions and applications are touched on, including approaches to meaning, figures, and other families of parietal markings such as hand stencils. This approach to flutings augments other approaches to prehistoric `art' by seeking to know about the artists themselves, their gender, age, size, handedness, and the number of individuals involved in creating a panel.
Fragmentation, personhood and the social construction of technology in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain
Joanna Brück
297 - 315
The article examines a range of practices involving the deliberate fragmentation of human bodies and objects in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain. Focusing on evidence from settlements and mortuary sites, it is suggested that metaphorical links were drawn between people and things, and that productive processes such as potting and metallurgy provided potent metaphors for the construction of the human self. Building on these points, it is argued that current models which posit the rise of an ideology of the `individual' during the Bronze Age may be inappropriate in this cultural context.
Materiality, personhood and monumentality in Early Neolithic Britain
T Kirk
333 - 347
The author considers recent archaeological studies of the material and historical conditions of life, which have discussed the relationality of people and material culture. It is argued that engagement with the material world is one context in which senses of personhood and identity emerge and are transformed; that people and materiality are interanimated in the more or less transient events and actions of daily life, and that personhood and the material world are loaded with sense and made meaningful through citation and reanimation of cultural values and tradition. The contribution discusses the contingent and possibly transient senses of personhood that may have been constituted in some specific material and historical circumstances relating to Early Neolithic monuments in southern Britain. A case study focuses on the relationality of people, animals, earth, stone, architecture and material culture.
Some observations on `The Neanderthals: a social synthesis' with a response from Davies & Underdown
Geoffrey A Clark
349 - 351
Note commenting on the article by Davies and Underdown in Cambridge Archaeological Journal 16:2 (2006), pages 145--64, with
Response
Robert Davies
Simon Underdown
351