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Debates in World Archaeology
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Debates in World Archaeology
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World Archaeology
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37 (4)
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Journal
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Chris Gosden
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Thomas A Dowson
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Routledge Journals
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2005
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0043-8243&volume=37&issue=4
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31 May 2006
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Debates in World Archaeology
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Special issue covering debates on a range of topics in archaeology, including
Ice Age Atlantis?; Exploring the Solutrean--Clovis `connection'
L G Straus
David J Meltzer
Ted Goebel
507 - 532
the authors discuss the claim raised by Bradley and Stanford (2004) that European Upper Palaeolithic Solutrean peoples colonized North America, and gave rise to the archaeological complex known as Clovis. They discuss the challenges to this theory, notably the geographical and chronological separation between the two. The authors express scepticism concerning the claim of Bradley and Stanford in their recent paper (see World Archaeol 36:4 (2004) pages 459-478) that the archaeological evidence in support of a historical connection is `overwhelming', and argue that the many differences between Solutrean and Clovis are far more significant than the few similarities, the latter being readily explained by the well-known phenomenon of technological convergence or parallelism
Beyond crusades: how (not) to engage with alternative archaeologies
Cornelius Holtorf
544 - 551
paper addressing the unease felt by archaeologists when encountering alternative (`fringe', `cult', `fantastic', `pseudo-') archaeologies. The author's contribution takes a different point of view from those who have suggested that alternative approaches and their results must be disproved, or who have called for better public understanding of science. He emphasises the social and cultural needs that both scientific and alternative archaeologies address and suggests that the main significance of archaeology does not lie in the specific insights gained about the past but in the very process of engaging with the material remains of the past in the present. He argues that critical understanding and dialogue, not dismissive polemics, is the appropriate way to engage with the multiple pasts and alternative archaeologies in contemporary society
Skeletal analysis and theoretical complications
Pamela L Geller
597 - 609
the author discusses the use by archaeologists (feminist or otherwise) of biologically sexed human remains to make inferences about cultures' conceptions of gender, arguing that creating an easy link between `sex' and `gender' is not without problems. She points out that recent debates within the social sciences have centred on the evolving, historical definition and cultural relevance of both of these terms, but that skeletal analysts' voices have tended to be silent in this debate. She asks what paradigmatic changes in feminist and queer theorizing mean for burial analysis, and to answer this question, advocates a bioarchaeological approach that facilitates reconciliation of biological classifications, cultural constructions of gender and feminist theories on `sex' and `gender'. The pre-Columbian Maya are discussed as an example
Boats are for boys: queering maritime archaeology
Jesse Ransley
621 - 629
the author argues that maritime archaeology is entrenched in the male/female paradigm, and that just as boat-building, sailing, fishing, trading, exploring and colonizing are regarded as male activities, maritime archaeology remains masculine in its approach, techniques and interpretation. She contends that, by failing to acknowledge this, maritime archaeologists are restricting their reconstructions of past maritime societies and are further maintaining the perception of maritime archaeology as having a minor, subsidiary role within the wider discipline of archaeology; and that consequently there is a need for more rigorous and reflexive archaeological interpretation, for the production of self-critical, social archaeologies and for the queering of maritime archaeology
Straight down the line?; A queer consideration of hunter-gatherer studies i...
Hannah Cobb
630 - 636
the author looks at hunter-gatherer studies, which have often been at the forefront of feminist critiques in archaeology, and have remained a front on which feminist issues are still raised. She contends that, while these approaches have challenged the androcentric stereotypes upon which archaeological interpretations of hunter-gatherers have been based, current accounts continue to construct their interpretations based around modern Western heteronormative concepts of identity. By presenting an alternative interpretation of the construction of hunter-gatherer identity from the west coast of Scotland, the paper aims to demonstrate that, through the application of queer theory to hunter-gatherer studies, it is possible to move away from the heteronormative stereotypes upon which they have been constructed
