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Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context: An Exploration Into Culture, Society, and the Study of European Prehistory. Part 2 : Practice – The Social, Space, and Materiality by Tobias Ludwig Kienlin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Practice – The Social, Space, and Materiality forms the second part of Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context: An exploration into culture, society, and the study of European prehistory. It studies Bronze Age tells and our approaches towards an understanding of this fascinating way of life, drawing on the material remains of long-term architectural stability and references back to ancestral place. While the first volume challenged Neo-Diffusionist models of the influence of Mediterranean palatial centres on the development of tell communities in the Carpathians and an attendant focus on social stratification, the second part sets out an alternative theoretical approach, which foregrounds architecture and the social use of space. Unlike the reductionist macro perspective of mainstream social modelling, inspired by aspects of practice theory outlined in this book, the account given seeks to allow for what is truly remarkable about these sites, and what we can infer from them about the way of life they once framed and enabled. The stability seen on tells, and their apparent lack of change on a macro scale, are specific features of the social field, in a given region and for a specific
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- Author
- Tobias Ludwig Kienlin
- Publisher
- Archaeopress Access Archaeology
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781789697506
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, History, Anthropology