This thesis examines aspects of human personhood as expressed through lithic artefacts in north w... more This thesis examines aspects of human personhood as expressed through lithic artefacts in north west Europe during the Lateglacial. The research sites are Hengistbury Head in Britain, Rekem in Belgium and a cluster of sites in the Neuwied Basin, in Central Rhineland. The case studies cover the period of the Lateglacial Interstadial complex, about 15,500 -13,000 cal years BP. The work aims at exploring the social practice of creating hunter-gatherer personhood in given social, temporal, spatial and material contexts. The discussion centres on the social and embodied nature of lithic technology as a means of negotiating the human person. In doing so, this study situates the discourse of the reciprocal and mutually constructing relationship between humans and objects at the core level of the individual. Placed within social archaeological theory, the research adopts an outlook of social practice as an active manner of involvement. Relational entanglements between humans and things can ...
This contribution examines the importance of high levels of mobility for understanding aspects of... more This contribution examines the importance of high levels of mobility for understanding aspects of prehistoric human personhood. Raw material provenance studies result in a better appreciation of the interaction between people, their environment and the social organisation required to successfully exploit that environment. Apart from being studied as a valuable socio-economic variable in its own right, mobility associated with raw material procurement is also a mechanism for establishing social networks. More specifically, raw material variability can be a material indicator of social negotiations and expressions of individuals that operated among changeable social contexts. Support to this argument is offered by examples from Lateglacial (roughly 13-11,000 14 C years ago) sites in the Neuwied Basin in Germany. Mobility patterns in the two parts of the Interstadial are explained by integrating the prevailing economic/ technological viewpoint with more social/ cultural ones.
This thesis examines aspects of human personhood as expressed through lithic artefacts in north w... more This thesis examines aspects of human personhood as expressed through lithic artefacts in north west Europe during the Lateglacial. The research sites are Hengistbury Head in Britain, Rekem in Belgium and a cluster of sites in the Neuwied Basin, in Central Rhineland. The case studies cover the period of the Lateglacial Interstadial complex, about 15,500 -13,000 cal years BP. The work aims at exploring the social practice of creating hunter-gatherer personhood in given social, temporal, spatial and material contexts. The discussion centres on the social and embodied nature of lithic technology as a means of negotiating the human person. In doing so, this study situates the discourse of the reciprocal and mutually constructing relationship between humans and objects at the core level of the individual. Placed within social archaeological theory, the research adopts an outlook of social practice as an active manner of involvement. Relational entanglements between humans and things can ...
This contribution examines the importance of high levels of mobility for understanding aspects of... more This contribution examines the importance of high levels of mobility for understanding aspects of prehistoric human personhood. Raw material provenance studies result in a better appreciation of the interaction between people, their environment and the social organisation required to successfully exploit that environment. Apart from being studied as a valuable socio-economic variable in its own right, mobility associated with raw material procurement is also a mechanism for establishing social networks. More specifically, raw material variability can be a material indicator of social negotiations and expressions of individuals that operated among changeable social contexts. Support to this argument is offered by examples from Lateglacial (roughly 13-11,000 14 C years ago) sites in the Neuwied Basin in Germany. Mobility patterns in the two parts of the Interstadial are explained by integrating the prevailing economic/ technological viewpoint with more social/ cultural ones.
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