Fernández-Götz, M.; Nimura, C.; Stockhammer, P. and Cartwright, R. (eds.) (forthcoming, 2022): Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford University Press, Oxford., 2023
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This paper discusses the tension between hard-science-driven and anthropology-driven approaches to human migration in Late Prehistory, especially focussing on the 3rd millennium BC. In order to understand the relevant issues at the core of these tensions, we discuss recent researches addressing prehistoric migrations based on aDNA data and confront them with research that adopt an anthropological and social approach as well as with research that deal with present migrations by adopting an archaeological approach. Migration models based on genomic research provoked heated debate among archaeologists. In the conclusions we propose possible ways to go further in research on past migrations and avoid entrenchments and circular arguments.
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In questo contributo vengono presentati due casi studio: la Sardegna e i Balcani occidentali. Attraverso la storia dello sviluppo dell’archeologia come disciplina scientifica, l’etica del racconto archeologico, ovvero la restituzione dell’archeologia alla società, viene esplorata seguendo le linee del rapporto fra scienza e politica.
The Late Bronze Age (1700-900 BC) represents an extremely dynamic period for Mediterranean Europe. Here, we provide a comparative survey of the archaeological record of over half a millennium within the entire northern littoral of the Mediterranean, from Greece to Iberia, incorporating archaeological, archaeometric, and bioarchaeological evidence. The picture that emerges, while certainly fragmented and not displaying a unique trajectory, reveals a number of broad trends in aspects as different as social organization, trade, transcultural phenomena, and human mobility. The contribution of such trends to the processes that caused the end of the Bronze Age is also examined. Taken together, they illustrate how networks of interaction, ranging from the short to the long range, became a defining aspect of the "Middle Sea" during this time, influencing the lives of the communities that inhabited its northern shore. They also highlight the importance of research that crosses modern boundaries for gaining a better understanding of broad comparable dynamics.
In questo contributo vengono presentati due casi studio: la Sardegna e i Balcani occidentali. Attraverso la storia dello sviluppo dell’archeologia come disciplina scientifica, l’etica del racconto archeologico, ovvero la restituzione dell’archeologia alla società, viene esplorata seguendo le linee del rapporto fra scienza e politica.
The Late Bronze Age (1700-900 BC) represents an extremely dynamic period for Mediterranean Europe. Here, we provide a comparative survey of the archaeological record of over half a millennium within the entire northern littoral of the Mediterranean, from Greece to Iberia, incorporating archaeological, archaeometric, and bioarchaeological evidence. The picture that emerges, while certainly fragmented and not displaying a unique trajectory, reveals a number of broad trends in aspects as different as social organization, trade, transcultural phenomena, and human mobility. The contribution of such trends to the processes that caused the end of the Bronze Age is also examined. Taken together, they illustrate how networks of interaction, ranging from the short to the long range, became a defining aspect of the "Middle Sea" during this time, influencing the lives of the communities that inhabited its northern shore. They also highlight the importance of research that crosses modern boundaries for gaining a better understanding of broad comparable dynamics.
imitations of artefacts made of bone/antler, stone and metal. The paper offers a brief reconsideration of the available data from the western Balkans, western Greece and from various contexts in southern Italy, Sicily and the small adjacent islands that were involved in these long-range interactions. A critical evaluation of the incidence of allogenous artefacts in the various contexts is also provided. The impact of the Bell Beaker phenomenon in the area under scrutiny is also discussed. This was in
fact marginal, though Bell Beaker-type elements did actually co-exist with western Balkan-type ones in some of the examined regions. Finally, the chronological aspect of the ‘Cetina phenomenon’ is discussed: two sub-phases in these processes of interactions are argued to be discernible, which helps a more detailed understanding of the socio-ideological mechanisms at play on the local scale.
This paper discusses the tension between hard-science-driven and anthropology-driven approaches to human migration in Late Prehistory, especially focussing on the 3rd millennium BC. In order to understand the relevant issues at the core of these tensions, we discuss recent researches addressing prehistoric migrations based on aDNA data and confront them with research that adopt an anthropological and social approach as well as with research that deal with present migrations by adopting an archaeological approach. Migration models based on genomic research provoked heated debate among archaeologists. In the conclusions we propose possible ways to go further in research on past migrations and avoid entrenchments and circular arguments.
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The sixth issue of Ex Novo explores how ‘peripheral’ regions currently approach both the practice and theory of public archaeology placing particular emphasis on usually underrepresented regions of Eastern and Central Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond.
The second part of this issue, content-wise the richest published so far, is dedicated to contributions not directly related to the theme of public archaeology, followed by the traditional reviews and interviews section.
The third and final part of this volume features a series of interviews held in March 2021 within the framework of the Italian Confederation of Archaeologists (CIA) Annual Meeting. Being deeply rooted in the aims and scopes of the confederation, Ex Novo took this opportunity to pose several pressing questions to scholars who inspired and still steer the editorial choices of this journal, namely: Felipe Criado-Boado, Yannis Hamilakis, Cornelius Holtorf, Lynn Meskell and Elisabeth Nicklasson.
The third issue of Ex Novo gathers multidisciplinary contributions addressing mobility to understand patterns of change and continuity in past worlds; reconsider the movement of people, objects, and ideas alongside mobile epistemologies, such as intellectual, scholarly or educative traditions, rituals, practices, religions and theologies; and provide insights into the multifaceted relationship between mobile practices and their shared meanings and how they are represented socially and politically.
The volume contributes to the debate on the new role of heritage in an ever changing framework for land use, infrastructural investment and sustainable development at national and international levels. All contributions are based on the papers presented in two sessions at the EAA annual meeting in Maastricht 2017.
Maja GORI, Martina REVELLO LAMI, Alessandro PINTUCCI, Elisa CELLA
Editorial
The Impact of the Fall of Communism on European Heritage. Proceedings
of the 20th EAA Meeting held in Istanbul 10–14 September 2014.
Special issue edited by Maja Gori & Valerie Higgins
Elisa CELLA, Maja GORI & Alessandro PINTUCCI
Archaeology in the Adriatic. From the Dawn to the Sunset of Communist Ideologies
Valerie HIGGINS
Are We Still Illyrians?
Dana PHELPS
Heritage for Development, Multiethnic Communities, and the Case of Butrint National Park on the Albanian- Greek Border
Francesco IACONO & Klejd L. KËLLIÇI
Exploring the Public Perception of Communist Heritage in Post-communist Albania
Elisa CELLA, Maja GORI & Alessandro PINTUCCI
The Trowel and the Sickle. Italian Archaeology and its Marxist Legacy
Giulia VOLLONO
Exploring Approaches to Italian Early Medieval Archaeology in Post-Communist Europe
Appendix
Perché l’Archeologia? An interview with Giovanni Azzena, Barbara Barich, Giampietro Brogiolo, Renato Peroni, Mario Torelli by Confederazione Italiana Archeologi (with editors’ note)
Reviews
Satricum – Scavi e reperti archeologici. Exhibition in Le Ferriere, province of Latina, Italy, 11 June 2014 – 11 January 2015 (prolonged until 1 June 2017) and M. Gnade (ed.), 2007: Satricum. Trenta anni di scavi olandesi, Amsterdam: Amsterdams Archeologisch Centrum, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 208 pp. ISBN 978-90-78863-14-4. € 25,00.
Reviewed by Niels STEENSMA
However, aside from a stylistic comparison, nothing has been done to explain differences and similarities between these ceramics from a technological point of view. Given the huge differences in pottery traditions from Dalmatia and the Peloponnese in the Early Bronze Age, this matter is of particular interest.
Analysed sherds from Dalmatia come from three clusters of tumuli: Brnjica, Poljakuše (Šibenik) and Vučevica (Split), while samples from the Peloponnese come from the sites of Olympia and Andravida Lechaina (Elis), which have yielded a number of Cetina-like sherds.
These analysed sample sets have common stylistic traits, but also technological differences that sometimes can be macroscopically recognised. This variation might result from natural variability in the available raw material sources. On the other hand, it might be due to specific technological choices and traditions possibly linked to the existence of multiple communities of practice under the umbrella of the Cetina phenomenon.
Sovjan and Maliq, two sites located on the shore of the today dried lake Maliq, are the major stratigraphical references for this region for the Bronze and Early Iron Age up to around 800 BC when they were abandoned due to the raising water level. Unlike for the Early and Middle Bronze Age, evidence for the Late Bronze Age and the transition to the Early Iron Age also comes from the shores of the Great Prespa and Ohrid lakes in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Sveta Nedela and Plocha Michov Grad), while in the Early Iron Age the settlements shifted towards the mountain tops.
Early Bronze Age, connections with the better known sites of Western Macedonia, Armenochori, are fewer than expected, mainly reduced to the typical kantharoi. Nonetheless, the lake region must have been integrated into a wider network encompassing Macedonia and the south-western Balkans. As the identification of Middle Bronze Age material culture is still difficult in Macedonia apart for the coastal sites, it is almost impossible to discuss connections. Sovjan layer 6 might help to define this phase for a larger region and to identify contemporary assemblages. The Late Bronze Age is well known for its increase of mobility and connectivity. River valleys as the Aliakmon played an important role in this development and they were the ways through which Mycenaean and other imports reached remote inland areas as the Korçë basin. The area of Aiani was a major centre of Western Macedonia, but its role as mediator of material culture towards Kastoria and the lake region is not yet entirely clear. Matt painted pottery is an important means for the identification of influences, but the chronological divergence between Macedonia and SE Albania must first be explained. While the EIA tumuli of SE Albania find their parallels in Epirus, the phenomenon of hillforts is equally known in Western Macedonia, e.g. around Siatista, and attests to significant socio-political changes.
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Specifically focussing on the Balkan Peninsula, this session aims at understanding different aspects of the interplay between human groups and the mountainous landscape and its change over time.
One of the main goals is to stimulate a theoretical informed debate based on archaeological evidence by cutting across traditional geographic, methodological, and chronological boundaries and by challenging established assumptions and interpretative frameworks In particular, the following topics will be discussed:
1) Appropriation of resources in a mountainous environment. These are intended as socially produced constructions expressing what people perceived as relevant for their life, and satisfying both physical and social needs.
2) Building local and “global” identities, change and endurance of cultural customs and socio-political relations
3) Mountains as sacred topography. Perception and reshaping of natural landscapes in connection with cult practices and funerary customs.
We invite doctoral students, early career researchers, and established scholars to submit papers discussing their research in Balkan Prehistory. Papers adopting a comparative or diachronic perspective stressing both on local characteristics and interregionally shared features are especially welcome.
committee 2016:
Tobias Krapf (Swisss School of Archaeology in Greece)
Ole Aslaksen (University of Gothenburg)
In collaboration with Maja Gori (Heidelberg University)
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undergone a profound transformation: no excavations were carried out and the focus shifted on historical, topographic and material culture studies. In the early 1980s new excavations started and became the first and most representative experiences of urban archaeology in Italy, followed by archaeological works for the Underground in the 2000s. For the first time Italian archaeology faced the pressing need of transforming itself from a purely academic enterprise into modern public
archaeology.This paper explores present day public archaeology in Italy and disentangles the multiple elements that contributed to its creation and development. Through the analysis of 19th and 20th century ideologies the role of archaeology in Italy will be examined focusing on Rome and the ideologies that have influenced present day approaches the most.
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The two main shifts that European (and world) archaeology has experienced and that have challenged traditional paradigms of interpretation – the emergence of processual versus traditional archaeology starting from late 1960s, and the emergence of post-processual archaeology from the early 1980s – have not had much impact on research in Balkan Late Prehistory. That put much of Balkan archaeology firmly in the traditionalist camp and traditional explications of archaeological patterns accordingly endured. This is reflected in the persistence of the cultural-historical paradigm in the study of material culture, with a strong focus on typological sequences and relative chronologies to explain ethnogenies. If we consider, for example, widespread models explaining changes in material culture, they are mostly understood as a result of migration. This paradigm has never really been challenged and thus migrations continue to be regarded as destructive events, materialized by a new set of material culture (i.e. pottery) brought by migrants that replaces the one belonging to an autochthonous population. The Yugoslav wars and the economic downfall that followed the collapse of communist regimes in the Balkans in the 1990s have further impoverished the debate on these issues. Recently, the so-called 3rd scientific revolution (Kristiansen 2014) has introduced a large array of new methods and techniques to Balkan Prehistory that are being increasingly applied and becoming a new standard in the discipline. That approach alone is nevertheless insufficient to fill the void left by the standstill of theoretical debate.
This session aims to fill this gap by inviting scholars working on Balkan Late Prehistory (Neolithic to Iron Age) to challenge with novel theoretical approaches and methods the entrenched paradigms that are still widespread in archaeological interpretations, and to use Balkan archaeology with its rich source material as a laboratory for new models, paradigms, and approaches.