Exploring identities in archaeology : tools, methodologies and case studies /

This volume is the result of a session dedicated to exploring the concept of identity in archaeology, held during the 2023 European Association of Archaeologists congress in Belfast. Drawing from the papers presented during this session, it brings together twelve chapters around a key objective, a m...

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Other Authors: Adroit, Stéphanie, 1986- (Editor), Parachaud, Kevin (Editor), Perdiguero, Pascual (Editor), Poigt, Thibaud (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK : BAR Publishing, 2025.
Series:BAR international series ; 3239.
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Table of Contents:
  • Overview of the methodological paradox in dealing with identity in archaeology / Kevin Parschau
  • Rock art styles and ethno-cultural identity in Siberia: a multidimensional analysis of symbolism, continuity, and change / Irina A. Ponomareva
  • Techno-typology as a tool for investigating the organisation and identity of ancient metalworkers: application to the manufacture of Bronze Age solid-hilted swords / Léonard Dumont
  • Energetism and identity in Transylvanian Bronze Age ceramics / Elizabeth L. Arnold, Colin P. Quinn
  • Study of the pottery assemblages from Corona de Quintanilla (León, Spain): approaching local identities in a 1st century AD gold-mining hill fort / Alicia Hernández-Tórtoles
  • Identity behind closed doors: Hellenistic Cilicia as a case study / Selin Gür
  • Disentangling the inseparable: intersectionality, gender, and the relativized representation of identity in mortuary archaeology / Valerij J. Schlegel
  • Socio-professional identities to understand Late Prehistory societies / Thibaud Poigt
  • Identity is in the eye of the interpreter: case study of Roman period Slovenia / Katja Semberger Flegar
  • Interconnectivity or glocality? A methodological proposal for identity studies into Protohistoric and Roman societies during the period of contact and conquest / Carlos Díaz-Sánchez
  • Between collective identity and local peculiarity: a case study of the Avar Period (7th to 9th ct. CE) cemetery at Atchau (Eastern Austria) / Jasmin Oyard, Benedikte Tobias, Sheridan Strang, Paul Klostermann
  • A kaleidoscope of identities: some reflections on an archaeological approach to multiple societal identities in the Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Near East / Nicolò Pini.