Intermediate Bronze Age subsistence practices in the Negev Highlands, Israel: Macro- and microarchaeological results from the sites of Ein Ziq and Nahal Boqer 66

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 712-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary C. Dunseth ◽  
Israel Finkelstein ◽  
Ruth Shahack-Gross
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Subsistence Practices

A comparative study of oral health in three Late Bronze Age populations with different subsistence practices in North China

2016 ◽  
Vol 405 ◽  
pp. 44-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Zhang ◽  
Deborah C. Merrett ◽  
Xiaoming Xiao ◽  
Quanchao Zhang ◽  
Dong Wei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
North China ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Subsistence Practices

Ritual and Rationality: Some Problems of Interpretation in European Archaeology

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Brück
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Effective Action ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Essential Difference ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
Southern England ◽  
Ritual Action ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Subsistence Practices

This paper argues that the conception of ritual employed in both archaeology and anthropology is a product of post-Enlightenment rationalism. Because it does not meet modern western criteria for practical action, ritual is frequently described as non-functional and irrational; furthermore, this designation is employed as the primary way of identifying ritual archaeologically. However, this evaluation of ritual action must be questioned. Contemporary modes of categorizing human practice are not untainted by socio-political interest but enable the reproduction of certain forms of power. It is argued that many other societies do not distinguish ritual from secular action. In fact, what anthropologists identify as ritual is generally considered practical and effective action by its practitioners. This is because different conceptions of instrumentality and causation inform such activities. For archaeologists, use of the concept of ritual has resulted in a serious misapprehension of prehistoric rationality such that ‘secular’ activities (for example subsistence practices) are assumed to be governed by a universally-applicable functionalist logic. In order to address this problem, what is required is an approach that explores the essential difference between prehistoric rationality and our own notions of what is effective action. A discussion of some finds from middle Bronze Age settlements in southern England will provide a working example of how one might begin to move towards this goal.

Two Bronze Age Weapons from Mid-Scotland

1979 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-55
Author(s):  
Alex Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age

Investigating Burnt Mounds in Clydesdale during Motorway Construction

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
John A Atkinson ◽  
Camilla Dickson ◽  
Jane Downes ◽  
Paul Robins ◽  
David Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Short Account ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Bronze Age

Summary Two small burnt mounds were excavated as part of the programme to mitigate the impact of motorway construction in the Crawford area. The excavations followed a research strategy designed to address questions of date and function. This paper surveys the various competing theories about burnt mounds and how the archaeological evidence was evaluated against those theories. Both sites produced radiocarbon dates from the Bronze Age and evidence to suggest that they were cooking places. In addition, a short account is presented of two further burnt mounds discovered during the construction of the motorway in Annandale.

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