Imaginations and Imaginaries of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic – Distorted Views, Embellishment, and What We Make of It

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8-11 septembre 2021
Kiel

Session 684 - 27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists : Widening Horizons

 

Archaeology, we often claim, studies past humans, their actions, and interrelations. Yet, actually we excavate and describe static material remains of these past humans and their actions – artefacts and features – that we interpret in comparison with other findings and ethnographic analogies as reflections of social norms, behaviours, and choices. Our underlying views and concepts of the past very much shape what we make of the available archaeological information. Because our imaginations of past life weight in so heavily on our interpretations and because the actual evidence is often sparse, poorly dated and highly fragmented, a reflexive approach is important in these periods, yet the sensitivity of these underlying paradigms is better developed and more openly discussed in later prehistoric or historical periods.

 

Session Organisers:
Sonja Grimm
Shumon Hussain

 

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Call for oral and poster contributions is now open - deadline for submitting an abstract is 11 February 2021