Past Bodies Body Centered Research in Archaeology 1st Edition by Dušan Borić, John Robb 1842173413 9781842173411

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ISBN 10: 1842173413

ISBN 13: 9781842173411

Author: Dušan Borić, John Robb

Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Even when dealing with skeletal remains archaeologists routinely reduce them to long lists of figures and attributes. Such a fragmentation of past subjects and their bodies, if analytically necessary, is hardly satisfactory. While material culture is the main archaeological proxy to real people in the past, the absence of past bodies has been chronic in archaeological writings. At the same time, these past bodies in archaeology are omnipresent. Bodily matters are tangible in the archaeological record in a way most other theoretical centralities never appear to be. Ancient bodies surround us, in representations, in burials, in the remains of food preparation, cooking and consumption, in hands holding tools, in joint efforts of many individual bodies who built architecture and monuments. This collection of papers is a reaction to decades of the body’s invisibility. It raises the body as the central topic in the study of past societies, researching its appearance in a wide variety of regional contexts and across vast spans of archaeological time. Contributions in this volume range from the deep Epi-Palaeolithic past of the Near East, through the European Neolithic and Bronze Age, Classical Greece and Late Medieval England, to pre-Columbian Central America, post-contact North America, and the most recent conflicts in the Balkans. In all these case studies, the materiality of the body is centre stage. Possibilities are highlighted for future study: by putting the body at the forefront of these archaeological studies an attempt is made to provoke the imagination and map out new territories.

Past Bodies Body Centered Research in Archaeology 1st Table of contents:

Body Theory in Archaeology – Dusan Boric & John Robb

The Corporeal Politics of Being in the Neolithic – Douglas Bailey

Changing Perceptions of the Human Body in Prehistoric Malta (5000–1500 BC) – Simon Stoddart & Caroline Malone

Idealism, the Body, and the Beard in Classical Greek Art – Robin Osborne

Solid Flesh, Hollow Persons: Hand-Variation in Modelled Figurines from Formative Mesoamerica – Rosemary Joyce

Fractal Bodies: Past and Present – Chris Fowler

From Substantial Bodies to the Substance of Bodies: The Transition from Inhumation to Cremation in the Middle Bronze Age of Central Europe – Marie Louise Stig Sorensen & Katharina C. Rebay

The Extraordinary History of Oliver Cromwell’s Head – Sarah Tarlow

Fresh Scars on the Body of Archaeology – Slobodan Mitrovic

Meaningless Violence and the Lived Body: The Huron-Jesuit Collision of World Orders – John Robb

Bodily Beliefs at the Dawn of Agriculture in Western Asia – Preston Miracle & Dusan Boric

Is It ‘Me’ or Is It ‘Mine’? The Mycenaean Sword as a Body-Part – Lambros Malafouris

Embodied Persons and Heroic Kings in Late Classic Maya Sculpture – Susan D. Gillespie

Colonised Bodies: Personal and Social Perspectives – Nan A. Rothschild

The Challenge of Embodying Archaeology – Chris Shilling

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