Dear All,
below is a proposed session for WAC, organized by myself and a French
colleague. if you are interested, please reply to me (English or
French) at [log in to unmask] as soon as possible. Please feel
free to forward this to interested parties.
cheers,
Kathleen
Studies of archaeological Paleolithic societies have rarely departed from
direct analyses of technology and hunting practices. This may be due to
the fact that we find these cultures too different from our own to
confidently interpret what may seem at times to be meagre information.
This information can indeed provide the basis for human-centered study of
stone-age cultures. Space may be delineated without architecture, labour
organized without agriculture, production specialized before ceramics, and
community life negotiated without villages. These are just a few of the
factors of daily life that influenced and were influenced by cultural
practices.
This session proposes to gather archaeologists who study Paleolithic
societies around the world to share how different lines of evidence and
different approaches may produce accounts of these groups that discuss
daily lives. This includes both new ways of analyzing the traditional
data that may have been underused (stone tools, animal remains, rock art,
etc.) as well as applying theoretical approaches that may not have been
widely used in this area of prehistory. Some possibilities include social
identities, human body approaches, landscape approaches, initiation and
learning, aggregations, language, use of narrative, chane opratoire, and
gestural approaches.
Participants are asked to prepare a 10-15 minute illustrated presentation,
with a discussion to follow. For those who wish, longer presentations may
be distributed ahead of the conference.
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Kathleen Sterling
Dept. of Anthropology Web Designer
UC Berkeley Association for Feminist Anthropology
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