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{"title":"Visual Essays: Different Ways of Knowing and Communicating the Archaeological","authors":"Þóra Pétursdóttir","doi":"10.1080/00293652.2020.1860119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2020.1860119","url":null,"abstract":"A variety of visual material has always been part of the archaeological record, and the share and significance of this data has only increased with new technologies in recent decades. It is in reaction to this and with a wish to diversify the mediation of archaeological research that NAR introduces Visual Essays as a new format in its portfolio of academic publication. The essays follow the established aim of the journal to communicate the diversity of archaeological practice, ranging from microscopic details to landscape and aerial approaches, through intricate combinations of visual and textual mediation","PeriodicalId":45030,"journal":{"name":"Norwegian Archaeological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"101 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00293652.2020.1860119","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49414007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Writing the Past. Knowledge and Literary Production in Archaeology","authors":"J. Barrett","doi":"10.1080/00293652.2020.1830848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2020.1830848","url":null,"abstract":"Around the middle of the last century a number of archaeological practices were described as being ‘empiricist’. This description was applied to those practices that appeared to employ the assumption that because material residues recorded, and thus represented, the processes that were involved in their formation, then by describing those materials their formation processes were also described, and thus the ‘past’ was revealed. This view was challenged by arguing that archaeology should do more than simply describe the formation of the particular things that had existed in the past, and seek instead to explain, in more general terms, the reasons why certain assemblages of things had come about. The move was therefore one that took archaeology from the study of the particular influences to explanations formulated in terms of general processes. The emphasis of this kind new of archaeology was towards explaining ‘culture change’, in which it was assumed that an explanation should specify the causes for the changes that had occurred amongst the different kinds of cultural systems. It was these systems that were taken to be represented by archaeological assemblages of things. Throughout this debate the issue that tended to be forgotten was the ways that the protagonists were using language. This was not a concern with the unknown languages of the past, but the present-day languages by which knowledge claims were being sustained and communicated. This issue came down to the ways that the relationships between things were being expressed in words. Clearly general causes are unlikely to be expressed as if they were self-evident. It was therefore accepted that causes needed to be thought about and to be modelled ‘theoretically’, and, by this means, they also needed to be evaluated. Archaeological theorists dismissed any lingering desire for an empiricist reading of the material by means of the languages that they used, and their theoretical modelling sought to identify the general reasons why certain historical processes might have existed. For example, variability in artefact assemblages could now be described as variability in tool kits, a variability that had been designed for the different tasks demanded by the processes of environmental adaptation, rather than that same variability being treated as if it had resulted from an ethnically transmitted tradition of artefact production. A theoretically informed archaeology was thus developed in the latter half of the twentieth century. Because the theoretical modelling of formation processes assumed that the past had been structured by a more limited set of processes than might have been implied by the diversity of its material remains, then these structuring processes were described in the relatively abstract languages of theory. Archaeology developed the skills to record the particular nature of the material diversity of the past by the use of a traditional ‘cultural’ labelling, whilst at the same time d","PeriodicalId":45030,"journal":{"name":"Norwegian Archaeological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"173 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00293652.2020.1830848","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49541458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assemblage Thought and Archaeology. Themes in Archaeology","authors":"Anna Severine Beck","doi":"10.1080/00293652.2020.1796778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2020.1796778","url":null,"abstract":"More and more often, it happens that archaeological studies refer to the concept of the assemblage. However, way the concept is used is not in the traditional archaeological understanding of the co...","PeriodicalId":45030,"journal":{"name":"Norwegian Archaeological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"176 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00293652.2020.1796778","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41952936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In Pursuit of a Reflexive Recording. An Epistemic Analysis of Excavation Diaries from the Çatalhöyük Research Project","authors":"Gustavo Sandoval","doi":"10.1080/00293652.2020.1854338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2020.1854338","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the excavation diaries recorded under the principles of a reflexive method, as defined by Ian Hodder and his colleagues of the Çatalhöyük Research Project. The primary goal is to examine their content and assess their epistemic value for creating a more robust and better-contextualised archive. This study defines such epistemic value by considering the information types found in entries, the textual format of diaries, their relationship to the project’s research agenda and usefulness for writing up excavation reports. Ultimately, this analysis is useful for advancing an alternative approach for reflexive recording, which takes better account of previous criteria and is unrestricted to excavation diaries.","PeriodicalId":45030,"journal":{"name":"Norwegian Archaeological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"135 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00293652.2020.1854338","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42159195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Working at the Sharp End: From Bone and Antler to Early Mesolithic Life in Northern Europe","authors":"C. Wickham-Jones","doi":"10.1080/00293652.2020.1841282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2020.1841282","url":null,"abstract":"As an academic whose research area, while undoubtedly Mesolithic, includes few early sites and little preserved bone and antler, this handsome volume introduces me, tantalisingly, to a whole world of wonders that does exist in other places. In common with many thematic volumes today, the collection of papers originated in a workshop, in this case, held in 2016 to discuss the re-evaluation of the Early Holocene site at Hohen Viecheln (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany). Special interest lay in the remarkable assemblages of worked bone and antler from the site, with particular reference to barbed points, and there was also an intention to embed the research into ‘the international research landscape’ (Acknowledgements, 14), through the inclusion of related studies from the UK to the Urals. The title sets a further goal: to move from raw materials and artefacts towards an interpretation of lifeways. Careful design takes the volume from the particular to the general. Details of the site at Hohen Viecheln set the scene (Groß, Lübke, Meadows and Jantzen) and include summaries of stratigraphy and dating which help to provide an overview of the archaeological context. Information on the bone and antler artefacts incorporates a comprehensive catalogue and fourteen photographic plates supplement numerous line drawings. Consideration of decorative motifs is presented in addition to detail regarding manufacturing techniques. There is a useful description of the issues when dating old (conserved) material (Meadows, Boudin, Groß, Jantzen, Lübke and Wild) and an analysis of the bone and antler artefacts with reference to the wider Maglemosian world (David). Site-specific material continues with an evaluation of the antler headdresses (Wild) and the suggestion that instead of forming part of socially restricted shamanic costumes these pieces are more likely to have been in wider use, perhaps in conjunction with ritual dancing – an interpretation once proposed by Clark for the frontlets from Star Carr (Clark 1954, p. 174), though now often eschewed in favour of shamanic use (Little et al. 2016). Finally, there is a nice personal touch (Brinch Petersen) in the exploration of the possibility that two decorated bone mattocks from the site may be the product of a visitor from Zealand due to specific details of the decoration which are paralleled at sites such as Sværdborg I. While this is an avowedly speculative interpretation it is a useful reminder that our archaeologies are nothing if they do not address the human scale. From here we move to the wider context of Hohen Viecheln and its osseous assemblages. A general overview of the industries of northeast Germany (Gramsch) poses some important questions relating to the relative significance of animal bone as a resource and its preservation today. The implications of peat bogs as a reservoir of material are raised alongside the fact that, in","PeriodicalId":45030,"journal":{"name":"Norwegian Archaeological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"180 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00293652.2020.1841282","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47648017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Breaking the Surface. An Art/Archaeology of Prehistoric Architecture","authors":"Monika Stobiecka","doi":"10.1080/00293652.2020.1796779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2020.1796779","url":null,"abstract":"The book Breaking the Surface. An Art/Archaeology of Prehistoric Architecture by Doug Bailey has been warmly welcomed by the archaeological community (cf. Thomas 2019, Tringham 2019). It outlines a...","PeriodicalId":45030,"journal":{"name":"Norwegian Archaeological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"170 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00293652.2020.1796779","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46900727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Art in the Archaeological Imagination","authors":"Stein Farstadvoll","doi":"10.1080/00293652.2021.1891565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2021.1891565","url":null,"abstract":"It shows that [...] archaeologists, without being inspired by contemporary artists, use creative methods, and their analysis of the art of the Past goes beyond the material culture of the art objects, into the realm of the mental processes of creation.” “[...] the purpose of this book is to present the archaeological research functioning as a sort of artistic creation, proposing new perspectives on the archaeological imagination.","PeriodicalId":45030,"journal":{"name":"Norwegian Archaeological Review","volume":"54 1","pages":"113 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00293652.2021.1891565","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48343877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Children and Rock Art: A Case Study from Western Arnhem Land, Australia","authors":"Joakim Goldhahn, Sally K. May, Josie Gumbuwa Maralngurra, Jeffrey Lee","doi":"10.1080/00293652.2020.1779802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2020.1779802","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we explore the social context of rock art creation through the lens of one woman’s childhood experiences in, what is now, Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory of Australia. We reflect upon oral history interviews conducted over the last three years with Warrdjak Senior Traditional Owner Josie Gumbuwa Maralngurra and her childhood spent walking country with family. As a witness to vast numbers of rock paintings being created, and sometimes an active participant in that process, Josie’s memories provide rare insights into the social and cultural context of rock art practices during the late 1950s and early 1960s. We argue that Josie’s personal experiences provide solid evidence for both the educational role that rock art continued to play across the region during the 20th century and its role as a tool for helping to ensure intergenerational connection to country.","PeriodicalId":45030,"journal":{"name":"Norwegian Archaeological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"59 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00293652.2020.1779802","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43135940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Collaborative, Public, Participatory: Pros and Cons of an Open Archaeology","authors":"Þóra Pétursdóttir","doi":"10.1080/00293652.2020.1782463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2020.1782463","url":null,"abstract":"Norwegian Archaeological Review celebrated its 50th anniversary two years ago, in 2018 (Damm 2018). To mark this event the journal hosted a roundtable session at the EAA conference in Barcelona, un...","PeriodicalId":45030,"journal":{"name":"Norwegian Archaeological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00293652.2020.1782463","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48806030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sea-level change in Mesolithic southern Scandinavia","authors":"H. Peeters","doi":"10.1080/00293652.2020.1744035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2020.1744035","url":null,"abstract":"This book is an edited version of Astrup’s doctoral dissertation (Aarhus University 2018), thus presenting the core of his work on human responses to sea-level change during the Mesolithic of south...","PeriodicalId":45030,"journal":{"name":"Norwegian Archaeological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"100 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00293652.2020.1744035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47846992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}