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Marx, networks and the social logic of interaction
No full textIn the last two decades or so, gradually but steadily, the concept of network has acquired a considerable importance, mainly as a metaphor through which to filter our understanding of society. Cultural theorists and specialists in media studies have been at the forefront of this development, often borrowing keywords from the work of social physics and transforming them into loose metaphors (i.e. Barabási, 2002; Castells, 1996; Prey, 2012). In this paper, after reviewing some of the main theoretical trends related to the study of networks, I propose a novel theoretical and methodological approach to the study of social networks in archaeology and broadly related disciplines, an approach that combines insights from radical social theory with network methods. Such an approach is put at work in the analysis of a number if historical instances where network phenomena are deeply intermingled with dynamics of societal differentiation
Introduction
No full textIntroduction to the volume, presenting the overall theme and summarizing the conten
A Pioneering Experiment: Dialoghi di Archeologia between Marxism and Political Activism
Full text linkThe post-war politics of Italy had an impact on
its archaeology and archaeological community. Some attempts at radicalisation were made
via the journal 'Dialoghi di Archeologia', founded in 1967, with the
aim of discussing problems and achieving changes within both academic and public
archaeology. This paper traces the history of the journal and its
legacy
ROCA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY
No full textL'area attorno l'importante sito protostorico, antico e medievale di Rocavecchia è stato un nodo di interazione e mobilità a lungo termine in un periodo che va certamente dal II millennio a.C., quando l’insediamento era il porto più importante in relazione ai traffici con il mondo egeo-Miceneo con il Mediterraneo centrale, fino ai primi anni 2000 quando S. Foca/Melendugno erano al centro dei primissimi flussi migratori post guerra fredda, passando per le dinamiche di mobilità ed interazione proprie del mondo Greco-Romano (ben note in tutta la Puglia) e del periodo Medievale e post-medievale, quando tutto il Salento orientale è interessato dallo stanziamento di genti che utilizzavano la lingua Grika e che avevano dal punto di vista religioso, culturale ed economico, notevoli rapporti con il mondo trans-adriatico. Questo progetto rapresenta la prima esplorazione sistematica del territorio intorno a questo centro.
The area around the important prehistoric and ancient hub of Rocavecchia area has proven to have traces of interaction and long-lasting mobility, from a period the II millennium B.C., when the settlement was the biggest harbor in relation to the traffics between the Aegean-Mycenean world and the central Mediterranean sea, till the early 2000, when S. Foca/Melendugno was the heart of the first migration flows originated after the cold war, and thought the Greek and Roman times (the mobility, dynamics and interactions of whom are well known in Puglia), thus through Medieval times and Post-Medieval world, when all of the eastern part of Salento was concerned by the arrival and settlement of Griko speakers, a community with strong religious, cultural and economic bonds with the trans-Adriatic world. This project represents the first systematic exploration of the surface archaeological record of the area around Rocavecchi
Albania
No full textThe Albania region is a mountainous region on the southeastern coast of the Adriatic Sea
Burial & Society in non-Greek Salento (southeast Italy) 600-250 BC
No full textThe paper discusses burial custom in the Iron Age Salento (from 900 to 250 BC), with a focus on non-Greek settlements with a regional focus and a theoretical perspective inspired by Spanish Marxist perspectives. Class differentiation was already established in the non-Greek Salento in the 6th century BC, although it was not expressed in the funerary domain. Through time funerary rituals become more visible and inclusive with a greater proportion of the population being able to access funerary display, with increased tomb elaboration. After a possible period of crisis, the main shift in occupation pattern and burial data occurring after the end of the 5th century BC was possibly matched by important social and economic transformations in aspects such as land tenure, access to power and kinship
Pottery trade
No full textL'articolo analizza le tendenze del conmmercio attraverso i millenni che vanno dalla preistoria all'età antic
Value, Power, and Encounter between the Eastern and Central Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age
No full textValue is a topic that has attracted a considerable interest in Mediterranean archaeology over the last few years. Despite the ubiquity of situations of interaction and cultural contact in the ancient Mediterranean, the confrontation and re-negotiation of notions of value in such contexts has been seldom the focus of scholars. This paper will examine this aspect in the context of encounters occurring as a result of long-range interaction in the 2nd millennium BC. At this time, the Middle Sea connected people from societies that were profoundly different, such as the states of the eastern Mediterranean and the (often small) com- munities in the central portion of the sea. Through a diachronic contextual analysis of one of the most important indicators for inter-societal interaction in the region, i.e. Aegean type pottery, as well as of other categories of evidence, I will investigate the relationship between value, power, and encounter, suggesting some potential transformations occurring to broad ideas of value at the interface between the eastern and central Mediterranean
Social Networks e protostoria dell’Adriatico: presupposti teorico-metodologici, applicazioni attuali e future direzioni della ricerca
No full textMobility and interaction have attracted the much interest during the last decade. One of the concepts that best represents such an interest and on which there has been relatively little attention within the context of Italian pre-protohistory, is that of networks, the field derived from the branch of mathematics called graph-theory and that can be effectively used to explore trends recognizable in the archaeological record that would not be identifiable through the analysis of individual case-studies and their diachronic distribution. Networks are the main topic of this article that has three main objectives: the first one is to provide a historical and updated picture of networks as a set of ideas and methods from the earliest approaches, to the most recent developments, high- lighting how these have changed through time. The second is to showcase how we can combine network approaches with other theoretical perspectives so to enhance the social insights that we can draw from the interpretation of archaeo- logical networks. Such aim will be accomplished through the analysis of a spe- cific case-study related to the Bronze Age of Apulia. Four different networks are constructed on the basis of the sharing of similar stylistic features in local pottery handmade pottery of different type (standard Impasto production and Southern Italian Protogeometric pottery, a local class of painted dark-on-light fine ware) through different time-slices covering much of the second millennium BC. The results of such analysis help us to reconstruct the development of the connections between sites as well as to hypothesize their relative importance through time. In combination with trends highlighted in production studies, the networks also show the changing nature of pottery and a gradual shift from domestic to special- ised production. Finally, some possible future directions for the use of network methodologies in archaeology are also briefly addressed
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