Can we reconcile individualisation with relational ‘personhood: a case study from the Early Neolithic

Chapman, John; Gaydarska, Bisserka

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“…But is it possible to highlight gender in social relations without invoking other aspects of identity? Robb & Harris correctly note that Bisserka Gaydarska and I (Chapman & Gaydarska, 2011) have approached social relations more through personhood than gender.…”

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To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space

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This article is based on an EAA session in Kiel in 2021, in which thirteen contributors provide their response to Robb and Harris's (2018) overview of studies of gender in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age, with a reply by Robb and Harris. The central premise of their 2018 article was the opposition of ‘contextual Neolithic gender’ to ‘cross-contextual Bronze Age gender’, which created uneasiness among the four co-organizers of the Kiel meeting. Reading Robb and Harris's original article leaves the impression that there is an essentialist ‘Neolithic’ and ‘Bronze Age’ gender, the former being under-theorized, unclear, and unstable, the latter binary, unchangeable, and ideological. While Robb and Harris have clearly advanced the discussion on gender, the perspectives and case studies presented here, while critical of their views, take the debate further, painting a more complex and diverse picture that strives to avoid essentialism.

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Gender in Eastern European Prehistory

Chapman¹,

Palincaş²

2012

A Companion to Gender Prehistory

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Let the Sunshine In: The Issue of Neolithic Longhouse Orientation

Vondrovský

2018

Eur. j. archaeol

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This article is focused on the deliberate orientation of longhouses observed within the wide area of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) and succeeding cultures (post-LBK). Spatial analysis is based on the assemblage of 1546 buildings, whose purpose it was to attempt to cover the whole area of longhouse distribution. Despite variability, which considerably increased over time, the alignment of house entrances towards the south or south-east was observed. The widely accepted theory of house alignment towards the ‘ancestral homeland’ is therefore challenged by a new hypothesis, which sees orientation governed by the celestial path of the sun. Using 3D-modelling of light-and-shadow and solar impact, sun alignment is discussed as an integral element of the longhouse concept already present by the time of its genesis. The tendency of aligning longhouse entrances towards the east, which emerged during the LBK expansion westwards, is considered to be a regionally limited pattern, as no analogical shift was observed in the eastern areas of longhouse distribution.

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Can we reconcile individualisation with relational ‘personhood: a case study from the Early Neolithic

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Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space

To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space

Gender in Eastern European Prehistory

Let the Sunshine In: The Issue of Neolithic Longhouse Orientation

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