Human Ontogeny and Material Change at the Bronze Age Tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary

Sofaer, Joanna

doi:10.1017/s0959774311000242

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“…For instance, gender differences in any society may be mediated by a person's position within their community, which is subject to the relationship between sex, age, and social role as a whole (Carrasco, 2020). Also, the effects of life courses and ontogeny are essential factors to consider in the reconstruction of social life from the past (Agarwal, 2016; Sofaer, 2011).…”

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Exploring physical activity in Central Chile during the Early Ceramic Period and Late Intermediate Period (200–1450 CE)

Abarca-Labra

Herrera-Soto

Flores‐Alvarado

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American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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Objectives We explore physical activity in early farming societies of Central Chile during the Early Ceramic and Late Intermediate Periods (200–1450 CE), a time of technological changes and intensification of food production. The existence of differences in entheseal changes (EC) between females and males is evaluated in two periods with different subsistence strategies. Material and methods EC were recorded with method in the upper and lower limbs of 56 male and female adult individuals from the Early Ceramic Period (ECP) and Late Intermediate Period (LIP). Hierarchical multiple factor analysis and hierarchical clustering on principal components were performed using an exploratory approach. Results In all the analyzed limbs, the EC scores are higher in males than females, which may be explained by sexual dimorphism. A constant overlap in the variability of the EC among males and females is observed. However, the EC scores show a different pattern of variability when comparing ECP females with LIP females. The results show that the scores increase in the latter. In contrast, when comparing ECP males with LIP males scores decrease in the later period. Discussion Physical activity in the societies of Central Chile with incipient agriculture did not vary by sex or during the timeframe studied. Nevertheless, the interaction between sex‐period and the variability pattern of the EC from one period to another suggests different ways of doing similar physical activities or different emphases for similar biomechanical actions.

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“…Also, the effects of life courses and ontogeny are essential factors to consider in the reconstruction of social life from the past (Agarwal, 2016;Sofaer, 2011).…”

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Exploring physical activity in Central Chile during the Early Ceramic Period and Late Intermediate Period (200–1450 CE)

Abarca-Labra

Herrera-Soto

Flores‐Alvarado

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American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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“…How do we define and understand the concept of childhood as it existed during the Viking Age? In modern Western societies, children are often considered to become adults at the age of 18 years, a simplistic and arbitrary distinction that has no bearing on scientific or wider cultural definitions of childhood (Gowland 2006;Sofaer 2011). In archaeology and anthropology, childhood is conceptualized and defined in many different ways.…”

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Playing Vikings

Raffield¹

2019

Current Anthropology

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Although the Viking Age (ca. 750-1050 CE) is often characterized as a time of violence, significant questions remain regarding how conflict was conducted during the period. For example, there have been few attempts to understand the cultural norms, attitudes, and practices that drove individuals to participate in warfare. This article reports the results of a study that sought to shed light on this issue by considering the process of enculturation during Viking Age childhood. This was achieved by exploring how the influences of militarism and hegemonic masculinity conditioned those living within Scandinavian societies to participate in conflict from a young age. Through examining the archaeological and literary evidence for childhood pastimes, the study found that everyday aspects of Viking Age society reinforced militaristic, hegemonic hierarchies of masculinity. This can be seen, for example, in the form of toy weapons that were modeled on full-sized, functional weapons; strategic board games that conveyed messages regarding the ideological power of kingship; and physical games that provided opportunities for successful individuals to enhance their social status. The evidence therefore suggests that Viking Age societies perpetuated a series of selfreinforcing cultural norms that encouraged participation in martial activities.

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“…As a result, local practices of ceramic production and consumption have largely remained understudied, despite the importance given to more localized scales of analysis and contextual relationships by contemporary approaches to European prehistory, concerned with the internal dynamics of society (e.g., Bradley and Edmonds 1993; Barrett 1994; S. Jorge 2004; Michelaki 2006; Pollard 2008; Sofaer 2011). The latter researchers have drawn attention to the ways in which people create and maintain relationships with one another through making, exchanging and using objects.…”

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Plain Pottery and Social Landscapes: Reinterpreting the Significance of Ceramic Provenance in the Neolithic

2012

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This paper focuses on plain, stylistically unvaried pottery from three Late Neolithic sites from the Mondego Plateau, Portugal, and investigates ceramic production and exchange among small-scale prehistoric societies by means of thin-section petrography and chemical analysis (INAA). The results show that the majority of the pottery was made with widely available, granite-derived sedimentary clays, but petrographic differences between fabrics indicate collection at multiple locations within these deposits. Variation in chemical composition is consistent with site-specific sourcing areas, while comparison with data from earlier sites in the Mondego and surrounding mountains suggests that such sources were geographically restricted within the plateau. In contrast, the small percentage of vessels produced with residual clays of metamorphic and intermediate igneous origin, which outcrop over 10 km and 30 km from the archaeological sites, demonstrates that plain pottery did circulate during the Neolithic beyond the funerary sphere. This is the product of the routines of mobility and social networks of Neolithic groups across the wider landscape, which involved the exchange of 'mundane'vessels. Finally, the study demonstrates that micro-regional provenance studies can provide significant insights into prehistoric social landscapes if the data are interrogated beyond simplistic classifications of local and non-local. of prevailing theoretical perspectives, both in archaeology more generally and ceramic analytical studies in particular, rather than essentially an issue of limitation of the methods.A long-standing assumption governing the way in which this pottery continues to be perceived in such contexts is that it is 'mundane', utilitarian and locally produced for a group's own consumption. Its production is assumed to be largely self-evident, guided by the requirements of expedience, 'low cost', functionality and culture. In the absence of discrete stylistic categories, the relevance of prehistoric pottery is often reduced to a limited range of questions, particularly chronology, cultural identity and aspects of subsistence economy (e.g., storage). Crucially, its contribution to more complex social interpretations has been seen as negligible for two main reasons. First, 'mundane' pottery is not expected to have circulated through exchange. Given its common appearance, wide availability and use, and lack of special labour investment, it is thought unlikely to have participated in wealth or prestige economies. Second, this class of materials is considered not to provide information about social distinctions. Issues of access, status and other meanings become difficult or impossible to address when ceramic categories with different geographical distributions (wide/restricted, regional/local) and different perceived production costs or skill (plain/decorated, coarse/fine) cannot be distinguished. 'Mundane' pottery is equated with domestic production and use, and is therefore viewed as removed from political concerns and so...

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Human Ontogeny and Material Change at the Bronze Age Tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary

Cited by 23 publications

References 13 publications

Exploring physical activity in Central Chile during the Early Ceramic Period and Late Intermediate Period (200–1450 CE)

Exploring physical activity in Central Chile during the Early Ceramic Period and Late Intermediate Period (200–1450 CE)

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Plain Pottery and Social Landscapes: Reinterpreting the Significance of Ceramic Provenance in the Neolithic

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