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Hahn, Hans; Weiss, Hadas

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“…By viewing incised stones as material things embedded within broader genealogies of practice (Hahn and Weiss 2013; Joyce 2000; Kopytoff 1986; Miller 1998; Pauketat 2013:32), the prayerstone hypothesis attempts to complement and expand the prevailing “gastric” paradigm that has long dominated Great Basin anthropology (Kelly 1999; Morgan et al 2014; Steward 1938:46; Zeanah and Simms 1999:118).…”

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“…The prayerstone hypothesis tracks how incised stone artifacts move through time and space, fragmenting and accumulating in their travels (Hahn and Weiss 2013; Walker 1995; Walker and Lucero 2000; Supplemental Table 1). The prayerstones that populated the Great Basin landscape reflect a deliberate relationship between material culture and puha (power) places—a central religious concept that still underwrites shared Shoshonean worldviews (Figure 3).…”

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A Shoshonean Prayerstone Hypothesis: Ritual Cartographies of Great Basin Incised Stones

Thomas

2018

Am. Antiq.

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The prayerstone hypothesis, grounded in Southern Paiute oral history, holds that selected incised stone artifacts were votive offerings deliberately emplaced where spiritual power (puha) was known to reside, accompanying prayers for personal power and expressing thanks for prayers answered. Proposing significant and long-term linkages between Great Basin incised stones and overarching Shoshonean cosmology, this article explores the prayerstone hypothesis in the context of the 3,500 incised stones documented from the Intermountain West, an assemblage spanning seven states and seven millennia. Employing object itinerary perspectives, it becomes possible to develop ritualized cartographies capable of matching oral Shoshonean traditions with specific geographic indicators. The results demonstrate that many (but not all) such incised stones are consistent with the votive emplacement of prayerstones. Multiple constellations of prayerstone practice operated across the Great Basin for more than 5,000 years and carried forward, without perceptible break, among several (but not all) Numic-speaking populations of the ethnohistoric interval. The diversity and antiquity implied by the prayerstone hypothesis suggest dramatically more complex cultural trajectories than those of Lamb's (1958) widely accepted model of a single, late, and simultaneous Numic spread across the Great Basin.

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A Shoshonean Prayerstone Hypothesis: Ritual Cartographies of Great Basin Incised Stones

Thomas

2018

Am. Antiq.

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“…Moreover, the idea of ‘biography’ has been criticized and alternative terms like ‘itineraries’ have been suggested in order to avoid the anthropomorphization of objects (cf. Boschung, Kienlin and Kreuz 2015; Hahn and Weiss 2013). The study of gift exchange is discussed as one of the possibilities to enrich travelling objects with narratives and to adorn them with a particular value (Bernbeck 2009b; Hansen, Neumann and Vachta 2016; Kienlin and Kreuz 2015).…”

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Beyond antiquarianism. A review of current theoretical issues in German-speaking prehistoric archaeology

Hofmann¹,

Stockhammer²

2017

Arch. Dial.

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Whereas German-speaking archaeology (GSA) has long been understood as generally uninterested in theoretical debates, the situation has taken a most interesting development since the year 2000. Archaeologists tried to escape the general decline of the small university disciplines by getting more and more involved in the overarching research questions of cultural studies and in large-scale collaborative projects. The necessity of integrating a clear theoretical and methodological approach for a successful proposal and the subsequent research changed the significance of theoretical discussions. As a consequence, theme-oriented research has developed which aims at addressing overarching themes in the cultural and social sciences. We have chosen five of the most prominent themes in German-speaking archaeologyself-reflexivity, identities, space, cultural encounter and knowledge transfer -as well as material culture, and shed light on their theoretical conceptualization and methodological implementation in recent publications. Despite the lack of dominant schools of thinking, its strong rootedness in the evaluation of empirical sources, and its close link to the discipline of history, current GSA can contribute to the overall theoretical discourse of the discipline.

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“…We consider not only which objects attributed to the Hallstatt culture ended up in the Low Countries, but also how they were used, treated, and deposited in elite burials, and how this compares with their use and treatment in their area of origin. Working from such a perspective can provide new insights into the agency of things and how material culture was used, appropriated, and recontextualized in different groups (see, for example, Hahn, 2004; Stockhammer, 2012; Hahn & Weis, 2013; see also Fontijn & van der Vaart-Verschoof, 2016; Bourgeois & van der Vaart-Verschoof, 2017).…”

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Connected by More Than Exceptional Imports: Performance and Identity in Hallstatt C/D Elite Burials of the Low Countries

Vaart-Verschoof

Schumann

2019

Eur. j. archaeol

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The Low Countries' Early Iron Age is marked by the emergence of lavish burials known as chieftains’ graves or princely burials. These extraordinary elite burials of the Hallstatt C/D period contain weaponry, bronze vessels as well as decorated wagons and horse-gear imported from the Hallstatt culture of Central Europe, where the same objects are found in the famous Fürstengräber. While the connection between these regions has long been recognized, the nature of this contact remains poorly understood. Here we present the preliminary results of an on-going re-examination of elite funerary practices in both regions and the likely direct long-distance interactions reflected in them. Similarities and differences in the treatment of objects and the dead in funerary rituals indicate that, to a certain extent at least, these geographically separated social groups were integrated in a specific elite burial practice, indicating frequent contact across hundreds of kilometres.

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A Shoshonean Prayerstone Hypothesis: Ritual Cartographies of Great Basin Incised Stones

A Shoshonean Prayerstone Hypothesis: Ritual Cartographies of Great Basin Incised Stones

Beyond antiquarianism. A review of current theoretical issues in German-speaking prehistoric archaeology

Connected by More Than Exceptional Imports: Performance and Identity in Hallstatt C/D Elite Burials of the Low Countries

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