Archaeologia Polona vol. 34:1996, Special Theme: The Concept of Archaeological Cultures
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Archaeologia Polona vol. 34:1996, Special Theme: The Concept of Archaeological Cultures, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 1996
Editorial
Professor Kazimierz Godlowski in memoriam Michal Parczewski
SPECIAL THEME: THE CONCEPT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL CULTURES
Objectual correlates of culture: the significance of the concept and the
problems of interpretation in archaeological investigations
Stanislaw Tabaczynski Aspects of cultural definition in Central European prehistory
Paul Barford Culture and society in traditional and processual archaeology
Danuta Minta-Tivonouska Archaeological cultures and reality
Lech Czerniak All these fantastic cultures? Concepts of archaeological cultures, identity and ethnicity
Bozena Werbart Society and culture, two faces of the same ethnic coin?
Eva Andersson, Magnus Anderssen, Ingrid Bergenstrdhle,
MikaeL Dahlgren, Bo Knarrstrom Does the Kongemose Culture exist? About the concept of culture
Bo Friman Reconstructing the spatial extension of ancient societies. A Scandinavian Viking Age example
Mats Burstrom Language and culture in an archaeological perspective
John Hines Culture and the uncultured: archaeological constructs based on behavioural debris (aspects of the Warsaw Rubbish Project)
Paul Barford Cognitive issues in archaeology
J.-C. Gardin Some comments to Paul Barford's review of Birgitta Hardh and Bozena Wyszomirska-Werbart (eds), Contacts across the Baltic Sea during the Late Iron Age (jth-izth centuries). Institute of Archaeology, Report Series 45, Lund
Birgitta Hdrdb and Bozena Werbart
BOOK REVIEWS
Baltic-Pontic Studies vols. 1-4 (edited by Aleksander Kosko)
(Paul Barford) Ljudmila V. Pekarskaja, Daffydd Kidd et al., Der Silberschatz von Martynovka (Ukraina) aus dem 6. und 7. Jahrhundert, (edited by Falko Daim)
(Helena Zoll-Adamikoiva) Egon Wamers, Die friihmittelalterlichen Lesefunde aus der Lohrstrasse
(Baustelle Hilton) in Mainz (Helena Zoll-Adamikoaia)
Editorial comment
Rebkowski Marian, Sredniowieczna ceramika miasta lokacyjnego w Kolobrzegu
(A.ndrzej Buko)
Cognitive issues in archaeology
J.-C. Gardin
Some comments to Paul Barford's review of Birgitta Hdrdh and Bozena Wyszomirska-Werbart (eds), Contacts across the Baltic Sea during the Late Iron Age (jth-izth centuries). Institute of Archaeology, Report Series 45, Lund
Birgitta Hdrdh and Bozena Werbart
BOOK REVIEWS
Baltic-Pontic Studies vols. 1-4 (edited by Aleksander Kosko)
(Paul Barford) Ljudmila V. Pekarskaja, Daffydd Kidd et al., Der Silberschatz von Martynovka (Ukraina) aus dem 6. und 7. Jahrhundert, (edited by Falko Daim)
(Helena Zoll-Adamikona) Egon Wamers, Die friihmittelalterlichen Lesefunde aus der Lohrstrasse
(Baustelle Hilton) in Mainz
(Helena Zoll-Adamikotva)
Editorial comment
Rebkowski Marian, Sredniowieczna ceramika miasta lokacyjnego w Kolobrzegu
This volume includes papers written in several different research environ?ments, and reflects various approaches to the problems being discussed. It would be presumptuous to propose that it contains papers touching more than a few aspects of this complex question, nevertheless some of the Polish contributions present material and concepts and discuss literature which may be less well-known in the English-speaking world and worthy of further discussion. Polish consider?ations of the concept of archaeological cultures owe much to the approaches of the German schools of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but in addition, after the Second World War the approach to archaeological cultures was for several decades concerned with questions of ethnogenesis (particularly of the Slavs) and the ethnic qualification of archaeological sources. Attempts to break out of the sometimes circular arguments which this created produced results which were in many ways innovative.
On reading through these various papers, one is struck by the emphasis which appears in several of them on questions of ethnicity (see "Archaeologia Polona" volume 29), it seems that - despite the intentions of the editors - we still find it very difficult to break free of certain mental stereotypes. Another interesting feature is the frequency of the use in the discussions presented here of examples drawn from the Neolithic period. Is this accidental, or are we beginning to see the development in parts of Europe of new trends in archaeological reflection which.....