Abstract
Hunter-gather studies until recently have been dominated by an ecological framework which assumes scarcity and calorie-harvesting to be the structural element which preconditions social relationships. This has always stood in stark contrast the worldview of hunter-gatherers themselves who experience the landscape and animals as social entities and who negotiate relationships on this basis. Recently, a starker school, motivated by an ontological turn, sketch out separate domains of material objects and animate entities while entangled can never engage socially ever at all. Here I wish to discuss recent advances in geoarchaeological methodology including soil chemical studies and microelement analysis which has led to a new narrative arena where human-animal relationships are embedded into landscapes in a literal way yet also a reflective and active way. The emplacement of ecology through laboratory talk ironically leads to a set of postulates where First People narratives and Scientific narratives begin to start from the same premise.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 7 Sept 2015 |
Event | 11th Conference on Hunting and Gathering societies CHAGS - Vienna, Austria Duration: 7 Sept 2015 → 11 Sept 2015 |
Conference
Conference | 11th Conference on Hunting and Gathering societies CHAGS |
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Country/Territory | Austria |
City | Vienna |
Period | 7/09/15 → 11/09/15 |