Archaeological Invisibility and Forgotten Knowledge: Conference Proceedings, Łódź, Poland, 5th–7th September 2007

Product Description This World Archaeological Congress Inter-Congress was held at the University of Lódz, Poland in September 2007. One of the conference aims was to explore the role of ethnoarchaeology in generating ideas and theories which focus on wider underlying trends linked to cultural relativism and/or universals, rather than direct analogy. Contents: Introduction (Ole Gr and Karen Hardy); 1) Anthropology, Ethnography and Prehistory a Hidden Thread in the History of German Archaeology (Ulrike Sommer); 2) S.M. Shirokogoroffs Theory of ETHNOS (Anatoly Kuznetsov); 3) The Representation of Local Indigenous Knowledge (Adrian Tanner); 4) Cultural Difference is the Main Factor to Influence Ancient Population Estimates. Analysis of the Ethnoarchaeological Examination Questionnaire from Shijiazhai Village (Xingcan Chen, Liye Xie and Yongqiang Li); 5) Shell Middens from the Saloum Delta, Senegal (Abdoulaye Camara); 6) Traditional Hunting Ceremonies in Modern Yakut Culture (Nina D. Vassilyeva); 7) The Evenks of Northwest Yakutia: Culture and Landscape (2001 and 2006 Expeditions) (Sardana Boyakova); 8) Hunter-Gatherers of the Simlipal Forest Range: A Study of Change and Continuity (Asok Datta); 9) Megalithic Practices in Upland West-Bengal: A Case Study on Change and Continuity Among the Hill Kharias of Kulabahal Village, Purulia (Rita Dutta); 10) The Disappearing Art the Quichua Pottery (Aleksandra Wierucka); 11) The Logic of Wik Camping, North Australia (Peter Sutton); 12) Evenk Shamans a non-exotic Approach. Ethnoarchaeological Observations (Ole Gr); 13) Strategy Blurring: Flexible Approaches to Subsistence in East Timor (Sandra Pannell and Sue OConnor); 14) Continuance of Neolithic Agriculture and Shifting Cultivation in the Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India (Hari C.Mahanta); 15 Womens Work: Skin Processing in Northern Hunter Gatherer Settlements and the Archaeological Context (Torunn Klokkernes); 16) Domestic Space and Cultural Transformation Among the Awá of Eastern Amazonia (Alfredo González Rubial, Gustavo Politis, Almudena Hernando, Elizabeth Beserra Coelho); 17) The Neuropsychological Basis of Rock Art: Hyperimagery and its Significance for Understanding the Archaeological Record (Derek Hodgson and Patricia A. Helvenston); 18) An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to the Selknam Ceremony of Hain: A Discussion of the Impact of Ritual on Social Organisation in Hunter-Gatherer Societies (María Estela Mansur, Raquel Piqué); 19 Differential Faunal Resources Management in Ritual and Domestic Spaces in Selknam Society (Argentina, Tierra Del Fuego) (Edgard Camarós, Vanessa Parmigiani, Ester Verdún); 20) Archaeological Materiality of Social Inequality Among Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Assumpció Vila-Mitjá, Jordi Estévez, Daniel Villatoro and Jordi Sabater-Mir). About the Author Karen Hardy is an archaeologist and works for ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Training) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her principal research interests lie in pioneer populations, human adaptations, pre-agrarian diet and plant-based technology.