Contesting Ethnoarchaeologies Traditions, Theories, Prospects

Contesting Ethnoarchaeologies provides a systematic overview of major non-American traditions of ethnoarchaeology, with a particular focus on Europe and Asia. It explores all stages of their research agenda. These ethnoarchaeologies were embedded in theoretical traditions of local archaeologies. Moreover, ethnoarchaeological studies carried out in these different settings targeted a wide range of different issues and addressed numerous questions of covering all sorts of different issues. Consequently, achieved results and data have been largely idiosyncratic and hardly compatible. Hence, this volume aims not only to conceptualize characteristics of these diverse ethnoarchaeologies but more importantly put them in a broader context of the development of archaeology in different parts of Europe and Asia. The contributors to the volume express their own diverse views on the cognitive and interpretative value of ethnoarchaeology for studying prehistoric past, based on particular cases of experience and research. As such, the volume is not only a valuable overview of numerous ethnoarchaeological practices in different parts of the region, but also a significant contribution to the history of archaeological thought. This perspective shall make the book of wider applicability and make possible to put up ethnoarchaeology as an immanent and important element of archaeological theory.

Arkadiusz Marciniak & Nurcan E. Yalman – Introduction. Non-American ethnoarchaeologies in the history of archaeological thought.- I. Traditions of ethnoarchaeology outside the Anglo-American contexts.- Valentine Roux, Ethnoarchaeology in France: Trends and perspectives.- Francesca Lugi, Ethnoarchaeology in Italy.- Ruth Struwe, German ethnoarchaeological traditions from a theoretical and conceptual viewpoint – past and present.- Zbigniew Kobylinski, Wlodzimierz Holubowicz – pioneer of ethnoarchaeology of pottery-making.- Petar Zidarov, Malgorzata Grebska-Kulow, Ethnoarchaeology on the Balkans. A view from Bulgaria.- Nurcan E. Yalman, The history of ethnoarchaeology in Turkey and its place in archaeological thought.- Aleksandr V. Kenig, S. S. Tikhonov, M. A. Korusenko, The development of ethnoarchaeological thought in Russian archaeology.- Kong Ling Yuan, Ethnoarchaeology in China.- II. Significance of ethnoarchaeology of the 21st century.- Willeke Wendrich, Ethnoarchaeology today: the relevance of a discipline from the Egyptian perspective.- Marius-Tiberiu Alexianu, Saturated model. A first application in world and Romanian ethno-archaeology.- Turan Takaoglu, The living Ottomans past: Rethinking ethnoarchaeology in Turkey.- Martin H. Wobst, Non Anglophone ethno-archaeologies.