Book chapter
Speaking of Stone, Speaking through Stone: an exegesis of an engraved slate plaque from Late Neolithic Iberia
Materialitas, p.138
Oxbow Books
12/01/2009
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt1cfr97n.22
Abstract
Viewing material culture as the medium onto which and through which human agency acts is the traditional approach in archaeology. But, an approach to material culture that views it merely as a receptacle of human values, skills, desires, needs, and information is incomplete. Material culture itself shapes and structures human perception, action, and interactions. It has an agency embedded in social practice (Giddens 1979; 1984; Gell 1998; Dobres & Robb 2000; Hodder 2000). This paper briefly explores the recursive relationship between human perception and material culture through the Neolithic stone plaques of the Iberian Peninsula. Through such a focused analysis,
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Speaking of Stone, Speaking through Stone: an exegesis of an engraved slate plaque from Late Neolithic Iberia
- Creators
- Katina LilliosJonathan T. Thomas
- Contributors
- Blaze O’Connor (Editor)Gabriel Cooney (Editor)John Chapman (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Materialitas, p.138
- DOI
- 10.2307/j.ctt1cfr97n.22
- Publisher
- Oxbow Books
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2009
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; International Programs; Rhetoric
- Record Identifier
- 9984269212202771
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