Local and/or Exotic Interactions: Symbols, Materials, and Societies
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Local and/or Exotic Interactions: Symbols, Materials, and Societies" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Across the ages, prehistoric societies have interacted with each other, generating flows of finished artifacts, raw materials, symbolic items, and last but not least, people themselves that can be discerned archaeologically both among hunter-gatherer groups and farmers. Allochthonous materials and long-distance relationships implied by their presence have usually played a major role within archaeological narratives, especially as signifiers of social and cultural complexity. Meanwhile the employ of local materials has usually been linked to domestic day-to-day activities, and less attention has been paid to their acquisition and movement within societies as a result. However, ethnographic and archaeological sources show us the importance of recognizing a dialectic interaction between both categories of materials in maintaining social and cultural entities in addition to representing social interactions in the archaeological record. We have brought together a group of papers that address the interactions between exotic and local materials and their complexity by making use of provenance studies, morpho-stylistic approaches, and spatial analysis. Our aim is to generate new insights into the mechanics of exchange across scales and the roles that it played within ancient societies.
Other Keywords
Paleolithic •
Lithic Analysis •
Archaeometry & Materials Analysis •
network analysis •
Digital Archaeology: Simulation and Modeling •
Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers •
demography •
Lithics •
Regional Synthesis •
Mobility
Geographic Keywords
Principality of Monaco (Country) •
Kingdom of Spain (Country) •
Principality of Andorra (Country) •
Gibraltar (Country) •
Portuguese Republic (Country) •
French Republic (Country) •
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nort (Country) •
Ireland (Country) •
Isle of Man (Country) •
Kingdom of Belgium (Country)
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Cutting Through the Networks: An Assessment of the Circulation of Singular Artifacts in Prehistoric Iberia (2024)
Investigating Interaction through Multilayer Material Culture Networks in the Western Pueblos (2024)