Traditional Lifeways as Knowledge of the Past and for the Future

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Making Historical Archaeology Matter: Rethinking an Engaged Archaeology of Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Rural Communities of Western Ireland and Southern Italy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Traditional farming, cooking and craft production provided a stable and integrated set of taskscapes to citizens of the Bovese for generations. As a result, the conflicts, and challenges of living in a region of Italy that has long been neglected or exploited by whatever government was in power, residents see educating their children for professions outside their local environment as imperative and thus often select not pass on cultural knowledge. Where attempts to conserve and celebrate the region’s cultural heritage have been made competing factions, and revenge have resulted in the destruction and loss of precious artifacts and papers. Many cultural traditions involve organic materials not preserved in the archaeological record, but which provide windows into activities that stretch throughout the post medieval era. This poster presents some of those activities and posits ways they can teach us about the past and provide insights for the future.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Making Historical Archaeology Matter: Rethinking an Engaged Archaeology of Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Rural Communities of Western Ireland and Southern Italy   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37896.0