Archaeology of Religion
This volume explores the impact of religious traditions on the physical and social organisation of cities in the ancient world. The contributors draw on diverse theories, methods and evidence to identify the existence of broad... more
This volume explores the impact of religious traditions on the physical and social organisation of cities in the ancient world. The contributors draw on diverse theories, methods and evidence to identify the existence of broad similarities and differences in the urban religious experience. Individual papers range from the Roman Republican period to Late Antiquity, and encompass the city of Rome, Italy, and both the eastern and western provinces. Specific themes include the relationship between liturgy and temple architecture, the influence of religious traditions on civic spaces, and the impact of Christianity on the pagan city. Together, these papers make the case for the centrality of ritual and religion in the experience of the ancient city and throw light on current debates by providing historical examples of the varied ways in which communities accommodate changing religious practices in the urban fabric.
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""This paper has been discussed by Ruth Whitehouse (UCL) in her article ''Gender in Central Mediterranean Prehistory'' in D. Bolger (ed.) 2013. A Companion to Gender Prehistory. Blackwell... more
""This paper has been discussed by Ruth Whitehouse (UCL) in her article ''Gender in Central Mediterranean Prehistory'' in D. Bolger (ed.) 2013. A Companion to Gender Prehistory. Blackwell http://books.google.it/books?id=7TBtPpVWoH8C&pg=PT60&lpg=PT60&dq=a+companion+to+gender+prehistory&source=bl&ots=QCw3N4pFZ0&sig=Zi7bFG6KjCIZPCwlOgpx2m0xKxA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jVwMUdXROe774QTXpICIAw&redir_esc=y (Google Books); it has also been reviewed with A. Chaniotis' book by by Lynn E. Roller, University of California, Davis in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.12.08 (available online at http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-12-08.html); another review of the edited volume is by Aurian Delli Pizzi (Université de Liège) in Kernos 25 (2012), 369-372 online at http://kernos.revues.org/2073
This paper explores issues of gender, agency, and ritual in Iron Age Veneto (It-aly). The standpoint of my work is to acknowledge the troubled relation between gender and agency both in mainstream archaeological discourse and in society at large. Although the condition of women in the West has greatly improved in the last decades, some persistent gender prejudices still describe women as passive, powerless, and vain, especially in countries such as Italy, where feminism may have had a minor impact, and a recent backlash against female rights has been taking place. As a consequence, ‘agency’ is often related to male individuals ca-pable of action. In some contexts such as non-egalitarian and ‘traditional’ fami-lies, female passivity is still both praised and patronised. On the one hand, active and enterprising women are blamed for their supposed aggressiveness and lack of femininity, traditional moral values and maternal instinct. On the other, women are held responsible for their weakness, which becomes an excuse to justify fe-male oppression at an ideological level. This partial lack of focus on female prow-ess, competency, and independence in society at large may be partially responsi-ble for the scarcity of archaeological studies on women’s agency. Since agency is generally conceived as a human capability mainly displayed in supposed male contexts such as production, trade, politics, and the public sphere, even when no specific reference is made to the gender of the agent, the latter is automatically ‘gendered male by association with (first) traditional male behaviours emphasis-ing ‘action’, and (second) with western male-associated personal qualities empha-sising decisiveness and assertiveness’.
The aim of my work is twofold. First, I discuss how female agency can be re-cognised in the archaeological record. Following a careful scrutiny of the data, I shall argue that Venetic women were not deprived of agency; I will provide sev-eral examples of their active involvement in high-level cultic and funerary activi-ties. Secondly, I suggest that gender theory can be a powerful tool to explore thorny issues in the anthropology and archaeology of agency such as the dialect between social structure and people’s free will. Venetic mortuary practices and public cults are analysed to show how ritual was employed both to reproduce suit-able social roles and to subvert the existing social order. The redundancy of reli-gious performance, the reproduction of standardized iconographies, and the main-tenance of ancestral funerary practices were set against dynamics of innovation which accompanied major changes in the social body as a whole. A particular emphasis is placed on the way in which agency was expressed through the me-dium of objects, spaces, and dead bodies, with the aim to offer a more nuanced view of the respective involvement of women and men in the ritual sphere."""
This paper explores issues of gender, agency, and ritual in Iron Age Veneto (It-aly). The standpoint of my work is to acknowledge the troubled relation between gender and agency both in mainstream archaeological discourse and in society at large. Although the condition of women in the West has greatly improved in the last decades, some persistent gender prejudices still describe women as passive, powerless, and vain, especially in countries such as Italy, where feminism may have had a minor impact, and a recent backlash against female rights has been taking place. As a consequence, ‘agency’ is often related to male individuals ca-pable of action. In some contexts such as non-egalitarian and ‘traditional’ fami-lies, female passivity is still both praised and patronised. On the one hand, active and enterprising women are blamed for their supposed aggressiveness and lack of femininity, traditional moral values and maternal instinct. On the other, women are held responsible for their weakness, which becomes an excuse to justify fe-male oppression at an ideological level. This partial lack of focus on female prow-ess, competency, and independence in society at large may be partially responsi-ble for the scarcity of archaeological studies on women’s agency. Since agency is generally conceived as a human capability mainly displayed in supposed male contexts such as production, trade, politics, and the public sphere, even when no specific reference is made to the gender of the agent, the latter is automatically ‘gendered male by association with (first) traditional male behaviours emphasis-ing ‘action’, and (second) with western male-associated personal qualities empha-sising decisiveness and assertiveness’.
The aim of my work is twofold. First, I discuss how female agency can be re-cognised in the archaeological record. Following a careful scrutiny of the data, I shall argue that Venetic women were not deprived of agency; I will provide sev-eral examples of their active involvement in high-level cultic and funerary activi-ties. Secondly, I suggest that gender theory can be a powerful tool to explore thorny issues in the anthropology and archaeology of agency such as the dialect between social structure and people’s free will. Venetic mortuary practices and public cults are analysed to show how ritual was employed both to reproduce suit-able social roles and to subvert the existing social order. The redundancy of reli-gious performance, the reproduction of standardized iconographies, and the main-tenance of ancestral funerary practices were set against dynamics of innovation which accompanied major changes in the social body as a whole. A particular emphasis is placed on the way in which agency was expressed through the me-dium of objects, spaces, and dead bodies, with the aim to offer a more nuanced view of the respective involvement of women and men in the ritual sphere."""
"""Archaeologist, Teacher, Friend. Nicolai Telnov’s Anniversary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 MONOGRAPH INSIDE THE JOURNAL N. V. Zhilina (Moscow, Russia). Stamped Jewel Attire Reconstructed Based on Old Rus Hoards of 10th —... more
"""Archaeologist, Teacher, Friend. Nicolai Telnov’s Anniversary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
MONOGRAPH INSIDE THE JOURNAL
N. V. Zhilina (Moscow, Russia). Stamped Jewel Attire Reconstructed Based on Old Rus Hoards of 10th — 13th Centuries (from the ornamental stamping to the emblem of the princely power). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
V. Ivanišević (Belgrad, Serbia), M. Kazanski (Paris, France). Justinian’s Heruli in Northern
Illyricum and Their Archaeological Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
N. D. Russev (Kishinev, Moldova). North-Eastern Possessions of the First Bulgarian Kingdom in 7th—10th cc.: History and Burial Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
A. V. Kurbatov (St.-Petersburg, Russia). Raw materials for leather crafts, technical means
for leather processing and assortment of leathers in Mediaeval Rus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
JEWELLER’S CRAFT
A. G. Shpilev (Kursk, Russia). Adornments of Romny Time from Kursk Oblast
(second half of 8th — late 10th cc.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Y. V. Stepanova (Tver’, Russia). Temple Rings from Ancient Russian Rural Archaeological Sites in the Upper Volga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
S. S. Ryabtseva (St.-Petersburg, Russia — Kishinev, Moldova), N. P. Telnov (Kishinev, Moldova). A Hoard from Alcedar and Centers of Jewellery Industry in Eastern Europe in late 9th — early 11th Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
А. Boldureanu (Kishinev, Moldova). The Byzantine and Islamic Coins from Alcedar Hoard . . . 301
ARCHAEOLOGY OF REPRESENTATIONS
Y. V. Mysko, S. V. Pyvovarov (Chernivtsi, Ukraine). Finds of Knives with Curls on the Handles in the Region of the Upper Prut and the Middle Dniester . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 309
I. Berdzenishvili (Tbilisi, Georgia). Early Christians in Abkhazia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
List of Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
References Transliterated from Cyrillic into Latin Alphabet 329
Requirements to contributions to Stratum plus. 345
Содержание
AD GLORIAM
Р. А. Рабинович (Кишинев, Молдова), С. С. Рябцева (Санкт-Петербург, Россия — Кишинев, Молдова)
Археолог. Учитель. Друг. К юбилею Николая Петровича Тельнова 15
МОНОГРАФИЯ В ЖУРНАЛЕ
Н. В. Жилина (Москва, Россия)
Тисненый убор по древнерусским кладам X—XIII вв. (от орнаментального рифления до эмблемы княжеской власти) 23
ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ И ПУБЛИКАЦИИ
В. Иванишевич (Белград, Сербия), М. Казанский (Париж, Франция)
Герулы Юстиниана в Северном Иллирикуме и их археологические следы 147
Н. Д. Руссев (Кишинёв, Молдова)
Северо-восточные владения Дунайской Болгарии VII—X вв.: история и погребальные памятники 159
А. В. Курбатов (Санкт-Петербург, Россия)
Кожевенное сырье, техническое обеспечение его выделки и сортамент кож средневековой Руси 169
ЮВЕЛИРНОЕ ДЕЛО
А. Г. Шпилев (Курск, Россия)
Украшения роменского времени из Курской области (вторая половина VIII — конец X вв.) 221
Ю. В. Степанова (Тверь, Россия)
Височные кольца из древнерусских сельских памятников Верхневолжья 275
С. С. Рябцева (Санкт-Петербург, Россия — Кишинёв, Молдова), Н. П. Тельнов (Кишинёв, Молдова)
Алчедарский клад и центры ювелирного производства Восточной Европы конца IX — начала XI вв. 285
А. Болдуряну (Кишинёв, Молдова)
Византийские и исламские монеты из Алчедарского клада 301
АРХЕОЛОГИЯ ПРЕДСТАВЛЕНИЙ
Ю. В. Мысько, С. В. Пивоваров (Черновцы, Украина)
Находки ножей с волютообразными навершиями в Верхнем Попрутье и Среднем Поднестровье 309
И. Бердзенишвили (Тбилиси, Грузия)
Раннее христианство в Абхазии 317
ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНАЯ ИНФОРМАЦИЯ
Список сокращений325
References Transliterated from Cyrillic into Latin Alphabet327
Требования к материалам, предоставляемым в редакцию журнала «Stratum plus»
Требования 341"
MONOGRAPH INSIDE THE JOURNAL
N. V. Zhilina (Moscow, Russia). Stamped Jewel Attire Reconstructed Based on Old Rus Hoards of 10th — 13th Centuries (from the ornamental stamping to the emblem of the princely power). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
V. Ivanišević (Belgrad, Serbia), M. Kazanski (Paris, France). Justinian’s Heruli in Northern
Illyricum and Their Archaeological Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
N. D. Russev (Kishinev, Moldova). North-Eastern Possessions of the First Bulgarian Kingdom in 7th—10th cc.: History and Burial Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
A. V. Kurbatov (St.-Petersburg, Russia). Raw materials for leather crafts, technical means
for leather processing and assortment of leathers in Mediaeval Rus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
JEWELLER’S CRAFT
A. G. Shpilev (Kursk, Russia). Adornments of Romny Time from Kursk Oblast
(second half of 8th — late 10th cc.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Y. V. Stepanova (Tver’, Russia). Temple Rings from Ancient Russian Rural Archaeological Sites in the Upper Volga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
S. S. Ryabtseva (St.-Petersburg, Russia — Kishinev, Moldova), N. P. Telnov (Kishinev, Moldova). A Hoard from Alcedar and Centers of Jewellery Industry in Eastern Europe in late 9th — early 11th Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
А. Boldureanu (Kishinev, Moldova). The Byzantine and Islamic Coins from Alcedar Hoard . . . 301
ARCHAEOLOGY OF REPRESENTATIONS
Y. V. Mysko, S. V. Pyvovarov (Chernivtsi, Ukraine). Finds of Knives with Curls on the Handles in the Region of the Upper Prut and the Middle Dniester . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 309
I. Berdzenishvili (Tbilisi, Georgia). Early Christians in Abkhazia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
List of Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
References Transliterated from Cyrillic into Latin Alphabet 329
Requirements to contributions to Stratum plus. 345
Содержание
AD GLORIAM
Р. А. Рабинович (Кишинев, Молдова), С. С. Рябцева (Санкт-Петербург, Россия — Кишинев, Молдова)
Археолог. Учитель. Друг. К юбилею Николая Петровича Тельнова 15
МОНОГРАФИЯ В ЖУРНАЛЕ
Н. В. Жилина (Москва, Россия)
Тисненый убор по древнерусским кладам X—XIII вв. (от орнаментального рифления до эмблемы княжеской власти) 23
ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ И ПУБЛИКАЦИИ
В. Иванишевич (Белград, Сербия), М. Казанский (Париж, Франция)
Герулы Юстиниана в Северном Иллирикуме и их археологические следы 147
Н. Д. Руссев (Кишинёв, Молдова)
Северо-восточные владения Дунайской Болгарии VII—X вв.: история и погребальные памятники 159
А. В. Курбатов (Санкт-Петербург, Россия)
Кожевенное сырье, техническое обеспечение его выделки и сортамент кож средневековой Руси 169
ЮВЕЛИРНОЕ ДЕЛО
А. Г. Шпилев (Курск, Россия)
Украшения роменского времени из Курской области (вторая половина VIII — конец X вв.) 221
Ю. В. Степанова (Тверь, Россия)
Височные кольца из древнерусских сельских памятников Верхневолжья 275
С. С. Рябцева (Санкт-Петербург, Россия — Кишинёв, Молдова), Н. П. Тельнов (Кишинёв, Молдова)
Алчедарский клад и центры ювелирного производства Восточной Европы конца IX — начала XI вв. 285
А. Болдуряну (Кишинёв, Молдова)
Византийские и исламские монеты из Алчедарского клада 301
АРХЕОЛОГИЯ ПРЕДСТАВЛЕНИЙ
Ю. В. Мысько, С. В. Пивоваров (Черновцы, Украина)
Находки ножей с волютообразными навершиями в Верхнем Попрутье и Среднем Поднестровье 309
И. Бердзенишвили (Тбилиси, Грузия)
Раннее христианство в Абхазии 317
ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНАЯ ИНФОРМАЦИЯ
Список сокращений325
References Transliterated from Cyrillic into Latin Alphabet327
Требования к материалам, предоставляемым в редакцию журнала «Stratum plus»
Требования 341"
Research Interests:
Christianity, Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Early Christianity, Early Medieval Archaeology, and 46 moreMedieval Archaeology, Archaeology of Religion, Funerary Archaeology, Paganism, Funeral Practices, Medieval Europe, Religion and ritual in prehistory, Early Medieval And Medieval Settlement (Archaeology), Death and Burial (Archaeology), Deviant burial (Archaeology), Ritual (Anthropology), Anthropology of Death, Burial Practices (Archaeology), Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, Church Archaeology, Archeologia, Archaeology of Ritual, Prehistory, Mortuary archaeology, - Christianization and Ancient Christianity, Funerary Practices, Slavic Studies, Pagan/Christian Relations in the Early Middle Ages, Archeologia medievale, Early Christian Archaeology, Archeologie, Mortuary Practices, Archaeology of death and burial, Archéologie, Slavic Archaeology, Burial Customs, Funerary Customs, Cemeteries, Archaeology and history of Early medieval Nomads, Old Rus an Slavic archaeology, Archaeology of death, Christianisation of Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages, Ur und Frühgeschichte, Archäologie, Ritual Practices, Bestattungssitten des Frühmittelalters, Prehistoric and Historic Mortuary Practices, Gräberfeldanalysen, Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Archeology, Tradition (Archaeology) X Death and Burial (Archaeology) X Burial Practices (Archaeology) X Burial (Ritual) X Archaeology of Burials X Archaeology of Death and Burial X Burial Customs (Ancient World), and Rituais Funerárioedit
"This chapter is an extensive study about the Archaeology of the ritual sites and the religion of the Celtic peoples in north of Spain Iron Age. Key Words: Archaeology, Iron Age, Cantabria, north of Spain, ritual and sacred places,... more
"This chapter is an extensive study about the Archaeology of the ritual sites and the religion of the Celtic peoples in north of Spain Iron Age.
Key Words: Archaeology, Iron Age, Cantabria, north of Spain, ritual and sacred places, religion, Archaeology of mountain territories."
Key Words: Archaeology, Iron Age, Cantabria, north of Spain, ritual and sacred places, religion, Archaeology of mountain territories."
"Archaeology of Spiritualties provides a fresh exploration of the interface between archaeology and religion/spirituality. Archaeological approaches to the study of religion have typically, and often unconsciously, drawn on western... more
"Archaeology of Spiritualties provides a fresh exploration of the interface between archaeology and religion/spirituality. Archaeological approaches to the study of religion have typically, and often unconsciously, drawn on western paradigms, especially Judaeo-Christian (mono)theistic frameworks and academic rationalisations. Archaeologists have rarely reflected on how these approaches have framed and constrained their choices of methodologies, research questions, hypotheses, definitions, interpretations and analyses, and have neglected an important dimension of religion: the human experience of the numinous - the power, presence or experience of the supernatural.
Within the religions of many of the world’s peoples, sacred experiences – particularly in relation to sacred landscapes and beings connected with those landscapes – are often given greater emphasis, while doctrine and beliefs are relatively less important. Archaeology of Spiritualities asks how such experiences might be discerned in the archaeological record; how do we recognize and investigate ‘other’ forms of religious or spiritual experience in the remains of the past?
The volume opens up a space to explore critically and reflexively the encounter between archaeology and diverse cultural expressions of spirituality. It showcases experiential and experimental methodologies in this area of the discipline, an unconventional approach within the archaeology of religion. Thus Archaeology of Spiritualities offers a unique, timely and innovative contribution, one that is also challenging and stimulating. It is a great resource for archaeologists, historians, religious scholars, and others interested in cultural and religious heritage.
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Within the religions of many of the world’s peoples, sacred experiences – particularly in relation to sacred landscapes and beings connected with those landscapes – are often given greater emphasis, while doctrine and beliefs are relatively less important. Archaeology of Spiritualities asks how such experiences might be discerned in the archaeological record; how do we recognize and investigate ‘other’ forms of religious or spiritual experience in the remains of the past?
The volume opens up a space to explore critically and reflexively the encounter between archaeology and diverse cultural expressions of spirituality. It showcases experiential and experimental methodologies in this area of the discipline, an unconventional approach within the archaeology of religion. Thus Archaeology of Spiritualities offers a unique, timely and innovative contribution, one that is also challenging and stimulating. It is a great resource for archaeologists, historians, religious scholars, and others interested in cultural and religious heritage.
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