STEPS TOWARD AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF LIFE - lecture by Prof. Julian Thomas
Channel: Vitor Oliveira Jorge
Date: 26/06/2021

THEME:STEPS TOWARD AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF LIFEThere is presently a tension in prehistoric archaeology, between the essentializing of past collective identities and a desire to overcome humanism and anthropocentrism. Was the Neolithic, for instance, simply the cultural and economic apparatus of people who shared a particular genetic inheritance? Central to this discussion is the status of archaeological evidence, and material things in general. Adopting Tim Ingold’s argument that all things are ‘in life’ within an animate world, it is possible to reconsider that character of the social entities that we investigate. 


Author:Julian Thomas is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Manchester, UK. He was educated at the Universities of Bradford and Sheffield, and previously taught at Lampeter and Southampton Universities. His books include Archaeology and Modernity, The Birth of Neolithic Britain and (with Keith Ray) Neolithic Britain: The Transformation of Social Worlds. He has excavated widely in England, Scotland and Wales, was a co-director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project, and is currently directing a programme of fieldwork in southwest Herefordshire with Keith Ray. Together with Seren Griffiths, Neil Carlin, Ben Edwards and Tom Higham he is a co-investigator on the AHRC-funded Project TIME, which seeks to construct a fine-grained radiometric chronology for Britain and Ireland in the later fourth and third millennia BC. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and a member of the Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Lecture online organized by 
ADECAP - Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Cooperação em Arqueologia Peninsular - Porto
Associação cultural e científica sem fins lucrativos
Association for the Improvement of Cooperation in Iberian Archaeology

25 junho 2021, a partir das 21 h.
25th juin 2021, from 9 pm

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