I was interested enough by this thread that I went into the publication to see how they arrived at 'status', the variable by which their theory of 'social inequality' lives or dies
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So I thought, I'm an archaeologist and that's not my 'dominating view'. Did I miss something? So I checked the works citedpic.twitter.com/WDVLQYXV3u
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One is another genetics paper rather than an archaeological primary source, so that's dodgy. The other pointed me to the supplementary data so off I went back to the publisher's web page to download that
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Finally into the supplementary data. where I was told I would learn all about their method of measuring status in the Bronze Age:pic.twitter.com/FLuB4mwi6O
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Hmm again that sounded a lot like what we teach our archaeology undergrads was how things used to be done until we discovered theory, so it was into the footnotes again to see what classic works of processualism this was based on and found instead:pic.twitter.com/fFtlDpMDKS
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This despite the work of those like Joanna Brück who have been steadily dismantling these ideas for decades. A recent and accessible demolition of the myth of 'status' via 'wealth' of 'chiefs' in the Bronze Age can be read online here:https://www.academia.edu/9811954/The_myth_of_the_chief_prestige_goods_power_and_personhood_in_the_European_Bronze_Age …
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In conclusion, aDNA has completely outgrown the archaeological materials on which it claims to be based, and now forms its own authority. Not only did the post-processual critique fail, the discipline of archaeology is now officially surplus to requirements of 'hard science'
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Question regarding this: I know this is about the Bronze Age but when we get into the late Iron Age/Early Medieval horizon, is it now outdated scholarship to discuss “high-status” burials as we have defined them? (Sutton Hoo, Prittlewell Chamber)? Is it possible to know?
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I seem to recall that even so long ago as 1960, Wallace-Hadrill had doubts, suggesting that Sutton Hoo was not necessarily the grave of the most powerful man in eastern Britain, only the man whose family had the greatest need to reaffirm their own status through the burial rite…
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I heard that too. Not sure I agree but an interesting thing to consider.
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