Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
A special issue of Heritage (ISSN 2571-9408). This special issue belongs to the section "Cultural Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 7912
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will examine the archaeology of past hunter–gatherers. Hunting and gathering is often described as the way of life that made up 99% of our past, making this category of archaeology vastly important. However, both the relatively scarce remains often associated with hunter–gatherers, and the great time-depth that separates many hunter–gatherers from the present, make their study particularly difficult. The archaeology of past hunter–gatherers has been intimately entangled with the anthropology of contemporary hunter–gatherers, which has provided many critical insights into likely patterns of behaviour. However, there are clear dangers involved in reliance upon ethnographic analogies, not least that they can imply that modern hunter–gatherers remain, in some ways, living fossils of past ways of life. Equally, the use of analogy, at times, risks simply re-inventing modern behaviours in the past. This is particularly relevant to research that investigates issues of behavioural modernity and tries to establish the association of our evolutionary development to what we regard as human behaviour. A further complication lies in the debate as to whether “hunter–gatherer” is a meaningful category or is simply the product of 17th and 18th century thought, subsequently repurposed for colonial use.
This call for papers invites authors to submit research papers that consider issues such as whether there is such a thing as an archaeology of hunter–gatherers that unites them over time and space, the use of scientific archaeology to study past hunter–gatherers and provide a counterbalance to analogy, and the cultural heritage management of past hunter–gatherer societies, often played down in national myths.
Dr. Bill Finlayson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hunter-gatherer archaeology
- cultural heritage management
- scientific archaeology
