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SEVEN - NEOLITHIC ITALY AS AN ETHNOGRAPHIC LANDSCAPE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

John Robb
John Robb
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University of Cambridge
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It is almost axiomatic that large-scale types will be modified if not refuted as the complexities of local-level processes and variations are taken into account.

Bruce Knauft, South Coast New GuineaCultures: History, Comparison, Dialectic. (Knauft 1993, p. 118)

The Mandans are certainly a very interesting and pleasing people in their personal appearance and manners; differing in many respects, both in looks and customs, from all other tribes which I have seen. They are not a warlike people; for they seldom, if ever, carry war into their enemies' country; but when invaded, shew their valour and courage to be equal to that of any people on earth. Being a small tribe, and unable to contend on the wide prairies with the Sioux and other roaming tribes, who are ten times more numerous, they have very judiciously located themselves in a permanent village, which is strongly fortified, and ensures their preservation. By this means they have advanced further in the arts of manufacture; have supplied their lodges more abundantly with the comforts, and even luxuries of life, than any Indian nation I know of.

George Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians, Volume 1. (Catlin 1973, p. 93)

One of the hardest things for archaeologists to do is to get off site, to see the larger world not only as an archaeological landscape but as an ethnographic landscape, full of defined places, relations of causation, and peoples situated in difference.

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The Early Mediterranean Village
Agency, Material Culture, and Social Change in Neolithic Italy
 , pp. 250 - 285
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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