Finding Fear in the Iron Age of Southern France

McCartney, Mags

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“…Indeed, solidarity and suspicion of difference are two sides of the same coin. McCartney (2006), drawing on Ember and Ember's (1992) correlation between warfare and socialization for mistrust of non-kin (e.g. increased witchcraft accusations), highlights the potential for mistrust within defensive settlements, resulting in residential separation and internal barriers.…”

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“…Architecture impeded certain kinds of contact and facilitated others, shaping the daily flow of movement and knowledge (Moore 2003). Internal barriers reduced penetrability for attackers (Peregrine 1993), but also evoked mistrust of non-kin (McCartney 2006). Public spaces, private compounds, entrances and walkways concretely channelled everyday social interaction (Acuto 2008; Byrd 1994).…”

Section: Coalescence and Defensive Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Coalescence and Defensive Communities: Insights from an Andean Hillfort Town

Arkush

2017

CAJ

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Defensive and fortified settlements are often places of relatively dense nucleation by people with few viable alternatives, resulting in the imperative need to establish consensual rules for living together. What behaviours and attitudes were adopted in defensively nucleated places? Recent investigations at Ayawiri (Machu Llaqta), a densely settled hillfort town of the western Titicaca Basin of Peru inhabited c. ad 1300–1450, shed light on the nature of social life within the defensive community and the workings of social distinction, priority in settlement, conformity and publicity. I draw on the evidence from Ayawiri to discuss how defensive settlements create and reinforce certain ways of living by reformulating the basic logics of sociality and the material and spatial realms through which they work.

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Coalescence and Defensive Communities: Insights from an Andean Hillfort Town

Arkush

2017

CAJ

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“…Some authors postulate a high degree of warfare but also note that it can be largely invisible (Parcero Oubiña 1997) and must sometimes be inferred from iconography and defensive structures. McCartney (2006) interprets changing settlement in Iron Age France as a distinct, materially visible response to a ''socialization for fear'' in a warlike nonstate society, manifest in house construction, organization, and the type of access seen within a community through time. Massive votive deposits of wellused weaponry in many Iron Age societies (Ilkjaer 2002;Jørgensen et al 2003) attest to the fact that social elites were actively engaged in conflicts and provide opportunities for discussion and analysis.…”

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Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?

Thurston

2009

J Archaeol Res

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While some researchers continue to focus fruitfully on traditional issues, in recent years new perspectives, some strongly revisionist, have developed within European Iron Age archaeology, moving it from a long-static state into a rapidly changing milieu. Studies of colonialism, imperialism, and interaction have undergone sequential shifts into new territory, while topics related to sacred activity, political apparatuses, and the ruler-subject relationship have undergone substantial reworking. Perspectives absent from earlier literature have emerged: gender, age, ethnicity, and identity, and interpretations employing theories of practice, agency, landscape, and embodiment have emerged, mirroring broader disciplinary shifts. An overarching trend sees Iron Age Europe as a series of interactive societies with both broad similarities and sharp regional, even local, differences, moving through time and ever-changing relationships, influences, and trajectories. The collision of traditional and revisionist scholarship has produced debate, some heated, but has improved and invigorated the field.

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Finding Fear in the Iron Age of Southern France

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Coalescence and Defensive Communities: Insights from an Andean Hillfort Town

Coalescence and Defensive Communities: Insights from an Andean Hillfort Town

Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?

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