Objects and Their Glassy Essence: Semiotics of Self in the Early Bronze Age Black Sea

Bauer, Alexander A.

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“…For the time being, there are not very strong arguments to believe that the Black Sea was a crucial factor in this cultural system as a sea for an intensive transport of resources / goods and people. A. Bauer's case study of the habits of coastal fishers [4], however, is of a serious research interest since the described dynamics of fishing may have made fishers mediators of exchange of goods other than fish, especially of metals. The scale of this sea exchange did not require big ships since the boats could provide the needed means of transportation.…”

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“…In such case, it can be presumed that Anatolian ideological power looked at the Balkans as a periphery and allowed only impact from Anatolia to the Balkans. This peculiarity opens a gap in the theory of A. Bauer of a formation of Circumpontic coastal ceramic style [4], having in mind also that the illustrated sherds are typical of the Anatolian Early Bronze Age pottery. The research question is: What kind of similarity in the pottery reflect the interactions between distant communities and how does the pottery reflect the social and political structures in Antiquity?…”

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Balkan Perspectives of Development of the Circumpontic Research Design During the Early Bronze Age (Later 4th - 3rd Millennium Cal Bce)

Nikolova¹

2021

Bulletin of the MSRU (History and Political Science)

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Aim. To show the decisive importance of the Early Bronze Age in the development of Eurasian civilization as a system of interconnected, interdependent and intensely interacting societies that arose during the Early Bronze Age I (late 4th millennium BCЕ) and flourished during the Early Bronze Age II-III (3,000 BCЕ). The Balkans became one of the centers of the Circumpontic cultural system, integrated during the Early Bronze Age to varying degrees with the northwest of Anatolia and the northwest of the Black Sea, as well as with Central Europe and the Aegean cultures. Methodology. The cultural and social characteristics of the communities / chiefdoms of the Balkans of the Early Bronze Age are given from diachronic perspectives. Results. In the early Bronze Age, a system of equal partners emerged in the Balkans, based on a common economic platform, including the chiefdoms of Ezero, Yunatsite, Sitagroi in the south, as well as the conglomeration of dispersed sedentary and semi-mobile communities of Coţofeni without a clear centralized political power on the Lower Danube, the chiefdom Vucedol, etc. The presence of an exchange of prestigious items (jewelry from Dubenе-Balinov Gorum) controlled by the elite, together with the absence of archaeological traces of conflicts indicate the Early Bronze Age was a peaceful period in the Balkans. Research implications. It was found that the standards of the chiefdoms of the Western Circumpontic region corresponded to the benchmarks of the Trojan chiefdoms, although the material markers of these standards were different. 1

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Section: Types Of Societies and Their Role In Development Of Early Bronze Age Cultures In The Balkansmentioning

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Balkan Perspectives of Development of the Circumpontic Research Design During the Early Bronze Age (Later 4th - 3rd Millennium Cal Bce)

Nikolova¹

2021

Bulletin of the MSRU (History and Political Science)

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“…Other archaeologists use the concepts of iconicity and indexicality in ceramic analysis. Bauer (2013b) examines the emergence of a ceramic style in the context of interaction between heterogeneous communities of the Bronze Age Black Sea region, whereas Gokee (2016) similarly considers pottery style within the ethnic milieu of West Africa ca. 1700-1950.…”

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“…Old habits die hard, however, and Crossland explores the semiotic delay experienced by missionaries in nineteenth-century southern Africa in their recognition of the ritual landscape. Other applications of this Peircean idea of habit include Lele's (2006) examination of rosary beads and stone walls in Ireland, Cipolla's (2016Cipolla's ( , 2018 description of the habitual piling of stones in New England, Bauer's (2013b) consideration of habitual engagements between communities of the Bronze Age Black Sea, and Gokee's (2016) differentiation between habitual and conscious aspects of pottery production.…”

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Peirce and Archaeology: Recent Approaches

Baron

2021

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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The philosophy of Charles S. Peirce, and in particular his theory of signs (semiotic), has seen increasing interest within archaeological theory over the past 20 years. This article reviews Peirce's most influential ideas within archaeology, directs readers to where in Peirce's voluminous works they can find these ideas, and discusses how each of them has been applied by archaeologists to a variety of different research topics. In addition to the semiotic, these ideas include Peirce's metaphysical doctrine of synechism; his methodological pragmatism; abductive logic; and the phenomenological concepts of firstness, secondness, and thirdness. Finally, I discuss two research areas—materiality and paleolithic archaeology—in which a combination of Peirce's ideas has led to important new insights.

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Conceptualising an Anatomy of Transformations: DPSIR, Theorisation, Semiotics and Emergence

Ribeiro,

Lattmann,

Schlicht

et al. 2024

Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling

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Transformation processes that affect past societies can be complex and difficult to understand when observed at larger scales, especially when many factors are involved. Furthermore, researching transformations can often become reductive, with too much focus on only some factors or aspects of past societies, to the detriment of others. This has been the challenge of large-scale socio-environmental projects of recent years, including our own.In order to address this issue, this chapter develops a model of the anatomy of transformations that is built upon four main pillars. The first pillar is DPSIR (Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response). Originally used in ecological studies, DPSIR provides a flexible framework that allows us to recognise how societies and ecosystems affect one another in a dynamic manner. Within the DPSIR framework, a second pillar based on theorization allows us to contextualise human behaviour at different scales, for example, through practice theory or cultural evolutionary theory. The third pillar presupposes that human societies are built on meaning and uses semiotics to help us uncover the semantic dimension of past transformations. Finally, the fourth pillar is emergence, which conceives of transformations as diachronic processes in which ecosystems and societies develop new properties based on their interaction.This anatomy has the aim of assembling different aspects of socio-environmental and archaeological research in order to produce a comprehensive picture of past transformations. At the same time, this overall framework is open-ended, which both makes it possible to adapt it to different chronological and geographical circumstances and allows adopters to add or remove elements as they see fit.

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Objects and Their Glassy Essence: Semiotics of Self in the Early Bronze Age Black Sea

Cited by 10 publications

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Balkan Perspectives of Development of the Circumpontic Research Design During the Early Bronze Age (Later 4th - 3rd Millennium Cal Bce)

Balkan Perspectives of Development of the Circumpontic Research Design During the Early Bronze Age (Later 4th - 3rd Millennium Cal Bce)

Peirce and Archaeology: Recent Approaches

Conceptualising an Anatomy of Transformations: DPSIR, Theorisation, Semiotics and Emergence

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