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Iron Marshalltowns of the Balkans – Ethnography of an Archaeological Community
Iron Marshalltowns of the Balkans – Ethnography of an Archaeological Community

Author(s): Staša Babić
Subject(s): Archaeology, Cultural history, Regional Geography, Ethnohistory
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Archeology; Ethnography; Iron Marshalltowns;

Summary/Abstract: Archaeology is an investigation into human affairs as reflected in artifacts, and archaeologists participate in the formation of the notions of the past, our origins and identities, founding their inferences upon the vestiges of material culture. On the other hand, archaeologists in their practice inevitably use specific artifacts, in this manner forming their own set of material culture, itself also a possible subject to investigation by archaeological means and tools. This challenging and “tantalizing possibility” of “turning of our methods back on to ourselves may offer a fresh angle in the ongoing reconsiderations of the craft of archaeology.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 115-124
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English