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Exploring patterns of prehistoric kinship from socio-cultural anthropological perspectives

Descrizione del progetto

Comprendere a fondo le pratiche di parentela preistoriche

La scoperta dei misteri che si celano dietro la parentela preistorica è stata a lungo confinata al limitato punto di vista della prossimità genetica nell’ambito dell’archeogenetica. La parentela, tuttavia, da una prospettiva antropologica socioculturale, trascende la mera biologia, intrecciandosi con aspetti delle relazioni sociali di tipo performativo e immaginativo. Con il sostegno del programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, il progetto X-KIN si propone di far luce sull’intricato arazzo della parentela preistorica armonizzando i marcatori biologici e le strutture materiali secondo un quadro analitico comune. Allineando i rapporti etnografici con i dati archeologici, il progetto si concentrerà sull’obiettivo di decifrare strutture materiali quali insediamenti, edifici, manufatti e marcatori biologici in qualità di «codici materiali» della parentela preistorica. L’ambito geografico di X-KIN abbraccia quattro siti di ricerca nell’Europa sud-orientale e in Anatolia, quali Çatalhöyük, Lepenski Vir, Arslantepe e Vučedol.

Obiettivo

Research context
During the past decade, the “ancient DNA revolution” has reopened key questions about prehistoric kinship that within archaeogenetics is narrowly viewed as genetic proximity. From a socio-cultural anthropological perspective, however, kinship is not only a biological but also a performative and imaginary principle for structuring and maintaining social relations. Frequently, it is not blood but houses that play a crucial role in forming kinship relations. Therefore, a unified study of dwelling spaces and biological markers of kinship is crucial to understanding kinship in prehistory.

Research questions
• How can the material structures such as settlements, buildings, artifacts, and biological markers be read as ‘material codes’ of prehistoric kinship?
• How can ethnographic reports exemplify rather than verify variability in kinship during prehistory?

Research sites
Four research sites in southeastern Europe and Anatolia have been selected: Çatalhöyük, Lepenski Vir, Arslantepe, and Vučedol.

Methods
KINSCA will align ethnographic reports with archaeological data to further contextualize houses and settlements as well as biological signatures of individuals to illuminate prehistoric kinship practices. This will be achieved through triangulation of analytical methods By employing archaeology of kinship approaches based on cross-cultural anthropological insights, controlled comparison between ethnographic and archaeological material, and regional comparison between archaeological sites.

Innovation
Several archaeologists have voiced the need for archaeologists to move beyond understanding kinship through biogenetic links but as a social practice instead – joining well-known insight from earlier socio-cultural anthropology. For the first time, kinship in prehistory will be addressed from an interdisciplinary perspective, including socio-cultural anthropology, bioarchaeology, and prehistoric archaeology, within a common analytical framework.

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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships

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OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 294 284,64
Indirizzo
DR. IGNAZ SEIPEL-PLATZ 2
1010 Wien
Austria
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Ostösterreich Wien Wien
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