Sabina Cveček
Biographic Data
| ID | 75599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabina Cveček |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabina |
| FAMILY NAME | Cveček |
| SIGNATURE | CVEČEK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Field Museum of Natural History |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0642-2397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Funerary Placement in the Past and Present
As attested archaeologically, residential burial is the placement of the deceased within or in close proximity to houses and residential areas, and it occurs worldwide. What explains residential burial remains a puzzle. In this article, the frequency of residential burials in archaeological and ethnographic contexts are compared to assess whether residential permanence impacted the practice in different cultural contexts. We compiled two new data…
Engaging with palaeogenomics beyond the lab
As ancient DNA (aDNA) science enters a new phase of computational and institutional power, what should social scientists and humanities scholars focus on? This article identifies questions that examine the relationships between scientists, research participants, communities and publics, and how these groups engage with, appropriate or resist palaeogenomic accounts of the past. We outline four areas for research: the social relations underlying da…
Kinship Trouble
What is kinship trouble? When and where did it emerge? Why does it matter and how can we overcome it? These questions guide our discussion of kinship trouble, a term meant to capture the difficulties in reconstructing ancient kin relations, but also an attempt to resolve them through interdisciplinary collaboration and ethically adequate approaches. Motivated by the importance of crossing disciplinary boundaries and the urgency of working togethe…
Kinship Analysis in Specified Contexts
Kinship studies recently have been going through a new wave of attraction in archaeogenetics and archaeology. Interdisciplinary cooperation remains an important challenge in these endeavours. Any research that requires interdisciplinary efforts will lead to reductive and potentially misleading conclusions if that cooperation is restricted to a range that is too narrow. The consequences usually are inadequate research results and insufficient rang…
Cradled by architecture
Children, especially infants, are integral to human communities, but how they are perceived varies across societies. This study examines infancy at the late seventh millennium Neolithic sites of Barcın Höyük and Lepenski Vir through the concept of delayed personhood, namely the belief that young children were partially or not yet recognized as persons. Both sites provide extensive data on burial locations, including age, sex, and biological relat…
Why kinship still needs anthropologists in the 21st century
With the rise of ancient DNA studies in prehistoric archaeology, terms such as matriliny and patriliny are commonly used in scholarly literature. From a sociocultural anthropological perspective, however, the two terms are not as simple and unproblematic as is widely accepted among archaeogeneticists. Matriliny and patriliny are umbrella terms for societies with a wide range of political and kinship practices, with or without a state. Moreover, a…
No place like home for metalworkers
The active involvement of attendees through valuable comments and engaging discussions significantly contributed to the refinement of the ideas presented in this article. I am also grateful for conversations with my fellow DOC-team colleagues – archaeologist Maria Röcklinger and zooarchaeologist Stephanie Emra – who shared their invaluable data and impressions with me over the past years. I would like to express my gratitude to Barbara Horejs, wh…
Fostering interdisciplinary dialogues
Enthrone, dethrone, rethrone? The multiple lives of matrilineal kinship in Aegean prehistory
The concept of a matricentric society, linked with female rule, has been enthroned in studies of Europe's prehistory during the past two centuries. Nevertheless, in the 1960s and 1970s, feminist approaches dethroned the idea of the Mother Goddess as the key organizing principle of Aegean Neolithic societies. Recently, however, certain versions of gynecocracy, implying female rule, and/or of matrilineal kinship have been rethroned for studies in t…
Ghost Children
Most societies view infants and partially children, up to a certain age, as not fully human beings and/or persons. This paper takes a longue durée perspective to examine built spaces shared by the living and dead infants during the four millennia (seventh to third millennium BC) in Anatolia. Evidence of infant burials within and around houses in several prehistoric periods and sites is analysed through a child-centred approach to mortuary remains…
Çukuriçi Höyük 4
Çukuriçi Höyük 4. Household Economics in the Early Bronze Age Aegean is a pioneering interdisciplinary account of households and socio-political organization in Aegean prehistory, written by a socio-cultural anthropologist embedded in a team of prehistoric archaeologists. Sabina Cveček applies methods of historical anthropology to address key issues in discussing households and socio-political organization at the dawn of the Bronze Age Aegean and…
Why kinship still needs anthropologists in the 21st century
With the rise of ancient DNA studies in prehistoric archaeology, terms such as matriliny and patriliny are commonly used in scholarly literature. From a sociocultural anthropological perspective, however, the two terms are not as simple and unproblematic as is widely accepted among archaeogeneticists. Matriliny and patriliny are umbrella terms for societies with a wide range of political and kinship practices, with or without a state. Moreover, a…
Ghost Children
Most societies view infants and partially children, up to a certain age, as not fully human beings and/or persons. This paper takes a longue durée perspective to examine built spaces shared by the living and dead infants during the four millennia (seventh to third millennium BC) in Anatolia. Evidence of infant burials within and around houses in several prehistoric periods and sites is analysed through a child-centred approach to mortuary remains…
Çukuriçi Höyük 4
Çukuriçi Höyük 4. Household Economics in the Early Bronze Age Aegean is a pioneering interdisciplinary account of households and socio-political organization in Aegean prehistory, written by a socio-cultural anthropologist embedded in a team of prehistoric archaeologists. Sabina Cveček applies methods of historical anthropology to address key issues in discussing households and socio-political organization at the dawn of the Bronze Age Aegean and…
Ghost Children
Most societies view infants and partially children, up to a certain age, as not fully human beings and/or persons. This paper takes a longue durée perspective to examine built spaces shared by the living and dead infants during the four millennia (seventh to third millennium BC) in Anatolia. Evidence of infant burials within and around houses in several prehistoric periods and sites is analysed through a child-centred approach to mortuary remains…
Çukuriçi Höyük 4
Çukuriçi Höyük 4. Household Economics in the Early Bronze Age Aegean is a pioneering interdisciplinary account of households and socio-political organization in Aegean prehistory, written by a socio-cultural anthropologist embedded in a team of prehistoric archaeologists. Sabina Cveček applies methods of historical anthropology to address key issues in discussing households and socio-political organization at the dawn of the Bronze Age Aegean and…
No place like home for metalworkers
The active involvement of attendees through valuable comments and engaging discussions significantly contributed to the refinement of the ideas presented in this article. I am also grateful for conversations with my fellow DOC-team colleagues – archaeologist Maria Röcklinger and zooarchaeologist Stephanie Emra – who shared their invaluable data and impressions with me over the past years. I would like to express my gratitude to Barbara Horejs, wh…
Fostering interdisciplinary dialogues
Enthrone, dethrone, rethrone? The multiple lives of matrilineal kinship in Aegean prehistory
The concept of a matricentric society, linked with female rule, has been enthroned in studies of Europe's prehistory during the past two centuries. Nevertheless, in the 1960s and 1970s, feminist approaches dethroned the idea of the Mother Goddess as the key organizing principle of Aegean Neolithic societies. Recently, however, certain versions of gynecocracy, implying female rule, and/or of matrilineal kinship have been rethroned for studies in t…
Why kinship still needs anthropologists in the 21st century
With the rise of ancient DNA studies in prehistoric archaeology, terms such as matriliny and patriliny are commonly used in scholarly literature. From a sociocultural anthropological perspective, however, the two terms are not as simple and unproblematic as is widely accepted among archaeogeneticists. Matriliny and patriliny are umbrella terms for societies with a wide range of political and kinship practices, with or without a state. Moreover, a…
Cradled by architecture
Children, especially infants, are integral to human communities, but how they are perceived varies across societies. This study examines infancy at the late seventh millennium Neolithic sites of Barcın Höyük and Lepenski Vir through the concept of delayed personhood, namely the belief that young children were partially or not yet recognized as persons. Both sites provide extensive data on burial locations, including age, sex, and biological relat…
Funerary Placement in the Past and Present
As attested archaeologically, residential burial is the placement of the deceased within or in close proximity to houses and residential areas, and it occurs worldwide. What explains residential burial remains a puzzle. In this article, the frequency of residential burials in archaeological and ethnographic contexts are compared to assess whether residential permanence impacted the practice in different cultural contexts. We compiled two new data…
Engaging with palaeogenomics beyond the lab
As ancient DNA (aDNA) science enters a new phase of computational and institutional power, what should social scientists and humanities scholars focus on? This article identifies questions that examine the relationships between scientists, research participants, communities and publics, and how these groups engage with, appropriate or resist palaeogenomic accounts of the past. We outline four areas for research: the social relations underlying da…
Kinship Trouble
What is kinship trouble? When and where did it emerge? Why does it matter and how can we overcome it? These questions guide our discussion of kinship trouble, a term meant to capture the difficulties in reconstructing ancient kin relations, but also an attempt to resolve them through interdisciplinary collaboration and ethically adequate approaches. Motivated by the importance of crossing disciplinary boundaries and the urgency of working togethe…
Kinship Analysis in Specified Contexts
Kinship studies recently have been going through a new wave of attraction in archaeogenetics and archaeology. Interdisciplinary cooperation remains an important challenge in these endeavours. Any research that requires interdisciplinary efforts will lead to reductive and potentially misleading conclusions if that cooperation is restricted to a range that is too narrow. The consequences usually are inadequate research results and insufficient rang…
Anthropology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Kinship (4 works) · Ancient Near East History (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (3 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works)