Colonialism and the European Mesolithic

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ID7934902
AuthorsBrian Elliott (0000-0002-2456-1983, Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy, corresponding author), Graeme Warren (0000-0001-6280-2576)
Year2023
Volume56
Issue1
Pages71-89
Publication date2023-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNorwegian Archaeological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0029-3652 • E-ISSN: 1502-7678
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00293652.2023.2182232
OpenAlexW4360615749
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited55

This paper heeds the broader societal calls for decolonisation in Britain and Ireland, and seeks to apply various strands of decolonial practice within the context of Mesolithic archaeology; a subfield which has seen little postcolonial reflection to date. We question the historic interactions between Mesolithic archaeology and colonial hegemony, and argue that Mesolithic research continues to reinforce these hegemonies today. This occurs simultaneously within Europe, and on the inter-continental scale. With this in mind, we explore areas of Mesolithic research practice that hold potential to shift this dynamic, and contribute to the deconstruction of colonially rooted power imbalances. In doing so, our focus falls upon the ethics of ethnographic analogy, and the ontological turn within Mesolithic Studies

Archaeology · Colonialism · Context (archaeology) · Deconstruction (building) · Geography · Hegemony · Mesolithic · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Engineering · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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