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Document Details : Title: Ethnoarchaeology at Sos Höyük Subtitle: A Preliminary Report Author(s): HOPKINS, Liza Journal: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Volume: 36 Date: 1999 Pages: 132-149 DOI: 10.2143/ANES.36.0.525787 Abstract : Ethnoarchaeology is but one in a series of multi-disciplinary approaches required by contemporary large-scale archaeological projects. The role of the ethnoarchaeologist is to observe the correlations between contemporary behaviour and the patterning such behaviour creates in material culture. These observations may in turn be used to suggest behavioural correlates of ancient material culture patterning. The ethnoarchaeological research project at Sos Höyük has focused on observations of a functioning community occupying the same physical space as the ancient settlement, and noting the reflection, distortion and inversion of socioideological factors in contemporary material culture. Similar transforms may then be suggested to account for behavioural influences over ancient material cultural remains. |
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