scholarly journals Material culture of the end of the VI mill. - first half of the V mill. BC in the Upper Western Dvina River basin

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Andrey Nicolaevich Mazurkevich ◽  
Ecaterina Vladimirovna Dolbunova
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Cultural Interactions

Rudnyanskaya culture was distinguished based on materials found on a stratified site Rudnya Serteyskaya (NW Russia, serteysky archaeological microregion) in 1983-1987. It existed from the end of the VI mill BC to the beginning of the V mill BC, after ceasing of the first Neolithic ceramic traditions in Dnepr-Dvina region. Pottery assemblage was divided into three ceramic phases d, d-1 and e . They cannot be regarded as one single cultural phenomenon due to differences in technology, morphology and decor of vessels. Analogies in pottery, flint and bone assemblage can be traced within the sites of Lubana region (Zvidze, Osa). We might suppose that vectors of cultural interactions changed at the end of the VI mill BC, and a former cultural network was destroyed. However rudnyanskaya culture differs a lot from Narva culture described by N.N. Gurina due to technological, morphological and decor characteristics. Local and local-chronological variants were distinguished on the territory of Narva culture distribution. Rudnyanskaya culture can be supposed to be one of these cultural phenomenons existed within a large common cultural area.

Buddhism and Media

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott A. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
Buddhist Studies ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Contemporary Media

Many approaches to the study of Buddhism and media overlap with traditional Buddhist studies methods such as textual analysis, art theory, ethnography, and ritual studies, as well as studies of material culture. Media studies may concern itself with contemporary media messages and forms, but it need not be limited to the realms of mass media and popular culture. In foregrounding media and material cultural, scholars can trace the development and flow of Buddhism as a global religion and cultural phenomenon. Such studies also invariably draw attention to the lived aspects of the religion: How do Buddhists enact or perform Buddhism? How do Buddhists communicate ideas about Buddhism both to other Buddhists as well as to outsiders? And how do these communicative acts change one’s understanding of Buddhism? Such questions go beyond the merely textual, historical, or philosophical and call us to answer deeper questions about the nature of Buddhism in the contemporary, global age.

Tourism as a cultural phenomenon: morphological aspect

10.12737/6571 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Марина Соколова ◽  
Marina Sokolova
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Morphological Aspect ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Morphological Aspects ◽  
Human Habitat ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
Equipment Transport ◽  
Made In

The article considers tourism as a cultural phenomenon in its morphological aspects. Examines manifestations of tourism in the material and spiritual forms of culture. When lighting the contribution of tourism to the material culture the attention is drawn to all the main areas of its production and technological activities: agriculture, buildings, equipment, transport, communications and technology. Agritourism is provided as a multi-example. Spiritual form of culture within the tourism perspective is revealed primarily through the category of «knowledge.» On concrete examples explores how tourism af ects its acquisition and accumulation. At the same time takes into account all the essential areas of knowledge: practical, scientif c, religious, gaming and mythological. It’s shown how tourism is implemented in the main tasks of the culture, such as the creation of artif cial habitat and transmission of cultural inheritance. It is proved that tourism is an incentive for the development and creation of many new features that form artif cial (cultural) human habitat. Sending the same social inheritance is the most evidently made in the cultural, educational and religious tourism. Much attention is paid to the functions of culture, which f nd their refraction in tourism: epistemological, regulatory, adaptive, semiotic and axiological. But the most complete disclosure of the work is the communicative function. Its example examines the role of tourism in cross-cultural communication. Expanding the types of culture, correlating with the main areas of public life, it is indicated how a tourist, who faces manifestations of dif erent culture can change his mental and behavioral paradigms. In process of levels of culture analysis (vital, specialized and full cultures) it’s revealed that specialized level tourism but mostly empathic levels of culture act as a powerful factor in the humanization of culture. Given the importance of tourism as a cultural phenomenon.

scholarly journals Thracians - Illyrians - Celts. Cultural connections in the northern Balkans in the 4th-3rd centuries BC

Starinar ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Aurel Rustoiu
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Carpathian Basin ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Cultural Connections ◽  
North Western ◽  
Cultural Interactions

The result of the colonisation of the eastern and southern part of the Carpathian Basin by Celtic communities was the appearance of some new communities characterised by the cultural amalgamation of the newcomers with the indigenous populations, which led to the construction of new collective identities. At the same time, the ?colonists? established different social, political or economic relationships with different indigenous populations from the Balkans. This article discusses the practices related to the cultural interactions between the aforementioned communities and the ways in which these connections can be identified through the analysis of material culture from the eastern and southern Carpathian Basin, and the northern and north-western Balkans.

scholarly journals Another Look at the Urbankte Site (41CV26) in Coryell County, Texas

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula ◽  
Harry J. Shafer
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Considerable Proportion ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Brazos River ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Central Texas ◽  
Cultural Component

Perttula (2016) had analyzed ceramic sherds and other material culture remains curated at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin (TARL) from four sites in the Brazos River basin in the Central Texas prairie that had been identified as Prairie Caddo sites by Shafer; one of the sites was the Urbankte site (41CV26). The Urbankte site is on the Leon River in Coryell County, at Belton Reservoir; the Leon River is a southward-flowing tributary to the Brazos River. The term “Prairie Caddo” used by Shafer refers to Caddo groups affiliated with Caddo communities in East Texas, most likely affiliated with the George C. Davis site in the Neches River valley, that occupied portions of the Central Texas prairies in Late Prehistoric times, from ca. A.D. 1000-1300. Each of the four assemblages in the Brazos River basin have sherds that stylistically compare closely to decorated Caddo vessels from East Texas Caddo sites, and the distinctive character of these decorated sherds suggested that the four sites were occupied between ca. A.D. 1000-1200 or to post-ca. A.D. 1200-1300 times in the case of the Urbankte site. Where these ceramic assemblages seemed to differ from East Texas Caddo ceramics, however, was in their manufacture: the grog and bone temper inclusions added to the paste of the ceramic vessel sherds from these sites had numerous, large, and coarse-grained temper inclusions, while East Texas Caddo ceramics tend to have more fine-grained temper inclusions, even in the manufacture of utility ware jars. The Urbankte site ceramics (n=118 sherds) I examined at TARL were heavily bone-tempered (88 percent) and had a considerable proportion of brushed sherds (46 percent of the decorated sherds). Both characteristics were consistent with a post A.D. 1200-1300 Prairie Caddo occupation, as was the fact that eight of the nine arrow points in the TARL collections from the Urbankte site are Perdiz arrow points. The common occurrence of both Perdiz points and brushed ceramic sherds suggested then that this Prairie Caddo occupation at the Urbankte site took place sometime after ca. A.D. 1200-1300. As Dr. Shafer mentions below, the artifacts from the Urbankte site that he had discussed in the Prairie Caddo module were from a different part of the site than the TARL collection I had documented, and were from a different and earlier cultural component. We will return to those artifacts shortly.

scholarly journals Caddo Ceramics from Mound Deposits at the Shelby Mound Site (41CP71) on Greasy Creek, Camp County, Texas

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
The North ◽  
Unique Material ◽  
Sabine River

Archaeological evidence from 15th to 17th century (dating from ca. A.D. 1430-1680) Caddo sites that have been investigated in the Big Cypress Creek and Sabine River basins of northeastern Texas indicate that many of the components have been identified as belonging to the Titus phase. They represent permanent, year-round, settlements of horticultural or agricultural peoples with distinctive cultural practices and material culture. The 15th to 17th century archaeological record in these two basins “refers to a number of distinctive socio-cultural groups, not a single Caddo group; these groups or communities were surely related and/or affiliated by kinship, marriage, and social interaction." There are several clusters of settlements that apparently represent parts of contemporaneous small communities. A political community as used here is a cluster of interrelated settlements and associated cemeteries that are centered on a key site or group of sites distinguished by public architecture (i.e., earthen mounds) and large domestic village areas. The Shelby Mound site is one of the premier sites in a political community centered in the Greasy Creek basin and neighboring Big Cypress Creek basin. The social and cultural diversity that probably existed among Titus phase cultural groups is matched by the stylistic and functional diversity in Titus phase material culture, particularly in the manufacture and use of fine ware and utility ware ceramics, and the ceramic tradition is the surest grounds for evaluating attribution of archaeological components to the Titus phase. It is the character of their stylistically unique material culture, coupled with the development of distinctive mortuary rituals and social and religious practices centered on the widespread use of community cemeteries and mound ceremonialism as means to mark social identities, that most readily sets these Caddo groups apart from their neighbors in East and Northeast Texas and in the Red River basin to the north and east. This article discusses the analysis of the plain and decorated ceramic sherds (focusing on the latter) from the mound deposits at the Shelby Mound site in the Robert L. Turner collection. Because of the stratified nature of the mound deposits it is possible that temporal changes in the stylistic character of the utility wares and fine wares in use at the site can be detected, and full documentation of the assemblage at Shelby Mound will be key in stylistic comparisons of the ceramic traditions among contemporaneous Titus phase communities in the Big Cypress Creek basin and the mid-Sabine River basin.

scholarly journals Ceramic Pipes from Lake Sam Rayburn Caddo Sites, Angelina River Basin, East Texas

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Woodland Period ◽  
Red River ◽  
East Texas

Ceramic pipes are an important part of the ancestral Caddo material culture in all parts of the Caddo area from as early as ca. A.D. 800, and there are also ceramic pipes known from Woodland period sites in the Caddo area. The Caddo pipe forms known include long–stemmed (up to 61 cm in length) Red River pipes, elbow pipes of several varieties, and platform pipes. All three pipe forms are known from Caddo sites at Lake Sam Rayburn in the Angelina River basin in East Texas.

scholarly journals SÍTIO ARQUEOLÓGICO TRÊS FRONTEIRAS No 7: Um Abrigo do Holoceno Médio no Alto Araçuaí, Minas Gerais

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Alessandra Mendes Carvalho Vasconcelos ◽  
Alexandre Christófaro Silva ◽  
Marcelo Fagundes ◽  
Matheus Kuchenbecker ◽  
Valdinêy Amaral Leite
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Multidisciplinary Team ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Espinhaço Range ◽  
Eastern Border ◽  
Rock Shelters

Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar uma síntese das intervenções realizadas no Complexo Arqueológico Três Fronteiras, uma área que até o momento apresentou um total de 16 abrigos sob rocha quartzítica, todos com marcas evidentes de ocupação humana. A área está localizada na Serra do Espinhaço Meridional, mais precisamente em sua face leste (Serra Negra), nordeste de Minas Gerais, na bacia do Araçuaí, municípios de Felício dos Santos e de Senador Modestino Gonçalves. O abrigo no 7 foi escavado por uma equipe multidisciplinar com a intenção de obter datas e repertório cultural para posteriores análises e discussões com os resultados de outros sítios regionais escavados. Logo, o sítio Três Fronteiras no 7 obteve data de 4100 ± 30 anos AP. situando sua ocupação durante o Holoceno Médio, resultado comum para outros abrigos locais. TRÊS FRONTEIRAS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE No 7: A Shelter of The Mid-Holocene in the Araçuaí River Basin, Minas GeraisABSTRACTThe objective of this article is to summarize the interventions so far carried out within the Três Fronteiras Archaeological Complex, composed by 16 quartzite rock shelters with outstanding evidences of human occupation. The area is located in the eastern border of the southern Espinhaço range (Serra Negra), in which is drained by the Araçuaí river basin, in the municipalities of Felício dos Santos and Senador Modestino Gonçalves, Minas Gerais. The shelter no 7 was excavated by a multidisciplinary team with the intention of obtaining ages and material culture for further analysis and comparison with other archaeological sites. The oldest evidence of occupation within the site was dated in 4100 ± 30 yr BP. (Mid Holocene), which is coherent with the chronologies found in other sites.keywords: Espinhaço Meridional Range; Mid-Holocene; Três Fronteiras; Landscapes; Paleoenvironment.

Słowiańskie osadnictwo w fazie plemiennej i wczesnopaństwowej (VII/VIII–XIII wiek) / Slavic settlement in the Tribal and Early State phase (7th/8th–13th centuries)

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-171
Author(s):  
Bartłomiej Szmoniewski ◽  
Krzysztof Tunia
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Local Power ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Early State ◽  
The Carpathians ◽  
Vistula River ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Burial Rite

After the Early Slavic period a number of changes took place, which was manifested, among others, in the construction of strongholds – fortified seats of local power. This stage of Slavic development, lasting approximately 200 years from the turn of the 7th and 8th century on, is called the Tribal phase. At that time, the areas of western Lesser Poland belonged to the Vistulan tribe. Their central seat was the stronghold on Wawel Hill in Kraków. At the end of the 10th century the Piasts began to play an active military and political role in the Vistula River basin. Their successful expansion gave rise to the Early State phase. After 966, as Christianity progressed, inhumation replaced cremation as the burial rite. The oldest row-arranged cemeteries were founded on the upper Vistula from the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries. They were used until end of the 12th century, or longer. Two such cemeteries were examined in the study area, in Wawrzeńczyce and Stręgoborzyce. They were abandoned with the consolidation of the parish network and the establishment of church cemeteries in the 13th century. Material culture of the Tribal phase – besides native production – yielded artifacts indicating contacts with areas south of the Carpathians, with the nomadic Avars and, after their fall, with Hungarians.

scholarly journals The Age of Upper Paleolithic Sites in the Middle Dnieper River Basin of Eastern Europe

Radiocarbon ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 43 (2B) ◽  
pp. 1077-1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z A Abramova ◽  
G V Grigorieva ◽  
G I Zaitseva
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Subsistence Economy ◽  
Deep Impact ◽  
The Third ◽  
Dnieper River Basin

This paper discusses the comparative chronology of Upper Paleolithic sites in the Middle Dnieper River basin, based on archaeological and radiocarbon evidence. Three chronological periods of the development of the Upper Paleolithic are distinguished in this area. According to the data obtained, the third period is similar to the European Magdalenian, yet its economies were different. The base of the subsistence economy for Dnieperian hunters was the procurement of mammoth, while reindeer was the most important for the subsistence of European Magdalenian. The abundance of mammoths and the raw material in the form of mammoth tusks made a deep impact on both the economy and material culture of the hunters in the Dnieper River basin. The 14C dates confirm the chronological subdivision.

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