Its specific aims are:
Building up a theoretical approach based on Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology and further concepts from material culture studies to address entanglements, mobilities and transformations through selected significant artefacts (pottery and stone tools).
Developing a methodology, which mixes qualitative and quantitative methods from archaeology (humanities), and archaeometry (science) and combines them with multivariate statistics.
Analysing pottery and stone tools from selected key sites of Western and North-Eastern Switzerland using the elaborated methodology to identify different phenomena of mobilities, social relationships and cultural entanglements as well as triggered cultural appropriations and transformations or rejections
Involving other artefact categories (e.g. flint stone, copper artifacts, deer antler artifacts, archaeozoology) to crosscheck findings about the entanglements and to discuss the results in the research group.
The precise chronology and outstanding archaeological conservation of wetland sites on the Swiss Plateau and the chosen MMR-procedure enables us to concentrate on fundamental questions in actual Neolithic research: how can we explore mobilities and entanglements between Neolithic groups and approach cultural transformations? We approach these phenomena by multi-sited archaeology and the interconnection of scholars from European Universities and Cultural Heritage Departments.
Workshops:
Rockview. 12th-13th October 2017
MET. 5th- 6th June 2015
Management:
Prof. Dr. Albert Hafner (University of Bern),
Prof. Dr. Vincent Serneels (University of Fribourg)
Project members:
Caroline Heitz (Region Zürich- und Bodensee)
Regine Stapfer (Region Zentral- und Westschweiz)
Jehanne Affolter (Geologie);
Lea Emmenegger (Archäometrie);
Martin Hinz (Statistik, Datenbank)
Duration:
2014-2018
Fundig:
Swiss National Science Fund, Project No 100011_156205