In this paper I offer an overview of different trajectories of settlement nucleation and social complexity in the regions south of the Alps during late prehistory. Using cross-cultural studies and theoretical alternatives to hierarchical models, it is possible to reassess the regional developments of urban sites and social groups, highlighting cycles of urbanization and de-urbanization, as well as a surprising variability in economic and socio-political experiments. Cultural anthropology and comparative archaeology can provide conceptual tools – including collective actions, heterarchy, egalitarianism, anarchy – and material examples able to enhance our comprehension of multi-scalar phenomena, avoiding unilinear and reductionist views of the past.

Who Needs Remote Control? : Social Diversity in the Early Nucleation of Northern Italy / L. Zamboni - In: Autoreprésentations et représentations culturelles en Europe : symbolisme et expression de l’idéologie dans les sociétés de l’âge du Fer de l’Europe tempérée / [a cura di] V. Cicolani, G. Florea. - [s.l] : UN@ Editions, 2024. - ISBN 978-2-35613-555-1. - pp. 29-52

Who Needs Remote Control? : Social Diversity in the Early Nucleation of Northern Italy

L. Zamboni
2024

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In this paper I offer an overview of different trajectories of settlement nucleation and social complexity in the regions south of the Alps during late prehistory. Using cross-cultural studies and theoretical alternatives to hierarchical models, it is possible to reassess the regional developments of urban sites and social groups, highlighting cycles of urbanization and de-urbanization, as well as a surprising variability in economic and socio-political experiments. Cultural anthropology and comparative archaeology can provide conceptual tools – including collective actions, heterarchy, egalitarianism, anarchy – and material examples able to enhance our comprehension of multi-scalar phenomena, avoiding unilinear and reductionist views of the past.
Dans cet article, je propose panorama des différentes trajectoires de nucléation des établissements et de complexité sociale des régions situées au sud des Alpes au cours de la Protohistoire récente. À l’appui d’études comparatives et de modèles théoriques alternatifs aux interprétations hiérarchiques, il est possible de réévaluer les développements régionaux des sites urbains et des groupes sociaux, en mettant en évidence des cycles d’urbanisation et de désurbanisation, ainsi qu’une variabilité surprenante d’expériences économiques et sociopolitiques. L’anthropologie culturelle et l’archéologie comparative fournissent en effet des outils conceptuels – notamment les initiatives collectives, l’hétérarchie, l’égalitarisme, l’anarchie – et des exemples en mesure d’améliorer notre compréhension des phénomènes multiscalaires, en évitant les perceptions unilinéaires et réductionnistes du passé.
complexité sociale; âge du Fer; Italie du nord; hétérarchie; égalitarisme
Settore ARCH-01/A - Preistoria e protostoria
Settore ARCH-01/D - Archeologia classica
Settore ARCH-01/G - Metodologie della ricerca archeologica
2024
https://ressources.una-editions.fr/s/GEg8MZzRjq3XxXY
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