Geographical space as medium in Archaeology.

Report at the TAG Toronto 2017 (Canada).

Nikolay Khan.

Archaeological Science as a mediation tool between knowledge and ignorance It is a well-known facts require thinking in terms declared in this seminar.

   Here we display the geographical space as a communication medium and not just habitat. In the early Medieval the Vikings in addition to the Arabian coins found widespread neck women’s jewelry, so-called Permian type hryvnia, which are found in hoards and individual from Denmark and Norway to Perm.

   Apart from financial history, when these decorations were part of the tribute to the Normans, the question arises directly. What is the reason for such an extension and in terms of technical analysis should be to suggest that this space as a «communication medium», which should also be found relevant links. For it let’s look at the material the Bronze Age, where the Finnish archaeologist A.Talgren first systematized data on the spread of bronze objects from Siberia to Finland. In particular. Archaeological Corded Ware culture. Central and Eastern Europe and dated to 3200 — 1800 BC. But this time it was due to population migration for demographic reasons, development of new territories, but simply increase life space.

 Same approach makes sense theoretically American archaeologist D.Klark when distributed archaeological cultures of Europe in their relationship with the paleo-ecological systems in the 2500-2000 A.D.

    The geographical space can be represented as a «communication medium», indirectly providing territorial opportunities to move things, certain artifacts, non-monetized. This space will fulfill the role of a mediator itself to move and advance as the population of the ancient tribes, and objects, things and other cultural attributes.

    Mediation archaeological science here can be found either through mapping, and so the study of related items originating from a temporary medium.

Archaeological Science as a mediation tool between knowledge and ignorance It is a well-known facts require thinking in terms declared in this seminar.    Here we display the geographical space as a communication medium and not just habitat. In the early Medieval the Vikings in addition to the Arabian coins found widespread neck women’s jewelry, so-called Permian type hryvnia, which are found in hoards and individual from Denmark and Norway to Perm.    Apart from financial history, when these decorations were part of the tribute to the Normans, the question arises directly. What is the reason for such an extension and in terms of technical analysis should be to suggest that this space as a «communication medium», which should also be found relevant links. For it let’s look at the material the Bronze Age, where the Finnish archaeologist A.Talgren first systematized data on the spread of bronze objects from Siberia to Finland. In particular. Archaeological Corded Ware culture. Central and Eastern Europe and dated to 3200 — 1800 BC. But this time it was due to population migration for demographic reasons, development of new territories, but simply increase life space.  Same approach makes sense theoretically American archaeologist D.Klark when distributed archaeological cultures of Europe in their relationship with the paleo-ecological systems in the 2500-2000 A.D.       The geographical space can be represented as a «communication medium», indirectly providing territorial opportunities to move things, certain artifacts, non-monetized. This space will fulfill the role of a mediator itself to move and advance as the population of the ancient tribes, and objects, things and other cultural attributes.     Mediation archaeological science here can be found either through mapping, and so the study of related items originating from a temporary medium.

Археологическая наука как посреднический инструмент между знанием и незнанием Она представляет собой знаменитые факты, требующие осмысления в терминах, заявленных на данном семинаре.             Здесь мы  выводим географическое пространство  как среда общения, а не только среда обитания. В эпоху викингов раннего средневековья помимо арабских монет нашло широкое распространение шейные женские украшения, so-called гривны пермского типа, который находят в кладах и отдельными находками на пространстве от Дании и Норвегии до Перми.                   Если отвлечься от финансовой истории, когда  эти украшения входили в состав tribute норманнам, то вопрос возникает сразу. В чем причина такого распространения и в силу технического анализа следует высказать мнение, что это пространство как «среда общения», где должны быть также обнаружены  релевантные связи.          Для этого  посмотрим материал эпоху бронзы, где финский археолог А.Тальгрен  впервые систематизировал данные по распространению бронзовых изделий от Сибири до Финляндии.  In particular. Archaeological Культура боевых топоров. Центральной и Восточной Европы и датированная 3200 г. до н. э./2300 до н. э. — 2300 г. до н. э./1800 г. до н. э. Но в это время это было связано с переселением населения по демографическим причинам, освоения новых территорий, but simply increase life space.                           Впоследствии такой подход в теократизированном смысле продемонстрировал американский археолог Д.Кларк, когда распределил археологические культуры Европы в их связи с палеоэкологическими системами в рамках 2500-2000 A.D.                   Дело в том, что значительное распространение через пространство Перми прошли бусы Ближнего Востока и раковины каури, поясные украшения местного производства.             Географическое пространство  может быть  представлено как «среда общения», опосредовано предоставляющие  территориальные  возможности для перемещения вещей, отдельных артефактов, не связанных с денежным обращением. Это пространство  само выполнят роль своеобразного посредника для перемещения и продвижения как населения древних племен, так и предметов, вещей и прочей культурной атрибутики.     Посредничество археологической науки здесь может быть выявлено  как через картографирование, так ъ и изучение  взаимосвязанных предметов, происходящих из одного временного medium.

References.

A. M. Tallgren. Collection Tovostine des antiquites prehistoriques de Minoussinsk conservees chez le Karl Hedmann a Vasa. Helsingfors: Б. и., 1917, s.8. Fig.5; A. M. Tallgren. Collection Zaoussailov au Musee historique de Finlande a Helsingfors. T. 1-2. Helsingfors: 1916, s.10. Fig. 3, 4.

  Clarke David L. Analytical archaeology / Second ed. N.Y.Columbia univer. press., 1978, p.309-310, fig.71.

Khan Nikolay. Around the silver Jewellerу with a multi-faceted clasp of the Viking Age // Abstract 17th Annual Meeting. 14-18 September 2011. Oslo – Norway. P.220-221.

Пкщцге

We are happy to report that a number of excellent sessions have been submitted to the TAG organizing committee. The sessions will soon be posted on the official TAG webpage.  There is still considerable room in the schedule, however, and the session deadline has now been extended to February 15, 2017.   We hope you would still consider organizing and submitting a session.

Sincerely,

TAG Organizing Committee

http://www.archaeology.utoronto.ca/tag-toronto-2017.html

TAG Toronto 2017

In recognition of the contributions of Toronto scholar Marshall McLuhan, the theme of the meeting is:

«The Medium is the Message: Media and Mediation in Archaeology.»

The theme is intentionally broad and highlights how existence is profoundly conditioned by the material world, an issue that has been of central concern to archaeologists as well as to posthumanists and new materialists in other disciplines.  In the oft cited aphorism, «the medium is the message,» University of Toronto philosopher Marshall McLuhan intended to stress how technologies, especially print and later digital media, transformed human cognition and social organization.  In a similar vein, archaeological publications commonly declare that social relations, political inequality, and structures of practice were «mediated» by landscapes, ecologies, and assemblages of things and technical orders.  In a sense, mediation becomes synonymous with process itself.  In a recent publication, Arjun Appadurai has critiqued Latour and other proponents of the material turn, and he proposes that a focus on «mediants» and «mediation» permits more historically sensitive analyses of the formation of diverse social collectives entangling people, places, and things.  At the same time, archaeological research is an inherently mediated enterprise, for interpretation relies on the traces and material signs of past practices.  As Zoe Crossland recently noted: «Archaeology is the exemplary discipline of signs, spinning narratives of past world around the material detritus left in the wake of human lives.»  Thus a diverse number of themes could be considered in the plenary, ranging from the effects of new digital media on archaeological inference to the problems inherent in archaeological attempts to mediate or translate indigenous lifeways.

Plenary Speakers:

Shannon Dawdy (Chicago) http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty_member/shannon_lee_dawdy/

Severin Fowles (Columbia) http://anthropology.columbia.edu/people/profile/383

Adam Thomas Smith (Cornell) http://anthropology.cornell.edu/adam-smith

Session themes could also address: mediation and materiality; media and aesthetics; the politics of mediatization; mediation as semiosis, media of archaeological interpretation, trace as medium, media of religion and ideology; the present as medium of the past (space as medium of time and history)—and so forth. DEADLINE FOR SESSION PROPOALS — FEBRUARY 15th 2017

In appreciation of the first President of the University of Toronto, Daniel Wilson (who is credited with coining the term “prehistory”), sessions exploring the history of archaeological thought would also be welcome, along with themes not directly related to media and mediation.

Registration: http://www.archaeology.utoronto.ca/tag-toronto-2017.html

“Special Call for Artist’s Proposals”

TAG Toronto invites artists to participate in the conference for art relates directly to the theme “The Medium is the Message: Media and Mediation in Archaeology”. Artists are invited to present their original work in order to generate new ideas, stimulate discussion, and, explore how representational and interactive media condition and shape all dimensions of the social. Art projects will be exhibited on Friday and Saturday, May 19-20, in the Anthropology Department of the University of Toronto, with the display of installations and video taking place concurrently throughout the conference.

Performative pieces are also encouraged but as part of proposed sessions. Space will be allotted in various locations in the department, (common areas or research laboratories) and projection equipment, easels, and tables can also be provided if required. The spaces will be overseen by TAG conference volunteers during the day, but artists are encouraged to remain near their work when possible during breaks in sessions to answer questions and promote conversation. Security is available for the public spaces overnight as needed.

Applicants must submit an abstract (max 300 words) of the proposed project/display to the meeting coordinators tagtoronto2017@gmail.com by March 7, 2017. Please explain your project, how it fits with the tag theme, and how you plan to install and present your project. Feel free to contact the

coordinators if you have any questions or concerns.

Works Cited

Appadurai, Arjun  2015.  Mediants, Materiality, Normativity.  Public Culture 27(2): 221-237.

Crossland, Zoë  2014  Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar: Material Signs and Traces of the Dead.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McLuhan, Marshall  1964.  Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw Hill.