This book is a presentation of the basic concept of social, environmental and cultural connectivity in past societies, as embodied in a diversity of disciplines in the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS. Thus, rather pragmatically driven ideas of socio-environmental connectivities are described, which form the basis of the Cluster of Excellence in its research.
A discussion of the fluidness of the term 'connectivity' and the applicability of the concept opens the arena for diverse interpretations. With various case and concept studies, the reader may advance into the perspectives that develop from the new interdisciplinary interaction. These include both rarely considered dependencies between nomadic and urban lifestyles, and aspects of water supply and water features, which represent an area of connectivity between the environment and agglomerated human settlement structures. Moreover, diachronic aspects are presented in various studies on the role of connectivities in the development of social inequality, the use of fortification or also waste behaviour, and the creation of linguistic features in written media.
Edited by:
Johannes Müller
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Volume: 2
Dimensions:
Height: 280mm,
Width: 210mm,
ISBN: 9789464270273
ISBN 10: 9464270276
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 06 December 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface of the series editors Lutz Käppel, Johannes Müller, Wolfgang Rabbel Preface of the volume editor Johannes Müller Introduction Social, environmental, and cultural connectivity: A concept for an understanding of society and the environment Johannes Müller, Lutz Käppel, Andrea Ricci, Mara Weinelt On the concept of connectivity V.P.J. Arponen Nodes of connectivity: The role of religion in the constitution of urban sites in nomadic Inner Asia Jonathan Ethier, Christian Ressel, Birte Ahrens, Enkhtuul Chadrabaal, Sampildonov Chuluun, Martin Oczipka, Henny Piezonka Water supply, settlement organisation and social connectivity Annette Haug and Ulrich Müller An archaeological perspective on social structure, connectivity and the measurements of social inequality Tim Kerig, Johannes Bröcker (†), René Ohlrau, Tanja Schreiber, Henry Skorna, Fynn Wilkes Connectivity and fortifications Oliver Nakoinz, Anna K. Loy, Christoph Rinne, Jutta Kneisel, Tanja Schreiber, Maria Wunderlich, Nicole Taylor Connecting linguistics and archaeology in the study of identity: A first exploration John Peterson, Nicole Taylor, Ilja A. Seržant, Henny Piezonka, Ariba Hidayet Khan, Norbert Nübler The dimensions of refuse: Discard studies as a matter of connectivity Jens Schneeweiß Ideology and identity in grammar: A diachronic-quantitative approach to language standardisation processes in Ancient Greek Ilja A. Seržant and Dariya Rafiyenko
Johannes Müller (PhD, University of Freiburg, 1990) is a Professor and Director of the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany. He is the founding director of the Johanna Mestorf Academy, Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre “Scales of Transformation: Human-environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies”and of the Excellence Cluster “ROOTS – Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies”.
