Manipulation of Objects from Graves – Aspects of Ritual and Symbolic Communication between Late Bronze Age and Late Latène Period in South and Southwest Germany

坟墓中物品的操纵——德国南部和西南部青铜时代晚期和拉特纳时期晚期之间的仪式和象征交流

• 批准号: 422386166
• 负责人: Dr. Melanie Augstein
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Niedersächsisches Institut für historische Küstenforschung (NIhK)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/422386166?language=en
• 关键词: Manipulation; Objects; Graves; Aspects; Ritual

Graves belong to the main sources of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology as they permit inferences on beliefs and symbolic worlds. Objects from graves are usually interpreted as grave goods related to the deceased, as an indicator of their social status or of having ›biographical relevance‹. The handling of the objects, however, is only rarely addressed, even if it has left visible traces. Actually, there are manipulated objects from graves – often weapons – in nearly every pre- and protohistorical period. Frequently they have been treated mechanically, e. g. they were deliberately broken, curled-up or folded. But there are also more ›subtle‹ phenomena documented, like rendering useless by taking elements relevant to function, pars pro toto, the splitting of objects to several graves or inversion. The project aims at a comparative investigation of chosen archaeological sites in South and Southwest Germany from the Late Bronze Age/Urnfield Period to the end of the Latène Period to work out the concrete character of the manipulation of grave goods, continuities and breaks as well as their causes. The simultaneous occurrence as well as a ›shift‹ of (at least formally) comparable manipulations enables an analysis of different social spaces (ritual places, hoards, settlements) from a perspective on ritual theory – linked by practices. Methodically, an approach focused on Cultural Studies and Cultural Anthropology is chosen that understands selecting, destruction, fragmentation or wrapping explicitly as social practices to create meaning in the context of symbolic and/or ritual communication that must be seen as an integral part of the funerary ritual.

坟墓属于史前和史前考古学的主要来源，因为它们允许对信仰和象征世界进行推断。坟墓中的物品通常被解释为与死者有关的坟墓物品，作为他们社会地位或传记相关性的指标。然而，对这些物体的处理很少被解决，即使它留下了明显的痕迹。事实上，在几乎每个史前和史前时期，都有来自坟墓的被操纵的物品--通常是武器。它们经常被机械地处理，例如它们被故意折断、卷曲或折叠。但也有更多>微妙的<现象记录在案，比如通过获取与函数相关的元素、Pars Prototo、将对象拆分为几个坟墓或反转来呈现无用。该项目旨在对德国南部和西南部从青铜时代晚期/乌恩菲尔德时期到拉泰纳时期末期选定的考古遗址进行比较调查，以找出操纵墓葬物品、连续性和断裂的具体特征及其原因。同时发生的以及(至少在形式上)可比操纵的>>转移使得能够从仪式理论的角度分析不同的社会空间(仪式场所、囤积、聚落)--与实践联系在一起。有条不紊地，选择了一种侧重于文化研究和文化人类学的方法，将选择、破坏、碎片化或包裹明确理解为社会实践，以在必须被视为葬礼仪式组成部分的象征性和/或仪式交流的背景下创造意义。