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ellisonmedicalinstitute.org

Caitlin Hastings, BSN is a Registered Nurse at the Ellison Medical Institute.

energy.mit.edu

Former US energy secretary discusses opportunities and challenges with MITEI Director Robert Armstrong.

livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk

Ritual is an issue of wide importance in archaeological discourse and interpretation of the past. An understanding of ritual connects the traces of activities preserved in the archaeological record to the embodied experiences of human practice. Very few theorists have proposed methods to approach ritual, and those methodologies that do exist (e.g. Renfrew 1985; Richards and Thomas 1984) suffer from irreconcilable weaknesses. One of the primary methodologies for looking at ritual in prehistory -called Structured Deposition- has been developed in conjunction with evidence from the British Neolithic, and has barely been applied beyond this narrow field. The lack of models available for archaeologists studying ritual must be rectified, and, as previously proposed models and definitions have been inadequate in scope, there is a real need for a new method and model. This thesis introduces a new methodology in the archaeology of ritual, using the Neolithic of the Near East as a case study. Through a focus on the methodological element of studying ritual, a subsidiary goal of a better understanding of ritual in the Near East can be reached. Other subsidiary goals are to provide a logically valid basis from which to attempt interpretation as well as a better definition of ritual as it is used in archaeology, in order to solidify an approach to ritual that can take into account symbolic activity without succumbing to subjectivist criticism. The starting point for the new methodology is the idea of Structured Deposition, one way British archaeologists have tried to incorporate discussions of ritual despite a dearth of evidence. In brief, Richards and Thomas (1984) began with the premise that ritual activity involves formalized and repetitive behaviour. They then analysed the spatial patterning of particular forms of deposition, and concluded that certain deposits were too formal to be utilitarian. Just as ritual is not a single category, but a collection of categories

ciencia.iscte-iul.pt

Auditório B2.03 - Ferreira de Almeida - Edifício II (ISCTE-IUL)