Originating from the discussions in 2002 that germinated new ideas and interpretations on East Baltic archaeology, the Baltic Archaeological Seminar (or simply BASE) has since then steadily developed into an international forum opened to new views, theoretical interpretations and approaches.
The title of the third BASE seminar was "Memory, Society, and Material Culture". Questions related to the meaning of the past both in different periods of history and at the present have attracted considerable attention among historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, etc during the recent decades. However, up to now, the issues related to memory in archaeological record have not been discussed in the Baltic archaeology; thus, BASE members considered the seminar to be a reasonable opportunity to discuss the perspectives and potential of the study of memory in the Baltic prehistory and archaeology.
Author(s): Andris Šnē, Andrejs Vasks (eds.)
Series: Interarchaeologia, 3
Publisher: Universities of Riga, Tartu, Vilnius & Helsinki
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 134
The Third Baltic Archaeological Seminar (BASE-3): Introduction / Andris Šnē 7
Valter Lang: Archaeology and Its Wastebasket: Remembering, Forgetting, and Recycling in Archaeological Research 11
Andris Šnē: Society, Identity, and Memory: Memories of the Past in the Archaeological Remains 17
Mika Lavento: Deconstructing Memories in Archaeology: Burial Cairns as Signs of Memories 29
Heidi Luik: Skill, Knowledge, and Memory: How to Make a Bone Awl Properly? 45
Algimantas Merkevičius: Material Culture and Social Memory in the East Baltic Societies during the Bronze Age and the Pre-Roman Iron Age 59
Anna Wessman: Reclaiming the Past: Using Old Artefacts as a Means of Remembering 71
Andrejs Vasks: Burials on Settlement Sites: Memories of Ancestors or Dissociation? 89
Andra Simniškytė: Memory and Identity: Genuine or Fake? Once More on the Question of the "Selonian" Culture 99
Sami Raninen: Martial Themes of the Iron Age: the Constitution of a Warrior 111
Risto Nurmi: (The) Memory Remains: the Immaterial Remnants of the Toll Fence in Tornio Town 121
