Cultural Performances at the Beginning of the Bronze Age

This paper presents a performative approach to space and the built environment, arguing that performance is an underused yet informative tool which can aid us in understanding more subtle and nuanced areas of archaeology, such as ideology, ritual and social constructs. A discussion of the usefulness of this approach is followed by a case-study from the cemetery sites of Early Bronze Age Crete.Cemeteries are ideal areas to examine as sites of performance. Performances within the mortuary spher..

Protest objects: <i>bricolage</i>, performance and counter-archaeology

In this article we analyse the Occupy Democracy demonstration that took place in Parliament Square in the autumn of 2014 and the ‘Disobedient Objects’ exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum 2014–15. We develop a counter-archaeological analysis of these events on the one hand through reflection on previous archaeological studies of protest sites and the new heritage paradigm and on the other through an exploration of bricolage and performance to unpack the complex materialities of these assemblages of people, places and objects

Cultural Performances at the Beginning of the Bronze Age

This paper presents a performative approach to space and the built environment, arguing that performance is an underused yet informative tool which can aid us in understanding more subtle and nuanced areas of archaeology, such as ideology, ritual and social constructs. A discussion of the usefulness of this approach is followed by a case-study from the cemetery sites of Early Bronze Age Crete.Cemeteries are ideal areas to examine as sites of performance. Performances within the mortuary spher..