This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Poznan School of Archaeology, an original mode of archaeological thought that emerged in Poznan in the 1960s and 1970s. The book examines the significance of this original Polish archaeological thought in its broad academic context and places it in the realm of the social and intellectual framework of Europe. It is directed to the worldwide community of researchers interested in understanding the nature of the studies of the past and places this original and well-developed school of archaeological thought in its broad geographical and chronological perspective.

The Poznan School of Archaeology made explicit efforts to break off ties with the culture-history paradigm and rejected the simplified functional and rigid deductive-nomological explanations. Developed in the context of non-Marxist historical materialism, over decades it transformed itself into a distinct and multifaceted archaeological research school embedded in the tradition of cultural studies, philosophy, history, and the natural sciences. The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate programmes in archaeology and archaeological theory.

Autorentext

Arkadiusz Marciniak - Professor of Archaeology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. In the years 2013-2019 he was Associate Professor at Flinders University. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University (twice) and at University College London. He is a scholarship holder of prestigious foundations, such as Humboldt, Fulbright, Andrew W. Mellon, Kosciuszko and Soros/Commonwealth Office. He is a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Science and a member of Academia Europaea. His expertise is in the development of early farming communities in western Asia and central Europe and their progression to complex societies. He is an initiator and advocate of social zooarchaeology, a research paradigm aimed at investigating multifaceted social relations between humans and animals. His other interests comprise heritage pedagogies and contemporary challenges of heritage policies and strategies. He directed and conducted numerous international research projects financially supported by such agencies and programs as Horizon2020, Culture 2007-2013, European Research Council, Erasmus Plus, DG Education and Culture Program, NWO HEAR JPICH or the Polish National Science Center.

Michal Pawleta holds a position of associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan . His research interests include the social function of archaeology, uses and misuses of the past in the present, archaeological methods and theory, the protection and management of the archaeological heritage, heritage studies, heritage tourism, gender archaeology, and the archaeology of childhood. His numerous publications include a book Przeszlosc we wspólczesnosci. Studium metodologiczne archeologicznie kreowanej przeszlosci w przestrzeni spolecznej (The Past in the Present: A Methodological Study of an Archaeologically Created Past in Social Space) published in 2016.

Wlodzimierz Raczkowski - professor, full time employment. From the beginning of his research and teaching work at Adam Mickiewicz University, he was interested in theoretical archaeology and applying theoretical concepts in settlement pattern studies. For 15 years he carried out excavations and archaeological surveys in Middle Pomerania (North Poland) managing interdisciplinary projects on changes in settlement patterns from the Bronze Age till the Middle Ages. In the late 1990s, he shifted his area of research into aerial archaeology and other remote sensing methods in archaeological research and the protection and management of archaeological heritage within theoretical contexts. He was (and is) involved in European projects, e.g. European Landscapes: past, present and future, ArchaeoLandscapes Europe, RESEARCH, TRIQUETRA. He was Chairman of Aerial Archaeology Research Group (2008 2011) and Vice-chairman (2011 2014). His current research interests comprise theoretical archaeology, remote sensing methods in archaeology, GIS as a tool in archaeology, settlement pattern studies, and past landscape studies. He has supervised 13 PhDs.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. The Poznan School of Archaeology. An Outline (Marciniak et al).- Part 1. The Emergence of the Poznan School of Archaeology.- Chapter 2. Poznan School of Methodology: Institutional History Research Program - Main Achievements (Brzechczyn).- Chapter 3. The Poznan School of Methodology and Its Continuations (Grad).- Part 2. The Character and Different Facets of the Poznan School of Archaeology.- Chapter 4. An Apologia of Methodology of Archaeology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Mamzer).- Chapter 5. Danuta Minta-Tworzowska and Her Role in Conceptualizing the Poznan School of Archaeology and Advancing the Methodology of Archaeology in Poland (Pawleta).- Chapter 6. Did/Do Early Traditional Peoples Have a History? (Palubicka).- Chapter 7. Archaeology is Anthropology or it is Nothing . But What Kind of Anthropology? (Kowalski).- Chapter 8. Philosophical Reflections on the Sources of Prehistoric Symbolism (Wozny).- Chapter 9. Shaping Archaeological Awareness and the Idea of Socializing Archeology (Julkowska).- Part 3. The Reception of the Poznan School of Archaeology in Poland and Beyond.- Chapter 10. Ethnoarchaeology in Torun and the Influence of the Poznan School of Methodology (Kowalewski).- Chapter 11. Philosophy of Archaeology and the Poznan School of Methodology (Lozny).- Chapter 12. Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Hunter gatherer Cultural Processes in Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: A Case Study in Darwinian Evolutionary Archaeology (Weber).