The Intangible Elements of Culture in Ethnoarchaeological Research

Part I. Essays

1. A Plea for General Anthropology
Alain Gallay

2. Ethnoarchaeology of the Intangible Culture: A Trajectory Towards Paleoethnology as a Global Discipline?
Alberto Cazzella

3. The Production and Circulation of Alpine Jade Axe-Heads during the European Neolithic: Ethnoarchaeological Bases of Their Interpretation
Pierre Pétrequin, Anne-Marie Pétrequin

4. Ethnoarchaeology: A Conceptual and Practical Bridging of the Intangible and Tangible Cultural Heritage Divide
Paul J. Lane

5. To Think in the Sign of the Plant. To Think in the Sign of the Plow. To Think in the Sign of Carbon. How Cultivation Recreates the World
Gaetano Forni

Part II. Case Studies

6. An Intangible Knowledge of Landscape: Creating People and Politically Charged Places in Northern Ethiopia
Diane Lyons

7. Secondary Products Exploitation: Preliminary Ethnoarchaeological Insights from Alpine Cases Study
Francesco Carrer

8. Mongolian Nomads and Their Dogs
Francesca Lugli

9. Made in the Desert: Evaluating the Role of Traditional Knowledge for Adaptation to the Arid Environment in Central Sahara
Stefano Biagetti

10. Three Thousand Years of Nomadism on the Tsatsyn Ereg Site in the Heart of Mongolia
Irene Baroni, Jamyian-Ombo Gantulga, Jérôme Magail, Chimiddorj Yeruul-Erdene

11. The Pastoral Writings of the Fiemme Valley (1650–1950): Lapidary vs. Extemporaneous Expressions
Marta Bazzanella, Giovanni Kezich, Luca Pisoni

12. The Use of the Senses in the Technical Processes of Resin Tapping and Wood Tar Making: An Ethno-Archaeological Approach
Sylvain Burri, Aline Durand

13. Craft Production and Capitalism: Intangible Interfaces
Jerimy J. Cunningham

14. God Will Help You: Sadaka Gifting in Northern Ghana
Joanna Casey

15. Prehistoric Anthropomorphic Figurines with Masks as the Basis for the Kuker’s Ritual in Bulgarian Folklore
Małgorzata Grębska-Kulow

16. Stone Toys and Games among Mongol Children
Ganbaataryn Nandinbilig

17. Not Just Fuel: Food and Technology from Trees and Shrubs in Falia, Saloum Delta (Senegal)
Raquel Piqué, Mathieu Gueye, Karen Hardy, Abdoulaye Camara, Edmond Dioh

18. Romanian Salt Springs, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Archaeological Reconstruction: A Variable Geometry
Marius Alexianu, Olivier Weller, Robin Brigand

19. Sickles and Forks: Traditional Rural Knowledge of Agricultural Practises and Its Possible Applications in Archaeology
Javier Ruiz-Pérez, Carla Lancelotti, Bernardo Rondelli, Marco Madella, Juan José García-Granero, Leonor Peña-Chocarro

20. Residue Analysis of the Floors of a Charcoal Burner’s Hut at Naour (Morocco)
Alessandra Pecci, Sylvain Burri, Aline Durand, Fernanda Inserra, Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros

21. A Thousand Years of Pottery in Andalusia: The Popular Tradition as a Built Bridge with the Past
Juan Jesús Padilla Fernández

22. The Torchis of Northern France: Ethnoarchaeological Research on the Technological Variability and Decay Processes of Wattle and Daub Dwellings
Alessandro Peinetti

23. The Intangible Weight of Things: Approximate Nominal Weights in Modern Society
Nicola Ialongo, Alessandro Vanzetti

24. Inequalities in “Egalitarian” Societies: The Calculation of Real Value as a Way to Visualize Social Distance
Manuela Pérez-Rodríguez, Assumpció Vila-Mitjà, Jordi Estévez-Escalera

25. African-European Archaeology: The Material Resistance and Political Struggle of the Rosarno African Workers (Italy)
Luca Pisoni

26. The Manufacture of Traditional Bread-baking Pans: Ethnoarchaeology and the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage
Biljana Djordjević

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Archaeology, Anthropology