The Intangible Elements of Culture in Ethnoarchaeological Research

Introduction (Stefano Biagetti and Francesca Lugli).- Part 1: Essays.- Chapter 1: A plea for general anthropology (Alain Gallay).- Chapter 2: Ethnoarchaeology of the intangible culture: a trajectory towards Palaeoethnology as a global discipline? (Alberto Cazzella).- Chapter 3: The production and circulation of Alpine jade axe-heads during the European Neolithic: ethnoarchaeological bases of their interpretation (Pierre Pétrequin and Anne-Marie Pétrequin).- Chapter 4: Ethnoarchaeology: a conceptual and practical bridging of the intangible and tangible cultural heritage divide (Paul Lane).- Chapter 5: To think in the sign of the plant. To think in the sign of the plough. To think in the sign of carbon. How cultivation recreates the world. (G. Forni).- Part 2: Case Studies.- Chapter 6: An intangible knowledge of landscape: creating people and politically charged places in northern Ethiopia (Diane Lyons).- Chapter 7: Secondary products exploitation: preliminary ethnoarchaeological insights from alpine cases study (Francesco Carrer).- Chapter 8: Mongolian nomads and their dogs (Francesca Lugli).- Chapter 9: Made in desert: evaluating the role of traditional knowledge for the adaptation to arid environment in central Sahara (Stefano Biagetti).- Chapter 10: 3000 ans de nomadisme sur le site de Tsatsyn Ereg au centre de la Mongolie (Irene Baroni, Jamyian-Ombo Gantulga, Jérôme Magail, Chimiddorj Yeruul-Erdene).- Chapter 11: The pastoral writings of the Fiemme valley (1650-1950). Lapidary vs. extemporaneous expressions (Marta Bazzanella, Giovanni Kezich, Luca Pisoni).- Chapter 12: The use of the senses in the technical processes of resin tapping and wood tar making: an ethno-archaeological approach (Sylvain Burri and Aline Durand).- Chapter 13: Craft production and capitalism: Intangible interfaces (Jerimy J. Cunningham).- Chapter 14: God Will Help You: Sadaka Gifting in Northern Ghana (Joanna Casey).- Chapter 15: Prehistoric anthropomorphic figurines with masks as the basis

Stefano Biagetti (Ph.D. University College London) is a consulting ethnoarchaeologist who has been involved in Saharan studies since 2002. He has been research fellow at the 'Sapienza'University of Rome (until Dec. 2012), studying the development of pastoralism in the Sahara, from prehistory to current societies. He carried out ethnoarchaeological investigations among Tuareg from SW Libya. His ethnoarchaeological research is focused on the study of resilience in arid lands, and on the variability of pastoralism in marginal environments. He has published in major journals such as Nature, Journal of African Archaeology, Azania and African Archaeological Review.

Francesca Lugli (D.E.A. Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies, Université de Paris I, Sorbonne-Panthéon; Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia, Sapienza Università di Roma) is the president of the Italian Society for Ethnoarchaeology. She carried out several excavations in Italy and abroad, and directed ethnoarchaeological research projects in Italy, Tunisia and Australia, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Institute for Africa and Asia (IsIAO). Currently, she is leading ethnoarchaeological investigations in Mongolia, funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, focused on modern nomads, their campsites, their land use strategies. and their intangible heritage. She edited six books on ethnoarchaeology and wrote more than sixty papers on international journals.