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Antropologicheskij forum, 2019, no. 43
Olga Yu. Artemova Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences Abstract: The article reviews the content of the academic discussion held in Kazan during the 8th Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia (13th CAER, 2–6 July, 2019). The participants of the Workshop expressed serious doubts in relation to the idea of the development of inequality as an integral part of the Neolithic process and suggested the possibility that both Neolithic and modern hunter-gatherer equality may be something that has emerged over time since the early Holocene. The workshop participants have denied that the egalitarian social systems of modern hunter-gatherers represent a starting point for the ancestors of the first farmers. The participants largely agreed that ethnographic data on modern hunter-gatherer cultures cannot be used as a simple parallel or analogy with Late Paleolithic / Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherer cultures, and aimed at discovering what evidence there is for social inequality and equality in early prehistory, as well as what forms of evidence should be sought and interrogated. Keywords: equality, egalitarianism, inequality, stratification, hunters, gatherers, Neolithic, Paleolithic, Epipaleolithic, archeology, ethnography. To cite: Artemova O., ‘Izobretenie ravenstva: mini-simpozium’ [Invention of Equality: Small Workshop], Antropologicheskij forum, 2019, no. 43, pp. 213–222. doi: 10.31250/1815-8870-2019-15-43-213-222 URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/043/artemova.pdf |
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