SESSION 24
Living Cultures: Continuity of Cultural Traits From Prehistoric Past to Present
Anjana Sarmah1, Rhayan Gatbonton Melendres2, Debasis Kumar Mondal3
1Nandalal Borgohain City College
2University of the Philippines
3Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta
Anthropology is the study of humanity from prehistoric past to the present. The sub-discipline of archaeological anthropology attempts to reconstruct prehistoric lifeways through the interpretation of material cultural and biological remains that survive the tests of time on archaeological sites. Similarities are often observed in the material culture recovered from the prehistoric past and those studied in the ethnographic present. For example, technological and/or functional resemblances can be found in stone implements recorded in both the past and present, and similarities are exhibited in the modes of production of the oldest Neolithic ceramics and those being manufactured in traditional ways today. There is often a potential correlation between what is identified in the archaeological record, and the social and ideological behaviours observed in living communities, and well-informed analogous interpretive frameworks may aid in developing a more nuanced understanding of the lifeways of prehistoric populations. Nevertheless, more well-designed diachronic approaches to these lines of research are needed to understand the temporal continuity that we observe contemporaneous societies. This session seeks ethnographic studies of contemporary societies with the aim of developing new and exciting insights into the human past such as the origins and development of technologies, behaviour, and ideologies.
BLOCK 1
S24-1
Rhayan Gatbonton Melendres
S24-2
Andrea Yankowski & Puangtip Kerdsap
S24-3
Hermien Lola Soselisa & Priyanca Minerva Ch. Soselisa
S24-5
Montri Thanaphattarapornchai
BLOCK 2
S24-10
Erwin Mansyur Ugu Saraka et al.
BLOCK 3
S24-13
Tamal Dutta & Debasis Kumar Mondal
S24-14
Continuation of the Potter’s Craft in Chandraketugarh, North 24 Parganas District of West Bengal
Debjani Mahato & Debasis Kumar Mondal
Questions and Discussion