Bodies, identities and social relations in Bronze and Iron Age Central Europe

‘Bodies, identities and social relations in Bronze and Iron Age Central Europe’ presents the results of more than a decade of applied body-centred research. The ‘archaeology of the body’ (e.g. Borić and Robb 2008, Hamilakis, Pluciennik and Tarlow 2002, Rebay-Salisbury 2016a, Rebay-Salisbury, Sørensen and Hughes 2010, Robb and Harris 2013, Sofaer 2006) takes the physical human body as a lens to better understand how past people have experienced their world. It aims to analyse ‘the production and experience of lived bodies in the past through the juxtaposition of traces of body practices, idealised representations, and evidence of the effects of habitual gestures, postures, and consumption practices on the corporal body’ (Joyce 2005: 139). This perspective is both individual and collective; it aims to capture the individual, unique experience of past persons and wider, cultural ways of relating to the world through cultured bodies