Cluster ROOTSThe question of how human-environmental #connectivities shaped fundamental processes in #pastsocieties is the focus of research within the #ClusterROOTS. Now, a new book titled "Connectivity Matters!" has been published in the #ROOTSstudies series. It addresses the concept of connectivities in the human past, but also the importance of this concept for research in this field. Free download at #SidestonePress: https://www.sidestone.com/books/connectivity-matters #OpenAccess @archaeodons @histodons #archaeology #history
Connectivity Matters! @ Sidestone Press
This book is a presentation of the basic concept of social, environmental and cultural connectivity in past societies, as embodied in a diversity of disciplines in the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS. Thus, rather pragmatically driven ideas of socio-environmental connectivities are described, which form the basis of the Cluster of Excellence in its research. A discussion of the fluidness of the term ‘connectivity’ and the applicability of the concept opens the arena for diverse interpretations. With various case and concept studies, the reader may advance into the perspectives that develop from the new interdisciplinary interaction. These include both rarely considered dependencies…