En arkeologi av det animistiska : Om den mesolitiska ornamentiken i Östersjöområdet

An Archaeology of Animacy : On the Mesolithic Ornamentation of the Baltic Sea

Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur 2021

This thesis is focused on the material known as the Mesolithic portable art. Earlier research have interpreted the material as representative art relating to ideology, mythology, prestige, ritual practices,and tribalism. Such interpretations are based on theoretical frameworks that build on hylomorphism and Cartesian metaphysics. By a change of theoretical framework, to a new animistic perspective based on a combination of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s rhizome theory, Tim Ingold’s meshwork and Giordano Bruno’s theory of bonds in general, followed by the use of ChantalConneller’s method rhizomatic chaîne opératoire, I conclude that the motifs on the tools and pendants are communications to the animated subjects that make up and inhabit the environment. Furthermore, I conclude that the binary positions of function and ritual cannot be applied when studying the formgenerating process of this material, as the tools and pendants along with their applied motifs are a result of what is in between these binary positions.

Mesolithic portable art; new animism; animacy; relational ontology; hylomorphism; rhizome theory; meshwork; rhizomatic chaîne opératoire; bone; antler; amber; Mesolitisk portabel konst; ny-animism; animism; relationell ontologi; hylemorfism; rhizomteori; rhizomatisk chaîne opératoire; ben; horn; bärnsten; Archaeology; Arkeologi; Student thesis; info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis; text

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