Pavlina Kapsali

How do communities build themselves? My PhD aims to (re)consider the concept of societal change and the ways it is thought of in archaeological discourse. By exploring different fields of action (pottery making, shaping of the living environment & ritual), I wish to investigate how communities of mainland Greece were diachronically (in the period 2500-2000 BCE) constructed, maintained and transformed through acting on and with the material world. My study is based on the investigation of human-object interactions, with the aim to explore how these interactions may have supported certain social relations and processes of collective identification through time.