Про ще одну концепцію «неоліту» із рисами постмодернізму

• Published in: Археологія
• Date: 2022
• Main Author: Гаскевич, Д.Л.
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Інститут археології НАН України 2022
• Subjects: Дискусiї
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/199516
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: Про ще одну концепцію "неоліту" із рисами постмодернізму / Д.Л. Гаскевич // Археологія. — 2022. — № 4. — С. 105-119. — укр.

У статті проаналізовано теоретичні погляди
 В. О. Манька щодо терміна «неоліт» та суті процесу неолітизації. Зроблено висновок, що одні з них
 повторюють ідеї представників постпроцесуалістської археології, а решта є, хоч і оригінальними,
 проте методологічно неоформленими, сповненими
 протиріч та логічних хиб. Valerii Manko and Guram Chkhatarashvili published their article in the “Arheologia”, No. 2, 2022. In the paper, they discussed
 the migration of bearers of four Neolithic flint industries from Southwest Asia through the Caucasus to the south of Eastern
 Europe from the final Pleistocene to the early Atlantic. According to the authors, stable connections between these remote areas
 led to the emergence of four “information networks”, which they called “Cultural-Historical Regions” (CHR). The authors
 believe that the first region of such type in human history was the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) in the Near East. Therefore,
 they call the “theoretical basis” of their study “the idea of understanding the Neolithic as an epoch of the formation of global
 information networks, within which innovations created in the Near and Middle East were disseminated.”
 V. Manko began to develop the described theoretical views in 2010 when he wrote that the reason for the emergence of the
 CHR is the ability to communicate, formed due to the mental changes of inhabitants of the PPNA large settlements. The statement
 about specific psyche and worldview as the basis of Neolithic has been expressed as an idea of Post-Processual archaeology long
 before V. Manko announced it. In particular, Trevor Watkins developed this concept in detail. However, V. Manko does not
 mention works by any post-processualists in his publications.
 The statement about the formation of the ability to communicate only in the Neolithic is V. Manko’s novelty. He based it on
 one reference to a publication of Alexey N. Sorokin, who allegedly claimed that the bearers of different flint industries did not
 contact each other in the central part of European Russia in the Mesolithic. V. Manko misinterpreted this particular subjective
 observation and gave it the meaning of a global pattern. Thus, his definition of the Neolithic is controversial, because of using this
 erroneous premise. Generally, V. Manko’s theoretical reasoning is full of contradictions, logical errors, terminological chaos,
 and rhetoric in the postmodernism style. It is noteworthy that V. Manko himself does not fully adhere to his previous theoretical
 views in his later works.