@ARTICLE{Talaga_Maciej_Archaeology_2021, author={Talaga, Maciej and Wrzalik, Jakub and Janus, Krzysztof}, volume={tom 51}, pages={157-181}, journal={Historyka Studia Metodologiczne}, howpublished={online}, year={2021}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział PAN w Krakowie}, publisher={Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego}, abstract={Since the so‑called “bodily turn” in the humanities, it may pass as trivial that, as observed by Alva Noë, “experience is not a passive interior state, but a mode of active engagement with the world”. Nevertheless, it seems worth repeating especially that the most direct implication of this thought – that when humans actively engage with the world they do so by moving their physical bodies around – has apparently penetrated much less. This is especially true in the case of academic disciplines involved in the study of the past – history and archaeology – which seem unprepared to investigate past embodiment in a comprehensive manner. Hence, a new methodological proposition is put forth – archaeology of motion. It is inspired by anthropologists and ethnographers’ successful adaptation of participatory observation and auto-‑ethnography to the study of embodied practices. It makes use of embodied research advocated by Ben Spatz as well as insights from ecological psychology of James J. Gibson and its various off‑shoots in order to propose a positive research programme for studies in past bodily motion. The paper is capstoned with a short account of a case study on a forgotten Polish folk wrestling style where the proposed theory was put into practice.}, type={Article}, title={Archaeology of motion. Experiencing the past through embodiment}, URL={http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/121531/PDF/2021-HSRK-08-Talaga-etal.pdf}, doi={10.24425/hsm.2021.138369}, keywords={embodied research, epistemology, experimental archaeology, theory of history, affordances}, }