Material culture and consciousness: a thought experiment

Archaeology has become good at using metaphors for the person-like properties of material culture, seeing objects as accruing life-histories and biographies. This paper seeks to further this debate by introducing an old concept – known panpsychism which experienced a resurgence in modern physics. It holds that sentience is universally distributed property world, meaning all matter must be, some extent, conscious. theory applied existing study characteristic early medieval swords, first step understanding with we deal may have quality consciousness. One implication seriousness archaeologists can afford take animist beliefs.