The Stina and the Katun: Foundations of a research design in European Highland Zone ethnoarchaeology

Abstract The article says something about the methods and assumptions involved in the Highland Zone Ethnoarchaeology Project in south‐east Europe, and about the implications of the fact that Europe still has an ethnography. It goes on to distinguish two important types of primarily pastoral site, whose definition is effectively social rather than narrowly morphological. Stina sites are specialised pastoral complexes, often of small all‐male occupational sub‐groups, and potentially analogous with hunting sites. Katun sites include perhaps 50 family units with women and children; and both have a range of structures and behaviour which are of interest to archaeologists.