Archaeology shifted in the last decades from the research of “big” historically important persons towards the research of everyday people, their way of life, their economy… Now we often use archaeological evidence to make statements about what life was like for whole groups of people – countries, cities, or villages – but we can, and should, also use it to raise questions of how individual fitted into these systems, how they adapted, how they contributed to the working of these large organisms composed from anonymous millions.
