Abstract of PhD thesis submitted in 2020 to the Archaeology Doctoral Programme, School History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest under supervision Gábor V. Szabó.

Gesture and bodily comportment are fundamental to the maintenance and transmission of social identities. The degree to which they are employed and convey meaning is often culturally exclusive, rule-driven and context-specific. Gestures are also clearly power relations, structuring particular forms of social distinction, such as gender and age, and thereby replicating certain socially normative ...