27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists ‘Widening Horizons’
Kiel, Sept. 8-11, 2021
Call for oral and poster contributions is open - deadline for submitting an abstract is 11 February 2021
Marta Portillo (IMF-CSIC) co-organizes two sessions
Session: #207 Combustion Features in Mediterranean Late Prehistory: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Their Uses and Functions
Session: #279 Living in the Mountains: Settlement Strategies from the Beginning of the Holocene to Modern Times in Southern Europe
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Session: #207
Title:
Combustion Features in Mediterranean Late Prehistory: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Their Uses and Functions
Content:
Firing installations, such as hearths and ovens, are among the most frequent structures documented in settlements of any period. They are mainly associated with cooking but also had other functions such as heating, lighting or transforming raw materials. Their location determines the circulation and use of space, as well as the organisation of daily activities, both individual and collective, and, ultimately, the organisation of the households. Their study can be approached from very different perspectives in order to obtain information on aspects such as fuels, technological level of the societies that built and used them, food, management of natural resources, craft activities or certain ritual practices, among others.
The aim of this session is to share the results of studies carried out or underway on combustion structures from different methodological approaches, such as geo-archaeology, bio-archaeology, experimental archaeology or ethno-archaeology, including interdisciplinary analyses. It includes the presentation of both case studies and regional syntheses of the different areas of the Mediterranean arc in recent prehistory (from the Neolithic to the Iron Age).
Keywords:
firing installations, late Prehistory, microarchaeology, experimental archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, interdisciplinary
Main organiser:
Maria Carme Belarte (Spain) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Alexandre Beylier (France) 3,4,5
Marta Mateu (Mexico) 6
Miquel Molist (Spain) 7
Marta Portillo (Spain) 8
Affiliations:
1. ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies)
2. ICAC (Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology)
3. UMR5140, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
4. Université Montpellier 3
5. Service archéologie Sète agglopôle méditerranée
6. Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
7. Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
8. Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC (Spanish National Research Council)
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Session: #279
Title:
Living in the Mountains: Settlement Strategies from the Beginning of the Holocene to Modern Times in Southern Europe
Content:
Over the last few decades, our understanding of human occupations in mountain areas of Southern Europe from the Pleistocene-Holocene transition onward has increased notably. Interdisciplinary attempts and the integration of geosciences and natural sciences has become and extension to conventional archaelogical approaches. There is a range of evidence for subsistence practices from key moments tracking the emergence of early farming, the domestication of plants and animals, the relationship between socio-economic changes and environmental resources management, and the impact on the environment.
This session will place together recent research exploring settlement patterns from the early/middle Holocene to modern times, through a wide diversity of approaches, such as bioarchaeology, geoarchaeology, archaeometry, technology, landscape archaeology, and ethnoarchaeology. We suggest participants particularly explore human-environment interactions in mountain areas in different regions across Southern Europe through time, and in key episodes of cultural change. Interdisciplinary studies to delineate the complex environmental and social contexts in mountain occupations from all archaeological records and historic periods are most welcome.
Keywords:
mountains, farming, pastoralism, Southern Europe, Holocene
Main organiser:
Pascal Alliot (Spain) 1
Co-organisers:
Anna Stagno (Italy) 2
Oriol Olesti (Spain) 1
Ermengol Gassiot Ballbè (Spain) 3
Marta Portillo (Spain) 4
Affiliations:
1. Department of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
2. Laboratory of Environmental Archaeology and History (DAFIST-DISTAV), University of Genoa
3. Department of Prehistory, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
4. Institució Milà i Fontanals, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)