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Abstract Book VOLUME I

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Annual Meeting BARCELONA, 5-8 SEPTEMBER 2018

Abstract Book VOLUME I

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Table of Contents VOLUME I 066

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION IN SYNTHETIC WORLDS: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF THEORY AND METHOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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POLITICAL MATTERS IN PREHISTORY: PAPERS IN HONOR OF ANTONIO GILMAN GUILLÉN. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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ISLAMICATE ARCHEOLOGY IN EUROPE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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CONTINUITY AND TRANSFORMATION IN WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN COMMUNITIES DURING THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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INTERPRETING AND UNDERSTANDING THE PAST THROUGH MEDIEVAL SMALL FINDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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FORUM MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY (MERC): THE MEDITERRANEAN AS CONNECTION AND GATEWAY IN THE MIDDLE AGES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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UNDERSTANDING ACTIVITY PATTERNS OF ANIMALS: METHODS, APPLICATIONS, AND HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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DISENTANGLING HUMAN FROM NATURAL FACTORS: TAPHONOMICAL VALUE OF MICROANATOMICAL FEATURES ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL WOOD AND CHARCOAL ASSEMBLAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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CHILDREN AT WORK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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ELITE SETTLEMENT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE (5TH-10TH CENTURIES AD): CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS AND NEW DIRECTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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THE INTERPRETATION AND PRESENTATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES: NEW TRENDS AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

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MODELING THE SPREAD OF AGRICULTURE: THE APPLICATION OF COMPUTATIONAL MODELING TECHNIQUES TO THE NEOLITHIC TRANSITION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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MUSEUM PRESENTATION IN A CHALLENGED WORLD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

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BOUNDARY BODIES: CRITICALLY THINKING THE BODY IN CONTEMPORARY (OSTEO)ARCHAEOLOGY. . 83

152

COLLAPSE OR TRANSFORMATION? COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES FROM AFRICA AND BEYOND. . . . . 86

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MANIPULATED BODIES: CASE STUDIES OF POST-MORTEM INTERACTIONS WITH HUMAN REMAINS. . 89

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AGE EAA SESSION ON “GENDER AND COLONIALISM” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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MEDIATING PROXIES AND CHOICE IN A STONE AGE WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99


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OUT OF THE PAST INTO THE FUTURE – PROFESSIONAL COHESION THROUGH DIVERSITY . . . . . . . . . . . 104

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PERSPECTIVES ON THINGS, PEOPLE AND PLACES AD 1500-2018. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

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OUTSIDE INFLUENCES. EXPRESSIONS THROUGH PORTABLE MATERIAL CULTURE IN LATER PREHISTORY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

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THE “GEOSPATIAL TURN”: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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HARBOURS AND ROUTES OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN DURING THE BRONZE AGE AND EARLY IRON AGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

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WHAT WE ARE LEARNING FROM EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

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ENTREPRENEURS AND MERCHANTS IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE – EARLY IRON AGE MEDITERRANEAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

201

RETHINKING TIME IN (CONTEMPORARY) ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

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THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO TECHNO-BEHAVIOURS DURING THE MIDDLE STONE AGE (AFRICA)/MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC (EUROPE). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

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TO YOUR HEALTH! TRACING HEALTH IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS IN MEDIEVAL NORTHERN EUROPE. 141

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ROCK & RITUAL: CAVES, SHELTERS AND STONES IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

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ANTHROPOMORPHISM IN MATERIAL CULTURE AND LANDSCAPE: APPROACHING A FUNDAMENTAL OF HUMAN COGNITION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

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BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING DIET AND SUBSISTENCE, AND THEIR ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF EARLY SOCIETIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

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ISSUES ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF JEWISH CEMETERIES: URBAN DEVELOPMENT, HERITAGE PRESERVATION AND RISK MANAGEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

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GATEWAY OR ENDPOINT: SCANDINAVIAN CONTACTS FROM THE THIRD TO FIRST MILLENNIUM BC. . 164

248

CONTROLS AND UNCERTAINTIES IN CREATING SR ISOTOPE BIOSPHERE MAPS FOR MIGRATION STUDIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

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MOBILITY AND CULTURE CHANGE DURING TRANSITIONAL PERIODS IN AND AROUND THE ALPINE REGION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

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TRANSFORMING PEATLANDS. CHANGE AND CONTINUITY REFLECTED THROUGH PREHISTORIC AND HISTORIC SITES IN FENS AND BOGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

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BEYOND THE FARMLANDS: WILD RESOURCES IN THE PAST OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN EUROPE. 178

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PRECIOUS MATERIALS AND FINE METAL WORK IN THE EUROPEAN IRON AGE – FUNCTION, AESTHETIC AND TECHNOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

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LEAVING NO STONE UNTURNED: WHAT ARCHAEOLOGY MEANS TO UNSUSTAINABLE URBAN GROWTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

266

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY: THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

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HUMAN-MADE ENVIRONMENTS – THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANDSCAPES AS RESOURCE ASSEMBLAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

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PIRENNE VS. GLASS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOMETRIC GLASS ANALYSIS TO THE STUDY OF EARLY MEDIEVAL LONG-DISTANCE TRADE NETWORKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

284

YOU SEE A MAN’S HOME, YOU SEE THE MAN... HOUSES AND THEIR DECORATION IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

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GENDERED, DIVERSE, INCLUSIVE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS? PROPOSALS AND EXPERIENCES FOR A MORE EQUAL APPROACH TO HERITAGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

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DEPLOYING THE DEAD II: DEAD BODIES AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

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ANCIENT POTTERY IN CENTRAL ASIA: LARGE SCALE PERSPECTIVE ON THE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND THE CULTURAL INTERACTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

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PERSPECTIVES OF THE MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE FELLOWS IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE FIELDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

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THE ORIGINS OF SOUND-MAKING, SINGING AND MUSIC. THE ARCHAEOACOUSTICS OF EARLY HUMANS. . 221

325

INHUMATIONS AND CEMETERIES DURING THE NEOLITHIC: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH FROM CENTRAL TO THE SOUTH OF EUROPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

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STRATEGIES OF OBSIDIAN PROCUREMENT, KNAPPING AND USE IN THE FIRST FARMING SOCIETIES FROM THE CAUCASUS TO THE MEDITERRANEAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

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PAVING THE WAY FOR ARCHAEOLOGICALLY INFORMED PALAEO-POPULATION GENETICS: INCORPORATING ARCHAEOLOGICAL INFORMATION IN PALEOGENOMIC RESEARCH, AND VICE VERSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

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COMPLEX BIOGRAPHIES: HIGH-RESOLUTION CHRONOLOGICAL METHODS APPLIED TO THE STUDY OF LATE PREHISTORIC FUNERARY PALIMPSESTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

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ARCHAEOACOUSTICS - DISCUSSING SOUND IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

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TOWARDS AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF PEASANT AGENCY: DIVERSITY AND SCALE IN THE LONG DURATION. . . . 250

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IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: CONTACT, INFLUENCE AND CHANGE OUTSIDE THE ROMAN LIMES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

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GLAZE PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY IN THE MEDIEVAL AND POST-MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN. . . . . 258

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HUMAN, POSTHUMAN, TRANSHUMAN DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

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ARCHAEOLOGY OF MOVEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

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ARTEFACT REPORTING, SCIENCE AND SELECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274


371

HASHTAG SCICOMM: COMMUNICATING ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE IN A POST-FACTUAL AGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

372

FRONTIERS OF MOTION? BORDERLANDS AS ZONES OF COMMUNICATION AND MOBILITY . . . . . . . . . . 280

375

EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF PALYNOLOGY IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

376

TRADE AND CIRCULATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN THROUGH TIME: NEW BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL INSIGHTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

377

URBANIZATION IN IBERIA AND MEDITERRANEAN GAUL IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

382

COMMUNICATION UNEVEN: ACCEPTANCE OF AND RESISTANCE TO FOREIGN INFLUENCES IN THE CONNECTED ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

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THE SELF-ORGANIZATION OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN EUROPE: ROLES AND NEEDS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND LEGITIMACY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

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MOVING FORWARD THROUGH A NEW GENDERED FUNERARY ARCHAEOLOGY. CURRENT RESEARCH AND NEW PERSPECTIVES ON DIFFERENCES AND INEQUALITY IN PREHISTORIC SOCIETIES. . . . . . . . . 311

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EL ARGAR AND THE EUROPEAN BRONZE AGE – RISE AND FALL OF THE FIRST STATE SOCIETY IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

389

DOES THE “DOMESTICATED LANDSCAPE” HAVE A SPECIAL ISOTOPIC SIGNATURE? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

392

THE “ISLAND LABORATORY” REVISITED: INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL APPROACHES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

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MODELLING THE PAST: CRISIS OF IDEAS IN MODERN ARCHAEOLOGY?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

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CULTURE CONTACT IN THE GREEK MEDITERRANEAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

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THE FUTURE OF ROCK ART – DOCUMENTATION, RESEARCH, AND OUTREACH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL BIOMOLECULES FROM MUSEUM SPECIMENS: STRIKING A BALANCE BETWEEN CURATION AND DESTRUCTIVE SAMPLING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

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HOW TO BEAT THE BARBARIANS? ROMAN PRACTICE TO ENCOUNTER NEW THREATS (1ST-5TH CENTURY AD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

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RE-THINKING MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN PESTILENCES FROM A BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE: ADVANCED METHODS AND RENEWED CONCEPTS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

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MAGIC IN PREHISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

420

SENSITIVITY AND RESILIENCE OF HUMAN COMMUNITIES TO COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES DURING THE EARLY TO MID-HOLOCENE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

426

QUERNS AND MILLS IN MEDITERRANEAN ANTIQUITY: TRADITION AND INNOVATION DURING THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

429

CURRENT APPROACHES TO TELLS AND TELL-LIKE SITES IN THE PREHISTORIC OLD WORLD. . . . . . . . . 371


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ELITE CULTURE IN MEDIEVAL AND POST-MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

432

FROM DATA DESCRIPTION TO HISTORICAL EXPLANATION IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SPATIAL ANALYSIS: INTEGRATING GEOSTATISTICAL METHODOLOGY AND SOCIAL THEORETICAL MODELS. . . 382

438

NOT ONLY USE: APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL METHODS FOR A BETTER COMPREHENSION OF OPERATIVE CHAINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

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ANTHROPIC ACTIVITY MARKERS: ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

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PAN-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND THE FUTURE ROLE FOR ARCHAEOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

449

TEMPORALITY AND RELATIONALITY IN PLACE-MAKING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

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THE INTERSECTIONS OF MEMORY AND ROCK ART: TOWARDS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH. . . 408

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SEA-PATHWAYS: NEOLITHIC ON LITTORAL ENVIRONMENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

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DIVERGENT LIFEWAYS: TRACING SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC VARIABILITY WITHIN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND BALKAN NEOLITHIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

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DISASTER-LED ARCHAEOLOGY: ANTICIPATIONS AND RESPONSES TO HERITAGEIMPACTING CATASTROPHES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE PAST AND PRESENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

480

RESEARCH ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRACTICES AND KNOWLEDGE WORK IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

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TRADITIONAL AND (ALTERNATIVE) NEW MEDIA: DIFFERENT WAYS TO COMMUNICATE UPON ARCHAEOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

482

MEANINGFUL PLACES: INTEGRATING THEORIES, METHODS AND SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUES IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF A DWELLING PLACE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

483

ROADS OF THE NORTH. MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE OF TRAVEL AND EXCHANGE IN THE FAR NORTH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

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TRANSFORMING INFRASTRUCTURES: SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS OF SITE AND SETTLEMENT PATTERN CHANGES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

487

“SCALING” CHALLENGES FACED BY FIRST MESOLITHIC SOCIETIES: TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE HOLOCENE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

490

NAVIGATING IN A SEA OF DATA. TRADE IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

492

FROM EXCAVATION TO SEDIMENTATION: THE MULTIPROXY AND BIOMOLECULAR ENVIRONMENTAL REVOLUTION IN ARCHAEOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

493

TECHNOLOGY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY OF PLANT-BASED CRAFTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

495

METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN COASTAL AND MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460


498

FISHING FOR KNOWLEDGE IN A SEA OF DATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

499

TOWARDS AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF MAKING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

500

OUTCAST ARCHITECTURE: UNUSUAL BUILDINGS AND UNUSUAL BUILDING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

501

STORAGE STRUCTURES AND STORAGE GOODS FROM THE NEOLITHIC TO THE IRON AGE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOBOTANICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

502

EARTHEN ARCHITECTURE AND HABITATION SITES: BUILDING WAYS OF LIFE IN PREHISTORY. . . . . . . . 484

506

ARCHAEOLOGY OF ROCK-HEWN SITES AND QUARRIES: PEOPLE, STONES AND LANDSCAPES. . . . . . . 492

508

URBAN ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE AGENDA: STARTING AN EAA COMMUNIT FOR URBAN ARCHAEOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

510

FROM CENTRAL SPACE TO URBAN PLACE. THEORIES, METHODS AND MODELS FOR ANALYZING PROCESSES OF URBANIZATION IN A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

512

EXPLORING THE PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF PREHISTORY IN MUSEUM DISPLAYS. . . . 506

513

BRIDGING OCEANS AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO LITHIC ANALYSIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

514

THE DESTRUCTIVE, NON-DESTRUCTIVE, AND NON-INVASIVE: (BIO)ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES, AND NARRATING THE BODY IN THE ANCIENT EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST . . . . 515

515

BUILDING STORY STRUCTURES - EARLY MONUMENTALISM IN NEOLITHIC EUROPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

518

ARE WE GETTING THE MESSAGE ACROSS? AN ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC OUTREACH IN ARCHAEOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

519

MEDITERRANEAN CULTURAL DIFFUSION IN PREHISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

520

ARCHAEOMETALLURGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

521

THE MEDITERRANEAN IN THE NORTH: THE MATERIAL EVIDENCE OF DISTANT CONTACTS, AD 1000–1800. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

522

THE MAKING OF ADRIATIC AND IONIAN SEASCAPES. INTERPRETING SEABORNE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INTERACTIONS DURING LATE PREHISTORY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

527

WATER MENTALITIES. ARCHAEOLOGICAL CLUES TO CHANGES IN WATER MANAGEMENT DURING THE MIDDLE AGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

531

NEW AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES IN RESEARCH INTO THE HUNTER-FISHERGATHERER STONE AGE ON THE EASTERN SHORES OF THE BALTIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

532

TEXTILES IN ANCIENT ICONOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

535

FROM PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY TO PUBLIC HUMANITIES: TIME FOR A MORE TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565


536

URBAN GEOARCHAEOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

540

APPROACHES TO MEDIEVAL BUILDINGS: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF INTERPRETATION AND MANAGEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

550

CURRENT RESEARCH INTO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BALTIC REGION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

551

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA: A CROSSROAD OF OBJECTS, HUMANS AND IDEAS. . . . . . . . . . 586

VOLUME II 552

THE MALTA CONVENTION: THE TIME TO CHANGE IS NOW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

555

USING CIDOC CRM FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS: FROM THEORY TO CONCRETE PRACTICES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

557

GEOARCHAEOLOGY OF BRONZE AGE EUROPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

558

WETLANDS VS. DRYLANDS? CHALLENGING DIVIDES AND CHANGING ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PREHISTORIC WETLAND SITES, LANDSCAPES AND SOCIETIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

561

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INDICATORS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF MEDIEVAL JEWISH POPULATIONS. . . . 609

562

COMPARATIVE MICROREGIONAL RESEARCH IN BRONZE AGE CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: THEORIES, METHODS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

565

ECCLESIASTICAL LANDSCAPES IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE. A COMPARATIVE APPROACH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

566

TALES OF ISOTOPES FROM IBERIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

567

THE THIRD DIMENSION. ANIMAL REPRESENTATIONS IN THE PAST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

568

FOOD AND DRINK IN ARCHAEOLOGY: MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO PAST FOOD PRACTICES (PART 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

571

WHAT HAVEN’T YOU FOUND? ‘BLANK AREAS’ AND THE VALUE OF NEGATIVE EVIDENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

574

SUBURBIA AND RURAL LANDSCAPES IN MEDIEVAL SICILY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

576

CLIMATE CHANGE AND HERITAGE (CCH). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

582

URBAN BIOARCHAEOLOGY: CONSUMPTION AND TRADE IN ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL TOWNS . . . . . . . . 652

583

NON-INVASIVE APPLICATIONS IN RESEARCH AND HERITAGE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657


584

MAPPING HISTORICAL NARRATIVES: THE POWER OF ALTERNATIVE GEOVISUALISATION AND METHODS IN ARTEFACT SURVEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

591

FROM SEDIMENTS TO BEHAVIOUR AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTS: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO HUNTER-GATHERER CONTEXTS DURING THE LATE GLACIAL-EARLY HOLOCENE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

592

PATHWAYS TO THE NEOLITHIC IN EUROPE: TRACING THE RHYTHM AND SPREAD OF NEOLITHISATION . . . . 668

595

ON SITE, BETWEEN SITES: MULTI-SCALAR NETWORKS AND ASSEMBLAGES FROM SOCIAL THEORY TO FORMAL ANALYSIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

596

EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF DENTAL CALCULUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST. . . . . . . . . . . . . 678

597

TEETH ARE AMAZING! THE CONTRIBUTION OF DENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN RECONSTRUCTING LIFESTYLES, SOCIAL BEHAVIORS, HEALTH AND DIET IN THE PAST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

598

ARCHAEOLOGY AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY & INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN ARCHAEOLOGY: STORIES OF A LONG AND DIVERSIFIED JOURNEY (19TH-21ST CENTURIES). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

599

INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO EARLY MEDIEVAL TRANSITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

600

ADVANCING ARCHAEOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS: USING THE PAST TO BENEFIT THE FUTURE. . . . . . . . . . . . 696

602

FOR FUTURE REFERENCE: UNDERSTANDING THE CITY, (RE)PRESENTATIONS OF THE URBAN LANDSCAPE AND THE PAST-AS-PRESENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

603

ALIBI ARCHAEOLOGIES: EXCAVATING IN ARCHIVES, MUSEUMS AND STOREROOMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705

604

DWELLING ON THE SHORE: WATER-LEVEL CHANGES IN WETLAND ENVIRONMENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712

605

TRAINING ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOR TRANSNATIONAL MOBILITY (ANNUAL ROUND TABLE OF THE EAA COMMITTEE ON THE TEACHING AND TRAINING OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714

609

FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL LAND USE IN THE HOLOCENE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715

611

(NATIONAL) PERSPECTIVES ON THE SIGNIFICANCE AND EFFECTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL TOURISM CHARTER. FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TOURISM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

612

TRANSDISCIPLINARY AND PARTICIPATIVE APPROACHES TO CULTURAL LANDSCAPES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

614

ENVIRONMENT, FOOD PRODUCTION AND LIFESTYLE IN BRONZE AGE EUROPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

618

PROCUREMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF SILICEOUS ROCKS IN THE LIGHT OF GEOCHEMICAL AND PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS IN ARCHAEOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730

619

PUBLIC SPACE IN LATER PREHISTORIC EUROPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

623

BEYOND RAMPARTS, WALLS AND DITCHES: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE EUROPEAN HILLFORTS. . 736

625

THE BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF LANDSCAPES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743


627

CROSS THE STREAMS. MULTIPROXY APPROACHES TO DEMOGRAPHY AND POPULATION DYNAMICS . . 746

628

THE PAST AND FUTURE OF HILLFORTS – CHALLENGES, CHANCES, PERSPECTIVES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751

630

ADVANCING GLOBAL ROCK ART AS AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND A COMMUNITY RESOURCE. . . . . . . . . 758

631

AFRICAN COSMOPOLITANS: THE HORN OF AFRICA AND THE WORLD (1ST-20TH CENTURIES AD). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761

633

ROCK ART AND THE SEA: THE SYMBOLS OF PREHISTORIC COASTAL SOCIETIES AND MARITIME INTERACTION IN EUROPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763

634

LIVED ANCIENT RELIGION IN NORTH AFRICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

635

CREATING FOODSCAPES IN COLONIAL AND IMPERIAL CONTEXTS: FOOD, CUISINES AND FOOD ENVIRONMENTS IN GLOCAL PERSPECTIVES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

636

CONSERVATION ISSUES AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES IN OPEN-AIR ROCK ART SITES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

638

MAKING THE CASE: COLLATING AND USING EVIDENCE ON THE VALUE OF RURAL HERITAGE TO INFLUENCE EU AND DOMESTIC POLICY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

639

THE VALUE OF OBJECTS IN MEDIEVAL RURAL SETTLEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779

646

WHAT’S THE USE? USING ARTEFACTS FOUND BY PRIVATE METAL DETECTING FOR RESEARCH, OUTREACH, AND EXHIBITION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783

647

NEW TOOLS AND PRACTICES USED TO IMPROVE THE UNDERSTANDING OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE IN URBAN CONTEXT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787

648

WHO’S COUNTING? EXPLORING NEW AVENUES FOR A UNIFIED QUANTIFICATION FRAMEWORK OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA IN MATERIAL STUDIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788

651

EUROPEAN PROJECTS IN AMERICA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793

652

UNDERSTANDING CHANGE DURING THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC AND MESOLITHIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796

653

BEYOND THE STEREOTYPE – THE DIVERSITY OF BEAKER BURIALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801

655

ROCK ART AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE – EXPLORING METHODOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS, INNOVATIONS AND LIMITATIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808

657

BOUNDARIES AND REGIONS IN IRON AGE (CELTIC) AND ROMANO-CELTIC RELIGIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812

660

ENGAGING THE PUBLIC. THE IMPACT OF VOLUNTEERS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL OUTREACH. . . . . . . . . . . 815

661

LATE GLACIAL AND POSTGLACIAL POPULATION HISTORY AND CULTURAL TRANSMISSION IN IBERIA. . . . 819

662

THE SOUL OF REPLICANTS: FROM ALTAMIRA TO BLADE RUNNER? TRIBUTE TO JOSÉ ANTONIO LAS HERAS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823


663

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA CLINIC. PERSONALISED CONSULTING TO GET THE BEST OF YOUR DATA. . . 825

664

MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS OUT OF THE STREAM: COMPARING ISLANDS ACROSS TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . 826

665

BRONZE AGE TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES IN EUROPE – CHANGES AND THEIR TRIGGERS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL RECORDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830

667

THE EIGHTH CENTURY BC – A TURNING POINT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836

668

FIELD SYSTEMS, CENTURIATIONS AND THE SHAPING OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPES: INTEGRATED AND LONG-TERM ANALYSIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840

671

THERE IS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: UNVEILING THE HISTORIES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845

672

CAA @ EAA: COMPUTATIONAL MODELS IN ARCHAEOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853

674

ARCHAEOLOGY FOR ALL: SOCIAL IMPACT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN COLLECTIVES WITH SOCIAL AND SPECIAL NEEDS AND NEWCOMERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861

676

LAND USE IN AFRICA: NEW METHODS, PERSPECTIVES, AND DATA CHALLENGES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866

677

COMMUNITIES, ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES: THE STRUCTURATION OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPES IN PREHISTORIC SICILY AND THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN BASIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868

678

EXPLORING FUTURE METHODS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE PAST WITHIN LARGE SCALE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874

679

MEDIEVAL NON-PLACES: SITES OF TRANSIENCE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877

684

AT THE INTERFACE: INVESTIGATING COUPLED HUMAN AND NATURAL SYSTEM FROM NATURAL SCIENTIFIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES. . . . . . . . . . . . 880

686

SILVER, STATUS AND SOCIETY - TRANSITION FROM LATE ROMAN TO EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE. . . . 883

687

REVAMPING VALUE(S): ON THE DESTRUCTION OF VALUE DURING THE BRONZE AND IRON AGE IN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885

688

“THE HEAD AND THE HAND”: SKILLS, LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE IN PREHISTORIC PRODUCTIONS. . . . 888

689

THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HERITAGE OF SALTSCAPES: THE SYNERGY OF ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894

690

WOODLAND ARCHAEOLOGY: APPROACHES, METHODS, CURRENT PROBLEMS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897

692

CULTURAL HERITAGE IN MODERN CONFLICTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903

694

PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION AND VALORIZATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE: OPEN ISSUES AND BEST PRACTICES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906

696

RE-THINKING “INTERACTION” IN IRON AGE EUROPE: COMPARING RESEARCH TRADITIONS TO EXPLORE ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO INTERPRET ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910


698

JUST ADD WATER AND MIX: HERITAGE AND CLIMATE CHANGE - CHALLENGES AND NOVEL APPROACHES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916

699

CAN WE DEVELOP A EUROPEAN NETWORK OF LINKED RESEARCH AGENDAS?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922

700

RE-APPROACHING IDENTITY IN ARCHAEOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926

703

REPRESSED BODIES AS A RESEARCH THEME: ARCHAEOLOGY, MEMORY AND POLITICAL USES. . . . . 935

706

ART AS MATERIAL CULTURE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940

708

DATA-DRIVEN CHRONOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947

709

RAW MATERIALS SOURCING AND EXPLOITATION IN MOUNTAIN REGIONS: RESOURCE-HUMANLANDSCAPE DYNAMICS FROM PREHISTORY TO HISTORICAL PERIODS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 950

711

TAKING CONFLICT ARCHAEOLOGY BEYOND NATIONAL BORDERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 956

713

THE FOURTH AND THIRD CENTURY BC - A PAN-EUROPEAN TURNING POINT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959

715

ARCHAEOLOGIES OF UNFREE LABOR IN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964

721

CONNECTIONS AND CONCURRENCIES: THE GLOBAL TURN IN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND FUTURE CHALLENGES IN EUROPEAN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966

723

CREATING REPRODUCIBLE RESEARCH. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970

724

ENGENDERING STRATEGIES FOR THE DISSEMINATION IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND MUSEUM. 973

725

THE EU EIA DIRECTIVES AND ARCHAEOLOGY: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT AND WHERE NEXT?. . . . . . . . . 975

726

FARMING UNDER THE CRESCENT MOON: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSIGHTS INTO THE MEDIEVAL ‘ISLAMIC GREEN REVOLUTION’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 978

730

MOUNDSCAPES IN THE DIGITAL ERA: DATA ACQUISITION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF PAST FUNERARY LANDSCAPES THROUGH GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981

731

MUSIC ARCHAEOLOGY: RECENT TRENDS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 986

732

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EDUCATION BEYOND ARCHAEOLOGY: LOOKING AT THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL RELEVANCE OF RESEARCH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 990

736

DAIRY AND PASTORALISM IN ARCHAEOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 995

738

FROM CORRUPTION TO CONNECTION AND BACK. NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSIGHTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEASCAPES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999

739

REFLECTIONS ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL TOURISM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003


740

GLOCAL IDENTITIES - DIFFERENT VALUES OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005

742

SOUTH-EASTERN ANATOLIA AT A CROSSROADS: A MULTICULTURAL MEDITERRANEAN AREA FROM THE HELLENISTIC TO THE EARLY BYZANTINE PERIOD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1010

744

THE WOMEN DIMENSION IN ARCHAEOLOGY: BETWEEN POLITICS AND SOCIAL CONSTRAINS. . . . . . 1014

745

GRAVE GOOD BIOGRAPHIES OF PRE-METALLURGICAL EUROPEAN SOCIETIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016

747

ARCHAEOLOGY OF VISIGOTHIC AND CAROLINGIAN EUROPE (5TH-9TH CENTURIES) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1022

748

‘ARCHAEOLOGY AND…’ - INTER-DISCIPLINARY WORKING IN PLANNING AND DESIGN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1026

749

FROM STRATEGIES TO PRACTICE IN THE PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029

750

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL HARBOURS – GATEWAYS BETWEEN CULTURES AND COMMUNITIES. . . . 1033

752

GENDER IN MOVEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036

753

INTERPRETING ANCIENT METALWORKING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1038

754

INTEGRATIVE APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, PLANT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE LANDSCAPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045

756

THE LIGHT FANTASTIC: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ILLUMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049

758

HUMAN-WATER INTERCONNECTIONS IN THE DRY ENVIRONMENTS OF THE NEAR EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051

760

‘...IN WITH THE NEW!’: THE FUTURE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE. . . . . . 1056

761

WHY ANCIENT LIPID ANALYSES IN ARCHAEOLOGY? A DISCUSSION AIMED AT WIDENING THE ARCHAEOLOGIST INTERPRETATION TOOLSET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1061

763

CULTURAL PROPERTY: FROM LOOTING AND ILLEGAL TRADE TO RESTITUTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064

765

KNOW YOUR PLACE: DEFINING THE ROLE OF GEOPHYSICS IN DEVELOPMENT-LED ARCHAEOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1068

767

RISK PREPAREDNESS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRACTICE AND THEORY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1074

769

ARCHAEOLOGY OF MATERIAL CULTURE AND TERRITORY WITHIN THE IBERIAN COLONIAL EMPIRES (15TH-18TH CENTURIES). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077

770

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN WORLD HERITAGE LANDSCAPES: PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALS. . . . . . 1080


771

ARCHAEOLOGY & ANARCHISTIC THOUGHT – THEORETICAL STANDS AND DIRECT ACTION?. . . . . . . 1082

773

DOCUMENTING ENDANGERED HERITAGE SITES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1086

774

THE MISSING WOODLAND RESOURCES: APPROACHES TO THE TECHNOLOGICAL USE OF PLANT RAW MATERIALS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090

776

HERITAGE MANAGEMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY: WHERE IS IT HEADING? STATE AGENCIES, NGOS, CHARITIES OR INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093

778

EXAMINING THE DIFFERENT APPROACHES, THEORIES, AND METHODOLOGY BOTH CULTURALLY AND IN THE APPLICATION OF EUROPEAN COMMERCIAL FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1096

779

BOYNE TO BRODGAR: RESEARCHING NEOLITHIC MONUMENTALITY IN IRELAND AND NORTHERN BRITAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1100

780

ARCHAEOLOGICAL UNCERTAINTY; A JOURNEY THROUGH THE RUINS OF A DISCIPLINE . . . . . . . . . . . 1105

782

THE VALUE OF LITHIC RAW MATERIALS IN DEFINING PREHISTORIC SOCIAL TERRITORIES . . . . . . . . . 1108

787

ISSUES IN MEDITERRANEAN SEASCAPES: FROM THE TERMINAL PLEISTOCENE TO THE EARLY-MIDDLE HOLOCENE – EXOTICS, SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . . . . 1116

788

TEXTILE ICONOGRAPHY FROM EUROPE AND ASIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119

789

FOOD AND DRINK IN ARCHAEOLOGY: MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO PAST FOOD PRACTICES (PART 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121

790

INSIGTS IN ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128

791

FUNERARY RITUAL ALONG HOLOCENE PERIOD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1138

797

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND HERITAGE AND THE WORLD BANK’S ENGAGEMENT IN CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145

798

CULTURAL HERITAGE AND DEVELOPMENT: THE WORLD BANK’S NEW ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL FRAMEWORK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1146

INDEX OF AUTHORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149



05 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE ANCESTORS: ASPECTS OF MEMORY IN N. W. AUSTRALIA ROCK ART Author(s): Rainsbury, Michael (Ustinov College, Durham University) Presentation Format: Oral There are many different motivations for the production of rock art, and the preservation of memory may be one of the contenders. In my presentation I would like to discuss examples from northern Australia whereby memories such as a frightening encounter with a snake, or the loss of a large fish from a fishing line are illustrated in rock shelters. A child’s hand stencil may belong to a now elderly person visiting a site, and so lead to a series of reminiscences of how traditional life used to be lived. In North West Australia the approach to a Wandjina art site by traditional guides manifested memories of the Ancestral Being’s original path through the country. As far as the guides were concerned it would not be possible to visit the site by any other way. Memory too is present in the traditional Australian Aboriginal practice of creating ground paintings. This has now been transferred to the production of acrylic paintings on canvas for the tourist market. The sacred memories of ancestral life and travels displayed through the ephemeral mediums of coloured sand and feathers are now preserved on canvas, and edited, secular explanations revealing different aspects of meaning and memory, are now offered.

06 RIVER, ROCK, AND ‘THE RAIN’S MAGIC POWER’: ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ROCK ART RE-MEMBERED IN THE NORTHERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA Author(s): Morris, David (McGregor Museum; Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley) Presentation Format: Oral Interpretations of the Driekopseiland rock engraving site in South Africa have rehearsed a range of perspectives on rock art. Description and classification endured as a modus operandi in archaeology and rock art studies through much of the last century. The distinctive style of the engravings at Driekopseiland, and preponderance of geometric motifs, resulted in an overall tendency to explain by typology. A common thread has been to match style with the ethnicity of people inhabiting the area in precolonial times. Such a typological approach ignores the characteristics of place, and the emplacement of the art on an expanse of glacial pavement aligned with the bed and flow of the Riet River, where the waters rise seasonally to submerge the engravings. A different perspective emerged when these elements of place and environmental contingencies were related to beliefs and practices of indigenous people, specifically the coming-of-age rites of young women, which variously reference cosmological processes associated with rivers and rain, the moon, and a mythical watersnake called !Khwa. Memory of the site’s meaning was essentially erased by the colonial experience – dismembered, one could say, as original inhabitants were dispossessed of the land, itself carved into farms and administrative districts; and dismembered further by rock art approaches that figuratively lifted motifs out of place for typological comparison. A re-membering of significance, with the aid of ethnography, has found resonance for individuals of descendant communities on visits to the site, who hint at issues of ritual danger and sensitivity. The paper cites an incident with a young person of rural background who, alert to ideas around ‘the snake of the river’, experienced an acute emotional response – triggered by the reconstructed narrative and by ‘memory’ activated by the power of the river and the rocks that are ritually marked.

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SEA-PATHWAYS: NEOLITHIC ON LITTORAL ENVIRONMENTS Theme: Mediterranean seascapes Organisers: Oms Arias, F. Xavier (SERP. Secció de Prehistòria i Arqueologia. Universitat de Barcelona) - Cubas, Miriam (University of York) Format: Regular session

The spread of the agriculture to the Southwest of Europe is one of the most important phenomena in the history of the humankind. In this context the sea-pathways played an important role as vehicle of expansion of the new subsistence practices, technology and cultural knowledge. The Mediterranean is one of the regions where these aspects are particularly apparent. However, exciting new data are arising from other coastal environments. The important novelties on the Atlantic, Baltic or North Sea reflect an increase in the density and quality of the research focused on the transition to the farming and livestock way of life in coast landscapes. This session is intended as a forum for the critical assessment of the new data and for the discussion of the settlement patterns, the coastal resources and the spread of farming to littoral and inland environments. It aims to be a meeting among researchers who focused their activity on the study of neolithisation processes and Neolithic in coastal areas.

ABSTRACTS 01 NEOLITHISATION OF THE COASTAL AND INLAND LLOBREGAT BASIN (NE IBERIA) Author(s): Oms Arias, F. Xavier - Daura, Joan (SERP, Universitat de Barcelona) - Sanz, Montserrat (Universidad Complutense de Madrid-ISCIII Evolution and Human Behavior Research Group) - Yubero, Maria (SERP, Universitat de Barcelona) - Mestres, Josep (Vinseum,


Museu de les Cultures del Vi, Vilafranca del Penedès) - Martín, Araceli (Servei d’Arqueologia i Paleontologia, Generalitat de Catalunya) - Cebrià, Artur (SERP, Universitat de Barcelona) Presentation Format: Oral Sets of data gathered through research into the NE of Iberian Peninsula (Llobregat Valley) have greatly contributed to our understanding of the Neolithisation process of the NW region of the Mediterranean basin. Similarly, to groups such as that of the RhoneSouth Provence (France), Serpis-South Valencia (Spain) and Tagus-Estremadura (Portugal), the Llobregat group may be integrated in narratives about the Neolithisation of the Western Mediterranean region. In this work, we summarise the results obtained in such research and propose a local model repeated in several places at the western Mediterranean region with the same patterns: optimal local raw materials, endorheic plains, variate biotopes (that allow not just Neolithic practices, but gathering-hunting too) and the presence of an estuary, the rapid way to connect coastal to inland territories (pre-littoral environments with elevations between 100 and 1000 msnm). Llobregat basin, as the other regions cited above, is a good example to test the Neolithisation patterns along the western Mediterranean, the arrival to coastal sites and their entrance to the inland territories between 5650-4800 cal BC. The presence of more than 50 archaeological sites in this region (c. 25 have recent archaeological data) will facilitate our analysis. Finally, we will compare our results with the existing data from other Neolithic territories in western Mediterranean basin.

02 THE EBRO BASIN (NE IBERIA) AS AN EARLY RECEPTOR OF COASTAL NEOLITHIC Author(s): Laborda, Rafael (Universidad de Zaragoza) Presentation Format: Oral Different studies pointing out the Mediterranean coastal as a first place for the arriving of the Early Neolithic to Iberian Peninsula, around 5600 cal BC. The presence of a natural corridor as the Ebro Valley, which connects Central Plateau and Mediterranean coastal, could play an important role for the Neolithic spread, from to coastal areas (cardial style) to inland ones (impressed, incised-impressed and boquique technique). In this sense, the Ebro Basin shows a remarkable number of Early Neolithic sites dated in 56004800 cal BC with short-life radiocarbon samples and where both wares are represented in the archaeological register. In this work, we studied the pottery assemblage together with radiocarbon dates of twenty Early Neolithic sites located in the Ebro Basin. We found two well defined moments. The first one is developed until 5300-5200 cal BC and is characterized by the scarcity of Early Neolithic sites. These are more usually found in coastal areas, just with the exception of Cueva de Chaves (160 km from the Mediterranean Sea). The second phase was developed as from 5300-5200 cal BC. This moment is characterized by a considerable increase of the number of the sites and the Neolithic spreading towards the inland and mountains zones, less favourable to agriculture. Different theories have been proposed about the first Neolithic peopling of the Ebro Valley. This study gives an approach of the Early Neolithisation process of the inland territories, from the Mediterranean trough the Ebro Valley.

03 APPROACHING THE MANAGEMENT OF COASTAL RESOURCES IN THE NEOLITHIC: CASE STUDIES FROM THE BARCELONA PLAIN Author(s): Breu, Adrià - Gomez, Anna - Nadal, Jordi - Molist, Miquel (Autonomous University of Barcelona) Presentation Format: Oral The development of contract archaeology in the city of Barcelona since the 80’s has yielded a wide and important archaeological sequence covering all the chronological stages in recent prehistory. The Neolithic stands out with more than 10 archaeological interventions spread around the present Raval quarter, which suggests the existence of a significant human settlement underneath the city. The goal of this presentation is to evaluate the strategies this communities might have developed in order to manage coastal resources, both marine and terrestrial. To this goal, all available direct and indirect evidences from the settlements excavated to date have been put together, especially marine products such as malacological remains. Given that the majority of the excavations have been performed by a variety of contract archaeological teams, this analysis has certainly helped generate a more general picture that helps better understand the economic strategies put in place by the first farmers in the Barcelona plain. The paleoenvironmental setting and the chronological sequence related to space and use will be presented and, finally, these evidences will be contextualised with nearby settlements in the Maresme, Baix Llobregat and Penedès regions and also with other coastal areas with well documented Neolithic remains along the western Mediterranean (Gulf of Cadiz and Marseille amongst others).

04 MARINE RESOURCES EXPLOITATION IN THE NEOLITHIC SITES OF THE BAY OF CÁDIZ DURING THE VTH AND IVTH MILLENNIUMS BC Author(s): Cantillo Duarte, Juan Jesus - Vijande Vila, Eduardo - Ramos Muñoz, José - Domínguez Bella, Salvador (Universidad de Cádiz) - Cuenca Solana, David (Universidad de Cantabria) Presentation Format: Oral This work examines the role played by marine resources for neolithic groups in the Bay of Cádiz at the end of the Vth millennium and during the IVth millennium. We have analyzed new evidences of marine fauna collected at the neolithic village of Campo de Hockey (San Fernando, Cádiz) and in the settlements of La Esparragosa (Chiclana de la Frontera, Cádiz) and SET Parralejos (Vejer


de la Frontera, Cádiz), belonging to the so-called “Silos Fields culture”. The high presence and variety of marine species, specially Ruditapes decussatus, Solen marginatus and Glycymeris sp. and the gasterops Patella sp. and Phorcus lineatus, which is obvious given the coastal nature of the settlements, highlight the importance of these resources as foodstuffs at a time of consolidation of agricultural and livestock practices. This great taxonomic variability demonstrate an excellent knowledge of the marine environment as they collected taxa that lived in mesolittoral and infralittoral zones. We also note the importance of these marine resources for ornamental purposes playing and important role in the ideological sphere in some funerary practices. Furthermore, functional analysis have identified the existence of ten shell tools from the archaeological site of Campo de Hockey and SET Parralejos, used for works of daily life.

05 OPEN AIR SITES IN COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS DURING THE LATE PREHISTORY: URIBE KOSTA (NORTHERN SPAIN) Author(s): Cubas, Miriam (Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi-University of York) - Ríos-Garaizar, Joseba (Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana - CENIEH, Burgos) - Garate-Maidagan, Diego (Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria - IIIPC, Gobierno de Cantabria, Santander) - Libano-Silvente, Iñaki - Ugarte-Cuetara, Ander - Vega-López, Sergio - Regalado-Bueno, Encarnación (Edestiaurre Arkeologia Elkartea) - San Emeterio-Gómez, Aixa (Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana - CENIEH, Burgos) - Tapia-Sagarna, Jesús (Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi) - García-Moreno, Alejandro (Museo de Prehistoria y Arqueologia de Cantabria MUPAC) Presentation Format: Oral The spread of the Neolithic to the west of Europe implies, among other features, a modification in the settlement patterns. Open-air villages became the most representative evidence of daily life activities. However, this archaeological record is scarce in some areas of the continent, especially in the south of the Atlantic coast. The Prehistory in the Cantabrian region (Northern Iberian Peninsula) has been built up mostly from archaeological sequences recorded in caves. However, this aspect implies an important bias in the case of the Late Prehistory when the open air settlements were the main scenario of the daily life. In this contribution, we present the coastal occupations carried out in Uribe kosta, located in the eastern of the Cantabrian region, during the Late Prehistory. First discoveries were made in the 1950’s, and since then, numerous lithic assemblages have been collected on surface. Since 2007, systematic research has been carried out in the area with the aim to recognise the open air occupations of the earliest farmers communities. This project includes the excavation of new open air sites, superficial surveys to identify burial mounds and new artefact studies, such as polished tools, pressure blade cores, arrowheads and ground mills. New archaeological sites have been identified (Landaluze and Aranbaltza II) where different structures may represent different activity areas of a permanent and continuous settlement. The available radiocarbon dates for Landaluze are coeval with the spread of megalithic monuments in the region. At the same time, the analysis of lithic tools, especially the arrowheads, has allowed us to propose a long term occupation of this area. Preliminary data suggest that the implantation of farmer communities in the area was clearly more complex than previously considered with strong evidence of permanent settlement with domestic structures, specialized lithic productions and symbolic transformation of the landscape.

06 EL CAVET (TARRAGONA, NE IBERIA) 5600-3000 CAL BC: NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT STRATEGIES IN A COASTAL ENVIRONMENT Author(s): Marsal, Roser (GRACPE-PROA, Grup de Recerca sobre l’Arqueologia de la Complexitat i els Processos d’Evolució Social Pròxim Orient Antic, Secció de Prehistòria i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona) - Vergès, Josep M. - Fontanals, Marta (IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social) - Martinell, Jordi (Departament d’Estratigrafia, Paleontologia i Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona) - Allué, Ethel (IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social) - Morales, Juan I. - Cebrià, Artur - Pedro, Mireia - Oms, F. Xavier (SERP, Seminari d’Estudis i Recerques Prehistòriques, Secció de Prehistòria i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona) Presentation Format: Oral El Cavet is an open-air site located just at 1 km of Cambrils current coastline (Tarragona, Spain). The site is situated in a slight slope (17-22m amsl) between two seasonal streams (Regueral and Riudoms) separated only 340 meters between them. Since 2005, three different sectors have been excavated and each of them yielded well-defined features. In Sector 1, 15 pits have been excavated, five belonging to the Early Neolithic (UE2012, UE2014, UE2016, UE2007 and UE2009), while the others provided later chronologies. In Sector 2 there are over 150 structures and an area with two superimposed archaeological layers. Only five structures have been excavated and their chronology remained undetermined due to the undiagnostic traits of the recovered material. The two archaeological layers have provided evidences of Early Neolithic occupations. The third sector worked at the site (Collector Sector) is topographically higher and we have just excavated a test pit, identifying a large structure with Late to Early Neolithic layers. This presentation will be devoted to present the different structural features, the long-term occupation sequence, the chronology, the cultural evolution of an Early (Cardial) to Late (Veraza) Neolithic large open-air site and the economic significance focusing specially in the exploitation and management of coastal resources.


a. THE COASTAL PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL EVOLUTION OF PEGO-OLIVA DURING THE MESOLITHICNEOLITHIC TRANSITION (WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN): A CONTRIBUTION TO THE “MARITIME PIONEER COLONIZATION MODEL” Author(s): Brisset, Elodie - Fernández-López de Pablo, Javier (Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social - IPHES; Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili - URV) - Burjachs, Francesc (Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social - IPHES; Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili - URV; ICREA) Presentation Format: Poster The Iberian Peninsula is characterized by a rapid spread of Early Neolithic sites, a spatial discontinuity of the implantations, in the meanwhile of persistence of Late Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. So far, the most convincing model to explain those evidences is the “maritime pioneer colonization” implying that earliest Neolithic settlements were implanted in unoccupied areas (Isern et al., 2017 - PNAS). In order to investigate the reasons why this area become depopulated during the Final Mesolithic, we examined the relationship between Early to Middle Holocene environmental coastal changes and the Late Mesolithic settlement distribution in the coastal area of Pego-Oliva, Valencia region (project MedCoRes: H2020-MSCA-IF-2015 ref. 704822). By reconstructing the sedimentary architecture of the basin in a well-constrained chronological framework, our results show that the inland migration of the coastline consecutive to Early-Holocene sea-level rise has led to the progressive reduction of the coastal plain causing the complete disappearance of previously lagoonal ecosystems dated at 8200 cal. BP. Because of those paleoenvironmental changes are significantly concomitant with the latest Mesolithic occupation in the study area; we propose that deep modification of coastal biotopes may have rendered those landscapes less attractive to the last hunter-gatherers, favouring colonisation of uninhabited areas by the first farmers.

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DIVERGENT LIFEWAYS: TRACING SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC VARIABILITY WITHIN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND BALKAN NEOLITHIC Theme: The archaeology of material culture, bodies and landscapes Organisers: Kloukinas, Dimitris (Ephorate of Antiquities of Kozani, Ministry of Culture, Greece) - Voskos, Ioannis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) - Andreasen, Niels (Copenhagen Museum) Format: Regular session

Although the term Neolithic appears to be vague in many respects, there seems to be a common consensus regarding the main characteristics it encompasses. These refer, for instance, to a consolidated lifeway including aspects such as sedentism, agropastoralism and concomitant developments in material culture and ideology. Nevertheless, in many occasions, the elements commonly viewed as belonging to an established “Neolithic package”, do not seem to coexist. Indeed, a closer examination of the record on both an inter- and intra-regional level reveals considerable variability in terms of cultural and socioeconomic manifestations. Thus, viewing the Neolithic as a strictly defined entity is not always justified by the available evidence. Rather than retaining linear narratives of social evolution, modern approaches to the subject should highlight variable expressions and trajectories transcending the perceived norms. This session seeks to assemble and discuss different case studies in order to explore alternative or diverging ways of life within a temporal context that is primarily defined as ‘Neolithic’. The geographical area under consideration will include the Mediterranean region and the Balkans. The discussion will focus on communities or micro-regions presenting atypical or paradox traces that are not solely explained by cultural isolation and the transitional or early status of the neolithisation process. Contributions referring to alternative subsistence strategies, diverse expressions in the organisation of the built environment, differential degrees of mobility and interaction between contiguous communities, as well as other relevant issues, are strongly encouraged.

ABSTRACTS 01 FROM WHENCE WE CAME: THE CYPRIOT ROUND HOUSE PHENOMENON AND ITS LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH THE NORTHERN LEVANT Author(s): Clarke, Dr Joanne (Dept of Art History and World Art Studies) - Wasse, Alexander (University of East Anglia) Presentation Format: Oral Rectilinear architecture, which had been increasing in predominance since the Late PPNA in the well-watered agricultural basins of northern Syria and Upper Mesopotamia, failed to be adopted on Cyprus, even though it was experimented with during the 8th millennium BC at Akanthou. Instead, by the Late PPNB circular architecture became “highly formalized” on Cyprus representing the island’s ‘difference’ from the mainland and reinforcing the prevailing narrative of ‘island conservatism’ in the minds and interpretations of Near Eastern archaeologists. It is often forgotten however, that circular architecture never disappeared from the mainland and indeed was a continuous feature of the Neolithic of eastern Jordan. There is a tendency for scholars to privilege one region over another on the basis of geographical proximity and modes of life such that sites in the Jordanian badia like Wisad Pools are
