Submission deadline: 13 February 2020 : https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2020/

Organised by the UMR 7044 ArcHiMedE of the University of Strasbourg (Unistra), this workshop is addressed to PhD students and PhD working in the fields of Archaeology, History, History of religions, Sociology, Anthropology, Ethnology, Philosophy, Theology and Classics.

Communications will have a length of 20 minutes and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion with the audience. They have to examine funerary practices of a past or present population in an unlimited geographical area focusing on identity/ies. They will rely on textual, archaeological and iconographical data, and/or field observations. They will be centered on three axes:

1. Rituals and funerals: body preparation, ceremony/ies, actor(s), function(s), sacrifice(s), etc.;

2. The deceased: age, sex, pathologies, corpse treatment and position, re-intervention on the corpse, etc.;

3. The tomb: typology, context, architecture, specific planning, container, signalling system, material, etc.

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Call for Papers

Session 289278

Mediterranean relations in the Neolithic

Relations méditerranéennes au Néolithique

Mediterranean relations in the Neolithic

Neolithization is, by nature, a phenomenon of diffusion that has linked regions of several continents according to various temporalities and scenarios. But throughout the Neolithic, between the islands and the continent, from one continent to another and sometimes very far across the Mediterranean, relations between communities are now evident.

Current analyzes show displacements of materials, objects but also animals and humans. All these transfers of different scales and modalities between Africa, Europe and the Middle East make of the Mediterranean a vast network of exchanges and relations whose modalities of the analysis must still be considered and specified.

This session will focus on several themes to reflect on these Mediterranean relations:

- The evolution of the coastline and the coastal topography throughout the Neolithic,

- The cultural complexes extending beyond the sea (mainland and islands for example),

- The evidences of displacements (raw materials, objects, animals, humans ...),

- The exploitation of distant resources and the question of supplies,

- The supposed spreads of techniques and practices (monumentality/megalithism, metallurgy ...)

- The major phenomena of diffusion (neolithization, Bell Beaker phenomenon),

- The question of Neolithic navigations.

Relations méditerranéennes au Néolithique

La néolithisation est, par nature, un phénomène de diffusion qui a mis en relation des régions de plusieurs continents selon des temporalités et des scenarios variés. Mais tout au long du Néolithique, entre les îles et le continent, d’un continent à l’autre et parfois très loin à travers toute la Méditerranée, les relations entre communautés sont aujourd’hui évidentes.

Les analyses actuelles montrent des déplacements de matériaux, d’objets mais aussi d’animaux et d’hommes. Tous ces déplacements d’échelles et de modalités diverses entre Afrique, Europe et Proche Orient font de la Méditerranée un vaste réseau d’échanges et de relations dont les modalités de l’analyse doivent encore être réfléchies et précisées.

Cette session s’intéressera à plusieurs thèmes permettant de réfléchir à ces relations méditerranéennes :

- L’évolution du trait de côte et la topographie littorale tout au long du Néolithique,

- Les ensembles culturels s’étendant par-delà la mer (continent et îles par exemple),

- Les évidences de déplacements (matières premières, objets, animaux, humains…),

- L’exploitation des ressources distantes et la question des approvisionnements,

- Les diffusions supposées de techniques et pratiques (monumentalité/mégalithisme, métallurgie…)

- Les grands phénomènes de diffusion (néolithisation, phénomène campaniforme),

- La question des navigations néolithiques.

Organisateurs - Session Organisers

Pr. Olivier LEMERCIER (university Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France, President of the « Neolithic Civilizations of the Mediterranean and Europe » commission) Olivier.lemercier@univ-montp3.fr

Enrico GIANNITRAPANI (Arkeos, Enna, Sicilia, Italy)

Luc JALLOT (university Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France)

Simona TODARO (University of Catania, Sicilia, Italy)

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SESSION 291324

Les structures brûlées au Néolithique

The burned structures in the Neolithic

Les structures brûlées au Néolithique

Parmi les structures néolithiques de la Méditerranée et de l’Europe et de leurs marges (constructions, habitations, sépultures parfois) certaines ont été, à l’évidence, détruites par le feu.

Cette session envisagera les aspects méthodologiques : comment fouiller, étudier, analyser, enregistrer et sauvegarder des vestiges architecturaux brûlés ? et archéologiques : incendies naturels ou volontaires et leurs motivations.

The burned structures in the Neolithic

Among the neolithic structures of the Mediterranean and Europe and their margins (buildings, houses, burials sometimes) some were obviously destroyed by fire.

This session will consider the methodological aspects: how to excavate, study, analyze, record and save architectural remains burned? and archaeological: natural or voluntary fires and their motivations.

Organisateurs - Session Organisers

Pr. Dragoş GHEORGHIU (National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania, secretary of the « Neolithic Civilizations of the Mediterranean and Europe » commission) gheorghiu_dragos@yahoo.com

Pr. Olivier LEMERCIER (university Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France, President of the « Neolithic Civilizations of the Mediterranean and Europe » commission) Olivier.lemercier@univ-montp3.fr

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III INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

PREHISTORY & PROTOHISTORY

OF WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS

III WORKSHOP INTERNAZIONALE

LA PREISTORIA E LA PROTOSTORIA DELLE ISOLE DEL MEDITERRANEO OCCIDENTALE

III WORKSHOP INTERNACIONAL DE

LA PREHISTORIA Y LA PROTOHISTORIA DE LAS ISLAS DEL MEDITERRÁNEO OCCIDENTAL

February 28-29, 2020

Palma de Majorque (Majorque)

https://www.facebook.com/events/477234143141129/

Colóquio Internacional

ROMPER FRONTEIRAS,

ATRAVESSAR TERRITÓRIOS

Identidades e intercâmbios durante a Pré-história recente

no interior norte da Península Ibérica

PORTO (PORTUGAL), 16 A 18 DE ABRIL 2020

https://romperfronteiras.wixsite.com/coloquio

Tumuli and Megaliths

in Eurasia

May 26-30, 2020 : International Congress :

Proença-a-Nova PORTUGAL

Pre- and Proto-Historic societies developed different ways to treat their dead. One of the most distinctive was offering them to earth using positive structures as artificial hills such as tumuli, mounds, and kurgans, of circular shape, are the most common across Eurasia, despite enclosing different rituals, suggesting strong structural and ritual similarities despite the geographic and chronological distances.

In the International Congress Tumuli e Megaliths in Eurasia, we aim to discuss the question: why did people so distant in space and time, build the last address for their dead in such a similar shape?

We invite podium and poster presentation focusing from the western megalithism to the central European and Asian Kurgan, and the classic Mediterranian graves. We will give preference to groundbreaking results, interdisciplinary and novel methodological approaches, regional synthesis, and innovative ways of relating them with other realities (enclosures, cromlechs, menhirs, stelae and rock carvings).

Session 1

Surveying the past: geomatics in the study of megaliths and tumuli

Hugo Pires (CEAU, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

Geomatic technologies are playing an increasingly significant role in archaeological mapping and recording. The costly high-end applications from the late XXth century aimed at government agencies and large corporations have evolved to more available and affordable solutions. In the last decades there have been countless case-studies in archaeology and cultural heritage fields that have lead to enhanced insights of archaeological sites and artefacts. This session aims to be a forum for sharing ideas, best practices, and state of the art knowledge within the field of geomatics applied to the study of Megaliths and Tumuli, ranging from aerial and satellite remote sensing for the detection and mapping of humanized landscapes to innovative surveying techniques for rock art. Researchers are invited to present their work in areas related to these topics (not exclusively): Aerial and terrestrial 3D scanning 3D Recording and documentation UAV applications Mobile Mapping Applications GIS tools and applications 3D Modelling methods for archaeology Data analysis and visual representation Low-cost sensors and open-source software.

Session 2

Geophysical methods in archaeology and cultural heritage

António Correia (Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Évora, Portugal)

Geophysical methods have been playing an important role in archaeology and in cultural heritage management. Geophysical methods are non-invasive and allow locating and delineating archaeological structures as well as mapping anthropic activities in the past. Geophysical prospecting in archaeological sites is particularly useful for diagnostic, consolidation, and restoration works. In this session, we are looking from contributions on the use of geophysical and visualization methods applied to archaeological prospecting and cultural heritage management. We welcome contributions with examples of successful use of geophysical methods as well as examples where geophysical methods proved to give no insight about archaeological structures found to exist after excavation. Successful stories of fusion of geophysical methods with other methods as well as recent advances in visualization and modeling techniques are also welcome to the session which aims to be interdisciplinary.

Session 3

Decoding the spatial significance of mound landscapes

Maria-Magdalena Stefan (National Museum of Eastern Carpathians, Romania)

Funerary mounds had been one of the earliest and also enduring forms of landscape monumental transformation, infusing the nature with a sacred significance recognized by various people entering in contact with them, even many generations subsequent to the initial building. The monumental individual tumuli or the tumuli cemeteries become land structuring elements with active impact over the neighboring communities. Either as a form of ancestor worship, elevated status-representation, or as a way to claim imaginary identity by referencing to past heroes and expression of land ownership, the building and honoring of mound graves was practiced in many areas and periods. The session welcomes contributors interested in exploring how the morphology and spatial organization of mound landscapes (without restriction of geographical or time affiliation) may reveal patterns of social and ritual representation, with a focus on understanding the meaning of location as a symbolic part of the funerary discourse and on enhancing the prolonged time impact of such monuments. Examples of appropriate topics: • signalizing mounds by free-standing monuments or other markings • relation between tumuli cemeteries and ancient roads • analysis of the spatial relation between tumuli cemeteries and neighboring settlements • centrality of founding heroes graves • analysis of tumuli spatial distribution as a way to understand the idealized social hierarchies of communities • longue-durée impact of tumuli graves – how they generate surrounding ritual or funerary structures, even after long periods • reevaluation of older graves and integration in later ancestors cult practices.

Session 4

Mounds architectures: no more than heaps?

Primitiva Bueno Ramírez (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain) Luc Laporte (CNRS, France)

Whether they are built with earth or stone materials, and whatever the shape of the sepulchral space they cover (from wooden cist to imposing megalithic chambers), most tumuli now appear in the landscape as artificial hills. Some were actually built to appear as such, but others were initially built with any other devices now collapsed (such, for example, the facade of some megalithic monuments from Western Europe). Some of these mounds seal underlying funerary structures, with pieces decorated or not, where others only encompass them and sometimes superimpose themselves in the context of a real succession of architectural projects, and sometimes ornamental transformations. From Japan to the Atlantic shores of Europe, via the Black Sea or Central Asia, many works have also concerned the construction techniques used, often much more meticulous and sophisticated than one might have imagined (and sometimes accompanied by engraved and/or painted images). The restitution of elevations is often the subject of some debates, now supported by powerful digital tools in 3D. We invite authors who have been confronted with each of these points for types of construction, materials, or in the most diverse places possible, to submit a proposal for a communication within the framework of this session.

​Session 5

Burial Monuments and Rock Art

Luiz Oosterbeek (Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal) Guillaume Robin (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Chris Scarre (Durham University, United Kingdom)

The relationship between burial monuments (mounds, cairns, megalithic tombs) and rock art is a long-discussed topic. Both were sometimes integrated within a single ritual project, as in the case of painted or engraved megalithic tombs. But this relationship can also be more complex, when for instance rock art sites are physically separate from (undecorated) monuments within landscapes, or in the case of those burial monuments whose complex biography includes the incorporation of reused decorated stones. The relationship between burial monuments and rock art has indeed been approached from various perspectives, focussing on spatial distribution (vicinity, superimposition, parallel manifestations), chronology (sequence, re-use, incorporation), function (landscape markers, social processes, ideological shifts), motifs (artefacts and iconographic parallels), and visual impact (monumentality, association with geomorphological features). This session invites contributions that explore these relationships within regional contexts, beyond that of single case-studies based on individual sites. Contributions should aim to discuss processes operating at wider geographical scales, and to identify trends and potential regional networks of interaction or segregation. They should also consider the methodologies required for analysis at this larger scale, and they should consider the main drivers of interpretation.

Session 6

New data, new insights: recent developments on funerary practices, gestures, and life of late Neolithic/ Chalcolithic communities

Maria João Neves (CIAS - University of Coimbra, Portugal) Ana Maria Silva (CIAS - Universidade de Coimbra) Cristina Tejedor-Rodríguez (CSIC, Spain)

In the past decade, many megalithic sites have been excavated and studied in the Iberian Peninsula. Excavations, oriented towards an archaeothanatological exploitation, biological anthropological studies of ancient series housed in museums, genetics and radiocarbon dating of series of individuals deposed in a single or several monuments, have produced a serious amount of data that allow us to look in far more detail to past collective funerary practices. These approaches also permit to discuss with rigorous data, monuments biography, periods of construction, use, rebuilt and abandonment, thus their biographies.

In this session, we aim to gather a set of presentations that reflect the last decade developments regarding funerary practices, gestures, and life of late Neolithic/ Chalcolithic collective funerary monuments. Results that come from mobility studies based on isotopic data, and DNA analysis that inlight the past lives of these communities are welcome.

Local and non-local raw material selection, transportation, processing and use in the construction of tumuli, megaliths, and artifacts

Telmo Pereira (Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, UNIARQ - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) José Mirão (Laboratório HERCULES, Universidade de Évora, Portugal) Patricia Moita Laboratório HERCULES - Universidade de Évora, Portugal) Carlos Odriozola Lloret (Universidad de Sevilla, UNIARQ - Universidade de Lisboa), Miriam Cubas (Aranzadi Society of Sciences, Spain)

Chronology and characteristics of funerary rituals show a wide range of idiosyncrasies along Eurasia since the Neolithic. One common aspect is the spread of different megalithic structures used as funerary monuments. The recording of human bones, grave goods and construction materials from these structures, allows addressing questions focused on core concepts of these populations that build these monuments. Some of these questions are related with their dynamics and social organization, procurement strategies, human mobility patterns, social and economic interaction, raw material economics, human cognition and social complexity. The application of analytical techniques related to the identification of raw materials used in the production of grave goods allow us to recognize the exchange networks and social implications. Such studies are commonly focused on materials, either rare or common, that allow pinpointing their geological origin in a landscape. Furthermore, research on Prehistoric materials is commonly focused on production and distribution of specific artifacts such as pottery and personal adornment. Not so common to Prehistoric archaeology, but not the less, are the study of tumuli and megaliths building materials. The later are commonly focused on slab characterization and more rarely on clays and “mortars” used as building materials of the mounds that support the base and the structure of these monuments.

This session welcomes studies using high-resolution methods on raw material sourcing, selection, transportation, processing and use. The submissions should focus either on artifacts or building materials. Particular interest will be placed on those crossing different high-resolution methods and techniques for establishing the provenance of grave goods and construction materials. We encourage essays making connections with their social implications in order to set avenues towards the scientific investigation and heritage preservation of evidence and monuments.

Session 8

Geoarchaeological and environmental assessment of megalithic mounds: site formation and subsequent modifications

Pierluigi Rosina, Cristiana Ferreira, Hugo Gomes, Opeyemi Adewumi (Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal)

While earlier attention to megalithic constructions tended to focus on the stone architecture and associated artifacts, neglecting the relevance of the tumuli as secondary and primarily technical support features (e.g. as ramparts or support for moving the capstones), interest on earth constructions in general, and on mounds in particular, rose in the most recent years. In fact, the construction, decay, and occasionally rebuilding, of earthen megalithic structures is a complex and very relevant process, not only for technical, but also symbolic and social reasons. Their assessment requires a robust set of geoarchaeological methodologies (to better understand natural and anthropic agents) and environmental data (to better understand the possibilities and constraints of the former). Petrographic characterisation of slabs, combined with sedimentological, micromorphological and other geo-analysis, benefit from a detailed assessment of the surrounding vegetation and fauna for a landscape picture. This sessions calls for papers presenting case-studies where a wide range of geoarchaeological and paleoenvironmental methodologies and techniques have been combined and applied.

Session 9

Measuring the time of burial structures: searching for the oldest dates

Session proposed by the Organization

From the second half of the 20th century, the use of radiocarbon dating demanded a drastic change in theories on the genesis of the megalithic phenomenon. The preservation of charred plant and animal remain, their greater availability in funerary contexts, and the progressive reduction in costs contributed to its increased use in Prehistoric funerary contexts. However, radiocarbon dating has limitations and factors of subjectivity. Dating of plant, animal or human bone remains is dependent on site formation processes (as not always these elements are preserved), and almost always refers to the times when the funerary structures were used and not necessarily to the first use or construction.

Therefore, other methods that approach sediments such as Optically Stimulated Luminescence, provide an opportunity to reach these times, linked to the construction of the funeral monuments. This session welcomes the presentation of case studies that discuss this problem by presenting new methods and results of dating the use and construction of tumuli and megaliths in Eurasia.

Session 10

Ways of public appreciation of megalithic monuments: from local to global

Session proposed by the Organization

The representation of death is a cultural expression of unquestionable social and economical value. Outstanding examples of that are the monumental tombs of Giza, one of the most visited monuments in the World. Across Eurasia, sites as Stonehenge, Carnac, Marathon, Trialeti, Zhane, Pazyryk, Karashoky, Gochang or Daisen, are some of the many examples of megalithic and mound architecture constructions. Besides funerary, they are also examples of ritual and symbolic behaviour. Centuries after, they became also landmarks for identity, culture, learning and tourism. The recovering and cultural outreach for these monuments has allowed their use in multiple porpoises, after their scientific study. Among these porpoises one can point out cultural animation, leisure, and tourism. This gives benefits to local economical agents, mostly through national and international visitors.

Such opening to the people gives a universal value to these monuments without prejudice of their role for the local entities. There have been multiple methodological options for the qualification of these monuments in order to be understood by visitors. In the same way, there have been plenty of different offers, such as their inclusion in site museums, interpretation centers, heritage routes, activities of Prehistoric recreation. Examples of that are The European Route of Megalithic Culture (European Council) or the European Day of Megalithic Culture. Therefore, it is fundamental to present and discuss innovative solutions and best practices used in the qualification and promotion of these sites. This is particularly important when considered the scope of the social, economical changes, values and believes of the 21st Century.

Session 11

Tumuli and Megaliths in the Eurasian Steppe and Eastern Europe: regional groups, complexity differences and affinities

General session proposed by the Organization

The wide steppe from Eurasia and Eastern Europe are marked by a plethora of strong differences and affinities that set the complexity of the regional groups. These affinities and complexity have reflex on their material culture across time and space, including the construction of funerary monuments. In this session we invite researchers to present their investigation, results from innovative methods and techniques, and new interpretations of the realities from this wide landscape.

Session 12

South and East Asian megaliths

K.P. Rao (Department of History, University of Hyderabad, India)

South and East Asia is a vast territory with a large variety of landscapes. In these, megaliths and the archaeological record associated have a wide expression and richness. This session aims to bring together researchers developing their investigation in the large variety of contexts from regions such as Indonesia, China, South Korea and North Korea. Overall presentations of these regions or territories within, of results from new lab and field work, and of rituals and construction details are welcome.

Session 13

Establishing landscape patterns around later prehistoric burial-ritual sites of Atlantic islands

George Nash (Welsh Rock art Organisation, Geosciences Centre, University of Coimbra and IPT, Portugal)

There has been antiquarian and archaeological interest in later prehistoric burial-ritual monuments of the Western British Isles and Ireland since at least the 18th century. The antiquarian interest has largely focused on the monument itself, usually involving unrecorded unofficial excavations of the chamber areas; evidence of which is witnessed by the removal of the tomb architecture. During the mid-19th century a more systematic approach to archaeological excavation occurred. However, with both groups of investigators the focus was on monument and not the immediate landscape. This type of approach continued well into the 20th century with a limited number of sites being excavated using modern scientific techniques including radiocarbon dating. It was not until the latter part of the 20th century and the advent of post-processual archaeology that attention turned towards landscape. As a result, many of the heritage agencies such as Cadw, English Heritage and the Heritage Council of Ireland began to extend their exclusion zones around many megalithic monuments. Advances in geophysical, surveying and remote sensing techniques such as LiDAR have exposed complex buried prehistoric geographies, and revealed through targeted excavation are buried monuments such as barrows, henges, hengiforms, recumbent monoliths and tumuli suggest a complex landscape existed and shows that individual monuments cannot be looked at in isolation. This session will concentrate of those later prehistoric ritual landscapes that have been located around burial-ritual sites using various geotechnical techniques. Evidence shows that a set of complex histories existed suggesting continuity in ritual activity. Scholars are invited to present interpretative as well archaeological fieldwork results.

Session 14

Funerary architectures in the Mediterranean

General session proposed by the Organization

The Mediterranean region is characterised by funerary architectures wide a wide diversity but also regional and chronological standards. These realities have been focus of studied for almost two centuries. In this session we invite researchers to gather towards the presentation of different overviews, approaches and research projects that focus this geographic space.

Session 15

Mechanisms of ritual and landscape: How rock art interacts with dearth and burial

George Nash (Welsh Rock art Organisation, Geosciences Centre, University of Coimbra and IPT, Portugal) Sara Garcês (Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal)

When considering the role of megalithic structures in western Europe there is a realisation that the structure per se cannot be looked at in isolation. Previously the archaeological literature tended to focus purely on the architecture of the monument and the contents that were recovered from excavation. Frustratingly, the archaeological literature was also heavily focused on architectural traits elsewhere, suggesting very tenuous links between certain monuments that were sometimes hundreds of kilometres apart. Missing from this enormous data base were concepts such as landscape, philosophical discourse and, pertinent to this session, the association with rock art.

In the recent past scholars have begun to address these and other issues. Clearly, monument building, use and abandonment were the foci of complex interactions between individuals, groups and the movement of ideas. The use of rock art within the moment record still evokes much debate with questions such as: Was rock art incorporated into monument building or was it part of a later tradition that was added to within an already-established monument? What did the rock art mean and what was its relationship with death, burial and ritual? Finally, how did certain motifs such the simple cupmark and the concentric circle venture from the internal spaces of a Neolithic monument to the open landscape of the Bronze Age?

In this session we ask these questions and more. Scholars are invited to submit abstracts that deal with monument architecture and the relationship it had with rock art. We are particularly interested in changes in rock art location during later prehistory along the Atlantic Façade, from the Iberian Peninsula to southern Scandinavia.

Session 16

Monumental sites in the landscape: multiscale and multimethods approach

Vincent Ard (CNRS – UMR 5608 TRACES – University Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France) Vivien Mathé (UMR 7266 LIENSs – University La Rochelle, France) Emmanuel Mens (CNRS – UMR 5608 TRACES – University Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France) Marylise Onfray (UMR 8215 Trajectoires, France)

​The landscape was for the first time modified and shaped by the Neolithic farmers, who invented new architectural expressions such as megaliths. Generally considered as the main form of Neolithic monumentality in Europe, the megalith phenomenon, with its multiple expressions (tumulus, dolmens, stelae including some engraved ones), must today be put back into perspective by comparing it to other forms of monumentality. These can belong to the world of the dead or the world of the living: funerary enclosures, causewayed enclosures, or long houses. All these architectures reflect profound social changes, remarkable innovation capacities, and constant and renewed adaptation to the mineral and vegetal environment. The ambition of this session is to confront these monumental architectures in a systemic approach from the chamber to the landscape in different contexts to better understand the emerging conditions and the development of this phenomenon in Europe but also in more distant context of Asia.

Like the ongoing French project MONUMEN, these issues require a three-dimensional analysis of these sites, and re-integrate them within a landscape perspective by relying on thorough knowledge of geomorphological and environmental contexts. In order to do so, multiple approaches (geology, technology, geoarchaeology…) and tools (3D, GIS, geophysics, LIDAR, satellite and aerial multispectral imagery…) will be used. This session will favour multidisciplinary approach integrating megaliths into their landscape.

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VII Congreso Internacional sobre el Neolítico en la Península Ibérica

Sevilla (SPAIN), 29 de enero a 1 de febrero de 2020

La serie de Congresos Internacionales sobre el Neolítico en la Península Ibérica dio comienzo en 1995 con la realización entonces de la primera reunión, llevada a cabo en Gavà-Bellaterra. A partir de esa fecha se ha conseguido regularidad en sus posteriores convocatorias, celebradas, por este orden, en las ciudades de Valencia, Santander, Alicante, Lisboa y Granada.

Como el nombre genérico de estas reuniones indica, el objetivo principal de las mismas ha sido y es la puesta al día de los más recientes trabajos de investigación llevados a cabo sobre el Neolítico en el ámbito de la Península Ibérica, época de especiales y profundas transformaciones en el devenir de la Prehistoria occidental. Las distintas sesiones han servido, pues, como presentación de nuevos resultados y como foro de discusión de las distintas interpretaciones de éstos. La publicación de sus actas ha representado igualmente un punto de partida y acicate de nuevos proyectos y perspectivas de estudio tanto en el ámbito hispano como en otros del Mediterráneo occidental y de la vertiente atlántica europea.

La trayectoria hasta ahora desarrollada ha conseguido proponer consensos académicos importantes acerca de los usos terminológicos, periodizaciones, definición de problemas y otros pormenores que caracterizan a esta fase prehistórica. Igualmente, han dinamizado la actualización de enfoques teóricos y metodológicos, creando una riqueza de perspectivas científicas de gran repercusión a la hora de emprender nuevas propuestas interpretativas y proyectos renovados de investigación. Además, un aspecto fundamental ha sido poder incardinar cada vez con más precisión el Neolítico hispano en el contexto de las culturas neolíticas mediterráneas, localizando los vínculos que este ámbito ibérico estableció con otras áreas periféricas y, en última instancia, con los focos de origen de la expansión de la economía agropecuaria y de las sociedades campesinas desde Oriente hacia Occidente. Uno de los logros más señalados puede ser haber puesto en relación campos de estudio muy diversos, como la antropología cultural y física, la arqueometría, la paleoecología, la genética, la arqueozoología, las perspectivas de género, la historia del arte o la arqueoastronomía. Todo ello ha permitido comprender mejor los profundos cambios acontecidos en la Península Ibérica a lo largo del Neolítico, desde las comunidades incipientes de agricultores y ganaderos del VI milenio hasta las sociedades mucho más complejas del IV a.C. Los foros de estas reuniones periódicas han servido, además, para poner al día a una amplia comunidad de especialistas de los datos adquiridos en las últimas intervenciones arqueológicas y estudios de campo en general, cuya difusión por este medio ha acelerado la adquisición de conocimientos en un vasto grupo de investigadores.

Una vez llevados a cabo los contactos necesarios con el Comité Científico Intercongresos, en febrero de 2018 el Grupo de Investigación Tellus (HUM-949 del Plan Andaluz de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación), radicado en el Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad de Sevilla, se puso manos a la obra para organizar la VII reunión. Fue el compromiso adquirido por sus componentes en la clausura del Congreso de 2016. Para ello, una comisión elegida al efecto se reunió en la Universidad de Granada con los responsables de la reunión anterior a fin de recabar de ellos la información necesaria y recibir la experiencia que la última convocatoria había aportado. Con esos datos se llegó a la siguiente propuesta:

Convocatoria:

El VII Congreso Internacional sobre el Neolítico en la Península Ibérica tendrá su sede principal en la Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la Universidad de Sevilla, y se celebrará desde el 29 de enero al 1 de febrero de 2020

Los trabajos se llevarán a cabo en sesiones de mañana y tarde los días 29 (miércoles), 30 (jueves) y 31 (viernes) de enero, quedando reservado el sábado 1 de febrero para una excursión a enclaves arqueológicos cercanos del Dolmen de Alberite y la Cueva de la Dehesilla.

Aparte de la Conferencia Plenaria Inaugural, se llevarán a cabo dos clases de comunicaciones, las orales y las de tipo póster. Todas ellas podrán ser publicadas en las actas generales del Congreso, previa selección por parte del Comité Científico del mismo. Estas intervenciones se organizarán por ámbitos temáticos en las distintas sesiones.

En paralelo a estos trabajos, se ofrece la posibilidad de llevar a cabo sesiones monográficas a iniciativa de los propios congresistas inscritos, que serán propuestas a la Secretaría Científica y que tendrán que recibir también la aprobación del Comité Científico Intercongresos. Las distintas propuestas sobre tales sesiones monográficas deberán comunicarse por correo electrónico a la Secretaría Científica del Congreso, teniendo como fecha tope el 31 de julio de 2019. En el correo deberá incluirse en nombre de los interesados, título tentativo de la propuesta, un resumen de entre 600 y 1000 palabras donde se exponga la trayectoria y estado de la cuestión de la temática/técnica/método que se propone en la sesión, así como una justificación de su interés en el congreso y en el panorama actual de la investigación del neolítico peninsular. Deberá indicarse también el número mínimo estimado de comunicaciones y duración de la sesión para la reserva de espacio.

Durante los días de celebración del Congreso se comunicarán las normas de edición de los distintos modelos de intervenciones que deberán remitirse antes del 31 de julio de 2020. Estas normas se enviarán igualmente a los correos electrónicos suministrados por los congresistas inscritos

1. Nuevos sitios y secuencias: estratigrafía, sedimentología, dataciones

Engloba las contribuciones que dan a conocer nuevos datos sobre yacimientos arqueológicos neolíticos, secuencias estratigráficas, fechas radiocarbónicas, etc.

2. Paisajes neolíticos: paleoambiente, agricultura y ganadería

Incluye aproximaciones de diversa índole sobre paleoambiente y uso de los recursos naturales por parte de las poblaciones neolíticas.

3. Simbolismo: arte rupestre, mundo funerario, cosmovisiones

Engloba perspectivas técnicas, metodológicas y teóricas que atienden a aspectos simbólicos de las poblaciones y comunidades neolíticas.

4. Identidades neolíticas: arqueología de género y sociedades neolíticas, etnicidad y territorio, comportamientos y grupos de edad

Reúne trabajos de carácter metodológico empírico que suponen aproximaciones sobre aspectos de identidad social.

5. Demografía, tecnología e intercambio: relaciones inter e intracomunitarias

Incluye aproximaciones sobre aspectos demográficos, de interacción intradémica e interdémica a partir de datos arqueológicos de diverso carácter.

6. IV milenio a.C.: Neolítico final, origen de los recintos de fosos

Sesión monográfica sobre el Neolítico Final sobre cualquier aproximación que se ajuste a dicho marco cronocultural en el ámbito ibérico o que se relaciones con la cuestión específica del origen de los recintos de fosos.

7. Sesión monográfica. Arqueología biomolecular aplicada a la investigación del neolítico

Foro debate sobre los nuevos estudios biomoleculares que se están llevando a cabo en yacimientos neolíticos de la Península Ibérica.

8a. Sesión monográfica. Cazadores, rebaños y pastores: Zooarqueología

8b. Sesión monográfica. Cazadores, rebaños y pastores: aproximaciones multidisciplinares a los espacios de ocupación ganadera

Aproximaciones diversas a las poblaciones animales y cabañas domésticas, así como a la caracterización y discusión sobre los espacios ganaderos.

9a. Sesión monográfica. Transiciones y cambios culturales: Cueva de la Cocina y el proceso de neolitización​

9b. Sesión monográfica. Transiciones y cambios culturales: Nuevos datos y aproximaciones sobre la transición neolítico antiguo-medio

Trabajos específicos dedicados a los cambios y transiciones culturales del registro arqueológico neolítico, especialmente al proceso de neolitización y a la comparación entre los denominados Neolítico antiguo y medio

https://www.baobabeventos.com/neoliticopeninsular2020

25th NEOLITHIC SEMINAR

Evolution and Cultural Changes in Prehistory

8 November to 9 November 2019

Department of Archaeology

Faculty of Arts

University of Ljubljana

ANNOUNCEMENT

We are delighted to announce that the 25th Neolithic Seminar will be held on Friday, 8 November through Saturday, 9 November 2019.

The conference aims to discuss perceptions, conceptions and (verbal and mathematical) modelling of evolution and cultural changes in prehistory as well as the ways in which culture extends biology, and how biology extends through culture. The development of the theory in evolutionary biology is older than in archaeology, and while Spencer's versions of evolution became an integral part of ‘new archaeology’ with Binford, in parallel studies, Cavalli-Sforza & Feldman and Boyd & Richerson introduced mathematically modelled cultural processes in prehistory that were based on Darwin’s principles. They suggested that humans have a second inheritance system (i.e. culture) in addition to their genes. In this postulate, knowledge, skills and values residing in human brains constitute the cultural genotype, while artefacts and behaviours constitute the phenotype. The two systems may interact in complex processes, and while genetic inheritance is transmitted only vertically (from parents to child), cultural traits transmissions work through social learning and can be transmitted horizontally (between unrelated individuals) as well.

Since then several interpretative models (e.g., gene-culture coevolution, dual-inheritance, human niche construction, punctuated equilibrium, punctuated accumulation of cultural innovations, cumulative culture, optimal foraging theory, diet breadth or prey-choice model) have been introduced in cultural evolution, population genetics, human ecology and human behavioural ecology but only a few were adopted in archaeology. Several concepts of culture have also been proposed, suggesting that culture can act as information acquired by social learning or as a system of behaviour and its products. Classic examples of interactions between cultural and genetic evolution are the Neolithic transition to agriculture and lactase persistence in adulthood.

On the other hand, the evolution of material culture is studied in environmental, demographic and social contexts, which focus on within- and between-group variability (e.g., sets of artefact assemblages, sites distributions), long-run effects of distinct cultural transmission mechanisms on material cultural evolution, on identification of phylogenetic relationships in artefacts assemblages, on long-term cultural stability and dynamics of change and diffusions of innovations, and on cultural extinctions and instances of convergent and divergent cultural evolution.

The conference is an international event, organized continuously by the Department of Archaeology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. It remains a locus eventi that connects people and institutions globally. The Neolithic Seminar proceedings are published in the Documenta Praehistorica international journal (numbers XXI-XLIV are available at

https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/issue/archive).

CALL FOR PAPERS

This is the call for papers for the 25th Neolithic Seminar ‘Evolution and Cultural Changes in Prehistory’. Participation is in the form of a presentation followed by a discussion.

ABSTRACTS

Participants are invited to submit an abstract of 300 to 400 words, including name, institution and title of the paper. The deadline for the abstracts is 1 June 2019. Please send your abstracts to: mihael.budja@ff.uni-lj.si

DYNAMIQUES CULTURELLES ET TRANSFORMATION DES PAYSAGES DANS UN CONTINENT EN MUTATION :

DU BIG DRY A L’HOLOCENE DANS L'EST AFRICAIN

Hommage au Professeur Xavier Gutherz

25-28 septembre, Toulouse - France

http://w3.colloquescprs.univ-tlse2.fr/spip.php?rubrique124&lang=fr

L’Unité Archéologie des Dynamiques Sociales appartenant au Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Institución Milá y Fontanals, Barcelone) va réaliser le VIIIème Séminaire de Technologie Préhistorique

Le séminaire sera consacré à l’étude de l’outillage en obsidienne, sa manufacture, diffusion et usages dans le Néolithique de la Méditerranée occidentale.

L’exploitation de l’obsidienne en Méditerranée occidentale fut un phénomène récurrent dans la préhistoire des versants ligure et tyrrhénienne de la Péninsule italique, ainsi comme dans les grandes îles de ce basin: la Corse et la Sardaigne. Les sources de cette matière première sont localisées dans quatre îles italiennes: Sardaigne, Lipari, Palmarola et Pantelleria, et leurs productions lithiques furent l’objet d’une grande distribution géographique pendant le Néolithique, atteignant le Midi français, ainsi que le nord-est de la Péninsule ibérique. Outre la caractérisation géochimique et la détermination de son origine, le séminaire sera ciblé vers l’étude des techniques appliquées dans le débitage de l’outillage laminaire au Néolithique du Ponant Méditerranéen. Nous allons surtout nous concentrer sur la taille par percussion indirecte et la pression selon diverses modalités, en plus de reproduire expérimentalement ces types de productions. Nous traiterons enfin leurs usages préhistoriques à partir de l’analyse fonctionnelle moyennant l’étude de leurs traces d’usure. Tout cela aboutit à une approche holistique de ces productions lesquelles ont joué un rôle important dès le début de la néolithisation, ainsi que dans le Néolithique moyen, lorsque des réseaux de distribution ont été mis en place qui ont conduit à leur distribution dans une vaste zone géographique du bassin occidental de la Méditerranée.

Plus d'infos

tecnologiaprehistorica@imf.csic.es

http://www.prehistoire.org/offres/gestion/actus_515_38166-911/la-production-de-l-outillage-en-obsidienne-sa-diffusion-et-ses-usages-dans-le-neolithique-de-la-mediterranee-occidentale-production-of-obsidian-tools-its-distribution-and-uses-in-the-western-mediterranean-neolithic.html

5^èmes échanges transdisciplinaires sur les constructions en terre crue.

Les questions techniques et lexicales ayant été largement présentées et débattues au cours des quatre premières rencontres, la nécessité s’imposait d’envisager les architectures de terre, archéologiques ou patrimoniales, sous d’autres angles. Ainsi, la manifestation de 2019 est centrée sur des approches sociales, économiques et historiques de la construction en terre et interroge le fait de construire avec ce matériau.

Les thèmes retenus ambitionnent d’appréhender l’architecture, l’habitat et la construction en terre selon deux directions :

- D’une part, en focalisant les analyses sur des problématiques sociétales et économiques en vue de cerner la place d’un matériau, souvent réputé « pauvre », à la fois dans le processus constructif et dans l’image de l’habitat qu’il produit ; par exemple, seront approchés le statut socio-économique des commanditaires et/ou occupants de maisons en terre, des bâtisseurs ; l’enjeu visuel représenté par la terre : est-elle visible, assumée ou dissimulée, comment est-elle perçue socialement ou ethnographiquement ; la production et la commercialisation de matériaux de série dans des sociétés rurales ou urbaines pré-industrialisées ; la place de ce matériau dans des comptes de construction,…

- D’autre part, à travers la prise en compte de grandes échelles chronologiques et spatiales, en vue d’élaborer des synthèses de type géographique et historique sur l’évolution et la répartition des architectures qui privilégient la terre crue (ou certaines techniques en particulier).

Les « échanges transdisciplinaires », dans lesquels les débats jouent un rôle important, sont ouverts à toute la communauté scientifique.

Comme les précédents, les actes des 5^èmes Échanges seront publiés aux Éditions de l’Espérou par les soins du comité de pilotage avec l’assistance du comité scientifique.

https://terre-crue5.sciencesconf.org/

Dans le bassin nord-occidental de la Méditerranée, la fin du Néolithique est marquée par l'émergence de nombreux groupes culturels et d’une multitude de faciès géographiques, caractérisés sur le plan funéraire, par la dimension collective de leurs sépultures. Ces dernières sont installées soit dans des milieux naturels (grottes, avens, abris) soit construites artificiellement (dolmens, hypogées, etc.). Dans les zones de forte densité de ces deux grands types de contextes (Grands Causses, Ardèche, Cévennes, etc.), l’environnement et le contexte géologique se prête à chacune de ces pratiques et ne sauraient constituer un facteur discriminant. Mais plusieurs questions se posent sur le plan anthropologique, socio-culturel et structurel.

Ces deux expressions funéraires sont-elles le reflet d’une appartenance culturelle distincte ou celui d’un statut social différent au sein d’une même communauté ? Ce qui aux premiers abords ne semble pas transparaître dans le mobilier d’accompagnement, similaire dans les deux types de contextes.

D’autre part, d’un point de vue anthropologique, les études témoignent d’une sélection funéraire spécifique, qui n'inclut pas nécessairement toute la population. On peut alors se demander quelles étaient les conditions d’accès à telle ou telle tombe. Par ailleurs, le recrutement funéraire est-il le même dans les grottes et dans les dolmens ? En résumé, peut-on identifier des pratiques funéraires similaires ou distinctes selon le territoire et selon la chronologie ?

Les tombes mégalithiques sont des architectures monumentales qui ont nécessité un investissement collectif certain pour leur construction et leur fonctionnement. De même, les grottes exigent de lourds aménagements afin de faciliter leur accès, leur circulation interne et l’agencement de l’espace funéraire. Les utilisateurs des grottes sont-ils des constructeurs de mégalithes ? Et quels sont les indices archéologiques à notre disposition pour en discuter ?

L'objectif de cette table ronde est donc de réunir archéologues, spécialistes de l’architecture mégalithique ou du milieu souterrain, anthropologues biologiques et spécialistes des mobiliers dans une démarche pluridisciplinaire pour discuter de cette variabilité funéraire. Les travaux existants abordent de manière exclusive l’un ou l’autre type de tombe et les tentatives de corrélation sont restées relativement rares étant donné le peu de données récentes et fiables pour ces deux types de contextes.

Informations / Program: melieleroy@hotmail.fr or recchiajohanna@yahoo.fr

1^st Conference on the EARLY NEOLITHIC of EUROPE

The origin of the Neolithic and inherent economic, social and ideological changes, as well as their expansion worldwide is one of the most significant events in the history of humankind. The Neolithic constitutes a key theme in Prehistory and Archaeology, as it witnessed the development and consolidation of new social and cultural communities and the decline of the hunter-gatherer way of life.

For this reason, the Unit ‘Archaeology of Social Dynamics’, hosted in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC-IMF, Barcelona), in collaboration with the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, has organized the 1^st Conference on the EARLY NEOLITHIC of EUROPE (Barcelona, 6-8 November, 2019). This conference aims to be a meeting of researchers studying the early Neolithic in Europe and surroundings areas, in relation with the neolithisation process in the continent. This process followed different rhythms and presented singularities in each geographic area, and was therefore a very complex phenomenon. In order to address this scientific challenge, the conference is organised in nine thematic sessions:

1. Neolithic spread and supraregional interactions, chaired by Catherine Perlès (Université Paris Nanterre);

2. Chronology and modelling, chaired by Stephen Shennan (University College London);

3. Human–environment interaction, chaired by Jean-François Berger (Université Lumière Lyon);

4. Population characteristics and dynamics, chaired by Mattias Jakobsson (Uppsala Universitet);

5. Territory and settlement, chaired by Daniela Hofmann (University of Hamburg);

6. Subsistence, chaired by Amy Bogaard (University of Oxford);

7. Technological processes, chaired by Annelou van Gijn (Universiteit Leiden);

8. Funerary practices, chaired by Christian Jeunesse (Université de Strasbourg);

9. Symbolism, chaired by Goce Naumov (University Goce Delcev).

The call for abstracts is open from October 1, 2018 to May 15, 2019. We positively welcome multidisciplinary approaches, regional syntheses and/or contextualised case studies.

For more details, please check the conference website: www.ene2019.org

The Prehistoric Society Europa Conference 2019: Neolithic Connections: Britain, The Channel Islands and Francewill be held at the Pomme d’Or Hotel in St Helier, Jersey from 14–16 June 2019. This year the conference celebrates the achievements of Dr Alison Sheridan, National Museums Scotland, in the field of European prehistory.

On Friday, join Jersey Heritage and the Prehistoric Society for an all-day guided tour of some of Jersey’s spectacular archaeological sites (a picnic lunch will be provided). Sites on the tour include: Ville-ès-Nouaux, St Helier; La Sergenté, St Brelade; Les Monts Grantez & Le Pinacle, St Ouen; Le Couperon & La Pouquelaye de Faldouet, St Martin; and La Hougue Bie Grouville. Places are limited and require a separate ticket. Many of the sites on this tour are owned by La Société Jersiaise and managed by Jersey Heritage, and we are grateful for their contributions to this conference.

Confirmed speakers include: Tom Booth (Natural History Museum), Chantal Conneller (Newcastle University), Olga Finch (Jersey Heritage), François Giligny (Université Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne), Andy Jones (Cornwall Archaeological Unit), Luc Laporte (University of Rennes), Lesley McFadyen (Birkbeck, University of London), Chris Scarre (University of Durham), and Fraser Sturt (University of Southampton).

Along with a day and a half of lectures and a fieldtrip, the conference will also include exhibitors and a poster display. Those interested in displaying a poster should send a 150 word abstract to Annabell Zander (az661@york.ac.uk) by Sunday 12 May 2019.

Informations: http://www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/event/Europa_conference_2019/

La première journée du 33e colloque interrégional qui se tiendra à Saint-Dié-des-Vosges les 8 et 9 novembre 2019 sera consacrée au phénomène des enceintes dans le nord-ouest de l’Europe. La dernière décennie a en effet vu se multiplier les découvertes de dispositifs palissadés et/ou fossoyés sur une vaste aire géographique allant de la Normandie à l’Alsace et du Nord à la Bourgogne et s’inscrivant dans un arc temporel couvrant l’ensemble du Néolithique ; le temps semble venu d’examiner l’ensemble de ces données afin de tenter une synthèse du phénomène à l’échelle du territoire national en échangeant nos points de vue et nous confrontant aux acquis de la recherche et aux problématiques émergeantes dans les régions limitrophes (Allemagne, Scandinavie, Îles britanniques).

Ces enceintes recouvrent une grande diversité de formes (enceinte à pseudo-fossés, à fossés discontinu ou continu, palissadées ou non, pourvues ou non d’un talus interne etc.) et probablement, de fonctions (habitat, refuges, sanctuaire etc.). Ces points sont depuis longtemps débattus au cas par cas, aussi souhaitons-nous privilégier une approche synthétique du phénomène « enceinte » en abordant les questions de la chronologie, du phylum et de la typologie, en élargissant l’analyse à l’échelle des régions culturelles et en insistant particulièrement sur la question de la fonction de ces monuments selon une approche fondée sur l’ensemble des indices disponibles (localisation, architecture, restes humains, dépôts de faune, rejets domestiques, caractère des outillages etc.). Les hypothèses interprétatives devront être au coeur des débats.

La seconde journée sera consacrée à l’actualité de la recherche.

Comité d’organisation

Philippe Lefranc (Inrap), Anthony Denaire (UB), Christophe Croutsch (AA), Association InterNéo

Comité scientifique

Rose-Marie Arbogast (CNRS), Françoise Bostyn (Inrap), Vincent Blouet (MCC), Christophe Croutsch (AA), Jérôme Duzbouloz (CNRS), Anthony Denaire (UB), Anne Hauzeur (Paléotime), Christian Jeunesse (Unistra), Philippe Lefranc (Inrap), Xavier Margarit (MCC), Cécile Monchablon (Inrap), Frédéric Seara (MCC)

Institutions partenaires

INRAP, UMR 7044 - Archimède, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, SRA Alsace, Archéologie Alsace, Ville de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

Lieu

Le colloque se tiendra au 13 rue Saint-Charles dans la salle de conférence du Musée de la vie dans les Hautes-Vosges (Musée Pierre Noël). La ville de Saint-Dié, à mi-chemin de Strasbourg et de Nancy est desservie par trains au départ de ces deux villes et par TGV direct au départ de la Gare de l’Est. Pour ceux qui choisiront la voiture, un parking gratuit sera mis à la disposition des participants du colloque devant la cathédrale, à proximité immédiate de la salle de conférence. Enfin, il est possible de rallier Saint-Dié depuis l’aéroport international d’Entzheim (une navette pourra être mise en place en fonction des heures d’arrivée). La ville offre de nombreuses possibilités d’hébergement, avec un choix d’hôtels de toutes catégories, des gîtes et de nombreuses chambres d’hôtes, en ville ou en montagne.

Informations : https://interneo.hypotheses.org/

The aim of this International Meeting «Megaliths of the World» is to review the current state of knowledge, drawing, for the first time, on the expertise of active archaeological researchers who are resident in each of the continents concerned.

The past 20 years have witnessed the biginnings of research on megalithic monuments in geographical regions that had previously been ignored; in other regions, by contras, the pattern of research has been completly transformed; but the current state of knowledge remains very uneven frome one region to another. There are differences in academic traditions, and in the kinds of sites that are being studied, and each belongs within a distinct archaeological, historical, cultural and geographical context. Althought the term «megalith» itself has wide popular recognition, what researchers and the public understand by «megalith» differs widely from place to place.

At a global scale, we already know that megalithic monuments were constructed at different periods, in regions often very dispersed, and frequently by peoples who had no contact with one other. Before considering the evidence frome the different periods and regions, however, the notion of «megalith» will first be explored, by speakers drawn from each continent. The intention is hence to discern exactly what everyone means by the concept. This inderlines a key objective of the meetin, which is to establish a dialogue between researchers who have not necessarily had the opportunity to meet previously, and who are confronted in their own region by diverse and varied megalithic traditions. It is hoped also to draw attention to different, or novel, methods of research, in order to encourage and enrich future enquiry in this field.

This meeting will take place over six days, including one day for the excursion, during which some 50 invited speakers will present different megaliths research status for each region of the world concerned. The present call for papers through posters is open to all researchers. A session of 2 hours will be reserved exclusively for the presentation of posters. Each poster may present a case study of international interest, a peculiar synthesis or innovative methodological work in the study of megaliths. The various proposals will be evalued by the Scientifc Committee of the Meeting. The ones that will be selected will open some rights to publication in the proceedings of the Meeting.

Online submission of tittle and proposed abstract: dead line 15/04/2019

https://immv2019.sciencesconf.org/

La carrière de Paul Ambert a montré une bivalence permanente placée entre un besoin de comprendre les paysages et la compréhension de l’évolution des sociétés humaines. Géologue et géomorphologue, Paul avait la connaissance de la formation des reliefs, prenant en compte toutes les échelles de temps. En parallèle, sa passion pour l’archéologie, qui l’a saisi dès son plus jeune âge, l’a amené à s’interroger sur l’évolution sociale des groupes humains de la Préhistoire, ainsi qu’à replacer l’Homme dans l’évolution géomorphologique de la France méditerranéenne.

Paul c’était d’abord un regard qui au premier coup d’œil découvrait son interlocuteur et l’emmenait, comme pour un test, sur les passions de sa vie, le quotidien, la nature, le sport, la géologie, la géomorphologie et la préhistoire. Paul aimait plus que tout partager ses connaissances et celles des autres, l’humanité du travail en équipe et ce besoin insatiable de comprendre comment et pourquoi aujourd’hui nous en sommes là. Que s’est-il passé hier sur terre pour que l’homme d’aujourd’hui comme celui d’avant-hier ait réagi en ce sens et nous ait laissé ces traces ?

De fait, replaçant en permanence le rôle de l’évolution géomorphologique dans l’impact naturel imposé aux sociétés anciennes, mais aussi en retour, l’impact de l’Homme dans cette évolution, Paul a compris que la richesse scientifique était dans cette interaction. Il a dès lors regardé sous un autre angle les sites archéologiques, s’interrogeant sur les discordances entre une analyse uniquement portée sur l’objet et l’histoire de la matrice qui l’enfermait dont on ne peut le dissocier. Cet objet ne devenait plus qu’un simple marqueur dans la vie du site. Paul a su convaincre, par un discours simple mais argumenté, que le fait archéologique n’avait d’intérêt que s’il était intégré dans les faits naturels. Mais cette démarche, si elle parait évidente aujourd’hui, n’était pas acquise à l’époque. Elle a été le fruit de très longues recherches de terrain, d’une expérience acquise par les anciens, par ses prédécesseurs dont il savait analyser le discours et replacer le travail dans un contexte passé, souvent difficile et sans repère : d’autres temps, d’autres moyens. Paul a toujours su apprécier le travail réalisé, il a très vite compris que l’erreur de la recherche d’hier lui permettait aujourd’hui d’avancer pour asseoir la connaissance de demain. C’est dans la pleine cohérence et respect de cette démarche, de cette implication permanente entre le fait naturel et le fait anthropique que Paul a renouvelé la lecture des sites archéologiques, a affiné la lecture géomorphologique par l’archéologie : Paul a été un des premiers géoarchéologues.

Paul avait également et surtout envie de partager ses recherches, transmettre ses connaissances et son expérience. Il avait aussi besoin de puiser dans les autres cette énergie dont il se nourrissait. Il recherchait des regards complémentaires capables de l’interroger, de l’obliger à comprendre autrement. Paul n’était pas isolé, il collaborait énormément avec une foule d’autres chercheurs, issus de nombreux laboratoires. Il ne croyait pas aux frontières qui, comme son esprit, devaient être ouvertes. Mais Paul appréciait plus que tout « son équipe » ses amis, qui au quotidien sur le terrain et dans une approche naturaliste avec ce regard élargi qu’il appréciait tant, lui permettait de renouveler les données de ses recherches. Paul croyait et appréciait, plus que tout, les jeunes chercheurs. Ceux qui étaient motivés, ouverts et disponibles pouvaient compter sur son soutien indéfectible : ses connaissances, comme sa bibliothèque et son cœur leurs étaient ouverts.

Qui aujourd’hui a conscience de la contribution de Paul Ambert

à l’approche géoarchéologique, celle qui va de la coupe au paysage, du tesson à la source d’argile, de la truelle au marteau de géologue !

Les motivations sont ainsi multiples à avoir fait naître le projet de ce colloque en hommage à Paul Ambert. Plus que de fêter l’homme, et il le mérite, cette rencontre se veut non pas comme une reconnaissance, mais bien l’explication d’un travail, d’une recherche polynucléaire largement diversifiée dans ses thèmes. Cette carrière a été rendue plus que difficile par une maladie qui aurait poussé tout un chacun dans le « claustra » personnel. Mais ce sont ces difficultés souvent incontournables au quotidien qui ont poussé Paul à avancer sans se recroqueviller sur les résultats d’une recherche qui semblait suffisante pour d’autres. C’est en avançant en dehors des préjugés, sans hésiter à remettre en cause les concepts, que Paul a renouvelé l’histoire de la recherche.

Ce colloque présentera deux sessions placées autour des recherches conduites par Paul. La première abordera, autour de personnes invitées, des synthèses qui montreront l’originalité et l’impact des travaux de Paul dans les disciplines considérées :

La géologie, la géomorphologie, la karstologie, la géoarchéologie, l’archéologie des territoires, la Préhistoire, le Paléolithique, l’art pariétal, les sociétés du Néolithique, le phénomène du mégalithisme, la paléométallurgie.

La deuxième session de ce colloque concernera plus directement l’actualité de la recherche dans les thématiques d’études abordées par Paul. Ces communications seront de préférence ouvertes aux jeunes chercheurs et permettront de mesurer les acquis et les ouvertures des problématiques si chères à Paul. Une session poster est également envisagée et ce, en fonction du nombre des propositions de communications.

Ce colloque sera également l’occasion de fêter les 40 ans des recherches archéologiques autour du district minier de Cabrières-Péret, travaux dans lesquels toutes les sensibilités de Paul se sont exprimées. Comme Paul le voulait, sur le terrain, ce doit être un moment simple mais festif, sans fioritures ni façade, uniquement du vrai, du direct…

Informations: https://www.colloquepaulambert.fr/

The 4th M BC in Europe:

Exploring the supraregional entanglements as triggers for cultural, social and economic transformations

Bern (Switzerland)

September 2019

Theme: Interpreting the archaeological record: artefacts, humans and landscapes

Authors:

Marie Charnot (France) Université de Bourgogne - UMR 6298 ARTEHIS

Loïc Jammet-Reynal (France) Archéologie Alsace ; Université de Strasbourg - UMR 7044

Philipp Gleich (Switzerland) University of Basel

Albert Hafner (Switzerland) University of Bern, Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Prehistory ;

University of Bern, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research

Keywords: European Late Neolithic, material culture entanglements, transformations, 4th millennium

The 4th millennium BC is a time of radical transformations in the European Neolithic. Moreover, the 35th century is considered as a ‘turning point’ by many researchers (Pétrequin et al., 2006 ; Fedele, 2013). On one hand, long-distance exchanges can be traced by mapping supraregional entanglements in pottery styles, lithic tools and metal objects. For example potteries evocating Munzingen shapes that are typical for the Upper Rhine Valley can be found on the Swiss Plateau too, or polished axes made from vosgian rocks were distributed as far as the Lake Constance regions. On the other hand, fundamental general changes in material culture (early copper metallurgy in the East) and ritual practices (expansion of collective burials) between the first and second part of the 4th millennium raise the issue of contacts that social groups have maintained among themselves, in time and space.

The aim of this session is to gain a deeper understanding of such phenomena by asking the following questions:

• How can we identify and interpret different forms of relationships between social groups in the 4th M BC?

• How do they change over time until the beginning of the 3rd M BC?

• To what extent are we able to identify, through the study of material culture, markers of filiation and transmission between different regional groups?

• Can we approach the reasons for transformations?

In some parts of Europe, the 4th millennium is commonly referred to as the Chalcolithic (Lichardus et al., 1985). Even if the copper metallurgy is not widely adopted by every region in Europe at that time, this millennium has been over and over pointed out as the origin of many innovations. This session aims to link different perspectives and interpretations around this question in order to define triggers and patterns of change in Neolithic societies.

Informations: https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2019/