Theme:
6. Embedded in European archaeology: the Carpathian Basin
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
CANCELLED Interdisciplinary Analyses of Mobility Patterns, Land-Use and Subsistence Strategies in the Carpathian Basin: Diachronic and Multivariate Assessment of Archaeological Research
Content:
At first sight, the Carpathian Basin appears to be a closed, homogeneous space, characterised by a vast plain and framed by the Carpathian Mountains. This is how it is mostly passed on in archaeological science. But on closer inspection, the uniformity dissolves into a complex heterogeneity, which does not simplify a supra-regional understanding of natural interdependencies – and thus also human-environment interactions. The delineation of individual parts of the Carpathian Basin’s natural environment and the individual consideration of self-contained cultural systems all too easily leads to subdivision into groups that are separated from one another. The fact that these are fluent transitions and continuous exchanges rather than rigid social entities interrupted only by large-scale migrations is part of the lively discussion about neolithization processes up to the controversial paradigms and narratives related to the so-called Migration Period.
The Carpathian Basin witnessed many significant and decisive events regarding the history of humanity. It is no longer only with the help of traditional archaeology but also thanks to the manifold natural scientific methods and techniques that enables archaeologists to rewrite the history of the Carpathian Basin over the past years. Environmental archaeology, aDNA, anthropology and stable isotope analyses, dietary reconstructions and geostatistic modelling shed new light on daily life, subsistence strategies, trade, mobility and migration and now tend to reconsider the different scales of these phenomena.
This session aims to highlight interdisciplinary strategies of archaeological research projects considering the Carpathian Basin to overcome natural, cultural and chronological categorization. We want to uncover patterns in human-human and human-environment relationships through a diachronic overview that enables the transparency of changing land-use strategies, communication networks, large-scale exchange relationships and local subsistence systems.
Keywords:
stable isotope analyses, aDNA, environmental archaeology, geostatistical modelling, network analyses, anthropology
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Margaux Depaermentier (Switzerland) 1
Co-organisers:
Michael Kempf (Germany) 2,3
Eszter Bánffy (Germany) 4
Kurt Alt (Austria) 5
Affiliations:
1. Archaeological Institute, Dep. of Early Medieval and Roman Provincial Archaeology, University of Basel
2. Physical Geography, Institute of Environmental Social Science and Geography, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg
3. Archaeological Institute, Faculty of Humanities, Dep. Early Medieval and Medieval Archaeology, University of Freiburg
4. Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Frankfurt/Main
5. Center for Natural and Cultural History of the Teeth, Danube Private University, Krems, Austria
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