Theme:
1. Networks, networking, communication: archaeology of interactions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
CANCELLED Orientalising Europe: The Impact of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilisations on their Peripheries during the Later Early Iron Age
Content:
The reactions to impulses from Near Eastern civilisation in the central and eastern Mediterranean as well as Scythia in the seventh century BC, known as the Orientalising Phenomenon, are seen as a crucial milestone in the emergence of southern Europe’s complex societies. In contrast, its trans-montane impact – the Carpathians, the Balkans, and the Alps - has been underestimated. In fact, beginning already in the mid-7th century, societies were undergoing dramatic changes in a broad belt stretching from the Champagne to the Danube´s Iron Gate ranging from the emergence of urban centres, the development of figurative art, the celebration of funerary ostentation, drastic changes in costume and weaponry as well as dynamic processes of social and physical mobility. All of these changes take place within a short time frame and are an integral part of intensive interaction, appropriation and adjustments, which would permanently change the face of European society and indelibly mark the transition between prehistory and protohistory at the close of the 7th and the 6th century BC. These complex patterns of interaction bind both trans- and cismontane communities together, forming unique cultures of interface on the margins of crucial pass landscapes.
In our session, we would like to contextualise the evidence for South/North and East/West contacts within the process of social changes in transmontane Iron Age societies and ask whether they should be seen as the initiators or symptoms of the dynamic developments at the beginning of the late Hallstatt Period.
Keywords:
Iron Age, trans- and cismontane Europe, Mediterranean civilisations, Orientalisation phenomena, interaction
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:
Carola Metzner-Nebelsick (Germany) 1
Co-organisers:
Louis Nebelsick (Poland) 2
Mark Pearce (United Kingdom) 3
Hrvoje Potrebica (Croatia) 4
Affiliations:
1. Ludwig-Maximilans-University Munich, Germany
2. Kardynal Stefan Wyszynski University Warsaw
3. University of Nottingham
4. University of Zagreb
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