Theme:
1. Networks, networking, communication: archaeology of interactions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
The Exchange of Plants and Food Practices through the Neolithic Period to Iron Age
Content:
Networking is an ever-present characteristic of human societies. Not only humans move but also objects, ideas, symbols, taboos, food practices, since culture and identity play their part regardless of the movement of a person or an idea or object. For a long time, “networking” has reflected long-term cross-cultural interactions between food plant resources and people. Studies of agricultural process indicate similarities and confirm the established exchanges between societies in wide geographic areas.
How to recognize and identify routes of ideas and exchange related to plants and to different food processing steps? The distribution of introduced plants serves as an excellent proxy for the study of exchange along with its cultural consequences.
The main aim is to identify social and economic interactions and cultural connections between societies across south and central Europe. Europe has always been a continuous interface between different exchange routes. This session also invites researchers from islands to understand whether they were connected, interconnected or isolated from the continental exchange routes. We intend to present an overview of the dynamics of innovation, continuity, influences, and the spread of food processing, in all the stages of the agricultural system.
This session invites those presentations and posters focused on archaeological contexts from the Neolithic to the Iron Age which addresses the following themes:
- Exchange networks of agricultural tools and cooking objects.
- Can storage and storage facilities be related to exchange routes?
- How processed and unprocessed foods were exchanged during prehistory.
- What type of archaeological data is particularly suitable for network analyses when discussing food practises in the prehistory.
- Theoretical models which enable new ways of thinking about food practices in the European Prehistory.
Keywords:
Food exchange, plant processing, prehistory, exchange networks, farming
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:
Ana Jesus (Switzerland) 1
Co-organisers:
Georgina Prats (Switzerland) 1,2
Natàlia Alonso (Spain) 2
João Tereso (Portugal) 3,4,5,6
Affiliations:
1. Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science (IPNA/IPAS), University of Basel
2. Grup d'Investigació Prehistòrica, Departament d’Història, Universitat de Lleida
3. InBIO- Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (Associate Laboratory)
4. CIBIO - Research Center In Biodiversity and Genetic Resources/University of Porto
5. Centre for Archaeology. UNIARQ. School of Arts and Humanities. University of Lisbon
6. MHNC - UP - Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto
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