Theme:
5. Theories and methods in archaeology: interactions between disciplines
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Exploring Landscape Evolution and Material Culture’s Impact through Interdisciplinarity and Multi-Modelling Approaches. New Challenges in Archaeology
Content:
Nowadays, a strong interest in the recognition of past territories through the reconstruction of paleo-landscapes and the evaluation of the human impact is growing in the archaeological discipline. In this regard, the most recent studies have been conducted by interdisciplinary research teams, as the goals to achieve clearly lay beyond the frame of traditional archaeology. Therefore, biologists, geologists, geographers, etc. have started to work in conjunction with archaeologists in order to decode and highlight the human-environment interaction over time. Land-use simulation, population movements and material cultures investigations, by means of new high-performance technologies, have been major research topics in the last decades.
The simulation of the past human-environmental relationships relies on the analysis of diverse sources of information. On one hand, it deals with the excavation reports, classical textual archives, planimetric and naturalistic records. On the other hand, new quantitative methods -such as predictive modelling, machine learning, GIS, stable isotope analysis, XRF, automated object detection, etc.- have been currently applied for producing new information. This broad interest in multi-modelling approaches in landscape archaeology might be ascribed to advances made in technology and in the growing number of interdisciplinary projects.
This session aims to accommodate researchers, regardless of their study region or chronology, to show and share the methods and results of their interdisciplinary projects focused on human-environmental interaction. Therefore, communications oriented toward themes like the analysis of synchronic and diachronic settlement patterns, raw material exchanges, biological indicators of landscape evolution, diet of humans, animals and plant growth, in all their multiscale complexity, are strongly encouraged.
Keywords:
Agent-based Modelling, Machine Learning, GIS, Spatial Statistics, Human-environmental interaction
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
yes
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
yes
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Maria Elena Castiello (Switzerland) 1
Co-organisers:
Héctor Martínez-Grau (Switzerland) 2
Núria Morera (Spain) 3
Affiliations:
1. IAW, Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Universität Bern, Switzerland
2. IPNA - Integrative Prähistorische und Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Universität Basel, Switzerland
3. Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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