Theme:
1. Networks, networking, communication: archaeology of interactions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
CANCELLED Re-Weaving the Net – Tracing Connections in Trans-Cultural Resource-Economics
Content:
Resources like colourful stones and pigments, ivory, shells, amber, ores and metals have always fascinated humankind. Over time, different resources played an important role, not only in everyday life, but also in intra- and intercultural communications and as ritualistic offerings to supernatural powers. Accordingly, the appropriation of raw materials can be considered as one of the important driving forces in the development of or intensification of contacts on several different levels: both on an inter- and intracultural or even on an intra-community bases.
These contacts served as gateways for the exchange of said resources, but also for interchange of ideas and technologies, and as supply routes to maintain established production ensembles, thus forming complex and multi-layered networks. Differences and changes in the involvement and participation of these networks resulted in social inequalities, setting individuals or groups apart and transforming pre-existing networks.
In this session, we welcome contributions (methodological papers as well as case studies) which focus on networks in the frame of resource appropriation on all scales in prehistoric and ancient times. How can we trace the emergence, development and decline of such networks and how can we evaluate them quantitatively and qualitatively? How can we trace down the changes induced by the access to or exclusion from resources and technologies in contact networks? How did communities react to changes in the availability of resources and technologies induced by other groups or within themselves? (How) can we pinpoint the individual agents within these networks?
Keywords:
Resources, Innovation, Technologies, Economics, Networks
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:
Thomas Rose (Israel) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Leandra Reitmaier-Naef (Germany) 3
Peter Thomas (Germany) 3
Erica Hanning (Germany) 4
Affiliations:
1. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
2. Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
3. Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Germany
4. Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Kompetenzbereich Experimentelle Archäologie, Mayen, Germany
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