Theme:
2. From Limes to regions: the archaeology of borders, connections and roads
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
CANCELLED The Spatial Turn under Review: Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age between Danube and Adria
Content:
The theories relating to the spatial turn have so far received little attention in research about Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, especially in South-Eastern Europe under consideration here. In this session, we conceive space and landscape as reflecting the social relationships of its actors, and places awareness of space and its construction at its core. For the period under study, the question has traditionally revolved around whether and how the Roman infrastructure and the built and natural landscape were transformed by interaction with provincial Roman and Barbarian groups. The archaeological evidence, such as Late Antique burials in urban settings (both intra et extra muros) and rural environments, the transformation of urban spaces, rural settlements and defence systems documents the relationships that we intend to examine. The close collaboration with the natural sciences (bioarchaeology, palaeoecology) that has flourished over the last few decades has made it possible to include new topics when treating these processes and attempting to reconstruct the transformation of the Roman countryside and agricultural production. Within this framework, we shall present and discuss results from current investigations of burials, settlements and landscapes. Methodological contributions as well as case studies from regions between Danube and Adria are welcome.The close collaboration with the natural sciences (bioarchaeology, palaeoecology) that has flourished over the last few decades has made it possible to include new topics when treating these processes and attempting to reconstruct the transformation of the Roman countryside and agricultural production. Within the framework of this session, we shall present and discuss current results from the investigation of burials, settlements and landscape archaeology. Methodological contributions as well as case studies from Illyricum and neighbouring regions will be welcome.
Keywords:
Late Antiquity, Early Middle Age, Space, Landscape, Burial, Transformation
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:
Orsolya Mariann Heinrich-Tamaska (Germany) 1
Co-organisers:
Tivadar Vida (Hungary) 2,3
Tina Milavec (Slovenia) 4
Vujadin Ivanisevic (Serbia) 5
Affiliations:
1. Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig
2. Eötvös Lorand University Budapest, Archaological Institute, Budapest
3. BTK, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
4. University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana
5. Archaeological Institute of Belgrad, Belgrad
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