Theme:
1. Networks, networking, communication: archaeology of interactions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
CANCELLED Who? From Where? How? When? Uses and Distribution of Lithic Raw Material in Neolithic to Track Migration and Intercultural Contacts
Content:
Lithic raw materials were the main source to produce tools and weapon in Neolithic. Their characteristic features (thanks micro- or macroscopic, geochemical or petrographical characterization) allow to follow its spread. Behind this spread an activity of prehistoric communities is hide. Spread of lithic raw materials can be an effect of migration, distribution, exchange and/or gift giving. We are aware that archaeologists can’t recreate how prehistoric communities’ world looks like and that sometime it is easier to say how it doesn’t look like. But in the same way we see archaeological items as dynamic elements functioning within whole culture. Due to archaeological research archaeological objects can reflect cultural cosmology and social pattern. Thus the preserved fragments of lithic artefacts bring archaeologists to the real world of prehistoric communities.
This session will focus on a tracking migration and intercultural contacts in the light of use and distribution of lithic raw materials. Focus will be put to follow cultural changes and intercultural contact based on changes in use and distribution of lithic raw materials as well as on changes in their technology. All this is to make a discussion in order to better understand hidden reason of lithic raw material spread.
We encourage you to submit paper tracing cultural changes, interactions, contacts and migrations in light of change in use of lithic raw materials in Neolithic. Papers dealing with diverse fields and contexts of spread of lithic raw material will be welcome.
Keywords:
Lithic raw materials, Exchange, Conveyance, Intercultural contacts, Neolithic
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:
Dagmara H. Werra (Poland) 1,2,3
Co-organisers:
Pavel Burgert (Czech Republic) 4
Antonín Přichystal (Czech Republic) 5
Affiliations:
1. The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences
2. Aleje Solidarnosci 105
3. 00-140 Warsaw, Poland
4. Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, v.v.i. Letenská 4, 118 01 Prague 1, Czech Republic
5. Department of Geological Sciences, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic
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