Theme:
1. Widening horizons through human-environment interconnections
Session format:
Session with keynote presentation and discussion
Title:
Prehistoric Inter-Societal Dynamics along the Atlantic Façade from the Neolithic to the Iron Age
Content:
In addition to sharing a common environmental background, the communities that were linked by the sea along the Atlantic Façade have repeatedly shared cultural phenomena for more than several millennia. The location of the Atlantic regions as a limit towards the vast Ocean was a vector for developing a strong social identity(ies), an anchor for long-distance connections and the circulation of ideas, innovations and people that started in prehistory. Throughout our focal period, communities became sedentary. Tied to new and old ancestral landscapes, people established local and regional traditions in monument architecture, with certain groups using idiosyncratic changes through a variety of material culture and behavioural forms to express social and political identity.
This session aims to focus on researches and projects along the Atlantic Façade that help uncover possible inter-societal relationships along this expanse. Papers can be regional or local case-studies related to maritime and terrestrial movement, social networks, environmental connections (place, landscape, territory), ritual experiences, cultural practices, material creations and so forth. In this way, papers maybe comparative themselves or they may contain results that can be used for future comparative analyses. Specifically, we would like to see papers coming from a variety of backgrounds and methodological approaches in order that this session can unite studies that contribute towards a greater understanding of this region of western Europe. These include: excavation results to computer modelling and archaeogenetic approaches to landscape archaeology, especially interdisciplinary.
We invite presenters with future projects or ideas as well as those already begun or completed. Together these studies will enable this session to foster future investigations and relationships with emerging research synergies between contributors and participants. With such things in mind, we will look to publishing this session and co-ordinating a yearly session connected within this dynamic geographical region.
Keywords:
Atlantic, Cultural evolution, Comparative approach, Prehistory, Connections, Communication dynamics
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:
Gail Higginbottom (Spain) 1
Co-organisers:
Miguel Carrero-Pazos (United Kingdom) 2
Affiliations:
1. Incipit, Spanish National Research Council
2. Institute of Archaeology, UCL
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