Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Prehistoric Inter-Societal Dynamics along the Atlantic Façade II. Neolithic to the Iron Age
Content:
Following on from last year’s dynamic session discussions, we are back to discuss the social interactions and activities that occurred along the Atlantic Facade from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. We also intend to continue this as working group and will explain this at the meeting.
We see this session helping to uncover the ongoing enigmas of cultural encounters, transitions and even (re)integration along the Façade through different times and places, which can include environmental signatures as either cause or effect. We see the location of the Atlantic regions as an anchor for long-distance connections and as a vector for developing strong social identities, which included the circulation of ideas, innovations and people that started in prehistory. Whilst certain groups applied idiosyncratic changes through a variety of material culture and behavioural forms to express social and political identity, people along the Atlantic repeatedly shared cultural phenomena for more than several millennia, as communities became sedentary.
As for last year, presentations 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. Specifically, we would like to see papers coming from a variety of backgrounds that contribute towards a greater understanding of this region of Western and Northwestern 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 (in combination with last year’s) and coordinating a yearly session connected within this dynamic geographical region.
Keywords:
Interaction, Cultural encounters, Long-distance connections (maritime or terrestrial), Environmental signatures, Identities
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:
Miguel Carrero-Pazos (United Kingdom) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Gail Higginbottom (Spain) 3
Affiliations:
1. UCL Institute of Archaeology
2. University of Oviedo
3. Incipit, CSIC
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