Theme:
6. A Decade after the ‘Third Science Revolution in Archaeology’
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Let It Burn! Experimental and Ethnoarchaeological Approaches in Pyroarchaeology
Content:
The reconstruction of fire use behaviours can provide valuable insights into technologies, subsistence strategies and domestic activities of the past. For the interpretation of specific behaviours and the preservation of their evidence in the archaeological record, experimental and ethnographic studies present a helpful interpretative framework. In this session, we welcome presentations from experimental archaeology or ethnoarchaeological research on pyroarchaeology topics from hunter-gather contexts to complex urban societies. Such pyroarchaeology topics may include, but are not limited to:
• Taphonomy and preservation of fire residues
• Wildfire signatures and impacts on human behaviour, environments and the archaeological record
• Identification of burnt materials and their characterization
• Early fire use behaviours
• Fuel use and management strategies
• Cooking technologies and constructions
• Pyrotechnology
• Fire use for landscape-management
• New approaches, methodologies and techniques in pyroarchaeology
We invite researchers from all disciplines of the archaeological sciences to contribute to this session with talks or posters including short elevator pitches.
Keywords:
Pyroarchaeology, Geoarchaeology, Archaeometry, Archaeological Sciences
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:
We kindly ask that our proposed session would not run parallel to the session "From Fire to Light" organized by S. Vandevelde, A. Medina-Alcaide, B. Rueff, C. Ferrier. Thank you
Main organiser:
Mareike Stahlschmidt (Germany) 1
Co-organisers:
Carolina Mallol (Spain) 2,3
Christopher Miller (Germany) 4
Brendan O’Neill (Ireland) 5
Affiliations:
1. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Instituter for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2. Departamento de Geografía e Historia, Campus de Guajara, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
3. Archaeological Micromorphology and Biomarkers (AMBI Lab), Instituto Universitario de Bio-Orgánica Antonio González, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
4. Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
5. School of Archaeology, Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (CEAMC), University College Dublin, Ireland
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