Theme:
3. The Carpathian Basin: Integration, Mobility and Diversity
Session format:
Discussion session (with formal abstracts)
Title:
“The Grass Is Always Greener on the Other Side?” The Benefit of the Local and Regional Lithic Raw Materials
Content:
The session focuses on the local and regional importance of lithic raw material in the Carpathian Basin and its surrounding area during the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. Provenance studies and multidisciplinary research have created a huge amount of data, which can provide an adequate basis of information and evidence to study the connections between prehistoric communities. The dynamic exchange pathways created wide networks between communities, which provide an excellent basis for research on chronological issues, social inequalities, diverse social and economic interconnections in past societies. Beyond the supra-regional scale, economically-minded research perspective, we would like to focus on the local or regional lithic materials, which were more or less constantly available for a community. We also would like to consider the same issue in the non-mountain area, where the communities probably had to have another connection, behaviour and value concept towards the lithic artefacts. We would like to consider what the local region could mean for the prehistoric communities from a lithic perspective, and what kind of skills and knowledge were important for the procurement activities. This session aim is to discuss the details of all kinds of lithic tools (chipped and polished stone artefacts, macroliths), compare the different periods and focus on diachronic changes from the social archaeological perspective.
We welcome contributions to the following questions:
- How can we identify the local, mesolocal and translocal regions and network-system of lithics?
- What is the significance of the different scale levels for lithic studies in Prehistory?
- How did lithic raw materials, new traditions, ideas and practices spread between the Carpathian Basin and adjacent regions?
- What social and economic significance could lithics have had over these millennia?
Keywords:
Cultural heterogeneity, Carpathian Basin and its surroundings, Neolithic - Bronze Age, lithic raw materials resources and networks system, multidisciplinary research method, interconnections
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:
Kata Szilagyi (Germany) 1
Co-organisers:
Dagmara Werra (Poland) 2
Affiliations:
1. Kiel University, Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology
2. Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Unit for Prehistoric Flint Mining
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