Session: #111

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Across many regions, the materiality of rural settlements, specially of their domestic context, tends to be poorly studied and represented. Furthermore, between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (4th to 12th centuries), the countryside greatly transformed: changing settlement patterns, trading routes and connections all contributed to the emergence of new modes of living.
This session aims to connect the domestic spaces of rural settlements dated from these periods with other rural contexts, such as cemeteries or production areas, that were also part of the living and organisation dynamics of the communities that inhabited them. Particularly, we want to focus on approaches that study faunal, environmental, spatial or bioarchaeological data arising from funerary contexts, husbandry and crop dynamics, and/or production centres and domestic spaces, and that are oriented at gaining more knowledge on the associated rural settlements and/or integrating pre-existing knowledge. Additionally, this session is aimed at new findings that result from systematic excavations in a broader context of Landscape Archaeology and that are providing accurate and promising information, with the use of new technologies (geomagnetic, spectrometers, Lidar, drones, etc.) and archaeometric analyses. Communications that dwell on Human-Animal or Human-Plant interactions, trade and exchange, populational dynamics (such as domestic and artisanal spaces related to materiality), paleoenvironment, landscape archaeology, and/or living conditions and that connect these ideas with the rural domestic settlement they represent are welcome.

Session: #111

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