Theme:
5. (Extreme) Environments – Islands, Coasts, Margins, Centres
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
The River Basin and Estuaries in the Antiquity: Environment and Settlement
Content:
This session focuses on the river basin and estuaries as a geographical unit of reference, already perceived by classical cultures, a space currently revalued as a critical unit for the management of the environment and water resources, especially in contexts of climate change. This session proposal for the Belfast 2023 EAA focuses on two main perspectives, the first of which is of a theoretical and conceptual nature, centred on the analysis of the perception, function, representation and conceptualisation of river basins and estuaries in Greco-Latin thought and its subsequent evolution. The investigation of their potential as a well-defined geographical space with specific territorial and legal problems, defined in classical sources, is a novel proposal in the national and European research panorama. The second perspective, of a practical nature, focuses on case studies representative of these contexts and can show historical problems linked to their occupation by past societies. The aim is to create a forum for discussion of case studies that show interconnected problems, preferably related to the characteristics and conditions of each of these environments - river basins and estuaries - which are always affected by the anthropic actions caused by practices in the field. Thus, issues such as population occupation strategies and their conditioning, economic exploitation, crops, forestation and deforestation processes, adaptation to the environment and resilient attitudes in adverse circumstances, water management, or practices in the face of phenomena such as floods, erosion and alterations to riverbeds, or sedimentation and geomorphological changes, are some of the topics that will be addressed in this session. Special attention will be given to the methodology applied to these archaeological contexts, where priority will be given to the use of novel research techniques, such as non-invasive methods, which have proven to be highly effective in recent years
Keywords:
River basin, Estuaries, Geoarchaeology, Antiquity, Environment, Settlement
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:
Lázaro Lagóstena (Spain) 1
Co-organisers:
María-Juana López-Medina (Spain) 2
Alexandra Bivolaru (Italy) 3
Enrique Aragón-Nuñez (Spain) 2
Affiliations:
1. University of Cádiz
2. University of Almería
3. Ca'Foscari University of Venice
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