Theme:
5. (Extreme) Environments – Islands, Coasts, Margins, Centres
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Multi-proxy Approaches to Prehistoric Landscapes of the Central Mediterranean
Content:
This session seeks to bring together multidisciplinary perspectives and methods to prehistoric landscapes of the Central Mediterranean, which we define as Italy, Greece, Southern France, Malta, Monaco, and the Balkans. Landscapes cannot be studied from a single viewpoint as there are multiple factors that contribute to the idea of landscape itself. Not only this, but landscapes can be read and interpreted in many ways such as physical, cultural, and social. Ancient people adapted to their landscape, but they also actively shaped it according to their needs and beliefs. As the interaction between human and landscape is inherently multifaceted, it is necessary to take a holistic approach which allows for the widest range of methodologies and partly relies on multidisciplinary data. Therefore, we encourage contributions from a diverse range of scholars specialising in disciplines such as environmental studies, GIS, mobility studies, social sciences, archaeological sciences, anthropological approaches, theoretical approaches, Geoarchaeology, etc. By examining prehistoric landscapes in this way, we hope to broaden our understanding of the people who lived in and interacted with them.
Keywords:
landscape, Mediterranean, multidisciplinary, prehistory, environment
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:
Julia Gustafson (United Kingdom) 1
Co-organisers:
Elena Carletti (Italy) 2
Frijda Schmidt (United Kingdom) 1
Dario Puddu (Italy) 3
Affiliations:
1. University of Cambridge
2. University of Rome La Sapienza
3. University of Sassari
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