Session: #606

Theme & Session Format

Theme:
1. Artefacts, Buildings & Ecofacts
Session format:
Discussion session (with formal abstracts)

Title & Content

Title:
Hearth and Home: Diachronic Approaches to the Archaeological Record
Content:
Hearths and other fire-related activity areas are among the main features of archaeological research as they are often easily observable and supposed as focal points of structures, spatial organization, and associated domestic activities such as workshops or butchering zones. They are also intimately intertwined with technological systems. However, despite their visibility, the relationship of hearths and other heating activity areas to fossilized behavior and technology is often ambiguous across space and time. This is partly because archaeological perspectives are often segregated according to subdiscipline.

Our aim is to create a venue to obtain and share diachronic evidences of how fire is examined within the archaeological record in order to understand the role that fire has played in changing technologies and social organization. We welcome submissions related to excavations and experimental archaeology, particularly those that reconstruct taphonomic disturbances and the contextual aspects of fire but also theoretical contributions.

Our undertaking builds on a research project (TE99 FIRE: Experimental investigations of stone artifact burning)
Keywords:
Fire, Experimental Archaeology, Taphonomy, Spatial Organization
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:

Organisers

Main organiser:
Adrian Dobos (Romania) 1
Co-organisers:
Wei Chu (Netherlands) 2
Alexandru Ciornei (Romania) 1
Affiliations:
1. Institute of Archaeology `Vasile Parvan~, Bucharest
2. Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University