Theme:
5. (Extreme) Environments – Islands, Coasts, Margins, Centres
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Run to the Valleys [PaM]
Content:
Pleistocene and Early Holocene hunter-gatherer ecodynamics were characterized by the exploitation of resources from their natural sources. As environmental conditions changed, the presence, amount, quality, and visibility of many such biotic and abiotic resources also changed. Moreover, the overall comfort may have also been decisive in occupying or not a particular space during specific periods in relation to environmental conditions and accessibility to such resources.
One of the best setups where a diversity of resources and humans clustered were valleys and canyons. But, these geomorphological features were also where considerable erosion and deposition occurred. Ultimately, the environmental conditions that caused sedimentation and/or erosion were responsible for allowing the preservation or causing obliteration of the evidence of human presence and testimonies of human activity.
In this session, we bring together case studies of single and multiple occupation sites in valleys from around the world during the Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Our goal is to discuss human behaviour, adaptation, ecodynamics, resource exploitation, and archaeological visibility.
Keywords:
Valleys, Canyons, Ecodynamics, Human adaptation
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:
PaM
Main organiser:
Telmo Pereira (Portugal) 1,2,3,4
Co-organisers:
Ana Abrunhosa (Spain) 5,6
Affiliations:
1. Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
2. Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
3. Centro de Geociências da Universidade de Coimbra
4. UNIARQ, Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa
5. CENIEH - Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana
6. ICArEHB - Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour
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