Theme:
4. Persisting with Change: Theory and Archaeological Scrutiny
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Landscape Archaeology and Place Names in Multifocus Interpretations
Content:
The session aims to bring together scholars dealing with archaeology, onomastics, ethnography, oral tradition and other related fields from all parts of Europe to provide a space for discussion and sharing ideas concerning the study of the landscape. Changes or persistence of the settlement patterns influenced by migrations, population resettlement and other social and economic aspects can be studied on the basis of geographical names in various regions. The interdisciplinarity reveals new approaches to study populations which passed through Europe within prehistoric and historic periods. Overlapping layers in the landscape are explored in their material and immaterial dimension by different approaches in every country, the richness of which will be presented by researchers of various fields.
Different contributions will address the following questions:
A. What interdisciplinary methods can be used to reconstruct the past cultural landscape? What is the current state of cooperation between landscape archaeology and onomastics in the humanities?
B. How can onomastic and archaeological records be used to trace changes or persistence of settlement in the landscape?
C. What contact zones, as regions in which the transmission of diverse material culture and multilingualism took place, bring new knowledge?
D. Does oral tradition help in the interpretation of the archaeological sites and features? How can we create a biography of a place?
E. What kinds of archaeological monuments can be discovered by the study of geographical names? What is the meaning of the etymology and etiological legends related to the place names?
Keywords:
Landscape Archaeology, Onomastics, Oral tradition, Contact zones, Interdisciplinarity
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:
Tomas Klir (Czech Republic) 1
Co-organisers:
Viktorie Janovská (Czech Republic) 1
Joanna Wawrzeniuk (Poland) 2
Alexandra Vieira (Portugal) 3
Affiliations:
1. Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology
2. Institute of Archaeology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland
3. CITCEM.FLUP and Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
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