Theme:
4. Persisting with Change: Theory and Archaeological Scrutiny
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Down Memory Lane. Recurrences in Transforming Landscapes
Content:
When tracing the history of a place, it is possible to notice how the same settlement choices can recur over time despite caesuras, changes, and transformations. Intentional and unintentional dynamics variably impact on landscape and the recurrence of scenarios can lead to question how strong the territorial vocation and the permeating memory are. Previous human actions might in fact orient following choices through long lasting transformations, creating new opportunities or imposing restrictions in new landscape arrangements.
In this session, we want to focus on how various agencies and their reciprocal interactions participate in the creation of landscapes; by emphasizing how choices can re-occur through time, we want to assess the role of memory in the construction of palimpsests. Memory is intended both as the collection of traces of previous actions embedded in a multi-layered landscape and the collective memory that engages a community of people in the social construction of a dwelt landscape.
Indeed, in a behavioral perspective, a landscape is a system defined and populated by the interactions that take place in it. This dialogic systemic view could help to highlight how recurrences and adaptations contribute in the development of a landscape and define a responsive path of choices, re-balancing a rigid dichotomy on positive and negative outcomes, and strengthening instead the repeated and prolonged efforts to negotiate with environmental features.
We welcome papers which investigate traces of change, mitigation or adaptation in landscapes, by highlighting relationships in various activities (i.e. productive, infrastructural, and settlement dynamics) and assessing how previous practices and traditions can affect forthcoming human reactions to environmental and socio-political transformations.
Keywords:
Recurrence, Memory, Landscape Archeaology, Transformation, 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:
Main organiser:
Lorenza La Rosa (Norway) 1
Co-organisers:
Antonio Campus (Italy) 2
Valentina Limina (Belgium) 3,4
Affiliations:
1. University of Oslo
2. University of Pisa
3. F.R.S - FNRS
4. Université catholique de Louvain
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