Theme:
5. All Roads Lead to Rome: Multiscalar Interactions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
"All Roads Lead to the South", Facing the European Palaeolithic from the South of the Iberian Peninsula
Content:
The south of the Iberian Peninsula has geographical and physical singularities that must not have gone unnoticed by the human groups that inhabited this European region thousands of years ago (wide climatic and landscape biodiversity, extensive coastal strip that combines the Mediterranean and Atlantic slopes, proximity to the African continent, mild climate in adverse periods, etc.). Studies on archaeopalaeontological Pleistocene sites in the region are currently proliferating, either through the re-study of known sites or through the discovery of new sites. Together, these are favoring new readings for a comprehensive and updated understanding of Palaeolithic activity in this unique region. In this context, reaching out between southern Portugal and southern Spain, and welcoming other regions of southern Europe with similar characteristics and problems, we propose this session with the aim of increasing and actualizing the knowledge of Palaeolithic settlement in this geographical area.
We welcome oral communications on the following topics related to Palaeolithic sites in Southern Europe, in particular in the South of the Iberian Peninsula:
- Re-study of classical sites, through interdisciplinarity and new technologies.
- New sites and recent discoveries, looking beyond the tip of the iceberg.
- Regional identity? Readings beyond a position of marginal periphery.
Keywords:
Palaeolithic, Southern Europe, Iberian Peninsula, Pleistocene, 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:
Mª Ángeles Medina-Alcaide (France) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Marco Antonio Bernal Gómez (Spain) 3
Mariana Nabais (Spain) 4,5
Eva Rodríguez Castro (Spain) 6
Affiliations:
1. University of Bordeaux, UMR CNRS 5199 PACEA
2. University of Cordoba, Department of History, HUM-781
3. "Paleomagina" Research Centre
4. IPHES-CERCA - Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social
5. Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Departament d'Història i Història de l’Art
6. University of Cordoba, Department of History
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