Session: #72

Theme & Session Format

Theme:
2. Archaeological Sciences, Humanities and the Digital era: Bridging the Gaps
Session format:
Regular session

Title & Content

Title:
Biological Anthropology Insights into Behavioral and Cultural Changes
Content:
What triggers cultural and behavioral changes and to what extent can anthropological evidence be mobilized to understand the factors and the mechanisms underlying these transformations? Are the abrupt cultural changes in time and space that archaeologists capture in their records, including those in subsistence (foraging vs food-production) and settlement (mobility vs sedentism) strategies as well as those in raw material procurement and use (introduction of new components or technology, shifts in production and consumption), related to cultural diffusion, local adaptation, or population changes? These questions are central to archaeology regardless of the chronology or the geographic area.
This session aims at bringing together biological anthropology approaches and perspectives that tackle the questions of population continuity/discontinuity during cultural and behavioral change. Welcoming biochemical and morphometrical analyses with representative examples from worldwide contexts, we hope to stimulate exchanges about the various approaches that allow addressing the question of population change or stability, notably in contexts where ancient DNA data are not available or where biological anthropology approaches can be compared with a-DNA findings.
Keywords:
Biological Anthropology, Continuity, Replacement, Transition, Morphometry, Isotopes
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:
Isabelle Crevecoeur (France) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Petra Brukner Havelková (Czech Republic) 3,4
Petr Velemínský (Czech Republic) 3
Lenka Varadzinová (Czech Republic) 4
Ladislav Varadzin (Czech Republic) 5
Affiliations:
1. CNRS
2. Université de Bordeaux
3. Natural History Museum
4. Charles University
5. Czech Academy of Sciences