Theme:
2. Archaeological Sciences, Humanities and the Digital era: Bridging the Gaps
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Recent Advances in Documenting the Archaeology of Caves and Their Environments
Content:
New ways of thinking about caves and about humans and their multi-dimensional relationships call for new ways to record the archaeology of caves and their environments. Over the last decade, rapid progress has been made by archaeologists in rethinking the cultural life of caves, acknowledging: the diversity of cave forms and of their human uses; their landscape contexts; the connectivity of their occupants, practices and materials; the complexity of taphonomic processes; and the embodied, sensory and psychological human experiences of cave environments and performances. In the process, traditional conceptions of caves as inanimate underground spaces in bedrock have begun to be replaced by ideas about the dynamic affordances and vibrancy of caves and of the arguably symbiotic relations and affects of caves, people and other forces.
With these dynamics in mind, this session aims to showcase recent technological advances in recording and interpreting these complex relationships, over various spatial scales―ranging from the landscapes that caves form an integral part of through to cave environments and sediments―and over time.
We consequently welcome papers that centre on but are not limited to:
- progress made in documenting the archaeology of caves and their internal and wider environments.
- new technologies and techniques for recording human behaviour and activity in caves, such as: 3D
scanning, photogrammetry, LiDAR, and virtual reality applications.
- field-based and digital methods that document and model the place of caves within wider natural and cultural landscapes.
- experimental methods that seek to make sense of how people performed in and experienced cave environments
- interdisciplinary approaches to human-cave interactions and conceptions, including those that incorporate local knowledge, oral traditions and ethnographic studies.
Keywords:
Cave Archaeology, New technologies, Subterranean Archaeology, Sensorial Archaeology, Archaeological Practice
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:
Sonia Machause López (Spain) 1
Co-organisers:
Konstantinos Trimmis (United Kingdom) 2
Robin Skeates (United Kingdom) 3
Agustín Diez Castillo (Spain) 1
Affiliations:
1. Universitat de València
2. King's College London
3. Durham University
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