Theme:
2. Archaeological Sciences, Humanities and the Digital era: Bridging the Gaps
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Analysing the City. Archaeological Science Approaches to Urbanisation in the Mediterranean (1000?500 BCE)
Content:
The beginning of the Iron Age (12th to late 10th cent. BCE) ushered in a crucial period for the history of the ancient Mediterranean, which manifested in a series of transformative changes, among which was the beginnings of urbanism in the first half of the first millennium BCE (roughly the Iron Age). The development of urban states, spanning from the Aegean to Iberia and from northern Africa to the Alps, generated in turn complex economic system and exchange networks.
Aspects of urban state formation are fundamental for archaeologists, historians, as well as sociologists and economists globally. In archaeology, since Gordon Childe questions have focused on theoretical and methodological perspectives for understanding what cities were and did cross-culturally, and their trajectories.
Yet, despite the enormous potential of natural sciences for understanding the deep past, socio-political change connected to urban growth and its large-scale networks have been little explored in relation to advancements in archaeological science.
With this in mind, the session aims to bring together a broad range of expertise from archaeological science to theoretical perspectives in order to develop interdisciplinary conceptual and methodological approaches to the study of urbanism and its wider implications beyond current narratives.
Key themes will be craft specialization, connectivity, mobility, diet, and landscape change in relation to urbanisation. We welcome studies that make use of materials sciences, remote sensing, bioarchaeology, genetics to explore urbanisation in the Mediterranean.
Keywords:
Urbanism, Archaeological science, Mediterranean, Iron Age, Craft production, Connectivity
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:
Silvia Amicone (Germany) 1
Co-organisers:
Margarita Gleba (Italy) 2
Affiliations:
1. Archaeometry Research Group, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2. Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali, Università degli Studi di Padova
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