Theme:
2. Archaeological Sciences, Humanities and the Digital era: Bridging the Gaps
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Network of European Identities – The Iron Age between Alps, Pannonia and Balkans
Content:
The area between Alps, Balkans and Pannonia seems to be a key area for the understanding of the communication network that emerged in the Iron Age connecting Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Intensity of constant cultural mediation between the Central Europe and Mediterranean concentrated in this area, where three cultural areas interact, making it crucial for the understanding much wider processes of creation and change of identities on European scale.
Applying interdisciplinary research to material culture and organic remains from this period and area allows insight in behaviour and social dynamics of Iron Age communities with much higher resolution than conventional archaeological methods. We will here focus on the interdisciplinary study of three basic categories: food, textiles and metals. Identifying specific choices related to food sources and processing techniques can shed light on different identities within a same community or inside different local communities sharing the same landscape or geographical area. Textile traditions define large-scale cultural zones. The study of the distribution of metal objects, combining typology as well as compositional data, may provide the definition of networks between local centres, matching general cultural traits and local identities. _By combining the results of interdisciplinary methodology and traditional research, we will test and perhaps modify current paradigms on the identity of Iron Age communities. We hope to go beyond and challenge standard definitions of Iron Age identities based on traditional notions such as "cultural groups" and (later) "ethnicities".
We invite all contributions based on a scientific approach to the Iron Age in the area between Alps, Pannonia and Mediterranean, especially those related to food, metals and textiles. We will also welcome papers discussing definitions of the Iron Age identities based on differences and similarities in processes of production, use, and distribution of food, metals and textiles.
Keywords:
Iron Age, Alps, Balkans, Pannonia, prehistoric identities
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:
Hrvoje Potrebica (Croatia) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Karina Grömer (Austria) 3
Affiliations:
1. University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dept. of Archaeology
2. Center for Prehistoric Research
3. Natural History Museum Vienna
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