Theme:
Theories and methods in archaeological sciences
Session format:
Session, made up of a combination of papers, max. 15 minutes each
Title:
Late Glacial and Postglacial Population History and Cultural Transmission in Iberia
Content:
This session introduces the current state of the art of PALEODEM (ERC Consolidator Grant 683018). This project aims to investigate patterns of population history and cultural transmission from the Late Magdalenian to the Late Mesolithic in Iberia. This period witnessed major environmental changes and cultural transformations on settlement distribution, technology and social organisation. In this scenario this project specifically addresses two major research questions: Firstly, to what extent demographic behaviour was driven by environmental factors; and secondly, how did regional population patterns influence cultural transmission processes.
The aim of the session is to present (i) the theoretical and methodological bases of the project and the multi-scale approach; (ii) a set of multi-disciplinary case studies based on the new empirical data obtained at open-air residential sites in the Iberian Mediterranean region, and (iii) the current work on palaeodemographic research at regional and macro-regional scales.
The project members and collaborators will present papers featuring a broad array of scientific disciplines such as geoarchaeology (geochronology, micro-morphology and micro-stratigraphy), palaeobotany, bioarchaeology, environmental geochemistry, lithic technology, spatial analysis, Bayesian radiocarbon modelling, network analysis and computational modelling. The contributions will allow to discuss the correlation between palaeoenvironmental and cultural proxies to understand the impact of climate change and hydrological stress over local occupation areas and regional settlement systems.
We invite researchers with similar or related investigation scope to join the discussion of the results presented in this session.
Keywords:
Palaeodemography, Palaeoecology, Iberian Peninsula,
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Main organiser:
Javier Fernandez (Spain) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Dr. Yurena Yanes (United States) 3
Affiliations:
1. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES)
2. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)
3. Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati
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