Theme:
Mediterranean seascapes
Session format:
Session, made up of a combination of papers, max. 15 minutes each
Title:
Issues in Mediterranean Seascapes: from the Terminal Pleistocene to the Early-Middle Holocene – exotics, social interactions and environment
Content:
In the first part this session will deal with exotics and social Interactions in the Terminal Pleistocene – Early Holocene Mediterranean Seascape. In this first part of the session we will examine how exotic materials were circulated and used across the Mediterranean during the terminal Pleistocene – early Holocene. Of particular interest is the movement of exotic items across the Mediterranean seascape reaching the various Mediterranean islands from the neighbouring mainland. Case studies are welcome that show how social communication was possible via sea routes despite geographical distance and presumed water ‘barriers’.
The second part of the session will deal with defining the environmental framework of Neolithisation. Human-environment interactions during the Early-Middle Holocene in the Western Mediterranean. Speakers will discuss on how the Mediterranean Sea played an important role in the process of expansion of the farming lifestyle, reaching the westernmost part of the Mediterranean region in the second half of the 8th millennium cal BP. The adoption of an economy based on agriculture and husbandry, the establishment in permanent settlements, increasing population and the intensive and reiterative resources exploitation implied significant landscape transformation from the Neolithic onwards in the Western Mediterranean region.
Keywords:
exotics; Mediterranean; Geoarchaeology; Palaeoecology
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Main organiser:
Dr Theodora Moutsiou (Australia) 1
Co-organisers:
Jordi Revelles (Spain) 2
Vasiliki Kassianidou (Cyprus) 3
Matthieu Ghilardi (France) 4
Kevin Walsh (United Kingdom) 5
Affiliations:
1. James Cook University,University of Cyprus
2. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
3. University of Cyprus
4. CEREGE-CNRS
5. University of York
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