OPEN WORKSHOP 1-4 APRIL 2009:

 

Socio-environmental dynamics over the last 12,000 years: the creation of landscapes

 

 

• Session 1: Monuments and monumentality

Session chair:

F. Rumscheid, J.  Müller, N. Toma, B. Schulz-Paulsson, C. Nübel

 

Session scope:

Monuments have been used by prehistoric and ancient societies to mark landscapes. While monumentality led to the creation of new landscape structures, the realisation of monuments and monumentality is dependant on source exploitation, mobility of know-how and social power. Given these conditions different societies developed different strategies of using and abusing landscape. Nevertheless, also common concepts of spatial divisions may be observable, describing both, the reception and the use of nature and social space by communities of different economic and social organisation levels.

Is this hypothesis true? Is there a general human behaviour in respect to the structuring of environments? A structural comparison of e.g. Neolithic societies with monuments and Classical Greek societies should help to verify these hypotheses. This session invites specialists of different periods addressing such questions to discuss the patterns of creation and development of landscape through monuments and monumentality in prehistoric and ancient societies.

 

Session programme:

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Abstracts for session 1:

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• Session 2: Central sites

 

• Session 3: Impact of resource exploitation, trade, and transport on environment and societies

 

• Session 4: Separating natural and anthropogenic influences in environmental change

 

• Session 5: Population dynamics and demographic proxies

 

• Session 6: Perception, mental construction and conceptualisation of landscapes

 

• Session 7: New approaches and proxies for socio-environmental reconstructions

 

• Public Lectures: Wednesday, 1st April
  

 

The current general workshop programme ist available here