OPEN WORKSHOP 1-4 APRIL 2009:

 

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

 

 

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

Session chair:

W. Kirleis, M. Weinelt, O. Nelle, H.R. Bork, V. Robin, M. Sadovnik, C. Lubos, A. Kranz

 

Session scope:

Holocene landscapes over the course of the last 12,000 years underwent fundamental changes, controlled by both, physical environmental changes and, increasingly, by social variability. Though intimately interwoven, both variables are traditionally investigated independently and need to be explored jointly to unravel the complex interactions and feedback mechanisms inherent to landscape change.

This session aims to attract papers quantifying the differential influences of social and environmental factors on Holocene landscape development (e.g. land use vs. climate change and soil fertility); calibrating archaeological and paleoenvironmental records through precise chronologies; by uncovering causal linkages through a better understanding of involved physical and social processes; using archaeological as well as historical records to quantify human responses to environmental change.

 

Session programme:

To download here

 

Abstracts for session 4:

To download here

 

 

• Session 1: Monuments and monumentality

 

• Session 2: Central sites

 

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

 

• 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