OPEN WORKSHOP 1-4 APRIL 2009:

 

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

 

 

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

Session chair:

P. Grootes, R. Duttmann, M. Nadeau, M. Hinz

 

Session scope:

A detailed reconstruction of living conditions and habits of past societies is essential for the documentation of their development and the quantification of their interactions with their environment (discussed in 4). The availability of ever more powerful and sensitive analytical techniques allows more detailed quantitative reconstructions of e.g. dietary patterns, foraging, trade, and migration, but also of the environment in which, and the climatic conditions under which the people lived. This session aims to bring together the knowledge of archaeologically relevant materials - to be tested - with the latest analytical approaches (available in the GS platforms in Kiel or elsewhere) to foster joint new approaches to proxy-reconstructions.

 

Session programme:

To download here

 

Abstracts for session 7:

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 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

 

• Public Lectures: Wednesday, 1st April

 

The current general workshop programme ist available here