Workshop “PACE” Prehistoric Adaptations to Cold Environments: multidisciplinary approaches

Goals and scientific content

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The main goal of this workshop is to bring attention to current research aiming towards a better understanding of long-term, complex human-environment interactions in the Arctic and Subarctic from the Final Pleistocene onwards. Guest speakers from different backgrounds -archaeology, environmental sciences, ethnography- mainly working in east Siberia and Alaska will address several topics such as: paleoenvironment and climate change, taphonomy in periglacial sedimentary contexts, prehistoric mobility and subsistence, techno-economy of different raw materials, current northern peoples’ lifeways, etc. The language of the workshop is English.

Open registration for listeners and participants

Registration is free of charge but mandatory for any interested researchers and students wishing to attend the meeting.

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In addition, a call for posters is open until November 5th. In accordance with the topics developed by the keynote speakers, priority will be given to posters presenting new research developments in arctic and sub-arctic archaeological and paleoenvironmental sciences, ethnoarchaeology or social anthropology addressing the subject of adaptive strategies, human subsistence and/or climate change. More generally, poster presentations focusing on methodological approaches enhancing our understanding of human-environment relationships in other “cold” contexts – geographic areas or time periods – are equally welcome.

If you wish to register, please contact marine.vanlandeghem@gmail.com

Looking forward to seeing you in Nice,

Auréade Henry, CEPAM UMR 7264 CNRS
Marine Vanlandeghem, UMR 7041 ArscAn 

Important deadlines

September 15th, 2018: Registration opens

November 5th, 2018: Deadline registration

December 6th, 2018: Final program available

Hommes et Caprinés : de la montagne à la steppe, de la chasse à l’élevage – XXXIXe Rencontres Internationales d’Archéologie et d’Histoire d’Antibes

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Programme, résumés et participants 

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Les XXXIXe Rencontres Internationales d’Archéologie et d’Histoire d’Antibes se tiendront du 16 au 18 octobre 2018 et seront l’occasion de s’intéresser à la thématique de la relation Homme-Caprinés au cours des temps préhistoriques et historiques.

Intitulé « Hommes et Caprinés : de la montagne à la steppe, de la chasse à l’élevage », ce congrès s’attachera à relater l’Histoire de cette longue et étroite relation.
L’objectif est de réunir dans une démarche diachronique et pluridisciplinaire, archéozoologues, paléontologues, écologues, taphonomistes, ethnologues, anthropologues, archéologues, historiens, etc., autour d’un groupe particulier de mammifères, les caprinés, et de leurs exploitations sensu lato par les groupes humains.L’histoire de la relation entre les Hommes et les Caprinés débute bien avant la domestication, dès le Paléolithique inférieur, au cœur des milieux rocheux d’Eurasie. Des montagnes cantabriques et pyrénéennes aux hauts-plateaux du Zagros, en passant par les Alpes, les Balkans ou le Caucase, bouquetins, chamois, isards, thars, mouflons ou chèvres sauvages, constituent des gibiers de choix, grégaires et abondants dans les milieux escarpés et contraignants qui ont nécessité des stratégies particulières. A partir du Néolithique, la domestication de certaines espèces (mouton, chèvre) a joué un rôle déterminant dans les changements socio-économiques des sociétés humaines au Proche-Orient, en Europe et en Afrique, et transformé les paysages de plusieurs régions du monde par le pastoralisme. La maîtrise des stratégies de contrôle et de gestion de ce petit bétail offrira en effet les moyens autonomes de se développer, grâce à la production de viande, de produits laitiers et de produits textiles (laine, poils), jusqu’aux Temps actuels et sur tous les continents.

Plusieurs sessions permettront d’explorer cette Histoire ‘Hommes-Caprinés’ au travers des pratiques de subsistance, de la prédation à la domestication, et des pratiques pastorales les plus diverses, complétée par les dimensions biologiques, écologiques et sociales, l’iconographie et la symbolique.

The 39th Rencontres Internationales d’Archéologie et d’Histoire d’Antibes, which will take place from 16th to 18th of October 2018, will focus on the topic of the Humans-Caprines relationship in prehistoric and historical times. Entitled “Humans and Caprines: from mountain to steppe, from hunting to husbandry”, this congress, with an international scope, will attempt to relate the history of this long and close relationship.
The aim of this congress is to bring altogether, within a diachronic and multidisciplinary approaches, zooarchaeologists, paleontologists, ecologists, taphonomists, ethnologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, etc., around the topic of a special mammal group, the caprines, and their exploitation sensu lato by human groups.

The History between Humans and Caprines starts well before the domestication, since the lower Palaeolithic, in the heart of rocky Eurasian regions. From the Cantabrian and Pyrenean Mountains to the Zagros Plateau through the Alps, the Balkans or the Caucasus, ibexes, chamois, tahrs, mouflons and bezoars constitute game of great interest, gregarious and abundant in rocky and steep environments that may have required particular hunting strategies. From the Neolithic onwards, the domestication of some species (sheep, goat) played a crucial role in the socio-economic changes in the Near East, Europe and Africa, and transformed the landscapes in many part of the world through pastoralism till the present time and on all continents.

Several sessions will present various aspects of this Humans-Caprines History through subsistence practices, from predation to domestication, as well as through a large variety of dimensions: social, economic, biological, ecological, iconographic, symbolic, etc.

Comité d’organisation / Organizing committee
– Camille DAUJEARD (CNRS-MNHN, HNHP, Paris)
Lionel GOURICHON (CNRS-UCA, CEPAM, Nice)
– Jean-Philip BRUGAL (CNRS-AMU, LAMPEA, Aix-en-Provence)

Comité scientifique / Scientific committee
– Marie BALASSE (CNRS-MNHN, AASPE, Paris)
– Jean-Christophe CASTEL (MHN de Genève)
– Evelyne CREGUT-BONNOURE (MHN d’Avignon)
Claire DELHON (CNRS-UCA, CEPAM, Nice)
– Carole FRITZ (CNRS-UT2J, TRACES,Toulouse)
– Armelle GARDEISEN (CNRS-Univ. Montpellier 3, ASM, Montpellier)
– Christophe GRIGGO (CNRS-Univ. Chambéry, EDYTEM, Grenoble)
– Joséphine LESUR (MNHN-CNRS, AASPE, Paris)
– Marjan MASHKOUR (CNRS-MNHN, AASPE, Paris)
– Marco PERESANI (Université de Ferrare)
– Florent RIVALS (IPHES, Tarragone)
Isabelle RODET-BELARBI (INRAP-UMR CEPAM, UMR 7264, Nice)
– Maria SAÑA (UAB, Barcelone)
– Jean-Denis VIGNE (CNRS-MNHN, AASPE, Paris)
– Emmanuelle VILA (CNRS-Univ. Lyon 2, Archéorient, Lyon)
– José YRAVEDRA (Université de Madrid)
Arnaud ZUCKER (UCA-CNRS, CEPAM, Nice)

Date du congrès / Date of the congress
Du 16 au 18 Octobre 2018

Lieu du congrès / Location of the congress
Salle du 8 mai 1945, Antibes, France

INSCRIPTION / REGISTRATION

Fiche d’inscription / Registration form
Pour les auditeurs (y compris les co-auteurs), l’inscription se fait via le formulaire ci-joint qui doit être envoyé avant le 17 septembre 2018 à Anne-Marie Gomez (anne-marie.gomez@cepam.cnrs.fr).
For regular auditors (including the co-authors), the registration must be made by completing the form here and returning it before the 17th of September 2018 to Anne-Marie Gomez (anne-marie.gomez@cepam.cnrs.fr).

Le formulaire d’inscription est à télécharger ici / Registration form here : fiche_inscription_auditeurs

Frais d’inscription / Registration fees
Pour les auditeurs (et les autres auteurs) : 40€ par jour (120€ pour la durée du colloque). Sont pris en charge dans ces frais d’inscription : un buffet dînatoire (16 octobre), deux déjeuners au restaurant (17 et 18 octobre) et un cocktail offert par la mairie d’Antibes (17 octobre) ainsi que les pauses café.
Pour les étudiants : 25€ par jour (60€ pour la durée du colloque). Sont pris en charge dans ces frais d’inscription : un buffet dînatoire (16 octobre), deux déjeuners au restaurant (17 et 18 octobre) et un cocktail offert par la mairie d’Antibes (17 octobre) ainsi que les pauses café.
(Pour rappel, aucun frais d’inscription n’est demandé pour le premier auteur.)

For regular auditors (and for the co-authors non-speakers): 40€ per day (120€ for the total duration of the congress). Are included: evening buffet (on October16th), two lunches at the restaurant (on October 17th and 18th), and a cocktail offered by the town hall of Antibes (on October 17th), as well as the coffee breaks.
For students: 25€ per day (60€ for the total duration of the congress). Are included: evening buffet (on October16th), two lunches at the restaurant (on October 17th and 18th), and a cocktail offered by the town hall of Antibes (on October 17th), as well as the coffee breaks.
(As a reminder, no registration fees are required for the first author (speaker)). 

Pour toute question, contacter /For any queries, please contact:
Anne-Marie Gomez : anne-marie.gomez@cepam.cnrs.fr
UMR 7264, Cultures et Environnements. Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge (CEPAM)
Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis, SJA3, 24 av. des Diables Bleus, 06357 Nice cedex 4

 

Conférence AWRANA : Archaeological Wear and Residue Analysts

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The central focus of the conference will be « Beyond use-wear traces: on tools and people ». Many studies on technological aspects of material culture deal with specific material categories (e.g. flint, ceramics, bone), often in separate or isolated ways, and this division does not really reflect the integrated nature of technical systems in which different material categories are in dynamic interaction. Hence, exploring the interactions between different chaînes opératoires is crucial for a more global concept of the toolkit with all its components and it is a precondition to paleoethnographic reconstructions of technical systems and economies.
This conference aims to revive the debate on the role of traceology (use-wear and residues) in multidisciplinary approaches that address archaeological questions. Therefore, we invite presentations which are not solely isolated functional studies, but which attempt to integrate other approaches and/or different raw materials. Starting from a functional perspective, presentations could explore topics such as apprenticeship, group dynamics, social status, economy, technological evolution, spatial organisation, mobility patterns and territories, or adaptations to cultural and environmental changes. Also presentations dealing with more methodological topics are encouraged as methodological advances are in the heart of the discipline (experimentation, trace quantification, residue characterisation).

Different kinds of presentations could be proposed:
-Oral presentation 15 mn
-Pecha Kucha (Pecha Kucha is a simple presentation format where you show 20 slides, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images.)
-Posters

The deadline for the proposal for communication with abstract (not be longer 300 words and 5 keywords) is 30th of september 2017

Contact: AWRANA2018@unice.fr

Organisers: S. Beyries, UCA-CNRS, C. Hamon, Paris 1 Univ.-CNRS, Y. Maigrot, Paris1 Univ.-CNRS.

Scientific Comittee: R. Fullagar  Wolongo Univ. (Australia); D. Macdonald Tulsa Univ. (USA); E. Gyria Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia); V. Rots Liege Univ. (Belgium); I. Clemente CSIC Barcelone (Spain); A. Van Gijn Leiden Univ. (Netherlands); C. Lemorini , Rome Univ. (Italy); A. Little York Univ. (UK); E. Claud, Inrap (France).