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Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your abstracts for the EAA session #228 - “The exchange of plants and food practices through the Neolithic period to Iron Age”.

With this session, we intend to gather papers focusing on the exchange of plants and food practices in all stages of agricultural systems from the seeds, harvesting tools, cooking objects to storage and food processing.

You can submit your abstracts until 13 February 2020, 23:59 CET through the conference website:

https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2020/

Please, forward this information to your colleagues who may be interested in participating and do not hesitate to contact us if you need further information.

Below you will find the session’s abstract.

 

Ana Jesus Universität Basel, Switzerland ([log in to unmask])

Georgina Prats Universität Basel, Switzerland ([log in to unmask])

Natàlia Alonso Univeristat de Lleida, Spain ([log in to unmask])

João Pedro Tereso Universidade do Porto. CIBIO-InBio, Portugal ([log in to unmask])

 

Session #228

Title: The exchange of plants and food practices through the Neolithic period to Iron Age

Abstract: Networking is an ever-present characteristic of human societies. -Not only humans move but also objects, ideas, symbols, taboos, food practices since culture and identity play their part regardless of the movement of a person or an idea or object. For a long time, “networking” has reflected long-term cross-cultural interactions between food plant resources and people. Studies of agricultural process indicate similarities and confirm the established exchanges between societies in wide geographic areas.

How to recognize and identify routes of ideas and exchange related to plants and to different food processing steps? The distribution of introduced plants serves as an excellent proxy for the study of exchange along with its cultural consequences.

The main aim is to identify social and economic interactions and cultural connections between societies across south and central Europe. Europe has always been a continuous interface between different exchange routes. This session also invites researchers from islands to understand whether they were connected, interconnected or isolated from the continental exchange routes. We intend to present an overview of the dynamics of innovation, continuity, influences, and the spread of food processing, in all the stages of the agricultural system.

This session invites those presentations and posters focused on archaeological contexts from the Neolithic to the Iron Age which addresses the following themes:

-       Exchange networks of agricultural tools and cooking objects.

-       Can storage and storage facilities be related to exchange routes?

-       How processed and unprocessed foods were exchanged during prehistory.

-       What type of archaeological data is particularly suitable for network analyses when discussing food practises in the prehistory.

-       Theoretical models which enable new ways of thinking about food practices in the European Prehistory.

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