The deadline for submission of abstracts for EAA conference in Budapest is approaching fast.
Please consider joining the session #389 Early agricultural communities in South-Eastern Europe: new discoveries, interpretations and models.
Abstract: The topic of this session are new researches of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic period in the regions of the southern Carpathian Basin, Balkan peninsula and adjacent and related areas. In particular, in the past two decades, archaeological researches changed considerably from various aspects and for various reasons. The period after the wars and political crises in certain countries was the time when scientific researches in different areas got the possibility to advance, including archaeology; numerous large-scale development projects were undertaken in majority of South-European countries (motorway constructions, etc.), providing the opportunity for large-scale rescue excavations. Moreover, changes in theoretical and methodological approaches worldwide inspired initiation of numerous new projects; field survey projects, excavations of newly discovered sites, revision excavations of already known sites and different analyses of previously excavated material, which in turn contributed to numerous new discoveries, and provided novel data regarding diverse aspects of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities. There is a large amount of AMS dates now available; archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological studies became common practice and there are numerous scholars in this field, thus providing new data and interpretations regarding chronology, subsistence and economy, etc.
This session aims to bring together archaeologists from with different backgrounds (field archaeologist, specialists in zooarchaeology, etc.) in order to provide a fruitful discussion on the current results and directions on future researches. We would like to invite papers that will present new researches, new data, as well as novel interpretations. Potential themes include, but are not restricted to:
-New AMS dates and new interpretations regarding chronology
-New research in subsistence and economy; novel data from zooarchaeology and archaeobotany
-New research on settlement patterns, land use, contacts, exchange patterns
-Novel data from new discoveries and from large-scale rescue excavations
-Future directions for the study of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic in the region
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