Topic 7 - Environmental Archaeologies
Convenors:
Session 1:
Environmental Archaeologies:
Joëlle Burnouf,
Professeure d’Archéologie Médievale,
Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne, UMR 7041 – ArScAn – Equipe S «
Archéologies environnementales »
joelle.burnouf@wanadoo.fr
Session 2:
The medieval societies and their areas: towards historical
biodiversity:
Corinne Beck
(UMR 7041-ArScAn-équipe "Archéologies
environnementales")
cbeck16@wanadoo.fr
Marie-Christine Marinval
(UMR 7041-ArScAn-équipe "Archéologies
environnementales")
m-c.marinval@wanadoo.fr
Session 3:
Archaeozoology
- Medieval Zooarchaeology and Archaeozoology in Europe: the State of Research
and Future Directions
Aleks Pluskowski,
(McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge),
agp21@cam.ac.uk
Antonella Buglione, Dipartimento di Scienze
Umane, Università di Foggia
antoinette_it@yahoo.it
Giovanni de Venuto,
Department of Scienze Umane, University of
Foggia
giovannidevenuto@yahoo.it
For several years,
medievalist archaeologists have worked towards a better understanding of
environmental aspects. They give priority to the environmental approach on
interdisciplinary projects, including diachronic on long term issues and in
the field of natural sciences.
Session 1: Environmental Archaeologies
To characterize the
environmental dynamics and their changes and to study the settlement,
exploitation and management of the spaces by the societies.
Session 2: The medieval societies and their areas:
towards historical biodiversity:
Sources analysed through an
interdisciplinary perspective, bio indicators, human activities, spatial and temporal scales on which the anthropologic effects can be observed.
Session 3 :
Archaeozoology
- Medieval Zooarchaeology and Archaeozoology in Europe: the State of Research
and Future Directions
Research on animal remains
from medieval archaeological sites has significantly advanced our
understanding of human ecology in the past, however there is an impression of
an uneven balance in the quantity of research on faunal material from one
region of Europe to the next, and a limited knowledge of what sorts of
questions are being asked of the material in different countries. This
conference represents a rare opportunity to bring together zooarchaeologists
and archaeozoologists working with medieval contexts from across Europe in
order to gauge the current state of the discipline, compare approaches, data
sets and future directions. Papers are invited from any archaeologist working
with faunal material at any level, from post-graduate to post-doctoral.
The aim is to construct a
session with a broad diversity of approaches, and to represent as many
traditions of faunal analysis from across Europe as possible. Within this open
remit, the organisers particularly welcome papers focusing on comparative
approaches to urban and rural contexts, diverse environmental contexts,
similarities and differences between research in Northern and Southern Europe,
between Eastern and Western Europe, new methodologies, research strategies and
methods of integrating data at the inter-regional level. The hope of the
organisers is that this session will consolidate and stimulate interest in
European medieval zooarchaeology/archaeozoology for students and researchers
well into the future.