Central Mediterranean Prehistory Seminar UCL Institute of Archaeology, 20th May 2015 Lecture theatre G6 and Leventis Gallery, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY Seminar kindly supported by
Programme 09.45 WELCOME 10.00 ORAL SESSION. Place and Society in the Neolithic. Chair: John Robb Understanding Early Neolithic societies: new data from the Italian side of the middle Adriatic region. C. La Marca, C. Conati Barbaro, I. M. Muntoni, G. Eramo. The pot with anthropomorphic decoration from the Neolithic period in Italy: the case of Lugo di Grezzana (Verona) Italy, new interpretative proposals. M. Bersani, A. Pedrotti. FRAGSUS: Fragility and sustainability in prehistoric Malta. T. R. McLaughlin. Divergent Regional Trajectories around the central Mediterranean: The emergence of the Rock-cut Tombs in the Fourth and Third millennium BC. M. Cultraro. Cultural traditions and technological evolution in the chalcolithic pottery production of Rome. V. Forte.
11.50 POSTER SESSION. Neolithic and Bronze Age. Chair: Silvia Amicone A Partial History of Cultural Relations Between Corsica, Sardinia And The Italian Peninsula In The Second Millennium BC Through Ceramic And Metallic Artifacts. K. Peche-Quilichini. Stone working in Neolithic Malta. S. Caruso. Firing pits and pottery production at Lugo di Grezzana (VR): using experimental archaeology for the interpretation of archaeological processes. A. Costa, F. Cavulli, A. Pedrotti. Early Mediterranean trading networks: tales from obsidian. A.Vianello, R. H. Tykot, K. P. Freund. Archaeological investigation at Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, Italy. V. Cannavò, S.T. Levi, M. Bettelli, A. Di Renzoni, F. Ferranti, M. C. Martinelli
12.10 Light Lunch 1
13.00 ORAL SESSION. Technology & Place in the Bronze Age. Chair: Ruth Whitehouse Explaining the emergence of the terramare: a colonisation of the Central Po Plain or an extensification of Bronze Age agriculture? J. Danckers. Recent work in and around Grotta Regina Margherita, Collepardo. R. Skeates, L. Silvestri. Multiple lives of Dalmatian burial mounds. S. Forenbaher. The End of the Spectrum. Towards an Archaeology of Marginality in late prehistoric and proto-historic Italy (c. 1200 – 500 BC). E. Perego.
14.30 POSTER SESSION. Bronze Age and Iron Age. Chair: Hans van Wees Building social walls: rethinking fortifications, the logistics of construction and social organisation in Etruria. D. St Angelo, M. Fitzjohn. Areas of contact- Aegean and indigenous groups in Southern Italy from the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age. M. Rempe. Prehistoric Landscapes of Lampedusa. J. Wexler. The Final Bronze Age – Early Iron Age transition in southern and northern Etruria: GIS, territories, agricultural production and settlement change. U. Rajala. Late Bronze and Early Iron Age salt-making sites along the Etruscan coast. M.R.Cinquegrana.
14.50 Afternoon Tea Break 15.20 ORAL SESSION. People and Products in the Iron Age. Chair: Mark Pearce Textile Consumption in Italy 1000-500 BCE. M. Gleba. S Harris. The Sartorial Acumen of the Tarquinian Tomb Paintings. D. Brown. The distribution of Daunian matt-painted pottery across the hillforts of Istria. L. Barresi Ceramic Traditions and Cultural Identities: Northeastern Calabria or Sibaritide during the Early Iron Age (IX – VII century BC). M. Fasanella Masci.
17.00-18.30 Drinks Reception Conference Organisers Dr Susanna Harris
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