Human Movement and Mobility in HighLandscape Environments

International conference, April 27-29th, 2022

Program

Schedule overview (CET)

  • 12:45 - 13:35
  • 13:40 - 14:15
  • Panel A
  • 14:20
  • 14:25
  • 14:40
  • 14:55
  • 15:15
  • 15:30
  • 15.45
  • 16:05
  • 16:15
  • 18:00

April 27th, 2022

  • Welcome and Introduction
  • Keynote Lecture

    Sabine Reinhold
    German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Germany

    Living with the vertical – conceptions for mountain agricultural and pastoral societies
  • Grappling Movement: Limitations of methodology
  • Introduction by chair
  • Giulio Palumbi, Susanna Cereda, Burhan Ulas, Francesca Balossi Restelli, Marcella Frangipane

    Tracing Movement — a Multiscalar Approach to Reconstruct Mobility Patterns at Arslantepe Period VIB1
  • Gil J. Stein

    Highland-Lowland Interaction Between Mesopotamia and NW Iran: Piedmont Perspectives from Surezha (Iraq) and the Rise of a New Pastoral Economy in the Western Zagros (5000-4500 BCE)
  • Questions and brief discussion of the session
  • Short break
  • Marjan Mashkour and Rémi Berthon

    Over the Moutain and the Vale. Modern Reference Datasets for Documenting Pastoral Practices
  • Stefan Burmeister

    Migration Studies in Archaeology – a Methodological and Theoretical Challenge
  • Questions and brief discussion
  • Short break
  • Wrap-up of the talk
  • Thematic discussion
  • End of Day 1

Schedule overview (CET)

  • Panel B
  • 12:45 - 13:10
  • 13:15 - 13:55
  • 14:05
  • 14:20
  • 14:35
  • 14:50
  • 15:20
  • 15:35
  • 15:50
  • 16:10
  • 16:20
  • 18:00

April 28th, 2022

  • Materiality of Movement: Proxies and variables
  • Introduction to the panel
  • Keynote Lecture

    Michael Frachetti
    Washington University in St. Louis, United States

    Following Homo mobilis: archaeologies of movement and practical choice in prehistory
  • Hojjat Darabi

    A Note on the Transformation of 'Mobility' in Early Neolithic of Western Iran
  • Roghayeh Rahimi Sorkhani

    Women, Movement, and Pottery Making
  • Thomas Stöllner

    Kura Araxes Mobility: Search for Pastures and Raw Materials?
  • Questions and brief discussion of the session
  • Short break
  • Rémi Berthon, Marjan Mashkour, Shiva Sheikhi, Adeline Vautrin, Sepideh Maziar, Roghayeh Rahimi Sorkhani, Azadeh Mohaseb, Xəqani Alməmmədov, Svend Hansen, Guram Mirtskhulava, Caroline Hamon, Mindia Jalabadze, Barbara Helwing, Tevekkül Aliev, Bertille Lyonnet, Farhad Guliyev, Catherine Marro, Veli Bakhshaliyev, Tükəzban Göyüşova, Ali Zalaghi

    Isotopic Approach to Animal Biographies. Its Potential and Limits to Investigate Pastoral Mobilities in the South Caucasus and Northwestern Iran from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age
  • Siavash Samei

    Zooarchaeology, Behavioral Ecology, and Modeling Pastoral Economies and Mobilities in the Near Eastern Highlands
  • Questions and brief discussion
  • Short break
  • Wrap-up of the talk
  • Thematic discussion
  • End of Day 2

Schedule overview (CET)

  • Panel C
  • 12:45 - 13:10
  • 13:15 - 13:55
  • 14:05
  • 14:20
  • 14:35
  • 14:55
  • 15:10
  • 15:25
  • 15:45
  • 15:55
  • 18:00

April 29th, 2022

  • Modeling Movement
  • Introduction to the panel
  • Keynote Lecture

    Michael Petraglia
    Max Plank Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
  • Elham Ghasidian, Hosein Ramzanpour, Saman Heydari-Guran

    Late Pleistocene Hominin Occupations in the Southern Caspian Sea Corridor
  • Friederike Jürcke, Hector Orengo, Toby C. Wilkinson and Cameron A. Petrie

    Modelling Regional Corridors of Movement in South-Eastern Iran: a Multi-Factor Approach
  • Questions and brief discussion of the session
  • Short break
  • Masoud Yousefi, Saman Heydari-Guran, Elham Ghasidian, Anooshe Kafash

    The Middle Palaeolithic Hominin Settlement Patterns and Movement Corridors in Kerman shah Region
  • Emily Hammer

    Imperial Networks, Movement, and Local Resistance at the Edge of a Highland Empire (Iron Age Urartu)
  • Questions and brief discussion
  • Short break
  • Wrap-up of the talk
  • Thematic discussion
  • End of Day 3