Kiel Conference
24.-29.03.2025
Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline 15.10.24
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1 Evolutionary Archaeology and the Exploration of Major Transitions in Human History
2 From Mud Huts to Metropoleis: Socioeconomic Dynamics and Well-Being Between Urban Centres and Rural Peripheries
3 Neolithic stone-walled enclosures in Western and Northern Europe (4th–3rd millennium cal BCE)
4 Obsolete (?) Models, Concepts, and Narratives in Archaeology
5 Identities, Personhood, and Social Relations in Transformation processes
6 The contact between Danes and Slavs in the 7th–12th centuries CE
7 Individual agents in artifacts, assemblages, and landscapes: Theoretical and practical approaches in Paleolithic research
8 AI in Archaeology
9 Visualising multispecies encounters: Art, Affect, Indigenous Knowledge, and ontology in Otherthan-human Worlds
10 Approaches to Coupling Earth and Human System Data: Pitfalls and Potentials
11 Inclusive Spaces and Practices: Insights from the Past
12 Neolithic Seascapes: Complex patterns, scales, and anatomies
13 Human-environment interactions around the Caspian Sea from prehistory to the early historical period
14 Function and Material Properties of Ceramics
15 Echoes of transformation across the European Pre-Roman Iron Age
16 Modeling conflict in archaeology: Roads to data comparability
17 Transformations in the landscape of digital Archaeology – Changes, difficulties and solutions
18 Living with the water: Interdisciplinary prospection strategies to human impact and adaptation in salt-marsh environment and coastal wetlands
19 Material culture and visualisation: Situating styles in their context of use
20 Breaking landscape frontiers – Holocene palaeoenvironmental data from source to sink
21 Next Generation Archaeology: Student Contributions at the Kiel Conference
22 From Past to Current Knowledge: The ROOTS of Knowledge Transfer from the Perspective of Ancient Studies
23 Dealing with raising waters – The archaeology of drowned landscapes
24 Environmental Stress as Drivers of Conflict: Insights from Archaeological Research
25 Unlocking the Past: The Advantages of Isotope Analysis for Archaeological Studies
26 Central Europe at the turn of 6th and 5th Millennia BCE: Crisis, restructuring or something else?
27 Sensory transformations: Tracing interactions within archaeological contexts
29 Human Mobility and Landscape Transformation
30 Architecture as ‘micro-universe’ of prehistoric societies: social, economic and environmental reconstructions
31 Social significance of settlement plans: Transformation pattern of past societies
32 Development of palynological tools for understanding past human-environmental interactions
33 Scales of Transformation: Human-environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies
We are looking forward to your contributions! On behalf of the speakers of ROOTS and the CRC1266 Johannes Müller
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