R iva del Garda, Italy 2009
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www.eaaitaly2009.com R iva del Garda, Italy 2009
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www.eaaitaly2009.com 15th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS
15-20 September 2009 Riva del Garda | Trento, Italy
ABSTRACTS BOOK
PREFACE
The Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists is being held in Italy for the second time. After Ravenna in 1997, it is now the turn of Riva del Garda in Trentino to welcome such a large group of archaeologists who will be able to exchange views and present the outcomes of their research. It is an honour to host a scientifi c meeting the quality of which is immediately evident from the wide range of session themes and the topics of the papers. Trentino is a land of archaeologists: it is the birthplace of Federico Halbherr, the discoverer of Gortyna, Festòs and Haghia Triada on Crete (Greece), Paolo Orsi, the tireless investigator of the civilizations of Magna Grecia, Giuseppe Gerola, scholar of Byzantine and Venetian monuments on the island of Crete, and Pia Laviosa Zambotti, author of many volumes on the cultural evolution of early cultures in Europe. More recently Bernardino Bagolini and Renato Perini have contributed, with their investigations on Mesolithic and Neolithic sites and research on the lake-dwellings of the Bronze Age, to make Trentino a region whose rich archaeological heritage is well known even outside our national borders. Lake Garda, too, is an archaeological territory: Mount Baldo, which dominates the eastern shore of the lake, preserves the earliest evidence for human presence in our region; at Riva del Garda, thanks to the careful preventive action carried out by the Archaeological Heritage Offi ce of the Autonomous Province of Trento, evidence of Neolithic settlements and a rich documentation of the Roman period have been brought to light. They illuminate the way this territory offered excellent economic and environmental resources in various periods. It is in this territory that today the Museum of Riva del Garda operates, preserving some of the highest expressions of cultures that have left their traces in this region over the past millennia, like the Copper Age statue-stelae from Arco. The museum is the great promoter of the enhancement of the archaeological heritage of the Lake Garda area. Furthermore, it is working towards the creation of a large territorial complex called MAG (Museo dell’Alto Garda/Museum of Upper Garda). Lake Garda is at present a border territory. But it is a liquid border, navigable and, therefore, it is a space for sharing and exchanging, of passage and cultural mingling. The Mediterranean climate it enjoys symbolically represents the role that this region has always had, as a melting-pot of cultures from the neighbouring regions (the site of Monte San Martino is emblematic of these aspects) and, more generally, a meeting point between the Mediterranean and Central European world. The organisation of the meeting has been a complex task, shared by many people and various institutions. To each them, and unfortunately I cannot list them individually, my gratitude for their work, for their human and professional contribution, their engagement and patience. Some people, however, deserve a special thanks because without them all this would not have been possible: Senator Claudio Molinari, Mayor of Riva del Garda, who has believed in the project from the start and has supported it in every way, together with Monica Ronchini, Director of the City Museum; all the members of the Scientifi c Committee who had a diffi cult task which they carried out in a well-balanced and impartial way; Margherita Ferrari and Marianna Zambiasi who have taken care of the organisation impeccably and most professionally, making suggestions and offering solutions to every problem; Monica Dorigatti who has offered her expertise and her sensitivity in every phase of the organisation; and a very special thanks to Martina Dalla Riva who has led the Scientifi c Secretariat most competently and with great patience. At the moment of writing a great friend and archaeologist has left us, Lawrence H. Barfi eld, of the University of Birmingham (UK). It is very sad not to see him on “his” Lake Garda, yet the memory of him will stay alive for those – and there are many of us – who had the opportunity to appreciate his humane character, his simplicity and enthusiasm, together with his great scientifi c expertise. I wish to dedicate this effort to Lawrence, in memory of his precious advice, the friendly and profound discussions and the enlightening exchange of views.
Franco Nicolis Coordinator of the Organising Committee
2 August 2009 ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Franco Nicolis, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce of the Autonomous Province of Trento Monica Dorigatti, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce of the Autonomous Province of Trento Monica Ronchini, Museum of Riva del Garda Marina Tomasi, Municipality of Riva del Garda Margherita Ferrari, Orikata organizzazione congressi Marianna Zambiasi, Orikata organizzazione congressi Marika Grassi, Riva del Garda Fierecongressi Graziella Zucchelli, Rivatour agency
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Eszter Banffy, Archaeological Institute Budapest (Hungary); EAA Executive Board Member Peter F. Biehl, University of Buffalo (USA); EAA Executive Board Member Kerstin Cassel, Södertörn University (Sweden); EAA Executive Board Member Maria Cristina La Rocca, University of Padua (Italy) Franco Nicolis, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce of the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy) Marinella Pasquinucci, University of Pisa (Italy) Mark Pearce, University of Nottingham (UK) Nathan Schlanger, INRAP, Paris (France); EAA Executive Board Member Annamaria Sestieri, University of Lecce (Italy)
SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT
Martina Dalla Riva, University of Birmingham (UK) Franco Nicolis, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce of the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy)
NATIONAL ADVISORY PANEL
Prof. Gian Pietro Brogiolo, University of Padua; President of SAMI (Society of Italian Medieval Archaeologists) Dr. Stefano De Caro, Director of the General Direction for Archaeology of the Italian Ministry of Culture, Rome Prof. Raffaele Carlo De Marinis, University of Milan; President of IIPP (Italian Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory) Prof. Elena Francesca Ghedini, University of Padua; Member of the Supreme Council for Cultural and Landscape Heritage of the Italian Ministry of Culture, Rome Prof. Louis Godart, University of Naples; Counsellor of the President of the Italian Republic for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Prof. Emanuele Greco, Director of the Italian School of Archaeology of Athens; Member of the Supreme Council for Cultural and Landscape Heritage of the Italian Ministry of Culture, Rome Prof. Elizabeth Fentress, President of AIAC (International Association for Classical Archaeology) Prof. Davide Pettener, University of Bologna; President of AAI (Italian Association for Anthropology) Prof. Giuseppe Sassatelli, University of Bologna; Member of the Supreme Council for Cultural and Landscape Heritage of the Italian Ministry of Culture, Rome Prof. Salvatore Settis, Director of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Dr. Sebastiano Tusa, Sicilian Region – Government Offi ce for the Sea, Palermo LOCAL COMMITTEE
Sen. Claudio Molinari, Mayor of Riva del Garda Franco Panizza, Councillor for Culture, European Relations and Cooperation, Autonomous Province of Trento Renato Veronesi, Mayor of Arco Ruggero Morandi, Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Arco Sabina Kasslatter Mur, Councillor for Education and German Culture, Autonomous Province of Bolzano/ Bozen Gianni Pellegrini, Director of the Operational Unit of the Museum of Riva del Garda Monica Ronchini, Director of the Museum of Riva del Garda; Project of Museum of Alto Garda – Historical and Archaeological Department Laura Boschini, Director of the Department for Cultural Heritage and Activities, Autonomous Province of Trento Livio Cristofolini, Director of the Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Gianni Ciurletti, former Director of the Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Davide Bassi, Dean of the University of Trento Maurizio Giangiulio, Head of the Department of Arts, University of Trento Franco Finotti, Director of the Civic Museum of Rovereto Michele Lanzinger, Director of the Museum for Natural Sciences of Trento Franco Marzatico, Director of Castello del Buonconsiglio, Monuments and Collections of the Province, Trento Cristina Bassi, Archaeologist, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Paolo Bellintani, Archaeologist, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Enrico Cavada, Archaeologist, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Lorenza Endrizzi, Archaeologist, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Elisabetta Mottes, Archaeologist,Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Nicoletta Pisu, Archaeologist, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Luisa Moser, Archaeologist, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Maria Raffaella Caviglioli, Archaeologist, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Monica Bersani, Archaeological fi eld technician, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Emiliano Gerola, Archaeological fi eld technician, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Silvano Zamboni, Archaeological fi eld technician, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Cristina Dal Rì, Restorer, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Susanna Fruet, Restorer, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Trento Mariette Raaijmakers De Vos, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Trento Annaluisa Pedrotti, Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory, University of Trento Diego Ercole Angelucci, Professor of Archaeological Research Methodology, University of Trento Stefano Grimaldi, Researcher on Anthropology, University of Trento Elisa Possenti, Researcher on Christian and Medieval Archaeology, University of Trento Giampaolo Dalmeri, Keeper of the Prehistoric Section of the Museum for Natural Sciences of Trento Barbara Maurina, Keeper of Archaeology at the Civic Museum of Rovereto Dario Di Blasi, Curator of the International Festival of Archaeological Film of Rovereto Leo Andergassen, Director of the Division for Cultural Heritage, Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen Lorenzo Dal Ri, Director of the Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen Angelika Fleckinger, Director of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, Bolzano/Bozen Stefan Demetz, Director of the Civic Museum of Bolzano/Bozen Catrin Marzoli, Archaeologist, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen Hubert Steiner, Archaeologist, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen Umberto Tecchiati, Archaeologist, Archaeological Heritage Offi ce, Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen Günther Kaufmann, Keeper of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, Bolzano/Bozen INDEX
SESSIONS AND ROUND TABLES ...... 9
A. APPROACHES TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION ...... 11
A001: About the farm...... 12 A002: Archaeologies and soundscapes. From the prehistoric sonorous experiences to the music of the ancient world...... 15 A003: Innovation and evolution ...... 21 A004: Movements across and along water within landmasses ...... 24 A005: Neolithic monuments: function, mentalité and social construction of the landscape. . . . 28 A006: New research into upland landscapes: the contribution of European postgraduate students...... 32 A007: Prisoner of war archaeology (19th and 20th centuries) ...... 37 A008: Rock-art: beyond art ...... 41 A009: Social aspects of the prehistoric past: archaeological models and interpretations . . . . . 45 A010: Working with the past: strategies for crisis or intentional incorporation? Towards an archaeology of recycling ...... 49 A011: Zeitgeist...... 53
B. ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY ...... 57
B001: Archaeologists and civil engineers. Challenges of large infrastructure projects ...... 58 B002: Archaeology and the global crisis - multiple impacts, possible solutions ...... 62 B003: Continuity and discontinuity in international cooperation in the frame work of rescue archaeology-some recent European experiences...... 66 B004: Down from the ivory tower: archaeology beyond university ...... 67 B005: Gender and archaeology in Europe ...... 70 B006: Professionalism in archaeology...... 73
C. HERITAGE...... 75
C001: Archaeology and heritage for whom? Identity, diversity, pedagogy and interpretation in the presentation of archaeological heritage ...... 76 C002: Bridging the gap: towards an agenda for European post-medieval archaeology ...... 80 C003: Building museums as protagonists of virtual reality exhibitions ...... 83 C004: Building the past for the future. Open air museums: what chance in the 21st century? ...... 87 C005: Preserving, monitoring and presenting in situ archaeological remains...... 90 C006: Rural land use and the management of the archaeological historical landscape: an European perspective ...... 95 C007: Underwater archaeology and the future of submerged European prehistory ...... 100 D. IDENTITY, INTERACTION AND CULTURE CHANGE ...... 107
D001: Across bell beaker territories and beyond. Communities, social spaces and identities ...... 108 D002: Enclosed space – open society. Contact and exchange in the context of bronze age defensive settlements in central Europe ...... 111 D003: Identity and interaction: a macro-regional view of cultural developments and variation in central Asia ...... 114 D004: Interactions between Etruscans, Venets and early Celts - state of the art ...... 118 D005: Reindeer and humans...... 119 D006: The end of empire: the archaeology of borderlands in the early medieval period...... 122 D007: The inner Alps, 5500–2500 BC: data, models, perspectives...... 125 D008: The Roman empire and beyond, III. The east European Roman provinces in the 3rd century AD: the statics and dynamics of people, goods and ideas ...... 128 D009: Transitions after “the transition” in the upper Palaeolithic ...... 131 D010: Up-dating the reasoning on middle to upper Palaeolithic biological and cultural shift in Eurasia ...... 135
E. MATERIAL CULTURE...... 145
E001: “Balkan fl int” in SE European prehistory: chronological, cultural and social perspectives ...... 146 E002: From natural shapes to abstract geometries: new data and current trends in the study of prehistoric personal ornaments ...... 150 E003: New approaches on studying weaponry of the European bronze age ...... 154 E004: Playtime: the fundamental role of board games in ancient and medieval Europe . . . . . 158 E005: Pottery and social dynamics in the Mediterranean and beyond in medieval and post-medieval times ...... 161 E006: The biographical approach: where do we go from here? Session 2 ...... 165 E007: The chaîne opératoire approach to ceramics studies ...... 168 E008: The contexts of painted pottery in the ancient Mediterranean world (7th -4th C. BCE)...... 173
F. RITUAL AND SYMBOLISM ...... 177
F001: Animal ritual killing and burial: European perspectives...... 178 F002: Archaeological approaches to dance performance...... 183 F003: Burial in prehistory: old issues and new techniques ...... 186 F004: Decoding rituals from visual representations ...... 195 F005: Embodied materiality: corporeal hybridism and body substitutions...... 199 F006: Social identity during the roman antiquity in Western Mediterranean sea: mortuary practices and organization of the funerary space ...... 205
G. SCIENCE AND ARCHAEOLOGY...... 209
G001: Archaeological science in the 21st century – case studies from Italy...... 210 G002: “Go your own least cost path” – spatial technology and archaeological interpretation ...... 214 G003: Sediments as an archaeological source ...... 219 G004: Volcanoes in Europe’s prehistory and history ...... 226 POSTERS ...... 229
FIELDWORK & NEW RESEARCH ...... 230
ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE ...... 234
HERITAGE ...... 240
MATERIAL CULTURE ...... 245
RITUAL AND SYMBOLISM...... 250
SPATIAL TECHNOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY ...... 253
SPEAKERS AND CONVENORS...... 259
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A A001 Session title: ABOUT THE FARM
Organiser: Petersson Maria, National Heritage Board (Sweden)
Co-organiser: Carlie Anne, National Heritage Board (Sweden)
Session abstract: In the session About the farm we invite you to discuss the prehistoric and medieval farm and its landscape. Within settlement archaeology the perspective has broadened during the last century. Focus is no longer restricted to the buildings and the farm as an economic and functional unit but encompasses the farm as social arena and mental construct. The farm mirrors functional aspects connected to the agrarian production and also immaterial aspects based on the cosmological and social/cultural values of prehistoric and medieval people. Modern landscape research has contributed with a pronounced spatial perspective, applied both to settlement and landscape. The long-time perspective is a specifi c trait of archaeology. It emphasizes both la longue durée and periods of rapid change. What similarities and differences are there between different geographical areas and different periods regarding the architecture of the farm buildings, the lay-out of the toft and the organisation of the surrounding landscape (with roads, arable fi elds, pastures, water-holes, meadows and managed woods)? How do we explain these (tradition, notions connected to the farm as social space and status manifestation, the organisation of labour, practical considerations)? What do they tell us about contacts? The social organisation is refl ected in settlements and the surrounding landscape. So far the élite has received particular attention. How do we identify the lower social strata? What terms, methods and models do we use to describe and characterise these? How was labour organised (and divided?) and how was co-operation organised?