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id6450144 pdfMachine by Broadgun Software - a great PDF writer! - a great PDF creator! - http://www.pdfmachine.com http://www.broadgun.com The EAA's 13th Annual Meeting in Zadar, Croatia. Session’s website: http://www.iianthropology.org/eaazadar2007.html Thematical block ARCHAEOLOGY AND MATERIAL CULTURE: INTERPRETATION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS Session PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND OF THE VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE SOCIAL POWERS IN PREHISTORIC EURASIA (HOW WERE THE ADVANCEMENT AND THE SOCIAL ASTUTENESS FUELLED IN PREHISTORY?) Organized by Lolita Nikolova (Bulgaria/USA) & Marco Merlini (Italy) List of Participants Session’s Program Participants’ Abstracts LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Organizers 1.Lolita Nikolova, PhD (Bulgaria/USA) Affiliations: Prehistory Foundation, 30 Krivolak St, Karlovo, Bulgaria (a scholar); Department of Anthropology, University of Utah (Adjunct-assistant Professor) & International Institute of Anthropology, Salt Lake City, Utah (a scholar) E-mail: [email protected] 2.Marco Merlini (Italy) Affiliation: Global Prehistory Consortium at EURO INNOVANET, Rome, Italy & Institute of Archaeomythology, P.O. Box 1902, Sebastopol, California 95473, USA (a scholar) E-mail: [email protected] Participants 3. Alexandra Comºa, PhD (Romania) 1 The EAA's 13th Annual Meeting in Zadar, Croatia. Session’s website: http://www.iianthropology.org/eaazadar2007.html Affiliation: Institute of Archaeology – Center of Thracology, Casa Academiei, 13 Septembrie St, Sector 5, Bucharest 050711, Romania E-mail: [email protected] 4. Paola Demattè, PhD (USA) Affiliations: Associate Professor, Chinese art and archaeology, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI, USA & Research Associate, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California. Los Angeles, CA, USA E-mails: [email protected], [email protected] 5. Paola Gnesutta, PhD (Italy) Affiliation: Socio Collaboratore dell' Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria. Collaboratrice del Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche della Università di Pisa, Via Galvani,1 - 56126 Pisa, Italy E-mail: [email protected] 6. Svetlana V. Ivanova, PhD (Ukraine) Affiliation: Institute of Archaeology, Odessa, Ukraine Institute of Archaeology of Ukraine, Hero of Stalingrad 12, Kiev 04210, Ukraine E-mail: [email protected] 7. Mikola Kryvaltsevich, PhD (Belarus) Affiliation: The Institute of History National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1 Akademichnaja str., 220072 Minsk, Belarus E-mail: [email protected] 8. Cristian Schuster, PhD (Romania) Affiliation: Institute of Archaeology – Center of Thracology, Casa Academiei, 13 Septembrie St, Sector 5, Bucharest 050711, Romania E-mail: [email protected] 9. Michel Séfériadès, PhD (France) Affiliation: Laboratoire d'Anthropologie, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042- Rennes Cédex, France. E-mail : [email protected] 10. Stefan Stamenov, M.A. (Bulgaria) Affiliation: Department of Geography, Faculty of Geology and Geography, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski (a student), 15 Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd, Sofia 1504, Bulgaria. E-mail: [email protected] 11. Stiliyan Stanimirov, M.A. (Bulgaria) Affiliation: Central Archaeological Council – Bulgaria, Sergeevi St., bl. 26, apt. 15, Zlatica 2080, Bulgaria & Professional High School of Tourism and Food Technology, 2 Slavci St., Pirdop 2070, Bulgaria (a teacher) E-mail: [email protected] 2 The EAA's 13th Annual Meeting in Zadar, Croatia. Session’s website: http://www.iianthropology.org/eaazadar2007.html 12. Alenka Tomaž (Slovenia) Affiliation: Institute for Mediterranean Heritage, Science and Research Center Koper, University of Primorska, Slovenia E-mail: [email protected] Discussant: Diana Gergova (Bulgaria) Affiliation: National Institute of Archaeology, Suborna 2, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria E-mail: [email protected] SESSION’S PROGRAM Lolita Nikolova (Bulgaria/USA) & Marco Merlini (Italy). Introduction. Paola Gnesutta (Italy) Figurative and Abstract Themes in Mobiliar Art of the Grotta delle Settecannelle (Viterbo - Italy). Implications and Interpretations within the Context of late Paleolithic Culture. Michel Séfériadès (France). Shamanism through the Balkans area during the Neolithic, Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age Marco Merlini (Italy) Did Southeastern Europe develop a rudimentary system of writing in Neo- Eneolithic times? Paola Demattè (USA) The origins of Chinese writing: signs and symbols in archaeological context. Stefan Stamenov (Bulgaria) Ornament as a symbolic and social communication mean (Structure, rhythm and meaning) Mikola Kryvaltsevich (Belarus) The Early Metal on the Territory of Belarus: Periods, Ways of Supply, Cultural and Social Implications. Stilian Stanimorov (Bulgaria) Symbols of Power in the Prehistoric Society (According to the Archaeological Finds from the Varna Eneolithic Cemetery) Alenka Tomaž (Croatia) The Ceramic Jewelry in the Fifth Millennium Cal BCE Alexandra Comºa (Romania). Social Differentiation in the Bronze Age of Romania. An Anthropological Approach. Svetlana V. Ivanova (Ukraine). Problems of the Social Reproduction in the Pit Grave Culture communities 3 The EAA's 13th Annual Meeting in Zadar, Croatia. Session’s website: http://www.iianthropology.org/eaazadar2007.html Discussion: Diana Gergova (Bulgaria) (Discussant) PARTICIPANTS’ ABSTRACTS Paola Gnesutta, PhD (Italy). Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche. Università di Pisa, Via Galvani,1 - 56126 Pisa, Italy. E-mail: [email protected] Figurative and abstract themes in mobiliar art of the Grotta delle Settecannelle (Viterbo - Italy). Implications and interpretations within the context of late Paleolithic culture. The Epigravettian layers of Grotta delle Settecannelle, a cave situated near Viterbo in Northern Latium, have yielded about 40 engraved objects discovered in situ, with flint instruments and faunal remains, in connection with fireplaces. Few of these incised artifacts come from the level of Evolved Epigravettian, dated to 15.700 BP, while the majority of mobiliar art was found in levels of Final Epigravettian, dated between 12700 and 12000 BP, and of late Epigravettian, dated 10.700 BP. Two pebbles used as retouchers have engraved animal figures. The other finds, stone and bone tools, non-utilitarian objects and body ornaments are decorated with abstracts and geometric patterns that appear at a relatively early stage at Grotta delle Settecannelle. From archaeological evidences, it is possible to assume that and religious cerimonies, were not performed in special and secret sites, but took place in the same space where daily activity was practised, as observed in “open air sanctuaries” of France and of Spain. The presence of body ornaments indicate differences of status and role inside the human group. Technological and stylistical analysis of the engravings and of the themes represented has pointed out similarities between Settecannelle art and contemporary manifestations discovered in Italian and European sites and reveals the emergence of new spiritual conceptions, common to a large part of Europe in Tardiglacial age. Michel Séfériadès, PhD (France) Laboratoire d'Anthropologie, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042-Rennes Cédex, France. E-mail : [email protected] Shamanism through the Balkans area during the Neolithic, Eneolithic and Early Bonze Age The focus of the presentation are old and recent data related generally to the ancient religions and old ways of thinking (1962, Levi-Strauss’“La pensée sauvage”) of the Balkan area from the 4 The EAA's 13th Annual Meeting in Zadar, Croatia. Session’s website: http://www.iianthropology.org/eaazadar2007.html beginning of the Neolithic period till the dawn of the Bronze Age. Most of them allow a variety of interpretations while we will test selected data against the concept of shamanism in Antiquity. From the Late Palaeolithic Anietovka 2 on the Bug, green polished Mushrooms (probably hallicinogen?) stones from Vinca, the well known Otzaki Proto-Sesklo sherd (dancing shamans), the Gomolava and Szentes-Ilonopart dancing shamans from Serbia and Southern Hungary etc, to the Serbian and Bulgarian contemporary folk customs, such as the Sourvaraki in Pernik district, we can trace shamanistic behaviours reproduced as relics in the folklore of the South-Eastern Europe cultural heritage. KEY WORDS – Shamanism, Europe, Balkans, Neolithic/Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age. BIBLIOGRAPHY SEFERIADES M. 2002. La représentation de l'élan de la Mer Baltique au lac Baïkal". In Dolukhanov P., Séfériadès M. (sous la direction de), "Russie, carrefour de l'Homo Sapiens, les révélations de l'archéologie russe", Dossiers d'Archéologie, Dijon, n° 270, 32-37. SEFERIADES M. 2005. Note shamanique : à propos du bucrane néolithique de Dikili-Tash (Macédoine orientale grecque). In Honorem Silvia Marinescu-Bïlcu 70 de ani, Cultura si Civilizatie la Dunarea de Jos, Calarasi, 97-114. SEFERIADES M. (forthcoming). L’ours néolithique des Balkans. Marco Merlini (Italy) Global Prehistory Consortium at EURO INNOVANET, Rome, Italy & Institute of Archaeomythology, P.O. Box 1902, Sebastopol, California 95473, USA (a scholar) E-mail: [email protected] Did Southeastern Europe develop a rudimentary system of writing in Neo-Eneolithic times? The presentation inspects the internal structuring of the sign system developed in Neo-Eneolithic times in the Danube basin exploring a database that accounts more than 3000 signs from 647 inscribed objects and 756 inscriptions according to 118 variables.