Different times? Archaeological and environmental data from intra-site and off-site sequences Zoï Tsirtsoni, Catherine Kuzucuoğlu, Philippe Nondédéo, O. Weller To cite this version: Zoï Tsirtsoni, Catherine Kuzucuoğlu, Philippe Nondédéo, O. Weller. Different times? Archaeological and environmental data from intra-site and off-site sequences: Proceedings of the XVIII UISSP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France), Volume 4, Session II-8. 18e Congrès International de l’UISPP, Jun 2018, Paris, France. Archaeopress, 2020. halshs-02559943 HAL Id: halshs-02559943 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02559943 Submitted on 2 Dec 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Tsirtsoni, Kuzucuoğlu, Nondédéo and Weller (eds) (eds) Weller Kuzucuoğlu, Nondédéo and Tsirtsoni, Different Times? Archaeological and environmental data from intra-site and off-site sequences brings together seven papers from Session II-8 of the XVIII UISPP Congress (Paris, 4-9 June 2018). The session questioned temporal correlations between intra-site and off-site data in archaeology-related contexts. The word ‘site’ describes here archaeological sites or groups of sites – usually settlements – that have undergone research in recent years and produced information on the duration and timing of human presence. Comparison with evidence from geomorphological and paleoenvironmental research conducted at various distances from settlements gives some interesting results, such as ‘missing’ occupation periods, distortions in human Different Times? presence intensity through space as well as time, variability in explanations concerning the abandonment of settlements, etc. Examples presented here highlight: first, discrepancies between time records within built areas used for living and the surrounding lands used for other activities (cultivation, herding, travelling, Archaeological and Environmental Data from etc); second, discrepancies produced by the use of different ‘time markers’ (ie. chronostratigraphy of archaeological layers or pottery evolution on the one hand, sedimentary or pollen sequences on the other Intra-Site and Off-Site Sequences hand). Although improving the resolution of individual data is essential, the authors argue that the joint and detailed examination of evidence produced together by human and natural scientists is more important for reaching a reliable reconstruction of past people’s activities. Both the session and the volume stem from the Edited by Working Group ‘Environmental and Social Changes in the Past’ (Changements environnementaux et sociétés dans le passé) in the research framework of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Dynamite’ (Territorial and Spatial Dynamics) of the University Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne (ANR-11-LABX-0046, Investissements d’Avenir). Zoï Tsirtsoni, Catherine Kuzucuoğlu, Zoï Tsirtsoni is an archaeologist and researcher at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Philippe Nondédéo and Olivier Weller currently in position at the laboratory Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité at Nanterre. She is a specialist in Aegean and Balkan prehistory and co-director, since 2008, of the Greek-French research project at the tell settlement of Dikili Tash in Greek Eastern Macedonia. Concerned with relative and absolute chronology, crafts (especially pottery), settlement, and problems of archaeological visibility, she has coordinated or Different Times? participated in several collaborative interdisciplinary research projects (e.g. ANR ‘Balkans 4000’, ERC ‘PlantCult’), already published or in progress. Catherine Kuzucuoğlu is a geomorphologist at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). Working in the fields of physical geography, geoarchaeology, volcanism and reconstruction of past climates and environments, she develops collaboration research programs with Turkish and international teams in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Anatolia, investigating (1) Pleistocene and Holocene evolution of valleys and lakes, (2) geomorphological records of recent volcanic activity and landscape evolution, (3) reconstructions of climate and environment from lake and marsh records, and their impacts on past civilizations. She has been Deputy Director in charge of Archaeology at the French Institute for Anatolian Studies in Istanbul (2000-2003), and Director of the Laboratoire de Géographie Physique, Meudon (2009-2013). Philippe Nondédéo is currently an investigator at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) laboratory Archéologie des Amériques. He earned his PhD at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and has worked in the Maya area for 25 years in Mexico (Balamku and Río Bec) and Guatemala (Naachtun). Since 2010 he has directed the Naachtun archaeological project in Northern Petén, Guatemala. He has authored and co-authored over 110 articles and book chapters as well as four books. He is particularly interested in settlement pattern studies, spatial analyses (LiDAR surveys), architecture, and political systems. Olivier Weller is a researcher at the CNRS (Laboratory Trajectoires, CNRS-Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France). His research concerns the archaeology of salt, specifically the origins of salt production in Europe in terms of exploitation techniques, uses and socio-economic implications during the Neolithic. The approaches he has developed are both technological (ceramic), ethnoarchaeological, as well as paleoenvironmental, chemical or geomatic. His study area extends from Europe (France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Romania, Moldavia, Bulgaria) to Oceania (New Guinea, Tonga). He is currently Director of the laboratory Trajectoires (2019-2023). Archaeopress Archaeology www.archaeopress.com Tsirtoni et al UISPP 2018 cover.indd 1 03/06/2020 10:53:50 Different Times? Archaeological and Environmental Data from Intra-Site and Off-Site Sequences Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France) Volume 4 Session II-8 Edited by Zoï Tsirtsoni, Catherine Kuzucuoğlu, Philippe Nondédéo, Olivier Weller Archaeopress Archaeology Archaeopress Publishing Ltd Summertown Pavilion 18-24 Middle Way Summertown Oxford OX2 7LG www.archaeopress.com ISBN 978-1-78969-651-6 ISBN 978-1-78969-652-3 (e-Pdf) © Archaeopress, UISPP and authors 2020 Cover: Firewood and woodland management at Naachtun (Guatemala), based on charcoal analysis, by Lydie Dussol. 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Archaeological and Environmental Data from Intra-Site and Off-Site Sequences UISPP XVIII World Congress 2018 (4-9 Juin 2018, Paris) Session II-8 VOLUME EDITORS: Zoï Tsirtsoni, Catherine Kuzucuoğlu, Philippe Nondédéo, Olivier Weller SERIES EDITOR: The board of UISPP SERIES PROPERTY: UISPP – International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences © 2020, UISPP and authors KEY-WORDS IN THIS VOLUME: Chronology relative-absolute, archaeology, physical geography, settlement, paleoenvironment, man-environment interaction, spatial dynamics UISPP PROCEEDINGS SERIES is a printed on demand and an open access publication, edited by UISPP through Archaeopress BOARD OF UISPP: François Djindjian (President), Marta Arzarello (Secretary-General), Apostolos Sarris (Treasurer), Abdulaye Camara (Vice President), Erika Robrahn Gonzalez (Vice President). The Executive Committee of UISPP also includes the Presidents of all the international scientific commissions (www.uispp.org). BOARD OF THE XVIII UISPP CONGRESS: François Djindjian, François Giligny, Laurent Costa, Pascal Depaepe, Katherine Gruel, Lioudmila Iakovleva, Anne-Marie Moigne, Sandrine Robert FOREWORD TO THE XVIII UISPP CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS UISPP has a long history, originating in 1865 in the International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archaeology (CIAAP). This organisation ran until 1931 when UISPP was founded in Bern. In 1955, UISPP became a member of the International Council of Philosophy and Human Sciences, a non-governmental organisation within UNESCO. UISPP has a structure of more than thirty scientific commissions which form a very representative network of worldwide specialists in prehistory and protohistory. The commissions cover all archaeological specialisms: historiography; archaeological methods and theory; material culture by period (Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age) and by continents (Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific, America); palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimatology; archaeology in specific environments (mountain, desert, steppe, tropical); archaeometry; art and culture; technology and economy; biological anthropology; funerary