Call for papers by Ina Miloglav
EAA Belgrade, 2025
PREHISTORIC OBJECTS IN TRANSITION: CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN MATERIAL RECORD
Transitional perio... more PREHISTORIC OBJECTS IN TRANSITION: CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN MATERIAL RECORD
Transitional periods usually are very intriguing issues in archaeology. In traditional research, archaeological “cultures” are seen as distinct entities, manifested primarily by differences in material culture, and are distinguished mainly by using various typologies.
However, this approach blurs the transitional and contact periods, which are still poorly understood. This session aims at exploring how transitional periods in prehistory can be detected and explained in material record, i.e. among artifacts made of various materials (ceramics, bone and antler, metal, stone). Some of the topics this session is addressing at
• Technological changes and innovation, and their relations to social
organization
• Methods of assessing variability in archaeological material in contrast
to reduced variability generated by traditional approaches based on typology
• Hybridization of technological and stylistic traits
• Cultural transmission mechanisms and the processes of knowledge transfer
• “Mixed” assemblages –assemblages containing features that can be related to different cultures or traditions
• Changes in lifestyle reflected by different artifact types
• Coexistence of two or more cultures/traditions.
Speakers are invited to present some of the following issues:
• Case studies with a wide range of materials belonging to transitional prehistoric periods
• Archaeometric analyses aimed at revealing technological changes
• Theoretical considerations about transition and cultural transformation periods
• Methodology procedures and techniques for detecting cultural transition.
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Call for papers by Ina Miloglav
Transitional periods usually are very intriguing issues in archaeology. In traditional research, archaeological “cultures” are seen as distinct entities, manifested primarily by differences in material culture, and are distinguished mainly by using various typologies.
However, this approach blurs the transitional and contact periods, which are still poorly understood. This session aims at exploring how transitional periods in prehistory can be detected and explained in material record, i.e. among artifacts made of various materials (ceramics, bone and antler, metal, stone). Some of the topics this session is addressing at
• Technological changes and innovation, and their relations to social
organization
• Methods of assessing variability in archaeological material in contrast
to reduced variability generated by traditional approaches based on typology
• Hybridization of technological and stylistic traits
• Cultural transmission mechanisms and the processes of knowledge transfer
• “Mixed” assemblages –assemblages containing features that can be related to different cultures or traditions
• Changes in lifestyle reflected by different artifact types
• Coexistence of two or more cultures/traditions.
Speakers are invited to present some of the following issues:
• Case studies with a wide range of materials belonging to transitional prehistoric periods
• Archaeometric analyses aimed at revealing technological changes
• Theoretical considerations about transition and cultural transformation periods
• Methodology procedures and techniques for detecting cultural transition.