Session F
Long-Term Evolution of Territories and Settlements
Facilitators: Damase MOURALIS (IDEES), Julie GRAVIER (Géographie-cités), Maria Elena CASTIELLO (University of Bern, Switzerland) & Dominique TODISCO (IDEES)
Many recent studies, carried out by teams from various backgrounds (geographers, geo-archaeologists, archaeologists or ecologists, etc.) have focused on the development of territories and the gradual establishment of populations over time. This research focuses on diachronic settlement patterns, raw material exchanges, biological indicators of landscape changes and spatial dynamics in all their multiscalar complexity. By drawing on various archaeological documents, textual archives, planimetric and naturalistic records, it is thus possible to reconstruct the dynamics of land use and settlements.
This session aims to gather contributions from (among others) geographers, geo-archaeologists, archaeologists and ecologists whose interdisciplinary researches focus on the structuration and progressive organisation of territories and settlement patterns and for whom the study of diachronic changes is essential. This session may include any research dealing with temporal changes, regardless of traditional categories of periodisation.
Contributions may include the following:
- Understanding the progressive organisation of territories and populations over time based on the diversity of evidence and information available to researchers;
- The diversity of methods used to retrace the “long-time” history territories, whether they are mainly based on naturalistic approaches, on the study of historical archives, or on numerical methods involving modelling.
Indicative bibliographical references
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Fusco J., 2017, « “Les passés possibles” : exploration et modélisation de l’occupation du sol et de ses dynamiques spatio-temporelles en contexte incertain », 13es Rencontres de Théo Quant, Besançon, 17-19 mai 2017, p. 86-90.
Ibáñez J.J., Ortega D., Campos D., Khalidi L., Méndez V., 2015, “Testing Complex Networks of Interaction at the Onset of the Near Eastern Neolithic using Modelling of Obsidian Exchange”, Journal of The Royal Society Interface, n° 12.
Kohler T.A., Van Der Leeuw S. E. (dir.), 2009, The Model-Based Archaeology of Socionatural Systems, Santa Fe, School for Advanced Research Press.
Noizet H., Mirlou L., Robert S., 2013, « La résilience des formes. La ceinture urbaine de la rive droite à Paris », Études rurales, n° 191, p. 193-220.
Ortega D., Ibañez J.J., Khalidi L., Méndez V., Campos D., Teira L., 2013, “Towards a Multi-Agent-Based Modelling of Obsidian Exchange in the Neolithic Near East”, Journal of Archaeolical Method Theory, n° 21, p. 461-485.
Rasse M., 2008, « La diffusion du Néolithique en Europe (7000-5000 av. J.-C.) et sa représentation cartographique », M@ppemonde, n° 90, p. 1-22.
Robert S. (coord.), 2012, « Archéologie et géographie », L’Espace géographique, 41(4), p. 289-351.
Rodier X. (dir.), 2011, Information spatiale et archéologie, Archéologiques, Paris, Errance.
Tobler, 1971, « A Cappadocian Speculation », Nature, n° 231, p. 39-41.
