G18 - The Impact of Neolithic Architecture – the Emergence of Human Built Environment

Session Organisers: Moritz Kinzel, Emmanuel Baudouin

Category: Architecture and Constructed Environment

Session Abstract: This session aims to highlight the impact of the emergence of architecture in the Neolithic on human social behaviour, the changes in the perception of space and development of building technology. Neolithic architecture can be understood as a largescale laboratory for testing structural and spatial solutions; some of them are lasting until today; e.g. the right angle. However, no buildings codes were established; resulting in constructions built without structural safety coefficients - stretching occasionally far beyond nowadays limits. Locally available material sources defined building techniques and materials. Environmental conditions, topographical settings and social constraints influenced shape and structural designs. In addition, recent anthropological and archaeological discussions have shown how architecture can be seen as an important form of symbolic representation, a material expression of concepts, values and social orders. The socio-cultural factor may have have played a significant role in the diversity of building techniques or the dynamics of changes (invention, convergence, diffusion, etc.). In other words, Neolithic people modified buildings to adapt them to their traditions, changing needs and diversifying activities as well as responded to climate changes and destructive events, e.g. earthquakes, flooding or fire. We would like to invite colleagues to discuss continuity, change and discontinuity of Neolithic architecture (on a global scale); its impact on social behaviour as well as the formation of group identities. Furthermore, we would like to investigate how Neolithic buildings were perceived and if this perception may have differed from the intended impact as well as the changes over time. What are the differences in perception for domestic and communal (special) buildings?

Room: H

04/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:15	Emmanuel Baudouin, Moritz Kinzel	Introduction to the session: The Impact of Neolithic Architecture – the Emergence of Human Built Environment
13:15 - 13:30	Paul Bacoup	Understanding the evolution of architectural choices of Neolithic builders: the example of earth and wood constructions in the southern Balkans in the 5th millennium BC
13:30 - 13:45	Marcin Bialowarczuk	From Circle to Square. Evolution of the Architectural Plan and its Importance for Neolithic Architecture Development
13:45 - 14:00	Garima Thakuria	Neolithic dwellings in India: A study of house structures in Sikkim
14:00 - 14:15	Bahattin İpek	Architectural Development in Northern Mesopotamia in the Late Neolithic Period and Architectural Scenes on Halaf Pottery: Domestic or Sacred/Communal Structures?

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:00	Lorenzo Nigro	The Round Tower and Neolithic Architecture at Jericho: its conceptual implications
15:00 - 15:15	Rémi Haddad	The False Pretense of Permanence: Early Neolithic Sedentism Seen from Cyprus
15:15 - 15:30	Martin Renger	Community Buildings - Building Communities. Architecture as a Modus of Social Assemblages
15:30 - 15:45	Paolo Taviani	Temples, sacred spaces, deities? Neolithic finds in Şanliurfa Province between Archeology and History of Religions
15:45 - 16:00	Varada Khaladkar	Home is People: Examining the Houses in the First Farming Societies in the Western Deccan, India

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
16:30 - 16:50	Judit P. Barna, Gábor Kalla, Emília Pásztor, István Eke	Heavenly Planned, Humanly Built: The Identity-Forming Role of Lengyel Circular Ditches in Late Neolithic Western Hungary
16:50 - 17:10	Melissa Kennedy, Hugh Thomas, Laura Strolin, Jane Mcmahon, Ahmed Nassr	The Birth of Sacred and Profane Architecture in the Neolithic Northern Arabia
17:10 - 17:30	Ergül Kodaş	The Problem of Continuity in the PPNA Architecture of Çemka Höyük: Architecture, Space, Memory and Continuity
17:30 - 17:50	Ramie Gougeon	Domestic Built Environments in the Late Prehistoric Southeast North America

05/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
10:00 - 10:15	Miroslav Kocic, Marija Kalicanin Krstic, Ana Kocic, Bryan Hanks	Islands in the Land of Forest – Vinca Culture Transformations of the Šumadija Region
10:15 - 10:30	Ivana Vostrovská, Petr Kocár	Domesticated water: multi-proxy analyses of Early Neolithic Water Wells from Czechia
10:30 - 10:45	Özlem Ekinbaş Can	The Pre-Pottery Neolithic Architecture in the Upper Tigris Region according to New Data from Gre Fılla: Continuity and Change
10:45 - 11:00	Jean-Noël Guyodo, Audrey Blanchard	The role of the island and coastal stone-walled enclosures of north-western France for the first connected seaways (4th-3rd Mill. BC)
11:00 - 11:15	Mariam Shakhmuradyan	The Morphological Examination of Desert Kites: Results of Interregional Comparative Analysis and Fieldwork

Lunch Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:15	Şakir Can	Intra-site Spatial Analysis during the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Periods at Kendale Hecala
13:15 - 13:30	Jane Mcmahon, Hugh Thomas, Melissa Kennedy	Adaptation in the Arid zone: new perspectives on Neolithic occupation of the north Arabian hinterland
13:30 - 13:45	Ghania Hamane	Megalithic monuments in eastern Algeria, archaeological and tourist significance
13:45 - 14:00	Ekaterina Girchenko, Oleg Kardash	Architecture of the Neolithic Defensive-Residential Complex in the North of Western Siberia (based on materials of Kayukovo 2 site)
14:00 - 14:15	Aroa García-Suárez	The architecture of daily practices: unravelling Neolithic lifeways from domestic building sequences at Boncuklu and Çatalhöyük