R13 - From the “Civilization of minds” to obsidian mirrors: the study of the World Neolithic according to Petr Charvàt and Güner Coşkunsu

Session Organisers: Jesus Gil Fuensanta, Alfredo Mederos Martin, Otabek Uktamovich Muminov, Alisher Gaffarovich Muminov

Category: Technology

Session Abstract: The premature disappearance of our colleagues, Prof. Petr Charvàt (West Bohemia University, Czech Republic) and Dr. Güner Coşkunsu (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain), has left some of their own research on various fields of the World Neolithic unfinished. Throughout his long career, Prof. Charvàt carried out in-depth research on the birth of the first states and urban agglomerations, as well as the beginning of bureaucracy through the use of seals and their impressions. The eminent Czech archaeologist and historian personally viewed the Neolithic as a “Civilization of minds” in contrast to the Chalcolithic or Bronze Age cultures, which he considered “Civilizations of the stomach.” In her research on the Neolithic, Dr. Güner Coşkunsu was able to confirm her interest in archeology about childhood, the role of women in prehistory, and especially the Neolithic period, as well as in-depth research on stone tools, in which Her interest in an unprocessed material stood out, the magical volcanic crystal, which we call obsidian; within this lithic raw material, she highlighted an important attraction for the subject of “mirrors”. So this session will cover these mentioned aspects, or various in relation to them within the Neolithic sphere: seals and imprints, bureaucracy, centralized organization in the central Neolithic towns, "the mind of Neolithic men", women and the question of matriarchal clans in the Neolithic, the archeology of childhood in the Neolithic, organization of stone industries, as well as obsidian industry and trade, and last but not least, the obsidian mirrors.

Room: G

08/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:20	Ariel James	Impersonal Powers in Göbekli Tepe: Temples as Cosmic Houses.
13:20 - 13:40	Tristan Carter	Of Divination and Portals: Reflections on Two Obsidian Mirrors from Early Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Konya Plain, Turkey)
13:40 - 14:00	Vanesa Toscano Rivera	Children for the Future: The Archaeology about the Infants from the Neolithic of Western Asia.
14:00 - 14:20	Pınar Arslan	Digital Textile Pattern Designs Inspired by Anatolian Civilizations Museum Neolithic Period Artifacts

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:00	Alfredo Mederos Martin	The Halaf culture: A non-minimal approach
15:00 - 15:15	Alisher Gaffarovich Muminov	Juan Ibarreche Duque and the studies on Nomadic Populations of the Neolithic Age
15:15 - 15:30	Otabek Uktamovich Muminov	Paleolithic Migrations into Central Asia end its reflection on Asian Paleogenetics of the Neolithic Age
15:30 - 15:45	Jesus Gil Fuensanta	The importance of seals in the Neolithic societies of Mesopotamia
15:45 - 16:00	Jesus Gil Fuensanta, Güner Çoskunsu	“Neolithic Mirrors”: Peaceful and Secretive Objects of The Prehistory