R16 - Anatolia and the Balkans During the Neolithization Process: Connections, Similarities and Differences

Session Organisers: Barbara Horejs, Sofija Stefanovic, Tanya Dzhanfezova

Category: Anatolia / Southeastern Europe

Session Abstract: The extremely important role of Anatolia in the process of the Neolithisation is highlighted by recent discoveries and current research, as well as the important role of the Balkans in the spread of Neolithic achievements further across Europe. The mutual connections of these two regions, which were key to the process of the Neolithization and reshaped their worlds at that time, have been poorly researched until now. With this session, we want to open the possibility for young and senior scholars who have dealt with (western) Anatolia, the Aegean and/or the Balkans, to present their new data and theories about characterization, differences and similarities during the formation and establishing of the Neolithic. We believe that looking at new data and models on a site-based, regional and supra-regional level offers new insights into the diversity and complexity of the Neolithisation. All social, cultural, anthropological and economic aspects as well as their broader ecological contextualization are welcome to discuss for example the built environment, diet, funeral customs, production, technologies and innovations to contribute to a better understanding if or how these regions were connected in the early to middle Holocene. This session aims to bring together experts and young researchers of (western) Anatolia, the Aegean and the Balkans to discuss this key zone and its transformation during the Neolithisation within the ‘world Neolithic context’.

Room: L

04/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:15	Lyndelle Webster, Barbara Horejs	Setting the absolute chronology of Neolithic Çukuriçi Höyük, western Anatolia
13:15 - 13:30	Rahmi Asal, Mehmet Ali Polat, Sırrı Çölmekçi, Emre Öncü, Hüseyin Yıldırım, Yasemin Yılmaz	An Old Village in The Historical Peninsula: Neolithic Settlement of Yenikapi Istanbul/Turkey
13:30 - 13:45	Nikolina Nikolova, Atanas Tsurev, Krum Bacvarov	The Early Neolithic of the Middle Maritsa Valley
13:45 - 14:00	Malgorzata Grebska-Kulow	The Early Neolithic in South-west Bulgaria; causes and consequences
14:00 - 14:15	Camille De Becdelièvre, Tamara Blagojevic, Jelena Jovanovic, Aleksandra Zegarac, Stefanovic Sofija	Trajectories of Neolithization in the Danube Gorges: confronted identities, incorporated alterities or hybridized entities ?

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:00	Hostettler Marco, Van Vugt Lieveke, Ganz Kathrin	Exploring land use dynamics and human impact in the Southern Balkans during the Neolithic ca. 6600–3300 cal BC/8550–5250 cal BP
15:00 - 15:15	Hafner Albert, Bogaard Amy, Kostas Kotsakis, Tinner Willy	Submerged settlements of the South: early farmers between the Adriatic and the Aegean.
15:15 - 15:30	Vlatka Cubric-Curik, Konstantina Saliari, Ino Curik, Preston T. Miracle	The importance of Anatolia and the Balkans for the domestication of cattle in Europe; modern and ancient genomic perspectives
15:30 - 15:45	Rudenc Ruka, Edlira Andoni	Unwinding the Late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic transition in Albania
15:45 - 16:00	Michael Brandl, Bogdana Milic, Barbara Horejs	Through the Lithic Lens: The Socio-Economic Dimensions of Chipped Stone Tools at Neolithic Svinjaricka Cuka, South Serbia

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
16:30 - 16:45	Ivana Jovanovic	Stone raw material economy and distribution networks in the western Balkans Neolithic
16:45 - 17:00	Sonja Kacar, Bogdana Milic, Michael Brandl	Diversity and Regionalisation in the Early Neolithic of Central-Western Balkans: Lithic Economy and Cultural Interactions
17:00 - 17:15	Darko Stojanovski, Barbara Horejs	A New ‘Balkan Fashion’ Developing Through the Neolithization Process. The Ceramic Annulets of Amzabegovo and Svinjarička Čuka
17:15 - 17:30	Tanya Dzhanfezova	Flexible Habits: The Faces of Novelty in the Early Neolithic Eastern Balkan Pottery Uptake
17:30 - 17:45	Raiko Krauss, Dan Ciobotaru	New insights into the buildings of the oldest Neolithic in the Carpathian Basin

05/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
10:00 - 10:20	Stella Souvatzi	Ring-shaped Settlements in Neolithic Greece and Turkey: Social Significance and Diverse Habitation
10:20 - 10:40	Sabina Cveček, Sofija Stefanović, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Rana Özbal, Fokke Gerritsen, Meliha Melis Koruyucu	Infant Burials Associated with Houses in Central Balkans and western Anatolia during Neolithic: Similarities, Differences, and Exceptions
10:40 - 11:30	All Participants	Final Discussion