R17 - Early Monumentality and Social Differentation: Transformation in Europe

Session Organisers: Johannes Müller, Wiebke Kirleis

Category: Different Neolithics

Session Abstract: Monuments, especially megaliths shape huge regions of European landscape, even today, when the majority have been destroyed. The reconstructed number of monumental buildings in the whole area is estimated to several tens of thousands. In many European regions the increase in monuments is contemporary with first enclosures, increased human economic impact on the environment, extended external relations, and of a distinct increase in elaboration and diversity of material culture. In many regions a first boom in megalithic monumentality is followed by a second boom in individual burial mounds during the beginning of the third millennium BCE. Social and ideological developments connected to these formal changes are visible in the cultural landscape. In order to link observations to models of social change, to an understanding of ideological developments and to combine those topics to the physical background, the climate, environment and landscape developments, different case studies are already available with systematic data sampling, the integration of all data sources available and syntheses that account for different spatial scales and have a proper temporal resolution: important social, environmental and cultural transformations within the European Neolithic become visible. The session aims at linking individual case studies on these socio-environmental transformations with general contributions on early monumental architecture, social and environmental changes and the creation of the earliest cultural landscapes of Europe.

Room: D

07/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
10:00 - 10:20	Johannes Müller, Wiebke Kirleis	Introduction: Monuments, landscapes, environments
10:20 - 10:40	Pawel Jarosz, Anita Szczepanek, Eva Horváthová	The Tradition and Development of Monumental Funerary Structures: Insights from Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age Communities in Southeastern Poland and Eastern Slovakia
10:40 - 11:00	Aldona Mueller-Bieniek, Piotr Papiernik	Archaeobotanical data from the monumental cemetery of the Funnel Beaker culture at Gaj, Kuyavia

Lunch Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:20	Ann-Katrin Klein, Ingo Feeser, Wiebke Kirleis, Johannes Müller	From Landscape to Social Meaning – Megaliths and Societies in Northern Central Europe
13:20 - 13:40	Christoph Rinne, Robert Hofmann, Ben Krause-Kyora, Nadine Schwarck, Magdalena Wieckowska-Lüth	Wartberg: The Multifaceted Formation of an Archaeological Group
13:40 - 14:00	Peter Bye-Jensen	Unearthing Neolithic Narratives: Flint Artefact Biographies and Depositional Practices at a selection of North European Causewayed Enclosures
14:00 - 14:20	Kata Furholt, Martin Furholt, Niklas Dopp	Rondels as Neolithic monuments and their visibility in the local landscape in Central Europe

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:05	Audrey Blanchard, Jean-Noël Guyodo, Bettina Schulz-Paulsson	Le Plasker in Plouharnel: standing stones and hearts in a newly sector of the large megalithic complex of Carnac (France, 5th millenium cal BC)
15:05 - 15:25	Anna-Lena Titze	Exploring Gender Inequalities in the Neolithic Using Ancient Human Genomes from Southern France
15:25 - 15:45	Noah Steuri	Neolithic Collective Graves in the Alps: Social and Symbolic Landscapes in the 5th and 4th Millennium BCE

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
16:30 - 16:50	Jadranka Verdonkschot, Felipe Criado-Boado	Cycles and Circles in Stone. Societal Rationalities in the Megalithic Monuments of Northwestern Iberia
16:50 - 17:10	Mónica Corga, Miguel Almeida, Maria De Jesus Sanches, Thierry Aubry, Sílvia Coelho	A (pre)view of an unknown Neolithic landscape: the lower Vouga basin, in the Atlantic western Iberia
17:10 - 17:30	Nikolina Nikolova	Opening the Earth: Monumentalizing Ditch Enclosures from the Early Neolithic in the Eastern Balkans.

08/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
10:00 - 10:20	Daniel Pullen, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Michael Galaty, William Parkinson	Monumentality and Memory in Death at Ksagounaki (Alepotrypa Cave), Greece
10:20 - 10:40	Robert Hofmann, Johannes Müller, Wiebke Kirleis, Frank Schlütz, Liudmyla Shatilo	Trypillia Mega-Structures – Monuments of an egalitarian Ideology
10:40 - 11:00	Schlütz Frank, Hofmann Robert, Videiko Mykhailo, Müller Johannes, Kirleis Wiebke	How to feed mega-populations? An isotopic study on the chalcolithic food production and consumption of Trypillia societies (Ukraine, Moldova)
11:00 - 11:20	Scholtus Lizzie, Vindrola Padrós Bruno	More than meets the eye: How eye-tracking techniques highlight how monuments shape our perception of the world

Lunch Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:20	Bruno Vindrola-Padrós	The Emergence of waste monumentality in Europe: A discussion
13:20 - 14:30	all participants	Final Discussions