G07 - Neolithic Processes in the Tropics

Session Organisers: Stephen Rostain, Geoffroy de Saulieu

Category: Different Neolithics

Session Abstract: Archaeological research was slow to start in the tropics. However, it has often known important developments, especially in recent years. The archaeology carried out along the equatorial belt shows specificities that distinguish it notably from that practiced elsewhere. It has been the source of original and fruitful theoretical and methodological approaches, in which interdisciplinarity has generally played an essential role. Contrary to what has long been believed, tropical societies have had very different social and political experiences from our own. If the opposition between hunters-gatherers and farmers seems less important there than in other parts of the world, social developments have nevertheless experienced a significant diversity whose mechanisms are not yet well understood and which are already present with the Neolithic processes. These initial developments show specificities that are not found in temperate regions and that goes beyond the simple fact of not breeding animals. Thus, the question of the tropical centers of plant domestication and birth of agriculture has recently given the tropics their rightful role. Similarly, several major inventions that have marked human history over the last 10,000 years have taken place in the tropics. More than elsewhere, the relationship between man and his environment has been posed, and shows how much the current equatorial environments are the result of complex interactions between societies and their landscapes, in short, the result of a history in which these tropical worlds have entered and whose effects on the environment, as well as on non-European knowledge, are exceptional.

Room: K

08/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
10:00 - 10:15	Doyle Mckey	Domestication, landscape management, food production systems, and societies in lowland South America: Insights from a major crop, manioc
10:15 - 10:30	Stéphen Rostain	Far From Being Marginal: The Cultural Cradle of Amazonia
10:30 - 10:45	Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho, Célia Boyadjian, Davi Duarte, Murilo Quintans Ribeiro Bastos	Parallels and divergences: the complex occupation of the coast of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) as an example of the specificities and particularities of tropical regions.
10:45 - 11:00	Celia Boyadjian, Rita Scheel-Ybert, Tais Capucho	Diet And Food Production of The Brazilian Shellmound Builders
11:00 - 11:15	Umberto Lombardo	The Pre-Columbian Green Revolution of the Bolivian Amazon

Lunch Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:15	João Darcy De Moura Saldanha	The Rise of Monumentality in Eastern Amazonia and its link with the Neolithization Processes in South America
13:15 - 13:30	Geoffroy De Saulieu	Social Implications of domestication in the Tropics
13:30 - 13:45	Champion Louis, Dorian Q. Fuller	Tropical cereal agriculture: domestication and dispersal rates compared in Africa
13:45 - 14:00	Hermine Xhauflair, Timothy Vitales, Xavier Galet, David Codeluppi, Maricar Belarmino, Gerard Palaya	Unveiling linked stories between humans and the environment in Palawan Island, Philippines.
14:00 - 14:15	Dylan Gaffney, Annette Oertle, Alvaro Montenegro, Erlin Djami, Abdul Razak Macap, Tristan Russell, Daud Tanudirjo	Animal taming, translocation, and the punctuated Neolithisation of island rainforests