G01 - Understanding ‘Long Neolithics’ in Global Comparative Perspective

Session Organisers: Aleksandr Popov, Junzo Uchiyama

Category: Conceptual - Theory

Session Abstract: Archaeologists continue to define and frame the Neolithic in terms of a progressive step towards new forms of economy (farming). In turn, these developments are linked to other phenomena, chiefly domestication, but also storage, sedentism and increasing social complexity. Recent decades have seen growing critique of these stadial perspectives, with acceptance of an expansive and persistent ‘middle-ground’ between foraging and farming. This typically involves a range of deliberate interventions to achieve ‘low-level food production’ across plant, animal and also aquatic resources. However, the dynamics and long-term potentials of these divergent trajectories are poorly understood and would benefit from renewed efforts at global comparative analysis. This session focuses on the theme of ‘Long Neolithics’ in different world regions. Papers are invited to focus on the complexity, duration and internal diversity of local Neolithics, and especially on the characteristics of ‘alternative’ social-ecological trajectories that do not culminate in intensive agriculture, including their demographic potentials, ecological sustainability and cultural resilience. Focal themes include (but are not limited to) emergence and displacement of ‘lost crops’, diverse human-animal interventions, and especially the modification and cultivation of ‘wild’ landscapes, forests, wetlands, grasslands and coastal zones in ways that generate distinctive place-based food systems that in some regions have persisted into historical times.

Room: A

08/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
10:00 - 10:15	Peter Jordan	The Neolithization of Northeast Asia: Explaining Innovation, Collapse and Transformation
10:15 - 10:30	Aleksandr Popov	Features of the Neolithization process in the coastal territory of the Russian Far East in the Early and Middle Holocene (12000 - 5000 years BP).
10:30 - 10:45	Vyacheslav Grishchenko	The main stages and trajectories of the neolithization in the island world of northeast Asia
10:45 - 11:00	Masahiro Fukuda	Neolithic development with river fishery resources: A case from the Eastern Amur region and surrounding areas
11:00 - 11:15	Irina Ponkratova	A Man in the Art of the Stone Age of Kamchatka (Far East, Russian Federation)

Lunch Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:15	Henny Piezonka	Untying the bundle: Neolithic cultural traits seen from a (global) hunter-gatherer perspective
13:15 - 13:30	Junzo Uchiyama, Mitsuhiro Kuwahata, Peter Jordan	Neolithisation and natural disasters: Jomon settlement pattern shifts in Kyushu, Japan (ca. 11,500-7,000 cal BP)
13:30 - 13:45	Viktor Diakonov	Understanding “Long Neolithic” in the Far Northeast of Asia
13:45 - 14:00	Elena Sergusheva	Small-scale Millet Agriculture as Possible Marker of the Life Support Sustainability in the Late Neolithic of the southern Russian Far East
14:00 - 14:15	Mikael Fauvelle	No Farming Needed? Resource Intensification, Social Complexity, and Long-Term Resilience in Maritime Hunter-Gatherer Societies

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:00	Mathilde Van Den Berg	Hormonal intervention as a mediator in human-reindeer relations beyond the wild
15:00 - 15:15	Margarita Kholkina, Roman Muravev, Yulianna Radaeva	Between North and South: Borders and Contacts Between Early Neolithic Cultures in the Gulf of Finland Region
15:15 - 15:30	Dmitriy Gerasimov, Margarita Kholkina, Alexander Zhulnikov, Marianna Kulkova, Aleksey Tarasov, Dmitriy Blyshko, Roman Muravev, Tatyana Vasilyeva, Tatyana Gusentsova, Alexander Kulkov, Nadezhda Nedomolkina	Phenomenon of the Neolithic Asbestos Ware in the Eastern Europe forest zone
15:30 - 15:45	Gertrud Neumann-Denzau	Neolithic saltmaking - a booster for transformations.
15:45 - 16:00	Guilherme Zdonek Mongeló, Fernando Ozorio Almeida, Jennifer Watling, Myrtle Shock, Thiago Kater	Should the historical process in the Amazonian SW during the medium Holocene be called Neolithization?

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
16:30 - 16:45	Daniel Garcia-Rivero, Ruth Taylor	Subsistence patterns and cultural shifts in the Neolithic sequence of Dehesilla Cave (Southern Spain)
16:45 - 17:00	Leonor Rocha	Neolithic territories of Central Alentejo (Portugal): settlement strategies
17:00 - 17:15	Tim Kerig	Labour and social Inequality in the Neolithic of the Northern Alpine Foreland
17:15 - 17:30	Levent Yılmaz	The Use and Abuse of Neolithic
17:30 - 17:45	Jacob Freeman	Understanding the emergence of alternative social-ecological regimes of food production