The first RAINDROPS event will be to co-host a one-day conference on Trends in Multidisciplinary Archaeology. This conference is part of the annual Archaeology day (Jornades de Arqueologia) organised by Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Humanities and the Institute of History Jaume Vicens i Vives (IUHJVV). The event will take place on January 9th (9.30-18.00) in the Auditorium Mercè Rodoreda of UPF Campus Ciutadella. Attendance is free though space is limited.
Here is the conference abstract and program:
Born within the beaux-arts and raised inside the humanities and the social sciences, archaeology has long emerged from its original antiquarian purposes. Current archaeology routinely crossbreeds with a variety of other disciplines to accomplish its duty of shedding light on the human pasts. Research on earlier societies is nowadays conducted with a number of colleagues from very diverse fields. A relentless flux of inputs from anthropology, sociology, biology, geology, botany and, more recently, chemistry, statistics, and the so-called new technologies, has put archaeology at the forefront of multidisciplinary research in the new millennium.
During the Jornades de Arqueologia 2017, we aim at gathering open-minded scholars, actively conducting multidisciplinary archaeological research with no limitations in time and space. ‘Trends in Multidisciplinary Archaeology’ wants to offer a broad and dynamic perspective on the variety of research topics and approaches that are characterising archaeology as a uniquely global science.
09.30 Opening and welcome / Bienvenida
09.45 Keynote by G Fiorentino (Università del Salento, Italy) - Isotopes in Archaeobotany
10.30 C Lancelotti (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Raindrops: reconstructing past water management practices for drought-resistant crops
11.00 Coffee break / Pausa café
11.30 S Biagetti, J Alcaina Mateos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - A ‘world’ of possibilities: remote sensing techniques in the archaeology of drylands
12.00 A Rodriguez, J Blat (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - PaisArque Web App: una nueva aplicación web para el análisis de modelos 3D de monumentos, contextos y objetos arqueológicos
12.30 J Alcaina Mateos, C Lancelotti (Unversitat Pompeu Fabra) - Modelado de los usos antrópicos del espacio a través de la geoestadística
13.00 A Pecci (Universitat de Barcelona) - El vino en los materiales arqueológicos. El alcanze del análisis de residuos orgánicos para el estudio de su producción, transporte y consumo
13.30 Lunch break / Pausa comida
15.00 E Bortolini (Università di Bologna) - Explaining change: evolutionary approaches to archaeology and anthropology
15.30 C Camus (IMF-CSIC) - Is Feminism compatible with Multidisciplinary Archaeology? Challenges and possible directions
16.00 J Caro (IMF-CISC) - Nuevas perspectivas para el estudio del reparto de recursos y la desigualdad en sociedades de cazadores-recolectores
16.30 Coffee break / Pausa café
17.00 J Ruiz-Pérez, U Lombardo, M Madella (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Arqueología de la Amazonia precolombina: 10.000 años de poblamiento y antropización del paisaje
17.30 M Madella, MJ Gaillard, K Morrison, N Whitehouse (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Linnaeus University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Plymouth) - Holocene Global Landuse - HoLa