WP3 studies and teaches how past hunter-fisher-gatherers dwelled in coastal regions and focusses on how material was used to enculture specific places. It combines archaeology, spatial analysis/mapping (GIS), experimental archaeology, bioarchaeology, environmental archaeology and comparative ethnographic studies.
Material remains of settlement, economic activities and ritual, and their spatio-temporal distribution will be analysed, classified and mapped in their specific topographic and coastal context.
On this basis, innovative insights into past coastal dwelling and settlement will be gained, including social, economic and ritual networks in coastal areas and people’s mobility within and beyond these networks (synergies with WP4).
The different regions involved in ArCHe exhibit a variety of site-types, with different preservation conditions and different environmental histories, which will be compared and cross-fertilized.
Methodologies include mapping of topographies in their temporal development (synergy with WP2), landscape archaeological approaches as taskscape, network and mobility studies, including human-environment relations, theories on ritualized and structured deposition, and methods such as mapping and GIS-analysis of spatial and network relations, in addition to technological studies and experimental archaeological approaches.
Synergies
WP3 has synergies with WP2 and WP4.
It further provides crucial information for WP5, as the remains of past human activity, which are studied, are visible as archaeological sites in today’s landscapes, and are focal points for the present and future management, stakeholder involvement and communication of these sites.
Contact and PhD-projects
- WP-leader: Almut Schülke (UiO), co-leader: Pablo Arias (UC)
- Involved PhD projects: DC3, DC4, DC5