Events

EAA4Am scientific meeting “American landscapes archaeologies”, Second European meeting of Americanist archaeology, Santiago de Compostela 19-21/4/2023

Conference or workshop

19/04/2023 - 21/04/2023
Institute of Heritage Science (CSiC), Cidade da cultura, Monte Gaias s/n, Santiago

EAA4Am community is pleased to organize the second European meeting of Americanist Archeology to be held on April 19-21, 2023 in Santiago de Compostela. Those interested in presenting recent research, and debating in round tables, on the latest theoretical and methodological developments in landscape archeology can submit their proposals by the end of January.

Presentation:

Landscape has been one of the most flexible and creative concepts in archaeology’s recent history. It has been often mobilized, both from the theoretical point of view to reflect on the roles of materiality in the behavioral and cultural modalities of space perception and representation, as well as from the methodological point of view to refer to the set of techniques used for spatial approximations beyond the site.

In the Americas, landscape archeology has benefited from the diversity of indigenous cosmologies and complexity of ecologies (associated with the heterogeneous biogeographical context of the double continent). It has also often been used to investigate spatiality (sociopolitical organization, social control, staging of power, etc.) and territoriality (production of places and structuring of territory through geosymbolic and geopolitical devices). It has tackled a great diversity of archaeological contexts and remains (natural and built monuments, skies and horizons, settlements, agricultural infrastructures, road networks, rock art, iconography, ecofacts, etc.) with a multiplicity of techniques (multispectral and topographic aerial imagery, three-dimensional modeling, spatial, network and visibility analyses, movement modeling, machine learning, among others, in addition to cartography, archaeological surveys and excavations, as well as ethnographic analogy and ethnohistorical information).

For thirty years the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit-CSiC) has been a leading research laboratory in landscape archaeology. There, landscape has been thought from various theoretical angles and studied in distinct parts of the world, always engaging in innovative and generally multidisciplinary techniques for it. Thus, it is only natural that the second colloquium of the Community for the Archeology of the Americas of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA4Am), be held in Santiago de Compostela on April 19-21, with the purpose of exchanging results of recent case studies and critical reflections on the evolution of theories and methodologies with regards to the global issues and challenges of our present: Anthropocene, socio-ecological sustainability, decolonization, historical memory, heritage management, digital virtualization of the world, etc.

Like 2022 EAA4Am first meeting in Bornos (here), EAA4Am meeting in Compostela will offer optimal conditions for scientific dialogue: a human scale, limited to twenty participants, in a comfortable and inspiring place, facilitating academic exchanges in a cordial and relaxed atmosphere.

The call will be open until January 30th. Please, send your proposal (title and a summary of about three hundred words) to the email eaa4am@e-a-a.org. The accepted proposals will be communicated on February 10th by the EAA4Am community committee.

Program overview:

Wednesday 19th, evening: inauguration

Thursday 20th: conference day 1

Friday 21st: conference day 2

Saturday 22nd: Galician landscapes tour

Local scientific comity:

Felipe Criado-Boado, Incipit-CSiC

Marcos Llobera, University of Washington

Cesar Parcero, Incipit-CSiC

For further information, feel free to contact EAA4Am community board:

Marcia Hattori (Universidad del País Vasco, marcia.hattori@gmail.com)Thibault Saintenoy (Incipit-CSiC, thibault.saintenoy@incipit.csic.es)

Alexander Geurds (University of Oxford, alexander.geurds@arch.ox.ac.uk)

Carla Jaimes (University of Bonn, cjaimes@uni-bonn.de)

Marisa Lazzari (University of Exeter, M.Lazzari@exeter.ac.uk)

Carolina Orsini (Museo delle Culture de Milano, Carolina.Orsini@comune.milano.it)

Mariusz Ziolkowski (University of Warsaw, mziolkowski@uw.edu.pl)