Sessions

LAC 2022 - Iași, Romania

Session 01. Landscape Archaeology in the Near East

Keywords: palimpsest, reconstruction of landscapes, modeling

Session organizers

  • Bülent Arıkan (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

  • Linda Olsvig-Whittaker (Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Francais, Israel)

  • Mike Freikman (Ariel University, Israel)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 01 here


Session 02. So far, So-so: Harnessing the potentials of GIS and Remote Sensing applications in African archaeological research

Keywords: Africa, GIS, Remote sensing, Predictive modeling, Monitoring

Session organizers

  • Akinbowale Mark Akintayo (University of York, UK)

  • Pamela Ochungo (British Institute in Eastern Africa)

  • Nadia Khalaf (University of Exeter)

  • Mamadou Thior (Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop)

  • Nicolas Serge Sagna

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 02 here


Session 03. The long-term perspective on sustainable landscapes

Keywords: Sustainability; Remote Sensing; Computing Archaeology; Climate change; Human Resilience

Session organizers

  • Filippo Brandolini (Newcastle University, UK)

  • Louise Rayne (Newcastle University, UK)

  • Michael Storozum (Newcastle University, UK)

  • Sam Turner (Newcastle University, UK)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 03 here


Session 04. People and their Scapes: Dialogues from the Global South and beyond the Borders

Keywords: Landscape archaeology, South Asia, macro and micro landscapes, Phenomenological landscape, culinary scapes, gender scapes, sacred scapes, tasks scape, Heritage scape

Session organizers

  • Ahana Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar)

  • Aishwarya Prashant Mhaske (National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 04 here


Session 05. The past, present and future of earthworks: towards an integrated approach

Keywords: earthworks; human-landscape interactions; interdisciplinary research; identity formation; adaptive reuse; heritage management

Session organizers

  • Roy van Beek (Wageningen University, the Netherlands)

  • Mans Schepers (Groningen University, the Netherlands)

  • Jayur Madusudan Mehta (Florida State University, United States)

  • Soetkin Vervust (Free University Brussels, Belgium)

  • Elizabeth Chamberlain (Wageningen University, the Netherlands) 

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 05 here


Session 06. How does the Waterscape influence, affect and infer the human community’s development, evolution, vulnerabilities, and resilience over time?

Keywords: Waterscape, Prehistory, History, Human Society, Anthropic Impact

Session organizers

  • Cătălin Lazăr (Division ArchaeoSciences, ICUB, University of Bucharest)

  • Valentin Radu (National History of Romania / University of Bucharest, Romania)

  • Cornelis Stal (HoGent, Belgium)

  • Laurent Carozza (UMR 5602, CNRS,  – Géographie de l’Environnement Maison de la Recherche de l’Université du Mirail)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 06 here


Session 07. Human-Earth interaction from the Quaternary to the Anthropocene: natural, social and cultural processes affecting landscapes

Keywords: Human- Earth interaction, Anthropocene, natural, social and cultural processes, landscapes

Session organizers

  • Sjoerd Kluiving (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

  • Anneli Ekblom (Uppsala University, Sweden)

  • Marcel Mindrescu (Ștefan cel Mare University, Suceava , Romania)

  • Anco Lankreijer, (Amsterdam University College, The Netherland)

This session will be held in PHYSICAL format. PARTICIPATION FEES will apply. For details please visit https://geoconcept.ro/lac2022-onsite/. For further inquiries please contact the on-site session organizer Marcel Mîndrescu at the following e-mail address: mindrescu@atlas.usv.ro

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 07 here


Session 08. Environment pressure and earthen architecture: mudbricks as a research tool to understand landscapes and historical dynamics

Keywords: Human-environment interaction, earthen architecture, geoarchaeological approach, catchment areas, ancient construction, ethnographic approach

Session organizers

  • Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria (NCSR Demokritos / University of Murcia / ANEE – University of Helsinki)

  • Marta Lorenzon (University of Helsinki)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 08 here


Session 09. Perspectives through palaeoscience for future environmental sustainability in Europe

Keywords: paleoenvironmental archives, proxies, vegetation history, disturbance regimes, landscape dynamics, climate variability

Session organizers

  • Gabriela Florescu (Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania)

  • Aritina Haliuc (Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania)

  • Marcel Mîndrescu (Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania)

This session will be held in PHYSICAL format. PARTICIPATION FEES will apply. For details please visit https://geoconcept.ro/lac2022-onsite/. For further inquiries please contact the on-site session organizer Marcel Mîndrescu at the following e-mail address: mindrescu@atlas.usv.ro

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 09 here


Session 10. Photography and Landscape Archaeology

Keywords: Landscape Archaeology, Photography, Videography, Digitization, Heritage, Techniques, Ethics

Session organizers

  • George Bodi (Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Romania)

  • Codrin Dinu Vasiliu (“Gh. Zane” Institute for Economic and Social Research, Romanian Academy, Iași Branch, Romania)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 10 here


Session 11. Long-term dynamics of human-environment interaction:  The case of prehistoric multi-layered settlements

Keywords: archaeology, tells, tell-settlements, neolithic, copper age, bronze age, environment, landscape, prehistory

Session organizers

  • Marian Adrian Lie (Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch)

  • Alexandra Găvan (Universität zu Köln)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 11 here


Session 12. Roaming through open landscapes: Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer adaptations in Central and Eastern Europe

Keywords: Paleolithic, paleo-climate, Pleistocene landscapes, Central and Eastern Europe

Session organizers

  • Mircea Anghelinu (Faculty of Humanities, Valahia University Târgoviște)

  • Marc Händel (Austrian Institute of Archaeology, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

  • Daniel Vereș (Cluj-Napoca Institute of Speleology, Romanian Academy – Cluj-Napoca Branch)

  • Cristina Cordoș (Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 12 here


Session 13. Modeling the landscape.  From prediction to postdiction

Keywords: Modelling; Predictivity; Postdiction; man-environment relationship; Geographic Information System 

Session organizers

  • Agostino Sotgia (Sapienza – University of Rome, RUG – University of Groningen)
  • Carlo Citter (University of Siena)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 13 here


Session 14. High-resolution digital elevation models, GIS and remote sensing in support of landscape archaeology reconstruction, dynamics and management

Keywords: Geomorphometry, Geoarchaeology, GIS, LiDAR, UAV, satellite imagery, aerial imagery, landscape archaeology

Session organizers

  • Mihai Niculiță (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Faculty of Geography)
  • Andrei Asăndulesei ( Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, ICI) 
  • Bogdan Roșca (Romanian Academy, Iași Branch, Geography Group)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 14 here


Session 15. Bioarchaeology exploring the interrelationship of human and natural systems

Keywords: archaeozoology, archaeobotany, paleoanthropology

Session organizers

  • Luminița Bejenaru (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Faculty of Biology)
  • Mihaela Danu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Faculty of Biology) 

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 15 here


Session 16. Landscapes as living archives: “multi-proxy” approaches to profiling socio-ecological changes over time and across space

Keywords: Multi-Proxy Approach, Geoarchaeology, Geology

Session organizers

  • Ella Quante (Allgemeine und Historische Geologie Institut für Geowissenschaften Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany)
  • Anna Pint (Department of Geography, University of Jena, Germany)
  • Federica Sulas (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 16 here


Session 17. Affective landscape and rational identities: sensory approaches in landscape archaeology

Keywords: Landscape, senses, affective, experience, embodiment, conservation 

Session organizers

  • Pamela Jordan (University of Amsterdam)
  • Sara Mura (University of Amsterdam)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 17 here


Session 18. Geophysical perspectives for reconstructing past environments – communicating the potential of multi-disciplinary synergy among prospection methods, laboratory analyses and modeling

Keywords: soil, geophysics, environmental archaeology, geoarchaeology, archaeological prospection 

Session organizers

  • Neli Jordanova (National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Philippe de Smedt (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • Carmen Cuenca-Garcia (NTNU, Norway)
  • Jorg Fassbinder (Munich University, Germany)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 18 here


Session 19. Reflections on the new models of economic exploitation of the territory and their impact on landscapes, and proposals of management from an archaeological perspective

Keywords: Landscape transformation; Sustainable development; Landscape protection; Legislation; Sustainable management 

Session organizers

  • Rebeca Blanco-Rotea (Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory, University of Minho – Portugal)
  • Teresa Nieto Freire (Delegation of Culture, Government of Galicia)
  • Silvia Maciel (Independent researcher)
  • Carlos Amoedo (University of A Coruña)
  • David Barreiro Martínez (Institute of Heritage Sciences –Incipit, Spanish National Research Council –CSIC) 

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 19 here


Session 20. Waterscape archaeology: multi-scalar human – environment interactions in coastal lagoons 

Keywords: geoarchaeology, coastal lagoons, paleo-environmental reconstruction, multi-proxy, Holocene, Anthropocene 

Session organizers

  • Alexandra Bivolaru (Aix Marseille University)
  • Daniela Cottica (Ca’Foscari University)
  • Christophe Morhange, (Aix Marseille University, EPHE-PSL-AOROC)

Abstract and Registration Form for Session 20 here