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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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