This is the blog of the project "Neo-Innova: The diffusion of Neolithic in the Central-Western Mediterranean: agriculture, technological innovations and radiocarbon dating" (HAR2016-75201-P). This research project focuses on one of the main turning points of human history: the diffusion of Neolithic. Even if it is well established that the Near East was the first focus of the invention of farming, around X-IX milenium BC, the mechanisms and the paths of its spreading in the rest of the Mediterranean are yet to be unfolded. During the last decades, the origin of European Neolithic has been explained as result of a diffusion process through two main axes: a Northern one, crossing central Europe, and a Southern one along the Mediterranean coasts. The current project is aimed to analyse the process of Neolithic diffusion through the Central-Western Mediterranean through analysis of the techniques and tools associated with the crop-harvesting and -processing tools. Analysis of those tools has to be supported by an extensive program of radiocarbon dating and a cross-analysis of the crop-harvesting/14C with the information proceeding from the environmental/ecological, the technological and the cereals consumed.

Thursday 3 September 2020

LA MARMOTTA AT THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS (EAA) 2020 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING

The EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS (EAA) 2020 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING took place on 24-30 August of 2020. The EAA Annual Meetings bring together colleagues from all over Europe and beyond to discuss important issues in archaeological research, heritage, commercial practice, ethics, and the latest results of fieldwork. With over 1,800 presentations and more than 150 sessions, the EAA has become a key event of the archaeological scene in Europe.

The session PLANTS MEET ARTIFACTS: DEVELOPING INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO IDENTIFY PLANT PROCESSING AND USE IN ARCHAEOLOGY bring together specialists on the study of different archaeological artefacts (e.g. pottery, ground stone and flint tools), archaeobotanists (plant macro- and microremains), biomolecular archaeologists (organic residue analyses) and experimental archaeology to discuss current approaches to identify plant use in the past.

The oral paper OF PLANTS AND GRINDING STONE TOOLS: PHYTOLITH AND USE-WEAR FUNCTIONAL EVIDENCE FROM EARLY NEOLITHIC LA MARMOTTA (LAKE BRACCIANO, ITALY), was presented by Marta Portillo and colleagues from the IMF-CSIC, CNRS, ReGiraRocs, and the Museo delle Civiltà / Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “L. Pigorini”.

More info:
https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2020virtual




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