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Conference Report on Session 85 "Tracking the Neolithization Processes on Both Sides of the Sinai: a Bridge Between the Near East and North-Eastern Africa"

Published inNeo-Lithics, vol. 19, p. 18-20
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  • Ex Oriente
Publication date2019
Abstract

At the 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Bern (4th – 8th September 2019), the Session 85 entitled ‟Tracking Neolithization Processes on Both Sides of the Sinai: a Bridge Between the Near East and North-Eastern Africa” was organized by K. Kapustka, J. Vieugué, F. Bocquentin and E. Huysecom. Its main objective was to bring together researchers working in the Near East with those working in North-Eastern Africa. Based on various topics such as settlement patterns, architecture, graves, pottery, lithic, fauna, botanical remains etc., authors were requested to provide syntheses regarding the type and pace of changes as well as related transformation mechanisms occurring with the shift from hunter-gathering to farming communities in a wider chronological frame from their own field of interest. Rather than tracing ways of diffusion, long-distance contacts or cultural exchanges, the intention of this session was to identify in a better way the major steps of the processes involved from different approaches and perspectives. It is clear that typical characteristics and aspects of Neolithization occurred in different order and at different times in the two larger regions. The main question was to understand differences and similarities of these processes.

Keywords
  • Neolithic
  • Africa
  • Near-East
  • Settlement patterns
  • Architecture
  • Graves
  • Pottery
  • Lithic
  • Fauna
  • Botanical remains
Funding
  • Swiss National Science Foundation - 100013_185384
Citation (ISO format)
BOCQUENTIN, Fanny et al. Conference Report on Session 85 ‘Tracking the Neolithization Processes on Both Sides of the Sinai: a Bridge Between the Near East and North-Eastern Africa’. In: Neo-Lithics, 2019, vol. 19, p. 18–20.
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  • PID : unige:135536
ISSN of the journal1434-6990
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