Holistic Approaches to Prehistoric Wealth and Inequality
Seminar on Prehistoric Wealth and Inequality (Zoom)
On 13-14 June, Dr. Mikkel Nørtoft and Prof. Dr. Martin Furholt will hold the research seminar Holistic Approaches to Prehistoric Wealth and Inequality at CAU Kiel.
The seminar brings together leading researchers to discuss prehistoric wealth and inequality, from many different perspectives, including archaeogenetics, ethnography, archaeology, and theory. Approaches will be both qualitative and quantitative, at small and large scale, The contributions will focus on material culture (grave goods, architecture), mobility, diet, health, violence, kinship, demography, climate, animals, at small and large scale.
The seminar is a joint collaboration between CAU Kiel and UCPH School of Archaeology.
Follow the seminar on zoom
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Programme
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00-9:25 | Mikkel Nørtoft and Martin Furholt | Arrival, welcome, and coffee |
| 09:30-9:55 | Mikkel Nørtoft | Introduction: Towards constructive, holistic approaches to wealth and inequality in the past |
| 10:00-10:25 | Martin Furholt | Concepts of power and personhood and their influence in the archaeological discourse on social inequality during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages in Europe |
| 10:30-10:50 | Jess Beck | Osteoarchaeology and Inequality: Past Approaches and Future Directions |
| 10:55-11:30 | Philip Stockhammer (Zoom), Alissa Mittnik |
Practices of shaping inequality: a bioarchaeological perspective from the Early Bronze Age Lech Valley, combined talks (35 mins) |
| 11:35-11:55 | Ralph Grossmann Klabunde | Insights into Social Inequality: A Quantitative and Diachronic Study Using a Multi-Proxy Approach |
| 12:00-13:05 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:15-13:35 | Sandra Penske et al. | Kinship practices at the early Bronze Age site of Leubingen in Central Germany |
| 13:40-14:00 | Adam Ben Rohrlach et al. | Analysing Networks to uncover Genetic- and Cultural relatedness in Connected Ancient Cemeteries |
| 14:05-14:25 | Johannes Müller | The Organisation of Social Power: Egalitarian – Stratified – States |
| 14:30-14:50 | Sven Brummack | Principles of Inequality in 5th Millennium calBC Burial Sites of the Southeastern-European Copper Age |
| 15:00-15:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:15-15:35 | Gary Feinman and Linda Nicholas | Reframing grand narratives on inequality in the context of an expanding empirical record |
| 15:40-16:00 | Ana Paula Motta | Flores as necropolis: An object biography approach to understanding mortuary practices and wealth inequalities at the San José de Flores cemetery (Buenos Aires, Argentina), during the 19th and 20th centuries (1850-1930) |
| 16:05 | Giacomo Bilotti | Is conflict correlated with demographic pressure? A case study from prehistoric northern Europe. |
| 16:30-16:50 | Lasse Vilien Sørensen | “From Stone To Home” – exploring polished stone tool biographies and their social and economic impact in the Aegean Neolithic |
| 16:55 | Mikkel Nørtoft and Martin Furholt (chairs) | Plenary discussion: Can we find common ground in different approaches? |
| 19:15 | Dinner at Medea Georgian Restaurant (and perhaps drinks) |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 09:00-09:30 | Good morning | |
| 09:30-09:50 | Volker Heyd | Yamnaya Social Inequality |
| 09:55 | Colin Quinn | “We’re not so different, you and I”: Towards a Holistic Archaeology of Inequality |
| 10:20-10:40 | Niels Johannsen, Simon Kjær Nielsen | Land of opportunity? Settling, wealth, and social status among the early Corded Ware groups of Central Jutland, Denmark |
| 10:45-11:05 | Fynn Wilkes | How Much Inequality Is Possible? Limitations and Methods in the Analysis of Social Inequality |
| 11:10-11:30 | Miren Iraeta-Orbegozo | Use and reuse of Tumuli in Bronze Age Western Serbia: The case of Dubac |
| 11:35-11:55 | Mikael Fauvelle, Nicola Ialongo | Burial GINIs from the Chumash in California, diet (C and N isotopes), resource patchiness and interaction bottlenecks comparable to early complex societies |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:15-13:35 | Michal Ernée, David Cibulka | Social stratification in the Early Bronze Age community of Mikulovice, East Bohemia |
| 13:40-14:00 | Katherine Kanne | My treasures gleam in the sun and neigh at night: livestock, wealth, and inequality in prehistory |
| 14:05-14:40 | Mikkel Nørtoft and Martin Furholt (chairs) | Plenary discussion: Can we find common ground in different approaches to prehistoric wealth and inequality? |
| 14:45-15:00 | Martin Furholt and Mikkel Nørtoft | Closing remarks and outlook |