Tuesday 19.11. from 10:45, room B5
Macrolithic artefacts and the economy of prehistoric societies
Starting with an ethnographic documentation on production in present day rural West Africa, the exceptional variety of macrolithic tools and implied activities will be presented. These artefacts did not only play a key role in prehistoric economies of Later Prehistory but they also belong to the best preserved and abundant materials in the archaeological record. The different interdisciplinary approaches will be explained, which have started to develop only recently to understand the manufacture, use, and discard practices related to these artefacts. Finally, we will present some examples how we can proceed from artefact data to inferences on past socio-economic organisation
In the week from 18th to 22nd November, Prof. Roberto Risch will visit the Department of Archaeology FF UHK and give two lectures at the Department, to which we cordially invite you.
Roberto Risch is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and ICREA Acadèmia Research Fellow. His research is mainly concerned with the economy, ecology and mobility of prehistoric societies. He has investigated and co-directed the excavations of several prehistoric sites in Spain, Germany and India and conducted ethnoarchaeological fieldwork in Ghana and Mali. He collaborates actively with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte in Halle (Germany). In 2024 he curated the international exhibition ‘Dynasties. The first kingdoms of Prehistoric Europe‘ at the Archaeological Museum of Alicante.
