Descripción del proyecto
Los espacios abiertos en la transición neolítica
El desarrollo de la arquitectura de adobe guarda relación con el auge de los asentamientos humanos de hace unos trece mil años. Además, está marcado por la domesticación de plantas y animales. Sin embargo, si bien se han estudiado ampliamente las zonas construidas, los espacios abiertos todavía están poco investigados. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos PATIOS explorará la creación de espacios abiertos para estudiar el funcionamiento de las primeras comunidades sedentarias a escala supradoméstica. El proyecto, que se centrará en las comunidades del Holoceno temprano en Oriente Próximo, desarrollará un método multiescalar e interdisciplinario para mejorar la identificación de residuos microscópicos orgánicos y moleculares en secuencias abiertas. PATIOS calificará la diversidad de formas y procesos tafonómicos que influyen en las zonas abiertas y aportará nueva información sobre los conceptos y las transformaciones de los espacios abiertos.
Objetivo
The emergence of sedentary life ca. 13,000 years ago marked the development of mudbrick architecture and the transition to new forms of human ecology based on plant and animal domestication. In this context, settlement open areas played a vital socio-economic role as the loci of discard practices, outdoor activities, and human-animal-environment interactions. However, while built environments are a recurrent research theme for this period, open spaces remain less studied. This oversight is partly due to the methodological and interpretative problems posed by open areas, often displaying complex stratigraphies consisting of superimposed microlayers and excavated in arbitrary units that do not represent units of deposition. The aim of PATIOS is to explore the constitution of open spaces to investigate how the earliest sedentarising and sustained sedentary communities operated at supra-household levels. The specific project goals are: 1) to develop a new multiscalar and interdisciplinary methodology for an improved identification of microscopic and molecular residues of organic nature in open sequences; 2) to characterise the variety of formation and taphonomic processes affecting open areas; and 3) to provide a wide diachronic and geographical understanding of the concepts and transformations of open spaces and the socio-cultural aspects related to their use. PATIOS will focus on early Holocene semi-mobile and sedentary communities in the Near East, one of the core areas of the Neolithic Transition. Through a multi-proxy methodological approach that combines spatial analyses, geoarchaeology, plant science, biochemistry and ethnoarchaeology, this project will explore the heterogeneity of the earliest settlement open areas, opening up a much-needed comparative path for the examination of local trajectories in their creation, transformation and use. Thus, PATIOS will contribute new insights into the rise and evolution of anthropogenic landscapes and ecologies.
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MSCA-IF-EF-CAR - CAR – Career Restart panelCoordinador
28006 Madrid
España