20th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (10-14 September 2014, Istanbul, Turkey). Abstracts of the Oral and Poster Presentation

İstanbul: Archeology & Art Publications, 2014. — xxviii + 619 p. — ISBN: 978-605-396-287-8.Connecting Seas - Across the Borders.Balkans and Anatolia in Prehistory: Cultural Interactions and Barriers.
Ports and Forts of the Muslims. Coastal Military Architecture, from the Arab Conquest to the Ottoman Period.
Long-Distance Trade and Domestic Economy between Byzantine and the Baltic in the Viking Age.
Going West? The Spread of Farming between the Bosporus and the Lower Danube Region.
Tracing Egypt out of Egypt. A Diachronic Approach.
Who is on Board? Maritime Perspectives on the Prehistoric Aegean.
Harbour Cities and Mediterranean Networking: Recent Projects and Approaches.
Encounters and Transformations in Iron Age Europe.
Archaeology across Past and Present Borders: Fragmentation, Transformation and Connectivity in the North Aegean and the Balkans during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age.
The Late Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age Transition in Anatolia, Southeast and East Europe. Problems of Definition, Correlation and Interaction.
“The Other” in Action. The Barbarization of Rome and the Romanization of the World.
Thrace, Anatolia and Beyond: Religious and Ritual Practices across Continents (Early Bronze through Early Iron Ages).
Cultural Continuity, Transformation and Interaction in Western Anatolia and the Aegean from the Early Neolithic up until the Mid-Second Millennium BC.
The Eastern Marmara Region in Antiquity: A Transit Region between Europe and Asia.
Refuse, Re-use as Traces of Migration.
Seas of Encounters – Mapping Colonial Impacts on Indigenous Landscapes.
A Globalisation of Death? Re-interpreting Burial Practices of the Eastern Aegean, 9th - 4th centuries BC.
Making Boundaries Visible: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Investigating Boundaries in the Archaeological Record.
Phoenician Maritime Pioneering and Punic Expansion: Reconstructing Trade and Dietary Patterns.
A Matrix of Socioeconomic Connectivity: Ports, Harbors and Anchorages in the Mediterranean.
Spread of Ideas, Things and People. Cross-Cultural Contacts on Baltic Sea Area.
Archaeology of the Early Medieval Slave Trade in Northern Europe: Looking for the Material Evidence.
Society, Power and Influence in Atlantic Europe.
Approaching Different Settlement Patterns between the Northern Balkans and Northwestern Europe in the Neolithic.
Aeolia between Special Identities and Transmarine Influences.
Border Crossings: Rethinking Cultural and Material Diffusion.
Waves of Change from the Mediterranean to the North Sea (Vth-Xth cent.).
Central Meets Marginal? The Meaning of Urban and Rural in Early Medieval Europe.
Changes and Developments in Burial Customs in the Eastern Anatolia and Southern Caucasus from Late Chalcolithic to Late Iron Age (Post Urartu- Achaemenid).
Connecting Cultures, Maritime Flows: Toward an Historical Archaeology of the Mediterranean.
Networks and Intersections: Perspectives on Colonial Encounter and Entanglement.Managing Archaeological Heritage: Past and Present. Ancient Technologies in Social Context.On the Ethical Side of Public Archaeology (Round Table Session).
Barriers and Opportunities: Open Access and Open Data in Archaeology..
New Data on Social Complexity in the Balkans and Around: Prehistoric Societies from the Vth Millennium BC.
Recognising Archaeology as a Profession in Europe.
Public Perceptions of the Past, Heritage and Archaeology: Methodological Approaches and Applicability in Archaeological Management.
Is there Reason to Party? Ten Years of the Working Group on Farming, Forestry and Rural Land Management.
Archaeology and Tourism.
Managing Archaeological Heritage.
Archaeologists in Dire Straits. Stories from the Front Lines.
The CARE Project: An Online Efficient Resource for Understanding Early Medieval Europe.
Increasing Heritage Awareness through Participatory Public Archaeology.
The Glocal Village: Heritage Management in non-Western Contexts.
Defining Community Archaeology in a Global World.
Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2014 - What It Means to Work in European Archaeology.
Archaeology and Geophysics: Nondestructive Methods in Investigation and Protection of the Archaeological Heritage.
3D Archaeology: The Scientific Future of Documenting the Past.
Heritage Beyond Borders.
Preservation In Situ or Excavation?
Archaeology, Ecology and Planning: Collaborative Approaches to Landscape Management and Planning (Round Table Session).
On the Future Reality of the Past. Material, Immaterial, and Virtual Heritage in the 21st century.
From Turkey to North America: Scholarly Discourse on the Archaeological Heritage of Turkey.
Site Management Plans and Practices in Archaeological Sites (Europa Nostra Turkey’s Session).
Major Infrastructure Projects - Routine Business or Open Management Issues? (Round Table Session).
Medieval Open Forum: New Agendas and Directions in Medieval Archaeology (Round Table Session).
Opportunities within the Ariadne Network (Round Table Session).Ancient Technologies in Social Context.Metal in Human History.
Concepts of Fortifications in Pre- and Protohistory.
Textiles in a Social Context. Textile Production in Europe and the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE.
Artisans Rule: Product Standardization and Craft Specialization in Prehistoric Society.
Nobility Versus Artisans II. Crafting during the Bronze and the Iron Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean: The Archaeologists Trowel and Brain.
Interpreting the Change - Adoption of Stone and Brick in Urban Settings.
Ritual Paraphernalia: The Efficacy of the Material.
Almost there - Consumption of “Luxurious” Products among Ordinary People in the Medieval and Early Historic Periods.
Exploring the Social Fabric of the Past - Material Culture and Technological Approaches to the Study of Attire.
Medieval Christianity and Technology: Impacts and Transformations in East and West.
Out of the Dark - The Dawn of Potters Craftsmanship.
The Technology of Things: Material Transformations in Prehistory.
Cooking in Prehistory.
Pottery as Experiment: Shifting and Adapting Production Technologies, Functions and Styles.
Once upon a Time... The Impact of Technological Innovations on Peripheral Areas in Europe from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
The Archaeology of Architecture: Technology and Practice.
The Material Agent in Technological Processes.Environment and Subsistence: Geosphere, Ecosphere and Human Interaction.The Exploitation of Wild Plant Resources: Methodological, Archaeobotanical and Ethnobotanical Approaches to the Identification of Their Type of Management and Its Social Implications.
Iron Age Landscapes in a Comparative Perspective.
The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion.
Young Reseacher Symposium: Landscape Archaeology in Greece and Turkey.
Isotopic Investigations of Pastoral Production: Innovative Approaches to Patterns of Mobility, Economy, and Exploitation.
Human-Environment Interfaces: Assessing the Use of Palaeoenvironmental Information in Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology.
Southwest Asian Domestic Animals and Plants in Africa: Routes, Timing and Cultural Implications (Session sponsored by the Society of Africanist Archaeologists).
Into the Wild - The Exploitation of Wild Species and Environments.
Mediterranean Landscapes in Post Antiquity: New Frontiers and New Perspectives.
Medieval Masterchef. Eastern Cuisine and Western Food Customs: An Archaeological Perspective.
Redefining Configurations of Urban Settings: Centers of Social and Economic Activity in the Eurasian Steppe.
Biogeochemical Approaches to the Archaeology of Northern Hunter-Gatherers.
Landscapes of Luxury?: Park Landscapes and Their Wider Context in Medieval Europe.
Cult Activities, Performances and Experiences in Sanctuaries and Sacred Landscapes.
People and the Mountains - Entering into the New Landscapes.
Environmental Archaeology and Archaeology: Divided We Stand (Still)?
Who Lived in Longhouses? New Directions for Neolithic Household Studies.
Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Approaches to the Study of Post-Medieval Rural Settlements.
Subsistence Strategies in Change: The Integration of Environmental and Archaeological Evidence on Prehistoric Land-Use.
Caves as Ritual Spaces in Later Prehistoric Europe.
Bioarchaeology of Fertility: A New Approach in the Understanding of Population Growth during Prehistory.
Concepts and Methods for Exploring Sustainability and Resilience in the Archaeological Record.Times of Change: Collapse and Transformative Impulses.Re-Assessing Urbanism in Pre-Roman Europe.
Steady State, Florescence and Bust: Alternative Insular Model from Malta.
Comparative Perspectives on Early Urbanism in Europe and Beyond.
Outlands and Outland Use - In the Past, the Present and the Future.
Times of Collapses in Eastern and Central Europe Basing on Data of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Dead Ends, Funerary Flops and Monumental Failures: Archaeologies of Mortuary Disasters.
Environmental Change: Data, Process, and Integrated Modeling.
Beyond Burials: Transforming the Dead in European Prehistory.
Connectivity in the Ancient Black Sea.
A Matter of Time & Space: Addressing the Temporospatial Variability of Collapse.
A Crystal Formed of Necessity – Gifts, Goods and Money: The Role of Exchange in Processes of Social Transformation.
Archaeologies of War(s) (1914-2014) as the Field of the Entanglement of Landscape Archaeology, Conflict Archaeology, Memory Studies and/
Times of Changes at Kültepe/Kanesh and in Central Anatolia in the Light of Current Researches.
So Many Countries, So Many Customs: The Everyday Experience of Religious Conversion.
The Impact of Empire: Memory and Interaction in Hellenistic and Roman Pisidia.Retrieving and Interpreting the Archaeological Record.
Globalization Theories in Archaeological Interpretations.
Archaeology: The Limits of Interpretation (Round Table Session).
Assembling Çatalhöyük.
Landscape and History at the Lycos Valley: Laodikeia and Hierapolis in Phrygia.
Impact of the Fall of Communism on European Heritage.
Round Table of the Committee for Teaching and Training of Archaeologists (Round Table Session).
Central Asia: Contextualizing Local Datasets within Broader Social Processes.
Bayesian Chronologies for the European Neolithic.
Along the Northern Mesopotamian Frontier. The Upper Tigris and Its Surrounding Regions during the Early Bronze Age (3100-2000 BCE) (Round Table Session).
Measure, Number and Culture.
Neolithic Collective Burials in Europe in the Later 4th millennium BC.
The Archaeology of Late Medieval and Early Modern Mass Graves.
Medieval Burial Practices in Europe and the Near East: Challenges, Approaches, Potential.
A New Neolithic.
Bringing Down the Iron Curtain: Paradigmatic Changes in Research on the Bronze Age in Central and Eastern Europe?
Sacred Nature: Site Biographies, Research, Ethics.
Elite Burials in Prehistoric and Early Medieval Europe.
Old Worlds, New Histories: Towards an Integration of Archaeological and Historical Data-Sets.
Images of the Past: Gender and its Representations.
“Binary Bind”: Deconstructing Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Archaeological Practice. 20th EAA Age Session.
Coins in Churches: New Perspectives on Archaeological Finds in Medieval Scandinavian Churches.
“Searching for Things”: Exploring the First Places and Systems of Law and Assembly in Northern Europe.
Materialising Memories: Circuits of (Re-)Configuration.
Chasing Death Ways: New Methods, Techniques and Practices in Documenting and Interpreting the Funerary Record.
The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange: Human and Animal Deviant Burials and Their Cultural Contexts.
Burial Communities in Long Term Perspective.
Contemporary Art & Archaeology, Crossroads between Science and Art, Dialogues and Discourses (Round Table Session).
Bayesian Chronological Modelling in Action.
Multiple Views on Early Prehistory.
Building Material as Transmitter of Culture.