31st
of
May
Starting
at
10
AM: "The
mobile
option"
CaSEs
Seminars
2012
IMF
CSIC
C/Egipciaques
15
Barcelona
The
Complexity
and
Socio-Ecological
Dynamics
(CaSEs)
research
cluster
is
pleased
to
organise
this
seminar
on
herders.
Prehistoric
pastoral
groups
are
often
pictured
as
marginal
realities
within
the
settled
(i.e.
post-‐Neolithic)
agricultural
world.
Yet,
pastoral
communities
are
numerous
and
widespread
throughout
the
Holocene
and
they
still
represent
an
important
share
of
present-‐day
society.
Indeed,
pastoralists
represent
the
core
of
some
regional
economies
around
the
world.
With
this
seminar,
CaSEs
aims
at
breaking
the
traditional
dichotomy
between
mobile
hunter-gatherers
and
settled
agriculturalists,
which
underlie
most
anthropological
and
archaeological
research
on
transitional
periods
(e.g.
Mesolithic
to
Neolithic).
In
this
sense,
herders
are
quite
special
as
they
represent
the
mobile
option
in
a
sedentary
and
fully
domesticated
world.
For
this
reason
CaSEs
think
herders
are
a
sort
of
hybrid
socio-‐ecological
group
that
deserves
a
more
prominent
place
under
the
reflectors
of
anthropological
and
archaeological
research,
to
reach
a
more
comprehensive
understanding
of
domestication
options
and
trajectories.
This
seminar
aims
at
stimulating
debate
between
in
house
and
invited
specialists
involved
in
research
on
herder
communities
from
different
perspectives:
archaeological,
ethnographical
and
environmental.
We
hope
this
will
be
a
seeding
experience
for
future
collaborations
and
initiatives.
Program:
• Andreas
Angourakis
(UB,
andros.spica@gmail.com),
Models
of
interaction
between
herders
and
agriculturalists
in
the
oases
of
Central
Asia
• Stefano
Biagetti
(Universitá
La
Sapienza,
stefano.biagetti@uniroma1.it),
Lessons
from
the
present:
ethnoarchaeology
of
contemporary
Saharan
herders
and
implications
for
the
archaeological
research
• Francesco
Carrer
(Universitá
di
Trento,
francescokar@gmail.com),
Pastoral
and
“dairying”
settlement
patterns
in
the
Central
Italian
Alps:
ethnoarchaeological
models
and
archaeological
interpretations
• Ermengol
Gassiot
Ballbè
(UAB,
ermengol.gassiot@gmail.com)
with
David
Anton
and
Niccoló
Mazzucco
(IMF
–
CSIC),
Settlement
and
mobility
patterns
among
Holocene
communities
in
Central
Pyrenees
• Matthieu
Salpeteur
(UAB
ICTA,
matthieusalpeteur@hotmail.com),
Migration
patterns
and
socio-ecological
context
in
contemporary
Northern-Gujarat:
first-hand
observations
Cheese-tasting
lunch
will
be
followed
by
a
round-table
in
the
afternoon.
