The University of Arizona
Arizona State Museum
Arizona State Museum North Building
P.O. Box 210026
1013 E. University Blvd.
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0026, USA

sfish@email.arizona.edu

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SESSION AND EXCURSION

Photographs of the session, including pictures of Lisbon, the participants, and the excursion©

(Copyright: The Comparative Archaeology WEB, M. O. Baldia January 7, 2007)

SESSION/COLLOQUIUM ABSTRACT

The development of archaeology is closely tied to research on megaliths, mounds, and enclosures. In spite of this long history, archaeology is only now beginning to provide answers to long-standing questions about the most prominent prehistoric monuments. As usual, these answers suggest new research questions. Since such monumental architecture was created around the world, researchers from all continents are asked to address these questions, in order to make this meeting truly comparative.

Topics to be covered include:

Methods and theories for excavation, analysis and preservation of monumental architecture and its contents
Spatial analysis of monuments on a local, regional, or interregional scale
Monuments and landscapes: their social, ethnic, and cultural implications
New discoveries and resulting inferences
Facts and fancies regarding monuments, ideology, and religion
Burial mounds and their textiles
Monuments, architecture, and art

The presentations include data from a systematic survey of the megaliths erected by hunter-gatherers in SW Portugal. Similarly, there will be presentations on huge North American mounds and enclosures, erected by hunter-gatherers between ca. 6000 and 2000 years ago. This includes new analyses of colorfully dyed textiles from the later monuments. The results of spatial analyses of hundreds of megalithic tombs, long-mounds, tumuli, and enclosures in North and Central Europe, including the oldest stone walls, will be offered.

LIST OF MODERATORS

Name	Address
Aikens, C. Melvin	Department of Anthropology (Japanese and Northeast Asia prehistory; New World archaeology) 5206 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97401-5206, USA maikens@uoregon.edu, http://www.uoregon.edu/~ast/faculty/aikens.html
Baldia, Christel M.	Editor, Ancient Textiles Indiana State University and The Ohio State University Contact Information
Baldia, Maximilian O.	Senior Editor. The Comparative Archaeology WEB© Contact Information
Calado, David	IPPAR - Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico (The Portuguese State Institute for Architectonic Heritage / State Department for Cultural Affairs) P.O. Box 457 8001-906 Faro Portugal dcalado@ippar.pt
Fish, Suzanne K.	The University of Arizona Arizona State Museum Arizona State Museum North Building P.O. Box 210026 1013 E. University Blvd. Tucson, Arizona 85721-0026 U.S.A sfish@email.arizona.edu, http://web.arizona.edu/~anthro/anthrofishs.html
Gaspar, Maria Dulce	Museu nacional Pesquisadora do CNPq e Cientista do Nosso Estado/FAPERJ Rio de Janeiro Brazil mgaspar@alternex.com.br

SESSION PROGRAMME / PROGRAMME DE LA SESSION

7^th September 2006 / 7^éme Septembre 2006

09:00 Opening / Ouverture

Moderators: Suzanne Fish and Maria Dulce Gaspar

09:00-09:25 Paul R. Fish

Suzanne K. Fish

C68/21-01 Monumentality and Complex Hunters-Gatherers: Comparative Theoretical Perspectives

09:25-09:50 Paulo DeBlasis

C68/21-02 New Perspectives on Mound building societies from coastal southern Brazil

09:50-10:15 José M. López Mazz

C68/21-03030La producción del paisaje social en las tierras bajas sudamericanas

10:15-10:40 Maria Dulce Gaspar

Márcia Barbosa

C68/21-04 The « Sambaquieiros » from Brazilian Southeastern shores: beginning of occupation, functioning and collapse

10:40-11:05 Ernesto Luis Piana

Luis Abel Roquera

C68/21-05 Shellmidden formation at the Beagle channel, Tierra del Fuego

(Argentine Republic)

11:05-11:30 Thomas Pozorski

Shelia Pozorski

C68/21-06 Size Does Matter: Initial Period Monumental Construction along the Coast of Peru

11:30-11:55 Shelia Pozorski

Thomas Pozorski

C68/21-07 The Square-room-unit Architectural form as an Emblem of Authority within the Sechin Alto Initial Period Polity in the Casma Valley of Peru

11:55-12:20 Annick Daneels

C68/21-08 Earthen architecture in Classic Period Central Veracruz, Mexico: development and function.

12:20-12:45 Tom D. Dillehay

C68/21-09 The "Living Mounds" of the Araucanians: Past Polity and Political Present

12:45-13:00 Discussion

13:00-14:30 Lunch / Déjeuner

14:30 Opening / Ouverture

Moderators: James A. Brown and David Calado

14:30-14:55 José Márquez Romero (Malaga, Spain)

Víctor Jiménez Jáimez (Malaga, Spain)

C68/21-10 Structured depositions and ditched enclosures in the late prehistory of southern Iberia (IV-III millennia BC).

14:55-15:20 Rui PARREIRA (Faro, Portugal)

C68/21-11 Alcalar (Algarve, Portugal): Research and museum exhibits of monumental funerary structures and the associated ceremonial areas

15:20-15:45 José Ramos (Cadiz, Spain)

Salvador Domínguez-Bella (Cadiz, Spain)

Manuela Pérez (Cadiz, Spain)

C68/21-12 The Pristine Class Society in the Atlantic Coasts of Cadiz, SW Spain (3^rd and 2^nd millennia BC). The conceptual framework and the archaeological evidence.

15:45-16:10 Francisco CARRIÓN (Granada, Spain)

J. A. ESQUIVEL (Granada, Spain)

Paulo FÉLIX (Granada, Spain)

David GARCÍA (Granada, Spain)

Carmen LÓPEZ (Granada, Spain)

José António LOZANO (Granada, Spain)

Israel MELLADO (Granada, Spain)

Teresa MUÑIZ (Granada, Spain)

C68/21-13 A geoarchaeological research program in the dolmenic group of Antequera (Málaga, Spain)

16:10-16:45 Rosario Cruz-Auñón (Sevilla, Spain)

Francisco Nocete (Huelva, Spain)

Juan Carlos Mejía (Sevilla, Spain)

C68/21-14 Ciertos aspectos funerarios en Valentina de la Concepción (Sevilla).

16:45-17:10 Lars LARSSON (Lund, Sweden)

C68/21-15 Approaching the dead. Social and architectural interaction reflected in a megalithic tomb

17:10-17:35 Francisco NOCETE (Huelva, Spain)

C68/21-16 More Than Big Stones! Periferiality and confined or resistant lineage societies in the pristine society of classes territorial framework. South-western Iberia Peninsula (2900-2000 BC)

17:35-18:00 Karl-Göran Sjögren (Göteborg, Sweden)

C68/21-17 Anonymous ancestors? The Tilley/Shanks hypothesis revisited.

18:00-18:25 David BINNS (UK)

C68/21-18 Images of mounds and stones: mythical reconstruction of prehistory in modern Britain

18:25-18:50 Julia ROUSSOT-LARROQUE (Bordeaux, France)

C68/21-19 Megaliths, mounds, enclosures...a question of frontier?

Alain Viaro (Geneva, Switzerland)

C68/21-20 Megalitism as memorials of wealth in Nias Island (Indonesia).

18:50-19:15 Discussion

8^th September 2006 / 8^éme Septembre 2006

09:00 Opening / Ouverture

Moderators: Jean-Pierre Mohen and Maximilian O. Baldia

09:00-09:25 Catarina Oliveira (lisbon, portugal)

Cândido Marciano da Silva (Lisbon, portugal)

C68/21-21 Moon, Spring and Large Stones. Landscape and ritual calendar perception and symbolization.

09:25-09:50 Judit P. Barna ( , Hungary)

Emília Pásztor (Szazhalombatta, Hungary)

C68/21-22 Two Neolithic Enclosures at Sormás – Török – Földek (SW-Transdanubia, Hungary) and their possible astronomical role.

09:50-10:15 Christel BALDIA (