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SEMINAR: Archaeology Seminar Series

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Today's date is Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Archaeology Seminar Series : Ochre pigments and symbolic artefacts in the Swabian Jura Other events...
One of the most significant questions in archaeology asks when hominins started to exhibit characteristics of "modern" behaviour, such as complex syntactical language, abstract thinking, planning depth, behavioral, technological and economical innovativeness, and symbolic behavior. This has led inquiry into the ways that hominins interacted with materials and the methods behind acquiring and utilising them. One such material is a mineral pigment called red ochre, and the manipulation of this single material type has been used for theoretical inquiry into the aspects of modern behaviours. The proposed research will explore the ways in hominins interacted with red ochre in the Swabian Jura of southwest Germany during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, in order to explore the larger questions of the origins of symbolic behaviour modernity in humans and Neanderthals.
Speaker(s) Elizabeth Velliky
Location Social Sciences, Lecture Room 1 (G28)
Contact Karen Eichorn <[email protected]>
Start Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:00
End Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:00
Submitted by Karen Eichorn <[email protected]>
Last Updated Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:23
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