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The interplay of environment, social relations, material culture, population dynamics, and human perception are the key factors of socio-environmental changes. The exploration of processes and
parameters of societal change enable further exploration of transformations of human-environmental interactions. These processes and parameters are detectable in the development of, for example,
settlement systems, material culture, or ritual sites, which link different socio-environmental components. Humans and environments deeply shaped each other, creating diverse social,
environmental, and cultural constellations. On the one hand, examining the roots of social, environmental, and cultural phenomena and processes, which substantially marked past human development,
can lead to a deeper understanding of the development of societies. On the other hand, a focus on transformation patterns within momentous developments of past societies opens up the possibility
of identifying substantial and enduring re-organisation of socio-environmental interaction patterns.
The scientific programme of this conference aims to promote discussion by merging themes that explore the roots of social, environmental, and cultural phenomena and processes, well as different
scales of transformations in prehistoric and archaic societies. Therefore, the sessions intend to explore wide diachronic and interdisciplinary spectra: From Late glacial societies to communities
of pre-modern cites, from topics on human adaptation and coping strategies, to those on burial rites, residential behaviour, the formation of complex networks, and past health, as well as
different theoretical and methodological approaches covering social, physical, life, and formal sciences.
Please see the announcement poster for download below and visit the conference website for details: https://www.kielconference.uni-kiel.de/
