The Creation of Homes in the Earliest Farming Period in Eurasia

THE CREATION OF ‘HOMES’ IN THE EARLIEST FARMING PERIOD IN EURASIA

JOINT RESEARCH DAY SPONSORED BY DURHAM UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDY, THE PREHISTORIC SOCIETY and DURHAM DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Durham, 27/II/2010: 10 am – 6.30pm

Lecture Theatre Chemistry/Geology 218

HOW TO REACH THE SCIENCE SITE

By rail: Durham Station (Map Square B1) to the Department of Archaeology (Map Square E6 – Building 41 = Dawson Building): either taxi (ask for Science Site, Main University Library (Building 40) OR a pleasant 20 – 30-minute walk along the River Wear from Framwellgate Bridge (Map Squares C2 – 4 & B5) to roundabout (Map Square C6), traffic lights next to New Inn pub (Map Square D6): turn right at traffic lights and enter Science Site past University Library (Map Square E6: Building 40).).

By bus: Durham Bus Station (Map Square B2) to Department: taxi or walk (as above)

By road from North: take Exit 62 marked ‘Durham’ from A1(M): follow dual carriageway to Gilesgate roundabout (Map Square G2): second exit down hill to Elvet roundabout (Map Square E2): first exit and straight across Elvet traffic lights (Map Square E3); up Elvet Hill, taking right fork near top at traffic lights (Map Square E4); along Church Street to traffic lights at New Inn (Map Square D6): straight across at these lights and turn first left after 100m to winding road for parking place outside University Library (Map Square E6: Building 40).

By road from South: take Exit 61 marked ‘Bowburn’ from A1(M): third exit marked ‘Bowburn’: drive through Bowburn village, past the turn to Shincliffe village, down hill to Old Shincliffe traffic lights: straight on, past Maiden Castle Sports Complex (on right: Map Square H8) and up short hill to roundabout (Map Square F6): first exit and along to traffic lights next to New Inn pub (Map Square D6): turn left at traffic lights and turn first left after 100m to winding road for parking place outside University Library (Map Square E6: Building 40).

By road from West (1): A 69 (Carlisle – Newcastle) to Western By-pass and onto A1(M): then as above, ‘By road from North’.

By road from West (2): A 690 from Crook to Neville’s Cross traffic lights: straight across and down hill to next lights: turn right and follow winding road (South Street: Map Square B4) through woods past Durham School (Quarryheads Lane: Map Square B5) to roundabout (Map Square C6): first exit and drive to traffic lights next to New Inn pub (Map Square D6): turn right at traffic lights and turn first left after 100m to winding road for parking place outside University Library (Map Square E6: Building 40).

CONFERENCE VENUE, SCIENCE SITE

You can access the Conference via the main door of the Dawson Building (Main Map: Building 41: detailed map – Building 4: RED DIAMOND). Follow signs along Ground Floor (toilets en route here) and up one level to Common Room (for teas, coffees, lunch and wine reception). Follow more signs along corridor to Chemistry/Geology 218, where the Conference Registration desk will be located (detailed map, RED STAR). Registration starts at 9.30am.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

10.00amJohn Chapman (Durham)Welcome

10.10 Alasdair Whittle (Cardiff)‘The emotional house?’

10.50Glynis Jones (Sheffield)The role of the garden in the creation of place

11.15Coffee / Tea (Archaeology/Anthropology Common Room, Dawson)

11.45Fiona Coward (Royal Holloway)Self, display and concealment: constructing networks of identity in the Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic of the Near East

12.10Trevor Watkins (Edinburgh)Home and community among the hunter-harvesters of the northern hilly flanks zone

12.35Discussion

1.00Lunch (Archaeology/Anthropology Common Room, Dawson)

2.00Stella Souvatzi (Athens)The origins, forms and developments of settled (?) existence in Greece

2.25John Chapman (Durham)Homes, settlements, networks and personhood at the emergence of farming in the Balkans and Hungary

2.50Daniella Hofmann (Oxford)A little home in the woods: LBK houses from the inside

3.25Coffee / Tea (Archaeology/Anthropology Common Room, Dawson)

3.50Robin Skeates (Durham)Senses of home in the Central Mediterranean

4.15Chris Scarre (Durham)Where did the dead live? Connecting the funerary to the settlement record in Neolithic Atlantic Europe

4.40Chris Fowler (Newcastle)Being at home in the Neolithic of the British Isles

5.05General discussion

5.30Wine reception (Archaeology/Anthropology Common Room, Dawson)