As part of the ‘Living in the World: Choices, Practices and Impacts’ seminar series (ED 395 – École doctorale Espaces, Temps, Cultures):

From stone monumentalities to earthen and vegetal architectures in the megalithic zone of Senegal and Gambia: issues and initial results of the HOME project, by Adrien Delvoye (Univ. Geneva, UMR 8068)

Dolmens for the dead but also the living, megalithic architecture in western France, by Florian Cousseau (Univ. Geneva)

Appropriating space through the interplay of forms: the example of the painted house of Dja’de (Middle Syrian Euphrates, late PPNA, ca. 9300-8800 cal. BC, by Sarah Dermech (UMR 7044)

This series of seminars will look at how people chose to live in their environment, domestic practices and their impact on nature. What criteria were used to select a natural area and what adaptation strategies were implemented? How do the practices of these spaces reflect the social structures and dynamics of the communities? These multidisciplinary questions will be addressed over a long period of time (from the earliest prehistoric times to the present day) and in a variety of regions and environments. We will seek to shed light on the reasons underlying the ways in which people inhabit the world (economic, social, symbolic, etc.) and the diversity or complementarity of human settlements in the landscape. An approach to temporality, including stability and mobility, the rhythms and cycles of human occupation, will examine the relationship between man and his environment.
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