Seminar organised by the ED 395 Doctoral School, Université Paris Nanterre

The seminar consists of three sessions, held on March 25, April 1, and April 22, from 11 AM to 6 PM, at the MSH Mondes.

This seminar is listed in the ED 395 catalogue at Université Paris Nanterre and is open to all students, colleagues, and interested individuals.

Objective: This seminar aims to document the mechanisms and modalities of the establishment of the first sedentary, agricultural, or pastoral societies in key geographical areas of the Old World (Near and Middle East, Caucasus, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe). Regional particularities will be highlighted using all the documentation studied by members of the UMR TEMPS. This rich documentation will contribute to identifying the specificities of each major cultural area. The different modalities, rhythms, and processes of “neolithisation” in these regions are necessarily diverse and invite cross-disciplinary reflection on the interpretive concepts we use and the criteria that underpin them.

25 March Seminar Programme

• 11 AM – 1 PM Solène Denis (CNRS): The Neolithisation of Central Europe

• 2 PM – 4 PM Catherine Perlès (CNRS): The Neolithisation of Greece

• 4 PM – 6 PM Aymeric Hermann (CNRS): Primary Hearths and Their Diffusion in Southeast Asia and the Pacific