W Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego będzie gościć dr Roman Hovsepyan, archeobotanik i etnobotanik z Armeńskiej Akademii Nauk. Przyjedzie do Warszawy w ramach programu IDUB „Mentor” na zaproszenie dr. Mateusza Iskry.
Dr Roman Hovsepyan jest kierownikiem grupy badawczej bioarcheologii i etnobiologii w Instytucie Archeologii i Etnografii Armeńskiej Akademii Nauk w Erywaniu. Główne zainteresowania badawcze dr. Hovsepyana to dawna ekonomia i środowisko Kaukazu Południowego, Bliskiego Wschodu i południowo-wschodniej Europy oraz wykorzystanie dziko rosnących roślin przez Ormian, Jezydów, Kurdów i Mołokanów (Rosjan kaukaskich).
Podczas swojego pobytu, dr Hovsepyan poprowadzi seminarium dla pracowników CAŚ UW, zaprasza na konsultacje próbek materiałów archeobotanicznych, a także wygłosi wykład otwarty na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim.
- Seminarium dla pracowników CAŚ: „Human Food Systems of the Past Times: Approaches and Study Methods”
Seminarium odbędzie się w siedzibie CAŚ w najbliższy czwartek (16.05) o godzinie 11:00 w sali nr 4.
Abstrakt: „The term “food systems” refers to all the elements and activities related to producing and consuming food, and their effects, including economic, health, and environmental outcomes. A food system includes all processes and infrastructure involved in feeding a population: growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consumption, distribution, and disposal of food and food-related items. The food system is not just a part of our lifestyle and economy but it is also a part of our culture and identity. Of course, it is applicable also to past societies and communities.
During this workshop, we will talk about the approaches and methods that may help us better understand the functionality of prehistoric societies and the chain of food production and consumption. This workshop may serve as a base to re-evaluate the importance of “small finds” in archaeology and what we should look for while excavating. We will talk about various divisions of archaeobiology but will stop in more detail on the subdivisions of archaeobotany and their methods.”
- Wykład otwarty: „Overview of agriculture and food consumption in the South Caucasus during prehistory (Neolithic – Iron Age periods, 7th–1st millennia BC)”
Wykład odbędzie się we czwartek, 23 maja w Budynku Starego BUW-u, w godzinach 11.00-12.00 w sali 105.
Abstrakt: „Agriculture has had its ups and downs in the prehistory of the South Caucasus. In the beginning, upon its establishment in the 6th millennium B.C., the Late Neolithic period, it was diverse involving the cultivation of various cereals, pulses, and oil plants. The situation started to change in the Chalcolithic period and, starting from the Early Bronze Age period (the Kura-Araxes culture), agriculture depending almost exclusively on cereal cultivation was practiced in the South Caucasus. This „cerealized” agriculture continued for more than two and a half millennia (from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age). Then, in the Middle Iron Age, agriculture again became diverse in the South Caucasus.
Global environmental changes at the beginning of the Early Bronze Age may have contributed to transforming the agriculture of the South Caucasus into the cultivation of a few hardy cereals. However, it seems more likely that anthropogenic factors played a decisive role, because pulses and oil-plants could have been grown along with cereals in the same conditions in foothills and plains, but they were not.”
Celem Działania „Program Mentor” I.1.1/IV.1.1 w ramach IDUB (Inicjatywa Doskonałości – Uczelnia Badawcza) jest zwiększenie szans badaczy z Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego na włączenie w prace zespołów realizujących przełomowe dla nauki projekty badawcze, poprzez umożliwienie budowania międzynarodowej sieci kontaktów z naukowcami z uczelni z innych krajów, w tym wybitnymi badaczami cieszącymi się światowym autorytetem.
