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The Neolithic colonisation of Europe tempered by LBK culture (5550-4950 BC)
Conference
Published on
11 June 2015
Updated on
13 June 2017
Colloquia
The archaeology of Migrations
International colloquium organized by Inrap, in partnership with the National Museum of Immigration History.
November 12 and 13, 2015 at the National Museum of Immigration History.
Archaeology of Migrations
by Jérome Dubouloz, CNRS
The rapid geographic expansion of the agricultural economy, from Hungary towards the English Channel on the one side and towards the Ukraine on the other, is an ongoing topic of debate. It notably questions the importance of human migration versus the migration of ''Ideas", and to what extent each played a part in this process. The theories of colonisation and acculturation are generally considered to be the two opposing interpretations, with a whole host of possible scenarios found in between. A new narrative approach is proposed in looking at this question. It is based on temporal simulations of the LBK cultural model, constructed using a number of environmental, ethological, demographic, economic and anthropological rules, which were extracted from these various fields of study. Occasionally shaped by archaeological knowledge itself, this model allows us to produce simulated "remains" to compare with those which are brought to light through archaeological excavations and their interpretations. Under certain plausible parametric values, this model and the temporal simulation of interactions which it produces bring about a colonisation in space, according to the expected rhythm, density, and forms. This "experimental" approach therefore allows us to determine plausible conditions which better justify the hypothesis of human migration.
Jérome Dubouloz, is PhD in Prehistory-Ethnology-Anthropology 1988, Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (MRT grant). Research Fellow, CNRS 1st Class since 1994, section SHS 31
Research areas:
The evolution of Neolithic and Calcolithic societies in North-West Europe analysed through various methods (style and function in material culture, intra-site and inter-site spatial analysis, demographics); the Michelsberg culture - 4200-3700 - and enclosures from the 5th and 4th millennia (numerous excavations, ceramic studies, spatio-functional analyses); creation of a model for the expansion of the LBK agricultural system (-5550-4950).
Recent professional activities
• Program (Co)director:
1978-2004: Archaeological program in the Aisne valley, CNRS Inrap, Ministry of Culture and Communication,
2010-2013: "MK Projekt", Franco-German National Research Agency (ANR), Emergence of a social and political complexity: coordination.
2010-2013: "ObReSoc", ANR, Agent-based simulation of the socio-natural trajectory of the Neolithic LBK: joint management of the "climactic simulation", "society" and "expansion rules" units.
Bibliography
Research areas:
The evolution of Neolithic and Calcolithic societies in North-West Europe analysed through various methods (style and function in material culture, intra-site and inter-site spatial analysis, demographics); the Michelsberg culture - 4200-3700 - and enclosures from the 5th and 4th millennia (numerous excavations, ceramic studies, spatio-functional analyses); creation of a model for the expansion of the LBK agricultural system (-5550-4950).
Recent professional activities
• Program (Co)director:
1978-2004: Archaeological program in the Aisne valley, CNRS Inrap, Ministry of Culture and Communication,
2010-2013: "MK Projekt", Franco-German National Research Agency (ANR), Emergence of a social and political complexity: coordination.
2010-2013: "ObReSoc", ANR, Agent-based simulation of the socio-natural trajectory of the Neolithic LBK: joint management of the "climactic simulation", "society" and "expansion rules" units.
Bibliography
- BOCQUET-APPEL J.-P., MOUSSA R, DUBOULOZ J. (2015), « Multi-agent Modelling of the Neolithic LBK », in GILIGNY F., DJINDJIAN F., COSTA L., MOSCATI P., ROBERT S. (dir.), Concepts, Methods and Tools, Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Oxford, Archaeopress, , p. 611-622.
- DUBOULOZ J. (2008) « Impacts of the Neolithic Demographic Transition on Linear Pottery culture settlement », in BAR YOSEF O., BOCQUET-APPEL J.-P. (dir.), The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its consequences, New York, Springer, p. 207-235.
- DUBOULOZ J. (2012), « À propos d'implantation, de démographie et de scission villageoises au Néolithique rubané », Les Nouvelles de l'archéologie, 127, p. 30-34.
- DUBOULOZ J., CHARTIER M., HACHEM L., ILETT M. (2012), « Interdépendance et cohésion des différents niveaux de territorialité au Néolithique rubané en Bassin parisien », in CARPENTIER V., MARCIGNY C. (dir.), Des Hommes aux Champs. Pour une archéologie des espaces ruraux du Néolithique au Moyen Âge, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes (collection Archéologie et Culture), p. 23-34.
- DUBOULOZ J. (à paraître), « Economic, Social and Political Organisation during the Neolithic: a Multi-Scale Interpretation of the Middle Neolithic (4500-3800 BC) Enclosures in Northern France », in GRONENBORN D., MANOLAKAKIS L. (dir.), Michelsberg Culture: Contributions to its Misunderstanding, Mainz, RGZM-Tagungen..
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