Minutes of the first AIPP symposium and the AIPP General Assembly 2023
The first AIPP General Assembly took place on June 3, 2023, at the Institute of Human Paleontology (IPH) in Paris, hosted by our colleague Professor Henry de Lumley.
On June 2nd, the AIPP organized a symposium open to the general public in the IPH amphitheater, the program of which was as follows:
10.00: Introduction by the President
10.10-10.30: HENRY DE LUMLEY
Evolution du climat au Pléistocène inférieur et premier peuplement de l’Europe
10.00-11.00: FRANCIS THACKERY
Quantification of morphological variability expressed by a “log sem” statistic in the context of human evolution (Australopithecus, Paranthropus and early Homo)
11.00-11.30: FRANÇOIS DJINDJIAN
L’importance du déterminisme climatique dans l’évolution de l’Humanité
11.30-12.00: MARTIN OLIVA
L’évolution culturelle et l’interprétation des données. Quelques exemples
12.00-12.30: LIOUDMILA IAKOVLEVA
Le Mézinien: un exemple d’adaptation climatique et culturelle aux steppes froides des zones pléniglaciaires d’Europe orientale: Etat actuel des recherches, discussions et interprétations
13.30-14.00: JACEK KABACINSKI
Exploring the life of Central European hunter-gatherers: research on Polish Mesolithic peat-bog sites
14.00-14.30: MEHMET ÖZDOĞAN
Cultural Changes during the Transformation of Neolithic Way of Living from Anatolia to Balkans
14.30-15.00: CHRIS SCARRE
Megaliths, islands and mobility in Neolithic Northwest Europe
15.00-15.30 HANS GEBEL
The Rajajil Cultures: Socio-Economic and Cultural Evolution Reacting to Climate Change in Northern Arabia (4500-3500 BCE)
15.30-16.00 SVEND HANSEN
Research on Technological and Social Innovations in Prehistory. New Perspectives for Archaeology
16.00-16.30 DOLORES PIPERNO
The Past (and Future?) of Our Crop Plants and Their Wild Ancestors in Changing Global Environments: Developmental Plasticity and Maize Evolution
16.30-17.00 KRISTIAN KRISTIANSEN
Institutions and their transformation from the 3rd to the 2nd millennium BC in temperate Europe: environmental, linguistic and genetic implications
Publication: First Proceedings of the International Academy of Prehistory and Protohistory (AIPP)
The volume contains the papers given at a symposium organized by the International Academy of Prehistory and Protohistory at the Institute of Human Paleontology in Paris, on June 3, 2023.
The chosen theme “Determinisms in prehistoric societies: climate change, environments, functional constraints and cultural traditions” is part of the project “Human societies in the face of climate change” supported by the International Academic Union (UAI).
The volume is freely accessible on the website of our publisher Archaeopress at the address: https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/download/9781803278919.