The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC
Archaeology International Conference in Riva del Garda from 25 to 28 October
Exactly 25 years after the ‘Bell Beakers Today’ international conference in Riva del Garda / Italy, scholars from across Europe have committed themselves to participating in a momentous scientific event.
Under the umbrella title of “The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC”, two distinct conferences, however mirroring each other, will be held in two different parts of Europe and months apart.
The sole purpose for these two meetings will be to develop and deepen, through an interdisciplinary approach, all aspects that in recent years have contributed to outlining a new interpretative framework of the cultural and social transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC.
Scholars will pursue such in a constructive dialogue between archaeology, anthropology, genetics/genomics, linguistics and other biological and environmental disciplines.
The first meeting, over four days with 26 lecture contributions organized in six sessions with two keynotes each, will take place in October 25-28, 2023 in the Centro Congressi of Riva del Garda. Its focus will be on the mid and second half of the Third Millennium BC, particularly Bell Beakers in the west and south.
The second meeting will then be held in Budapest in April 24-27, 2024 and will cover the late Fourth and first half of the Third Millennium BC, here particularly Yamnaya, Globular Amphoras and Corded Wares in the east and north.
The preliminary programme of the Riva del Garda conference is now available here.
The conference will be held in English. The conference schedule includes a visit to the Fiavé pile-dwelling site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the Pile Dwelling Museum and the Archeo Natura Park.
Curators of the conference: Franco Nicolis, director of the Archaeological Heritage Office of the Autonomous Province of Trento, and Volker Heyd, Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Participation is free; booking required online on www.transformeurope1riva2023.com
The conference can be followed in person or online.
Source: https://www.transformeurope1riva2023.com/
Information
Provincia autonoma di Trento
UMSt Soprintendenza per i beni e le attività culturali
Ufficio beni archeologici
Via Mantova, 67 - 38122 Trento
tel. 0461 492161
email: uff.beniarcheologici@provincia.tn.it
www.cultura.trentino.it/Temi/Archeologia
05/10/2023
