The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC
Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy – Congress Center
25 – 28 October 2023
Programme
Each keynote presentation will last for 45 minutes, including any discussion afterwards
Each other presentation will last for 30 minutes and will also include any discussion
Discussions at the end of each session and at the end of the day are planned for around 30 minutes
Day 1 – Wednesday, 25 October 2023
9.00 – 9.30 Franco Nicolis & Volker Heyd: Introduction to the meeting
Session 1
Origins and Significance of the Bell Beaker phenomenon: Paradigms and Data
9.30 – 10.15 Keynote paper João Luís Cardoso: The necropolis of the Verdelha dos Ruivos cave and the genesis of the Bell Beaker Complex in Portuguese Extremadura
10.15 – 10.45 Karsten Wentink: Travelling through space and time. Burial Mounds, Stereotypes and Bell Beaker Cosmology
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 11.45 Maria de Jesus Sanches and Maria Helena Lopes Barbosa: The Bell Beaker phenomenon in Northwest Iberia: considerations concerning its chronology, archaeological contexts and pottery styles
11.45 – 12.30 Keynote paper Martin Furholt: Do Bell Beakers actually have an origin?
12.30 – 13.00 Discussion after the first session
13.00 Lunch
Session 2
Bell Beaker borderlands: interaction and transformation in the central Mediterranean
14:30 – 15.15 Keynote paper Stašo Forenbaher: The puzzle at the crossroads: Cetina style, culture and phenomenon
15.15 – 15.45 Maja Gori: Living in the borderlands without perceiving the borders: the Bell Beakers and the Balkans
15.45 – 16.15 Elisabetta Borgna and Giulio Simeoni: Maritime and Alpine impactful cultural components in the northern Adriatic at the dawn of the Early Bronze Age
16.15 – 16.45 Coffee break
16.45 – 17.15 Franco Nicolis and Elisabetta Mottes: Relations, connections, interactions, resources, human mobility: (fuzzy) Beakers in Northern Italy
17.15 – 18.00 Keynote paper Giulia Recchia: Cross-cultural encounters and transformation: overlapping spheres of interactions in the 3rd millennium BC Central Mediterranean
18.00 - 18:30 Final discussion of the day
Day 2 – Thursday, 26 October 2023
Session 3
Bell Beaker Ideology, Religion, Cosmology, Ritual and Social Practice
9.00 – 9.45 Keynote paper Marc Vander Linden: Places of shared belief, places of collective action: on the role of ideologies in the maintenance of the Bell Beaker network
9.45 – 10.15 Ralph Grossmann: Bell Beaker, Corded Ware, Schönfeld: Material links and the Reflux Theory - A Reconsideration
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 11.15 Eni Soriano: From east to west: sex/gender system in Bell Beaker elite
11.15 – 11.45 Volker Heyd: The Trinity of the Bell Beaker Phenomenon or a network of the Rising Sun?
11.45 – 12.30 Keynote paper Alfredo Mederos Martín and Thomas X. Schuhmacher: Social and ideological change with the first bell beakers in the Iberian Peninsula (2550-2400 BC)
12.30 – 13.00 Discussion after the third session
13.00 Lunch
Session 4
Bell Beaker Economies, Technology, Diets and Lifeways
14.30 – 15.15 Keynote paper Marie Besse, Jessica Ryan-Despraz, Florian Cousseau, Claudine Abegg: When craftspeople move: a social approach of the Bell Beaker societies around the Alps
15.15 – 15.45 Eve Derenne and Delia Carloni: Beakers, jars and dolmens: A history of Western Alpine societies and their constellations of practice between 3300 and 1600 BCE
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee break
16.15 – 16.45 Quentin Favrel: Beyond the standard: the organisation of Bell Beaker ceramic production
16.45 – 17.30 Keynote paper Mike Parker Pearson: Transformations and continuities in subsistence and society: Bell Beaker-users in Britain
17.30 - 18.00 Final discussion of the day
20.30 Conference Dinner in Riva del Garda
Day 3 – Friday, 27 October 2023
Session 5
Beaker Folk versus Regional Identities
9:00 – 9.45 Keynote paper Pilar Prieto Martinez: Defining levels of identity through materiality: inquiring into the North and Northwest of Iberia
9.45 – 10.15 Ana Catarina Basílio and António Valera: We don't want those pots: interpreting the Bell Beaker absence at Santa Vitória ditched enclosure (Southern Portugal)
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 11.15 Neil Carlin: Understanding Bell Beaker identities in Ireland - people, places and identities
11.15 – 12.00 Keynote paper Olivier Lemercier: Humans and Cups: an archaeological perspective
12.00 – 12.30 Discussion after the fifth session
12.30 Lunch & Poster Session
14.00 Leaving for Excursion to Fiavè Archaeological Dwelling Site, Park and Museum
Day 4 – Saturday, 28 October 2023
Session 6
Special session as link to the 2nd part of the ‘Transformation of Europe’.
Bell Beakers, Corded Wares and Steppe Ancestry
9:00 – 9.45 Keynote paper Ian Armit: A sea change? Mobility, genetics and the Beaker Complex in Britain
9.45 – 10.15 Alissa Mittnik, Claudio Cavazzuti et alii: Investigating the 4th-2nd millennium BCE transition in Italy
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 – 11.15 Online paper Iñigo Olalde: The arrival of Steppe ancestry to the Iberian Peninsula
11.15 – 11.45 Guus Kroonen: Tracing the major Indo-European groups of Europe: Linguistic problems concerning the steppe-derived archaeological cultures of the Third Millennium BCE
11.45 – 12.30 Keynote paper Wolfgang Haak, Sandra Penske, Luka Papac, Adam Ben Rohrlach: The genomic profiles of Bell Beaker-associated individuals in central and eastern Europe
12:30 – 13.30 Overall discussion, lead by session keynote speakers (one of each session)
13.30 – 14.00 Volker Heyd & Franco Nicolis: Concluding the meeting and invitation to the second meeting in April 24-27, 2024
End of Conference