S6A+S6B



S6A+S6B

Room 2.98

High altitudes: the archaeology of human habitation in mountain landscapes / New Approaches and Methodologies in Prehistoric Mountain Archaeology

Session organizers: Sabine Reinhold, Wieke de Neef, Francesco Carrer

S6A+S6B​, Tue Sep 1 2026, 9:00 - 16:30, Room 2.98

9:00-9:20 - Introduction/session organizers

9:20-9:40 - Shankar Narayan Bagh: A Study of Traditional House Structures in Sikkim Himalaya / Garima Thakuria 

9:40-10:00 -  Early-Medieval site formation and sourcing resources over the semi-arid Jatangi-Ramesvara Inselberg, South India / Deepak Pal,  Arjun R.

10:00-10:20 - From Paleolithic Shelter to Sacred Grotto: Multi-Period Cave Occupation and the Formation of Daoist "Grotto-Heaven" (Dongtian) Sites in the Karst Landscapes of Southwest China / Yisu Liu

10:20-10:40 - Michele Truffi: Once Upon a Time in Western Lucania: Old and New Evidence from the Pre- and Protohistoric Periods in the Lucanian Apennines /  Federico Nomi 

10:40-11:00 -  Bronze Age Built Environments in the Mountains of Armenia Between Pastoral Architecture and Fortified Hilltops / Reinhold & Co-Authors

11:00 – 11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Tracing the sites and structures of nomadic reindeer herders in Åarjelsaepmie, the South Sami region / Martin Callannan 

11:50-12:10 - An archaeology of erratic blocks? Small rock-shelters as human habitations in uplands of Central Pyrenees throughout the Holocene / Ermengol Gassiot Ballbè 

12:10-12.30 - Fabio Cavuli: Neolithic rock dwellings in the Southern Dolomites / Francesco Carrer 

12:30-12:50 - Seasonal use of caves by Bronze Age nomadic herders in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan / Rafał Koliński 

12:50-13:10 -  High altitude evidence for the use of animals and marine shell artefacts at ancient settlements in the western Himalayas / Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee & Co-Autors

13:10-13:30 - Archaeological Complexities of Upland Lithic Technologies in the Central Alaska Range, Northwest North America / Brian Wygal 

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-14:50 -  New Insights Into the Introduction of Reindeer Husbandry in Åarjelsaepmie, the South Sami Region: An Integrated Methodology / Martin Callannan et al.

14:50-15:10 -  Soils and Sediments as Archives in High-Altitude Archaeology / Kerstin Kowarik et al.

15:10-15:30 -  Numerical Modelling to Investigate Prehistoric Economy in Mountain Regions / Francesco Carrer

15:30-15:50 -  Nuraghi and Visibility. An Application from Two Sample Areas in Central Sardinia (Italy) / Stefania Mameli Et Al.

15:50-16:10 -  Being on the Mountain, Looking at the Mountain: Moving across Funerary and Pastoral Landscapes in Late Prehistoric Gobi-Altai Mountains / Cecilia Dal Zovo

16:10-16:30 -  Long-Term Human-Environment Interactions in the Prehistoric Landscapes of the Pollino Mountains (Southern Italy) / Wieke de Neef et al.

16:30-17:00 - Coffee break

Posters:

  1.  High-Altitude Mobility in the Southern Andean Altiplano (25°26°S): Insights from Provenance Analysis of Lithic Artifacts / Rodrigo Munoz
  2.  Deep-Seated Landslides as Potential Settings for Prehistoric Human Occupation in High-Mountain Environments / Hugo Gomes et al.