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

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

10:00-10:20 - Yisu Liu: 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

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

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

11:00 – 11:30 - Coffee break

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

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

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

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

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

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

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

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

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

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

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

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

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

16:30-17:00 - Coffee break