Ancestral stones workshop

Foundation Science Israel the of Workshop Research.

Save the Date: September 12 - 15, 2022.

Stones Ancestral: Reimagining the significance of stone from the Paleolithic to the Present.

The workshop will focus on:

• Integrating other ways of knowing and understanding the material world with human pasts,  particularly regarding human-stone interactions, including stone technologies and its social/cosmologic/other significance; 
• Stone quarrying, engagements with specific stones; 
• Stones in special contexts in archaeology;
• Stone and symbolism;
• Gender issues and whatever else that might be relevant. We envision a workshop in which scholars will exchange ideas and bring new insights to the relationships between humans and stone creating inclusive histories to human past behavior and human cultural evolution.

The workshop is open to anyone who wants to listen.

Organizers: Ran Barkai & Kathryn Weedman Arthur