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.

Organizers: Ran Barkai & Kathryn Weedman Arthur