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HomeKnowledge productions and their diffusion in Protohistoric societies: comparative and multidisciplinary approaches

Knowledge productions and their diffusion in Protohistoric societies: comparative and multidisciplinary approaches

Production des savoirs et leurs modes de diffusion dans les sociétés de la Protohistoire : approches comparées et pluridisciplinaires

Wissensproduktion und ihre Verbreitungswege in den Gesellschaften der Frühgeschichte: vergleichende und multidisziplinäre Ansätze

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Published on Thursday, September 08, 2022

Abstract

This international symposium brings together transdisciplinary researchers in order to renew the outlook on European Protohistory. Protohistoric societies having left few texts, can sites or artefacts tell us about the immaterial production of knowledge? Recent researches on comparatism, in archaeoastronomy, ethnomathematics, paleopathology or bioarchaeology, show that these societies produced knowledge and transmitted it, raising the question of the exchange of this knowledge and technologies. The texts produced by the contemporaries of the Celts show a complex and codified culture, corroborated by the found artefacts. Our gaze must therefore depart from a disciplinary compartmentalization, researches combining archaeology, astronomy, artificial intelligence, mathematics, provide interesting answers on this question.

Announcement

Argument

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from various backgrounds both from a geographical and a disciplinary point of view, in order to renew methodological approaches in a purpose to better understand European protohistory. The theme chosen for this meeting, "Knowledge productions and their diffusion in Protohistoric societies: comparative and multidisciplinary approaches ", allows us to question both the production of Knowledge in protohistoric societies and the contribution of contemporary sciences, with the aim to give a better insight on these societies without texts.

The production of scientific knowledge for protohistoric societies is difficult to quantify and qualify because they have not left any textual traces. This situation thus invites the researcher to change the paradigm to tackle this question: can sites or artefacts inform us about this intangible production? Recent researches on comparaticism in archaeoastronomy, ethnomathematics, paleopathology, show that these societies could produce knowledge and transmit it, whether it be symbolically or not. Therefore, we notice that these societies possessed an astronomical expertise, an extensive geometrical knowledge, and knew how to exactly reproduce the living in their artistic productions.

This should lead us to reflect on the place of this knowledge in Society, a change of polarity by admitting that scientific production is possible in Northern Europe, and to ask ourselves on the question of exchanges and transfers of knowledge and technologies. The ancient texts produced by other societies at the same time as the Celts give us a glimpse of a complex and well developed society, mastering smithing, devoted to their cults, and having a codified social structure. This is why mix fields of studies such as paleoastronomy or ethnomathematics appears to be a crossroad between a scientifical, archaeological and philosophical approach. Our contemporary perspective must therefore move away from a disciplinary compartmentalization to a transdisciplinarity approach, including various fields of research, in order to better understand the Sciences during Protohistory.

The question of exchanges and transfers should therefore give us the possibility to discern the specific features of knowledge: integration, assimilation, recomposition or exclusion. As a matter of fact, it would be curious to isolate the question of knowledge production from only a given period such as Protohistory, or a geographical area such as Northern Europe, while for example experiments, hypotheses and theories were circulating all around the Mediterranean basin in the antiquity.

The ambivalence of the subject should also make it possible to invite other disciplines to reflect on the subject. Indeed, to respond to the limits posed by protohistoric societies, transdisciplinarity appears to be the best alternative. Recent research combining astronomy and archaeology, archaeology and artificial intelligence, archaeology and mathematics, provide answers that deserve to be examined. In this way, the production of astronomical knowledge, the study of recognizable artistic animal figure, or the production of complexes geometrical systems as ornaments, have already been demonstrated.

Places

  • INHA - Salle Giorgio Vasari - 2 rue Vivienne
    Paris, France (75002)
  • Auditorium (accès par la cour intérieure) - Château-Place Charles de Gaulle
    Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France (78100)

Event attendance modalities

Hybrid event (on site and online)


Date(s)

  • Wednesday, October 12, 2022
  • Thursday, October 13, 2022
  • Friday, October 14, 2022

Keywords

  • archéologie, histoire de l'art, protohistoire, paléopathologie, archéoastronomie, ethnomathématique, pluridisciplinarité

Contact(s)

  • Solène GALLERNE
    courriel : solenegallerne [at] yahoo [dot] fr
  • Romain RAVIGNOT
    courriel : romain [dot] ravignot [at] laposte [dot] net

Reference Urls

Information source

  • Solène GALLERNE
    courriel : solenegallerne [at] yahoo [dot] fr

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« Knowledge productions and their diffusion in Protohistoric societies: comparative and multidisciplinary approaches », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Thursday, September 08, 2022, https://calenda.org/1015073

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