Title:The cave man and the first farmers: how the nature of society changed during the early holocene period

Date:15:00-16:00 (GMT+8), Dec 29, 2023

Zoom ID:86165410758 (Password 202312)

Bilibili ID:25398211

Background

The expansion of agricultural society and Neolithic lifestyle from their motherland Southwest Asia to Central Asia and the sub-continent is a very important scientific issue in understanding the evolution of human societies from various aspects. The upcoming ATES Silk Road Forum (No.5) will share the research progress in the northern part of Iran and the Caspian Sea over the past five years, and explain what has happened in this region from the perspectives of archaeology, geoarchaeology and polar climatology. This talk will be valuable for scholars seeking to understand the diachronic and synchronic development of agricultural society in the northern part of Iran.

Invited Speaker

Hassan Fazeli Nashli is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Tehran. He focus on socio-economic transformations from the late Epipalaeolithic to the Iron Age. Since 2017 he has directed a multi-disciplinary project in Mazandaran province of northern Iran in order to investigate long-term human-environment interactions through the Early and Middle Holocene. He is an important partner for ATES WG2 (Trans-Eurasia Exchange of Early Farming and Herding).