BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241104T123000 RDATE:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 RDATE:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 RDATE:20270328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271031T020000 RDATE:20280326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 RDATE:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 RDATE:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270328T030000 RDATE:20271031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:273bc4219ddab19503fd803dad0c3320 CATEGORIES:L'échangeur CREATED:20251009T102659 SUMMARY:Reframing the Neolithic, Trévor Watkins, professeur émérite à l’Université d’Édimbourg LOCATION:MSH Mondes (bât. Ginouvès)\, salle 1 (rez-de-jardin) - 21 allée de l'univer sité\, Nanterre\, \, 92000\, DESCRIPTION:Avec Trévor Watkins, professeur émérite à l’Université d’Édimbourg.\nIf we are to advance our understanding of prehistory we need to fit our archaeolo gical knowledge into an understandingof the (cultural) evolutionary process . That was what I was attempting with my recent book, Becoming Neolithic, w hose synthesis was framed in the context of cultural niche construction the ory. Writing prehistory is very different from the writing of history. As 2 025 is the centenary of Gordon Childe’s first major publication, and of the Abercromby Chair of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, to which h e was appointed, it is appropriate to start by discussing how he reframed t he writing of prehistory, and how popular and influential were his books an d ideas (in particular, the Neolithic and urban revolutions. In the 1960s A merican archaeologist-anthropologists Lewis Binford and Kent Flannery and t heir colleagues (under the banner of “processualist” archaeology) attempted to update the writing of prehistory within the contemporary framework of e volution and eco-systems theory. Since then, evolutionary theory has been f urther transformed (the extended evolutionary synthesis) including the deve lopment of new fields, like (cultural) niche construction theory. At the sa me time systems theory has grown with new theoretical work on complexity an d complex adaptive systems theory. These theoretical advances are challengi ng archaeologists, both researchers, and teachers, and students. \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

echangeurAvec Trévor Watkins, professeur émérite à l’Univer sité d’Édimbourg.

If we are to advance our understanding of prehistor y we need to fit our archaeological knowledge into an understandingof the ( cultural) evolutionary process. That was what I was attempting with my rece nt book, Becoming Neolithic, whose synthesis was framed in th e context of cultural niche construction theory. Writing prehistory is very different from the writing of history. As 2025 is the centenary of Gordon Childe’s first major publication, and of the Abercromby Chair of Archaeolog y at the University of Edinburgh, to which he was appointed, it is appropri ate to start by discussing how he reframed the writing of prehistory, and h ow popular and influential were his books and ideas (in particular, the Neo lithic and urban revolutions. In the 1960s American archaeologist-anthropol ogists Lewis Binford and Kent Flannery and their colleagues (under the bann er of “processualist” archaeology) attempted to update the writing of prehi story within the contemporary framework of evolution and eco-systems theory . Since then, evolutionary theory has been further transformed (the extende d evolutionary synthesis) including the development of new fields, like (cu ltural) niche construction theory. At the same time systems theory has grow n with new theoretical work on complexity and complex adaptive systems theo ry. These theoretical advances are challenging archaeologists, both researc hers, and teachers, and students. 

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