DIALOGUES IN ARCHAEOLOGY – VOLOS | 2019

The discussion topics of the conference are:

Population movements by sea, creation and development of migrant settlements through time, migrants’ professional activities and their relations with the rest of the population diachronically.
Commercial activities, sea routes and communications, diasporas, port areas and the related human communities.
Craft production and sea-related activities, the relationship of the sea with the residential environment and the forms of human interaction with craft/industrial space.
Underwater antiquities (shipwrecks, harbors, sunken antiquities, prehistoric continental shelf). Management and promotion of underwater cultural resources (the conditions for the development of the sea front, alternative underwater tours, museums of underwater antiquities etc). ‘Internal’ aquatic landscapes (rivers and lakes) may be included in this section.
Ports as cosmopolitan centres of coexistence and tolerance in diversity and hybridity.
Migrants and indigenous: the historical background of their relations from prehistory until today.
‘Insularity’: islands as intermediate and transitional zones, not only literally but also metaphorically (stability of terrestrial ground versus the instability of the sea horizon’s infinity).
Issues of shipbuilding and navigation.
Urbanization and demographic changes throughout the centuries.