Pablo Arias explores Hadza archaeology as part of the Puente Viesgo Prehistory Lecture Series
The Cantabria Rock Art Centre in Puente Viesgo will host a new lecture in the Prehistory Lecture Series this Wednesday, August 26, at 7:30 p.m. Cycle of Prehistoryorganized by the Society of Friends of the Caves of the Castle.
On this occasion, the professor of the UC Pablo Arias and director of the IIIPC give a lecture entitled "Archaeology of the Hadzas: analysis etnoarqueológico of the last hunter-gatherers of the contemporary", which will address, from a perspective etnoarqueológica, the study of the Hadzas and the interest which the knowledge of hunter-gatherer societies contemporary to the research and understanding of prehistoric societies.
The conference will explore the relationship between archaeology, ethnography and Prehistoryusing the study of the Hadzas as a point
starting to analyze aspects related to the way of life, social practices, and the organization of the groups of hunter-gatherers.
The research presented by Arias brings together the lines of work developed in the framework of four research projects, which addressed from different perspectives the study of the Hadzas and hunter-gatherer societies:
- PALARQ, Archaeology of the hadzas: analysis etnoarqueológico of the last hunter-gatherers to contemporary, funded by the Foundation PALARQ.
- EthnoArcHADZA, Archaeology of the hadzas: analysis etnoarqueológico of the last hunter-gatherers to contemporaryfunded by the Ministry of Culture.
- RitDomS, Symbols and Dwellings: Ritual and Domestic Spaces and Structures among Late Pleistocene and Holocene Hunter-Gatherersfunded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the State Agency for Research within the project PID2024-155740NB-I00.
- AfricanSuperSpeechdeveloped in the framework of the IRB of the Université Grenoble Alpes.
The research reflects on the character interdisciplinary and international of the current studies on hunter-gatherer societies, combining different approaches in order to understand both contemporary societies and its potential to interpret the archaeological record prehistoric.
The conference will be held at 19:30 hours in the Cave Art Centre in Cantabria, in Puente Viesgo, within the programming of the Cycle of Prehistory organized by the Society of Friends of the Caves of the Castle.
