Dr Rémi Hadad.
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At the end of the last glaciation, 12.000 years ago, human societies of the Near-East settled down in a process that will eventually lead to the constitution of towns, the domestication of plants and animals, and other transformations commonly grouped under the idea of a “Neolithic revolution.” Archaeologically, the remains of the first durable constructions are often seen as a milestone in this sequence, almost like a conquest of space by the human mind and the enduring qualities of materials. This presentation challenges such a naive view and its associated narratives of origin by showing, instead, that the impermanence of architectural forms, their living and transient characters, were at the core of Neolithic sedentism.
SPEAKER’ S BIO:
Rémi Hadad is an archaeologist and anthropologist, specializing in the beginning of the Neolithic in the Near-East. He is currently a post-doctoral research fellow of the Fyssen Foundation. His research project, hosted by the UCL Institute of Archaeology in London, is called: “Clay and Bones: Fractal Bodies and Living Buildings in the Neolithic Revolution”. As a field archaeologist, he worked in many sites in France, Syria and Turkey, and is now focusing mostly on Cyprus. As an anthropologist, he has taught at the University of Paris-Nanterre and at the National School of Architecture of Versailles.