Defining a Methodological Approach to Interpret Structural Evidence

Papers from sessions WS28, C69, C70 and C71, Defining a Methodological Approach to Interpret Structural Evidence, presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Defining a methodological approach to interpret structural evidence: an introduction (Fabio Cavulli); 2) Scant Structural Evidences of Mesolithic Sites in High Alpine Regions (Walter Leitner); 3) U-Shaped Scatters: Struggling between Theoretical Models and Archaeological Facts (Matteo Pilati); 4) Unearthing the hearths. Preliminary results on the Takarkori rockshelter fireplaces (Acacus Mts, Libya) (S. Biagetti, G. Poggi, S. di Lernia); 5) Structures d'habitat nord-africaines : la fouille de la rammadiya côtière holocène de SHM-1 (Hergla, Tunisie) (S. Mulazzani et al.); 6) Infilling processes of large pit features at Catignano - Neolithic (Italy) (Giovanni Boschian, Marta Colombo); 7) Experimental Archaeology as a Methodology to Understand the Formative Processes of 'Pits' (Fabio Cavulli); 8) Invisible Features and the Uses of Indirect Evidence (Dragos Gheorghiu); 9) Sleeping, eating, meeting, working: problems and methods in the study of structures in southern Italy settlements during the Bronze Age (A. Cazzella, G. Recchia); 10) Luminescence dating applied to stratigraphic definition of pre-historic occupations in urban contexts (Lisbon, Portugal) (M. I. Dias et al); 11) Luminescence dating of a fluvial deposit sequence: Ribeira da Ponte da Pedra - Middle Tagus Valley, Portugal (M. I. Dias et al.); 12) Luminescence date and archaeological ages: An epistemology of the luminescence dating (Antoine Zink); 13) Funerary Pottery in the Late Neolithic: Los Churuletes, Purchena Almería (Aixa Vidal and Ruth Maicas); 14) Phase and Chemical Composition Analysis on Cucuteni Neolithic Painted Ceramics Sherds Using SR-XRD - A Promising Tool in Ancient Pottery Research (R. Bugoi et al); 15) Pottery production during the Late Iberian Chalcolithic period: insights from the mineralogical and chemical analyses of Spanish Middle Guadiana River Basin (Badajoz, Spain) Bell Beaker pottery (Carlos Odriozola).