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• 01 déc 2017

  Florence

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Constructing Kurgans

  Burial mounds and funerary customs in the Caucasus, Northwestern Iran and Eastern Anatolia during the Bronze and Iron Age

  The tradition of burying the dead in burial mounds (kurgans), usually consisting of a funerary chamber limited by stone or brickslabs and covered by dirt and gravel, started in the fourth millennium BCE in the northern Caucasus and then spread south to the rest of the Caucasus regions, eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran during the Bronze Age and Iron Age. The spread of the kurgan tradition, as well as the territorial, political, social, and cultural values embedded in their construction and their symbolic relation to the surrounding landscape are under debate. The workshop aims to examine chronological issues, cultural dynamics at inter-regional scale, rituals and burial patterns related to these funerary structures. The beliefs and ideologies that possibly connected the "kurgan people" over such a wide geographical area, as well as past and present theoretical frameworks, will also be discussed.

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• 21 sep 2017	05 oct 2017	12 oct 2017
  19 oct 2017	26 oct 2017	...

  Lyon

  Seminar - Epistemology and methodology

  Borders, margins and cultural spaces

  Archéorient Reseach laboratory, looking the current state of research methods and fieldwork in the ancient Near-East

  L’enjeu est de réfléchir sur les notions de frontières et de marges, sur leurs manifestations matérielles ou idéelles, sur leur perméabilité (frontières imperméables ou espaces poreux) et sur leurs fluctuations dans le temps et dans l’espace. Une attention sera également portée aux éventuels recoupements entre ces limites et la définition des aires culturelles. Au delà, l’idée est également de revenir sur la perception que les sociétés anciennes pouvaient avoir de l’espace et de la territorialité. Le séminaire comprend onze interventions couvrant une fourchette chronologique large, allant du Néolithique à l’Antiquité. L'aire géographique concernée est celle des terrain d'Archéorient : la Méditerranée orientale et le Proche- et Moyen-Orient.

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