Sort

By publication date

By relevance

• 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.

  Read announcement

• 23 fév 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  From the Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula: studying domestic spaces in the Neolithic

  Under neolithisation scholars understand multiple processes of social and economic transformation which begin at different times and follow regional trends in the Near and Middle East. It is within the complex relational and spatial framework of the household that these shifts in the structure and activities of Neolithic communities are easiest to apprehend and study. The conference will therefore focus on the domestic sphere in order to highlight and understand the polymorphous nature of what we call neolithisation. Various thematic sessions will be held to shed new light on current data: “Impacts of the shift to a sedentary/semi-sedentary lifestyle”; “Organising the house and the household”; “Private space/public space”; “Acquisition, production, transformation and use”; “Eating-Moving”; “Symbolic manifestations”;“The living and the dead”.

  Read announcement

• 03 déc 2011

  Paris

  Study days - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Tell Masaïkh, une colonie de l'empire assyrien en Syrie ?

  Colonies, colonialisme et impérialisme dans les mondes anciens

  À partir de l'exemple fourni par les études réalisées dans le cadre de la mission archéologique en Syrie de Tell Masaïkh, identifié comme le site de la cité néo-assyrienne de Kar-Assurnasirpal fondée par le roi Assurnasirpal II vers le milieu du IXe siècle av. J.-C., cette table-ronde traitera, dans une perspective comparatiste, des concepts de « colonie », de « métropole » et de construction impériale dans les mondes anciens.

  Read announcement

• 23 nov 2011	24 nov 2011	25 nov 2011
  26 nov 2011

  Pula

  Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Navigare necesse est: from Prehistory to the Early Middle Ages

  XVII International archaeological symposium

  Dans la tradition des grands colloques internationaux en archéologie, le International Research Center for Archaeology, Brijuni-Medulin (Croatie), sous le patronage de l'Unesco et du Ministère de la culture de la République de Croatie à Zagreb, avec la collaboration de la Society for the History and Cultural Development of Istria, Pula, et le Centre for Historical Research, Rovinj (Centro di ricerche storiche, Rovigno) organise à Pula-Medulin-Rovinj (Croatie), les 23-26 novembre 2011 son vingt-septième symposium thématique sur la navigation ancienne de la Méditerranée nord-occidentale, de la Préhistoire jusqu'au début du Moyen Âge.

  Read announcement