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• 24 mai 2018

  Lyon

  Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

  The places of funerary rituals

  Multifunctionality and the interrelationship between funerary and domestic spaces in the Neolithic and Bronze ages in the Near East and Mediterranean

  Les rituels funéraires, même réduits à leurs traces archéologiques ou à des mentions littéraires dans les textes anciens, apparaissent comme des suites de gestes complexes. Pris au sens large, ils englobent des activités distinctes de la seule déposition du corps, par exemple la construction des tombes, la préparation des défunts et l’exposition des corps, les manipulations d’ossements post-sépulcrales, la fabrication du mobilier funéraire, l’organisation de cérémonies impliquant la consommation collective de boisson et de nourriture et éventuellement des jeux funèbres, les rassemblements commémoratifs. Or ces activités nécessitent le recours à des lieux différents de la tombe et de la nécropole et à des objets autres que le seul mobilier funéraire, tels que vaisselle, outils, dispositifs de stockage, instruments de soins corporels… Des espaces domestiques, publics ou privés, intérieurs ou extérieurs, peuvent donc revêtir sporadiquement ou durablement des fonctions funéraires.

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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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• 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”.

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