Necropoleis Research Network
The Necropoleis Research Network brings together people working on any aspect of mortuary archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East between the Dark Ages and the Late Roman periods (all loosely defined). Although mortuary remains –arguably- represent one of the most dominant categories of evidence for this period/region, we feel that its scholars are widely scattered, not only geographically, but also in terms of methodological and theoretical approaches. We believe that we can benefit greatly from closer collaboration. Furthermore, advances in study of human remains are opening the field to new questions of relevance to all mortuary archaeologists. This network, thus, is primarily intended to facilitate an exchange of ideas and methodological best practices. An explicit aim of the network is to involve museum personnel, members of Antiquities Services, and scholars in universities and research institutes, and to discuss not only the past, but also contemporary issues revolving around mortuary archaeology (i.e., excavating human remains, storage, lack of funds for publication). We aim to do this in an annual workshop, as well as panels organized at international conferences (see overview below). The annual workshop is based on these principles:
-organized once a year, rotating between host institutions
-workshop lasts one or two days
-everyone pays their own way and the host institutions only provide funding for coffee/tea breaks
-every year we set two or three general themes, with a session on current fieldwork
-the workshop has room for an extensive discussion section, of which a part is dedicated to local issues
-there are no publication requirements, as the main emphasis is on exchanging (new) ideas.
If you wish to be added to the mailing list, please send an email to one of the organizers below. Please note that our network aims to function as an umbrella for various initiatives. We are more than happy to open our academia page, email list and network for colleagues who want to organize their own workshops/panels on more focused topics.
Board:
Nicolas Dimakis (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Tamara Dijkstra (University of Groningen)
Yaşar Ersoy (Hitit University Çorum)
Bilge Hürmüzlü (Süleyman Demirel University Isparta)
Lidewijde de Jong (University of Groningen)
Ute Kelp (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Sofia Voutsaki (University of Groningen)
-organized once a year, rotating between host institutions
-workshop lasts one or two days
-everyone pays their own way and the host institutions only provide funding for coffee/tea breaks
-every year we set two or three general themes, with a session on current fieldwork
-the workshop has room for an extensive discussion section, of which a part is dedicated to local issues
-there are no publication requirements, as the main emphasis is on exchanging (new) ideas.
If you wish to be added to the mailing list, please send an email to one of the organizers below. Please note that our network aims to function as an umbrella for various initiatives. We are more than happy to open our academia page, email list and network for colleagues who want to organize their own workshops/panels on more focused topics.
Board:
Nicolas Dimakis (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Tamara Dijkstra (University of Groningen)
Yaşar Ersoy (Hitit University Çorum)
Bilge Hürmüzlü (Süleyman Demirel University Isparta)
Lidewijde de Jong (University of Groningen)
Ute Kelp (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Sofia Voutsaki (University of Groningen)
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Annual Meetings: CfP's by Necropoleis Research Network
- Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Funerary Ritual
- Mortuary Practices in Rural and Remote Landscapes
- Dealing with the Dead in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Era
- New Discoveries and Recent (Field)Work in Anatolia
Hereby we would like to inform you about a new network and invite you to our second meeting, the first one to be held in Turkey. Our network (Necropoleis Research Network), which was founded in Groningen, the Netherlands in January 2016, aims to bring together people working on any aspect of mortuary archaeology in the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East between the Dark Ages and the Late Roman periods (all loosely defined). Although mortuary remains –arguably-represent one of the most dominant categories of evidence for this period/region, we feel that its scholars are widely scattered, not only geographically, but also in terms of methodological and theoretical approach(es). We believe that we can benefit greatly from closer collaboration. Furthermore, advances in study of human remains are opening the field to new questions of relevance to all mortuary archaeologists. This network, thus, is primarily intended to aim to facilitate an exchange of ideas and methodological best practices. We aim to do this in an annual workshop/meeting based on these principles:-organized once a year, rotating between host institutions (first in Groningen and now Isparta, other participating institutions for the upcoming years are welcome);-workshop lasts one or at the most two days.-everyone covers travel expenses and the host institutions only provide funding for coffee/tea breaks (we will inform you if we can organize more)-every year we set two or three general themes, perhaps with a session on current fieldwork;-there are no publication requirements, as the main emphasis is on exchanging (new) ideas; The second meeting will take place in Isparta, Turkey at Süleyman Demirel University on January 20-22, 2017. We suggest that each participant will give a 20/30 minute presentation, in English or Turkish. We also welcome all kinds of related work in progress, but in particular those focusing on the chosen workshop themes: Topics for the Second Meeting may include:
Associated Events by Necropoleis Research Network
International workshop for early career scholars
Netherlands Institute at Athens, Makri 11, 1-2 December 2016
Even though at death identity and social status may undergo major changes, by studying funerary customs we can greatly gain in the understanding of a community’s social structure, distribution of wealth and property, degree of flexibility or divisiveness in the apportionment of power. With its great regional diversity and variety of community forms and networks, ancient Greece offers a unique context for exploring, through the burial evidence, how communities developed.
This international workshop will bring together early career scholars on funerary customs in Greece of the Early Iron Age to the Late Roman periods, to present thematic and interdisciplinary ways of analysis (e.g. temporal, regional, intra- or inter-regional, local, structural) in which funerary contexts provide insights on individuals, social groups and communities. The aim is to discuss themes such as, but not limited to:
• if the placement of the dead in the landscape is indicative of issues of territoriality,
• how the social role of particular groups of people (e.g. children, women, the elderly, elite or non-elite individuals) can be reconstructed from the way in which these roles are expressed or negotiated through the funerary context,
• the impact that major historical phenomena (e.g. war, famine, urbanization, synoecism) may have had on the way individuals or specific groups of individuals treated their dead.
For information and to register, please contact the organizers Nikolas Dimakis (nikdim26@yahoo.gr) and Tamara Dijkstra (t.m.dijkstra@rug.nl).
Attendance is free, but the lecture hall only holds 50 people.
Coordinator
Nikolas Dimakis, RCH postdoctoral fellow, University of Athens
In collaboration with
Tamara Dijkstra, PhD Candidate, University of Groningen
Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA)
Necropoleis Research Network (NRN)
Ταφική μεταβλητότητα και κοινωνική πολυμορφία στην αρχαία Ελλάδα
Διεθνής διημερίδα για νέους ερευνητές
Ολλανδικό Ινστιτούτο Αθηνών, Μακρή 11, 1-2 Δεκεμβρίου 2016
Ακόμα κι αν στο θάνατο η ταυτότητα και η κοινωνική θέση μπορούν να υποστούν σημαντικές αλλαγές, από τη μελέτη των ταφικών εθίμων μπορούμε να κατανοήσουμε σε μεγάλο βαθμό την κοινωνική διαστρωμάτωση, την κατανομή του πλούτου και της ιδιοκτησίας, και τον βαθμό ευελιξίας ή διαίρεσης στην κατανομή της εξουσίας σε μια κοινότητα. Με την μεγάλη περιφερειακή πολυμορφία και την ποικιλία των μορφών κοινότητας, και των δικτύων της, η αρχαία Ελλάδα προσφέρει ένα μοναδικό πλαίσιο για την εξερεύνηση, μέσα από τις ταφές, του πώς αναπτύσσονται οι κοινότητες.
Η διεθνής αυτή διημερίδα θα συγκεντρώσει νέους μελετητές των ταφικών εθίμων στην Ελλάδα της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Σιδήρου έως και της Ύστερης Ρωμαϊκής περιόδου, που θα παρουσιάσουν θεματικούς και διεπιστημονικούς τρόπους ανάλυσης (π.χ. διαχρονικής, περιφερειακής, ενδο- ή δια-περιφερειακής, τοπικής, διαρθρωτικής) όπου τα ταφικά συμφραζόμενα παρέχουν πληροφορίες για τα άτομα, τις κοινωνικές ομάδες και τις κοινότητες. Στόχος είναι να συζητηθούν θέματα όπως:
• αν η τοποθέτηση των νεκρών στο τοπίο είναι ενδεικτική ζητημάτων εδαφικότητας,
• πώς ο κοινωνικός ρόλος συγκεκριμένων ομάδων ατόμων (π.χ. παιδιά, γυναίκες, ηλικιωμένοι, ελίτ ή μη ελίτ) μπορεί να ανακατασκευαστεί από τον τρόπο με τον οποίο οι ρόλοι αυτοί εκφράζονται από ή διαχειρίζονται μέσω των ταφικών συμφραζόμενων,
• ο αντίκτυπος που μεγάλα ιστορικά φαινόμενα (π.χ. πόλεμος, λοιμός, αστικοποίηση, συνοικισμός) μπορούν να έχουν στον τρόπο που άτομα ή συγκεκριμένες ομάδες ατόμων μεταχειρίζονται τους νεκρούς τους.
Για πληροφορίες και εγγραφές, επικοινωνήστε με τους διοργανωτές Νικόλα Δημάκη (nikdim26@yahoo.gr) και Tamara Dijkstra (t.m.dijkstra@rug.nl).
Η είσοδος είναι ελεύθερη, αλλά η αίθουσα διαλέξεων έχει περιορισμένη χωρητικότητα (50 ατόμων).
- Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Funerary Ritual
- Mortuary Practices in Rural and Remote Landscapes
- Dealing with the Dead in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Era
- New Discoveries and Recent (Field)Work in Anatolia
Hereby we would like to inform you about a new network and invite you to our second meeting, the first one to be held in Turkey. Our network (Necropoleis Research Network), which was founded in Groningen, the Netherlands in January 2016, aims to bring together people working on any aspect of mortuary archaeology in the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East between the Dark Ages and the Late Roman periods (all loosely defined). Although mortuary remains –arguably-represent one of the most dominant categories of evidence for this period/region, we feel that its scholars are widely scattered, not only geographically, but also in terms of methodological and theoretical approach(es). We believe that we can benefit greatly from closer collaboration. Furthermore, advances in study of human remains are opening the field to new questions of relevance to all mortuary archaeologists. This network, thus, is primarily intended to aim to facilitate an exchange of ideas and methodological best practices. We aim to do this in an annual workshop/meeting based on these principles:-organized once a year, rotating between host institutions (first in Groningen and now Isparta, other participating institutions for the upcoming years are welcome);-workshop lasts one or at the most two days.-everyone covers travel expenses and the host institutions only provide funding for coffee/tea breaks (we will inform you if we can organize more)-every year we set two or three general themes, perhaps with a session on current fieldwork;-there are no publication requirements, as the main emphasis is on exchanging (new) ideas; The second meeting will take place in Isparta, Turkey at Süleyman Demirel University on January 20-22, 2017. We suggest that each participant will give a 20/30 minute presentation, in English or Turkish. We also welcome all kinds of related work in progress, but in particular those focusing on the chosen workshop themes: Topics for the Second Meeting may include:
International workshop for early career scholars
Netherlands Institute at Athens, Makri 11, 1-2 December 2016
Even though at death identity and social status may undergo major changes, by studying funerary customs we can greatly gain in the understanding of a community’s social structure, distribution of wealth and property, degree of flexibility or divisiveness in the apportionment of power. With its great regional diversity and variety of community forms and networks, ancient Greece offers a unique context for exploring, through the burial evidence, how communities developed.
This international workshop will bring together early career scholars on funerary customs in Greece of the Early Iron Age to the Late Roman periods, to present thematic and interdisciplinary ways of analysis (e.g. temporal, regional, intra- or inter-regional, local, structural) in which funerary contexts provide insights on individuals, social groups and communities. The aim is to discuss themes such as, but not limited to:
• if the placement of the dead in the landscape is indicative of issues of territoriality,
• how the social role of particular groups of people (e.g. children, women, the elderly, elite or non-elite individuals) can be reconstructed from the way in which these roles are expressed or negotiated through the funerary context,
• the impact that major historical phenomena (e.g. war, famine, urbanization, synoecism) may have had on the way individuals or specific groups of individuals treated their dead.
For information and to register, please contact the organizers Nikolas Dimakis (nikdim26@yahoo.gr) and Tamara Dijkstra (t.m.dijkstra@rug.nl).
Attendance is free, but the lecture hall only holds 50 people.
Coordinator
Nikolas Dimakis, RCH postdoctoral fellow, University of Athens
In collaboration with
Tamara Dijkstra, PhD Candidate, University of Groningen
Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA)
Necropoleis Research Network (NRN)
Ταφική μεταβλητότητα και κοινωνική πολυμορφία στην αρχαία Ελλάδα
Διεθνής διημερίδα για νέους ερευνητές
Ολλανδικό Ινστιτούτο Αθηνών, Μακρή 11, 1-2 Δεκεμβρίου 2016
Ακόμα κι αν στο θάνατο η ταυτότητα και η κοινωνική θέση μπορούν να υποστούν σημαντικές αλλαγές, από τη μελέτη των ταφικών εθίμων μπορούμε να κατανοήσουμε σε μεγάλο βαθμό την κοινωνική διαστρωμάτωση, την κατανομή του πλούτου και της ιδιοκτησίας, και τον βαθμό ευελιξίας ή διαίρεσης στην κατανομή της εξουσίας σε μια κοινότητα. Με την μεγάλη περιφερειακή πολυμορφία και την ποικιλία των μορφών κοινότητας, και των δικτύων της, η αρχαία Ελλάδα προσφέρει ένα μοναδικό πλαίσιο για την εξερεύνηση, μέσα από τις ταφές, του πώς αναπτύσσονται οι κοινότητες.
Η διεθνής αυτή διημερίδα θα συγκεντρώσει νέους μελετητές των ταφικών εθίμων στην Ελλάδα της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Σιδήρου έως και της Ύστερης Ρωμαϊκής περιόδου, που θα παρουσιάσουν θεματικούς και διεπιστημονικούς τρόπους ανάλυσης (π.χ. διαχρονικής, περιφερειακής, ενδο- ή δια-περιφερειακής, τοπικής, διαρθρωτικής) όπου τα ταφικά συμφραζόμενα παρέχουν πληροφορίες για τα άτομα, τις κοινωνικές ομάδες και τις κοινότητες. Στόχος είναι να συζητηθούν θέματα όπως:
• αν η τοποθέτηση των νεκρών στο τοπίο είναι ενδεικτική ζητημάτων εδαφικότητας,
• πώς ο κοινωνικός ρόλος συγκεκριμένων ομάδων ατόμων (π.χ. παιδιά, γυναίκες, ηλικιωμένοι, ελίτ ή μη ελίτ) μπορεί να ανακατασκευαστεί από τον τρόπο με τον οποίο οι ρόλοι αυτοί εκφράζονται από ή διαχειρίζονται μέσω των ταφικών συμφραζόμενων,
• ο αντίκτυπος που μεγάλα ιστορικά φαινόμενα (π.χ. πόλεμος, λοιμός, αστικοποίηση, συνοικισμός) μπορούν να έχουν στον τρόπο που άτομα ή συγκεκριμένες ομάδες ατόμων μεταχειρίζονται τους νεκρούς τους.
Για πληροφορίες και εγγραφές, επικοινωνήστε με τους διοργανωτές Νικόλα Δημάκη (nikdim26@yahoo.gr) και Tamara Dijkstra (t.m.dijkstra@rug.nl).
Η είσοδος είναι ελεύθερη, αλλά η αίθουσα διαλέξεων έχει περιορισμένη χωρητικότητα (50 ατόμων).