Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Etkinlik Kategorisi: Bilimsel Kongre / Sempozyum Organizasyonu
Etkinlik Türü: Sempozyum
Etkinlik Organizasyonu Yılı: 2022
Özet:
The study of material culture related with death, rituals and symbolism has always attracted a major interest of scholars who are studying past societies of the Prehistoric Aegean and beyond. The management of death echos after life beliefs that extend beyond the burial praxis, since they enable access into the cognitive field of humans. Burial customs allow the reconstruction of demographic, social, economic and political organization of ancient populations. The significance of mortuary data from the Prehistoric Aegean is immense, as some areas of this geographically fragmented region are mainly known from burials, i.e. the Early Bronze Age Cyclades and Crete. Funeral architecture and practices are indicators for social and political complexity, symbolism, cultural variability and interaction, whereas the interdisciplinary study of skeletal remains illuminate dietary habits, health, kinship, etc.
The increasing of mortuary data dating to the Neolithic and the Bronze Age around the Aegean, the emerging of new methodological approaches on relevant material excavated in the past century, and the application of new methodologies of the Computer and Natural Sciences on mortuary data seeks this call for an International Conference on Death, Rituals and Symbolism in Prehistoric Aegean, dedicated to the Memory of Hayat Erkanal. The conference will take place online between December 11th-12th 2022. The official language of the conference will be English. The duration of oral presentations will be 15 minutes followed by discussion of 5 miutes. The conference will be published as a peer-reviewed AEGAEON Series of the ARWA Collection by Brepols Publishers.