Restitutions of ancestral remains in Tanzania. Catherine Baroin will speak on Tuesday, November 3, at the Saint Thomas Cultural Center in Strasbourg, as part of the workshop of the AnceStra program (a project funded by the ERC and led by the EHESS and the Laboratory of Political Anthropology).
Caroline Hamon (Research Director, UMR 8215 Trajectoire) will speak on Thursday, November 5th, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM as part of the Prehistoric Techniques seminar on the topic of traceology applied to macro-tools. This session is open to the public.
Colas Guéret (Research Associate, UMR 8068 TEMPS) will speak on Thursday, November 12th, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM as part of the Prehistoric Techniques seminar on the theme:
"A Simple and Monotonous Lithic Toolkit? A Functional Reassessment of Some Prejudices in Western European Mesolithic Research."
This session is open to the public.
In November comes the time for commemorating the deceased. Funerary rituals enable the living to continue their "trade of living," while cemetery spaces bear witness to the cults rendered to the dead across the centuries and sometimes allow life to reclaim its rights. Père Lachaise, for example, hosts among its tombs—varied in eras and designs—a significant flora and fauna. In this refuge—or elsewhere—it happens that the dead manifest their presence among the living. Traversing History and diverse cultural contexts, let us explore these unsettling spaces where the dead leave the place assigned to them.
Conference led by Fanny Bocquentin
With:
Grégory Delaplace, anthropologist, Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, CNRS Bronze Medal (2015). Author of The Voice of Ghosts: When the Dead Overflow (La couleur des idées, Seuil, 2024)
Benoît Gallot, curator of Père Lachaise, author of The Secret Life of a Cemetery (Les Arènes, 2022) and the Instagram account la_vie_au_cimetiere
Event organized by the Public Information Library (Bibliothèque Publique d’Information) of the Centre Georges Pompidou as part of its "Making History" series, under the direction of Geneviève Maupeou.
November 9th at 7:00 PM.
Bpi Entrance
Public Information Library
Level 2
40 avenue des Terroirs de France
75012 Paris
https://agenda.bpi.fr/evenement/presence-des-morts-parmi-les-vivants/
Fiona Pichon (associated researcher, UMR 5133 Archéorient) will speak as part of the Oriental Archaeology Lectures, on November 10, in the Françoise Héritier Room at the Institut des Civilisations - Collège de France, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
How can we reconstruct the lives of the first village communities from fragments of stone? A flint blade, a piece of obsidian, or a microscopic trace can reveal gestures, skills, and connections between sometimes very distant communities. From cereal harvesting to hide processing, from domestic activities to technical transfers, this lecture draws on several research fields in Southwest Asia to explore Neolithic lifestyles. It will show how the study of tools and the traces left by their use makes it possible to reconstruct daily practices often invisible in archaeological remains. By connecting these clues, a mosaic emerges: that of diverse, inventive, and interconnected Neolithic societies.
Sara Díaz Bonilla (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, UMR 8068 TEMPS) will speak on Thursday, November 19, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM as part of the seminar "In Search of Technical Gestures: Traceology and Experimentation Applied to Archaeological Ceramics." This session is open to the public.
Idaira Brito Abrante (Fyssen Postdoctoral Fellow, UMR 7041 ArScAn, VEPMO team) will speak on Thursday, November 26, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM as part of the "Prehistoric Techniques" seminar: "Living on Islands: Traceological Insights into Stone Tool Use in Indigenous Gran Canaria." This session is open to the public.
Nejma Goutas (Researcher, UMR 8068 TEMPS) will speak on Thursday, December 10, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM as part of the "Prehistoric Techniques" seminar: "Fakes and Forgers in Prehistoric Archaeology: Reflections Based on Collections of Bone Industry and Portable Art." This session is open to the public.
Fanny Bocquentin (CNRS researcher, UMR 8068 TEMPS) will speak as part of the Oriental Archaeology Lectures, on December 3, in the Françoise Héritier Room at the Institut des Civilisations – Collège de France, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
Eynan-Mallaha is the first Natufian hamlet (13000–9700 BC) to have been discovered. Its salvage excavation in 1955 by Jean Perrot made it possible to completely revise the knowledge of the time about these last hunter-gatherers of the Near East, whose nomadism was now being called into question. Through ongoing field operations at this site and elsewhere, the specificity of the Natufian and its role in the Neolithization process have gradually been better defined. The resumption of a dedicated research program at Eynan-Mallaha allows us to highlight old discoveries and open the debate on new questions. The archaeological mission of Eynan-Mallaha: 70 years of research on the early process of sedentarization in the Near East