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A Divine Matter: Using material lenses to observe religious transformations in the ancient Near East

En el marco del ciclo de conferencias de arqueología oriental organizado por la Asociación de Amigos de Larsa (AAL), acogeremos para este programa 2024-2025 a investigadores internacionales que presentarán las investigaciones actuales en el mundo oriental. Este ciclo de seminarios se dirige a la comunidad científica, a los estudiantes y a todas las personas interesadas en la investigación arqueológica en Oriente.

El martes 7 de enero de 2025, Nicola LANERI (Universidad de Catania) participará en el ciclo de conferencias Arqueología oriental.

When can we track the first evidence of religious phenomena in the ancient Near East during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic? Can we envision religious transformations
without the use of textual sources? Is it a clash between transcendent and immanent forms of religiosity the reason for the emergence of monotheism in the southern Levant during the first millennium BCE? These questions that appear as mainly related to a spiritual domain are instead strongly entangled with material evidences that can be encountered in the archaeological record. Based on these premises, I will try to suggest material responses carefully using the available archaeological relics that can be associated with forms of religiosity among ancient Near Eastern societies.