Mortuary Variability and Social Diversity in Ancient Greece

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MORTUARY VARIABILITY AND SOCIAL DIVERSITY IN ANCIENT GREECE NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE AT ATHENS, MAKRI 11, 1-2 DECEMBER 2016 Aim of the conference: 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 conference brings together early career scholars working on funerary customs in Greece of the Early Iron Age to the Late Roman periods. They present thematic and interdisciplinary ways of analysis (e.g. temporal, regional, intra- or interregional, local, structural) in which funerary contexts provide insights on individuals, social groups and communities. Themes that will be discussed include issues of territoriality, the reconstruction of social roles of particular groups of people (e.g. children, women, the elderly, elite or non-elite individuals), and the impact that major historical events (e.g. war, famine, urbanization, synoecism) may have had on the way individuals or specific groups of individuals treated their dead. Organization: The conference is organized by Nikolas Dimakis, within the frame of a postdoctoral fellowship by the Research Center for the Humanities (RCH, www.rchumanities.gr) for 2016. In collaboration with Tamara Dijkstra (PhD Candidate, University of Groningen - Groningen Institute of Archaeology), the Netherlands Institute at Athens (ΝIA, www.nia.gr), and the Necropoleis Research Network.

Period	1-Dec-2016 → 2-Dec-2016
Event type	Conference
Location	Athens, GreeceShow on map