Gathered in Death: Archaeological and ethnological perspectives on collective burial and social organization

Programme

First day – Thursday, December 8

8.45-9.30: Registration
9.30-10.00: Aurore Schmitt (ADES UMR 7268, France), Sylviane Déderix (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Isabelle Crevecoeur (PACEA UMR 5199, France), Jan Driessen (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium): Introduction. Towards a theoretical and methodological framework for the study of collective burials
10.00-10.45: Estella Weiss-Krejci (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria): Who is who in the grave? A cross-cultural approach
10.45-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-11.45: Nicolas Cauwe (Royal Museums of Art and History & Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Collective burials of the European Mesolithic
11.45-12.30: Christopher Knüsel (PACEA UMR 5199, France), Eline Schotsmans (PACEA UMR 5199, France), Scott Haddow (PACEA UMR 5199, France & Çatalhöyük Research Project): House societies, ancestors, and burials at Neolithic Çatalhöyük: attempting to disentangle collective and multiple burials
12.30-14.00: Lunch
14.00-14.45: Mike Parker Pearson (University College London, UK): Collective and single burial in Madagascar
14.45-15.30: Denis Regnier (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium): Circulation and fixation of the dead in Madagascar
15.30-15.45: Coffee break
15.45-16.30: Pascal Couderc (Independent researcher, Canada): Houses for Bones: Collective Reburial and Society in South Borneo
16.30-17.15: Françoise Le Mort & Bérénice Chamel (UMR 5133 Archéorient, France), Yasemin Yilmaz (University of Düzce, Turkey): House of the dead, skull building, wells…: diversity and specificities of collective burials during the pre-pottery Neolithic period in the Near East
17.15-18.00: John Robb (University of Cambridge, UK): How are individual and collective burials really different?
18 :00-18 :30 : discussion
18 :30 : reception (for registered people only)

Second day – Friday, December 9

8.45-9.00: Registration
9.00-9.45: Bernard Sellato (CNRS & EHESS, France): Beyond ethnothanatographicvariability. Terminologies and practices of funerals in East Borneo in relation to features of social organization
9.45-10.30: Joël Noret (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium): Divided in life, divided in death. The historical trajectory of lineage rituals in southern Benin (19th-21stcenturies)
10.30-10.45: Coffee break
10.45-11.30: Christian Jeunesse (Institut Universitaire de France & UMR 7044, France): Present collective graves in the Austronesian world: a few remarks about Sumba and Sulawesi (Indonesia)
11.30-12.15: Caroline Malone (Queen’s University Belfast, UK), Rowan McLaughlin (Queen’s University Belfast, UK), Bernadette Mercieca Spiteri (Superintendency of Cultural Heritage for Malta, Malta), Eóin Parkinson (University of Cambridge, UK), Ronika Power (University of Cambridge, UK), Jay Stock (University of Cambridge, UK), Simon Stoddart (University of Cambridge, UK), Jess Thompson (University of Cambridge, UK): The social implications of death in prehistoric Malta
12.15-13.45: Lunch
13.45-14.30: Borja Legarra Herrero (University College London, UK): Collective burials and the creation of communities in the 3rd and 2nd Millennium Mediterranean: Crete and southeast Iberia
14.30-15.15: Nikolas Papadimitriou (Museum of Cycladic Art, Greece), Despina Catapoti (University of the Aegean, Greece): Performing the ‘collective’ in Early Minoan and Early Mycenaean funerals
15.15-15.30: Coffee break
15.30-16.15: Kurt W. Alt (Danube Private University, Austria): Connecting death and life –Group characterization in collective burials
16.15-18.00: General discussion