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Colloque Gathered in Death, Archeological and Ethnological Perspectives on Collective Burial and Social Organisation

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Aurore Schmitt (ADES UMR 7268, Marseille), Sylviane Déderix (University of Arizona), Isabelle Crevecoeur (PACEA UMR 5199, Bordeaux), Jan Driessen (UCLouvain), Introduction. Towards a theoretical and methodological framework for the study of collective burials.

Estella Weiss-Krejci (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna), Who is who in the grave? A cross-cultural approach.

Nicolas Cauwe (MRAH, UCLouvain), Collective burials of the European Mesolithic.

Christopher Knüsel (PACEA UMR 5199, Bordeaux), Eline Schotsmans (PACEA UMR 5199, Bordeaux), Scott Haddow (PACEA UMR 5199, Bordeaux & Çatalhöyük Research Project), House Societies, Ancestors, and Burials at Neolithic Çatalhöyük: Attempting to Disentangle Collective and Multiple Burials.

Mike Parker Pearson (University College London), Collective and single burial in Madagascar.

Denis Regnier (Centre Universitaire de Mayotte ; Université d’Antananarivo), Circulation and fixation of the dead in Madagascar.

Pascal Couderc (Independent researcher, Quebec), Houses for Bones: Collective Reburial and Society in South Borneo.

Françoise Le Mort & Bérénice Chamel (UMR 5133, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée – Jean Pouilloux, Lyon), 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.

John Robb (University of Cambridge), How are individual and collective burials really different?

Joël Noret (ULB), Divided in life, divided in death. The historical trajectory of lineage rituals in southern Benin (19th-21st centuries).

Christian Jeunesse (Institut Universitaire de France, UMR 7044, Strasbourg, France), Present collective graves in the Austronesian world: a few remarks about Sumba and Sulawesi (Indonesia).

Caroline Malone & Rowan McLaughlin (Queen’s University Belfast), Bernadette Mercieca Spiteri (Superintendency of Cultural Heritage for Malta), Eóin Parkinson, Ronika Power (University of Cambridge), Jay Stock (University of Cambridge), Simon Stoddart(University of Cambridge), Jess Thompson (University of Cambridge), The social implications of death in prehistoric Malta.

Borja Legarra Herrero (University College London), Collective burials and the creation of communities in the 3rd and 2nd Millennium Mediterranean: Crete and southeast Iberia.

Nikolas Papadimitriou (Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens) Despina Catapoti, (University of the Aegean, Mytilene), Performing the ‘collective’ in Early Minoan and Early Mycenaean funerals.