Colloque Damaged Goods

Louvain-La-Neuve

  Contextualising Intentional Destruction of Objects in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus

International workshop organized by AegIS (UCL-INCAL-CEMA) and the ARC ‘A World in Crisis’

 

La contextualisation de la destruction intentionnelle d'objets à l'Âge du Bronze en Egée et à Chypre

Atelier international organisé par le groupe de recherches AegIS (UCL-INCAL-CEMA) et l’ARC ‘A World in Crisis’

 

Première Journée/First Day (Thursday 7 November 2013)

Introduction par Jan Driessen, responsable d’AegIS (UCL)/Introduction by the heads of the research group AegIS (UCL)

John Chapman (Durham University) Keynote address: Objects, Persons and Places: Towards an Integrated Theory of Fragmentation

Katherine Harrell (UCL) Traumatology in the Mycenaean Period and Early Iron Age

Stratos Nanoglou (16th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture) Going the Other Way: Providing a Framework for the Destruction of Objects in the Bronze Age

Peter Tomkins (University of Sheffield/ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Flattening Objects: Towards a More Fully Relational Understanding of ‘Intentional Destruction’

Michael Boyd (University of Cambridge) Destruction and Other Material Acts of Transformation in Mycenaean Funerary Practice

Carl Knappett (University of Toronto) The Rough and the Smooth: Care and Carelessness in the Forgetting of Buildings

Seconde Journée/Second Day (Friday 8 November 2013)

Colin Renfrew (University of Cambridge) The Special Deposit South at Kavos on Keros: Evidence for Ritual Breakage in the Cycladic Early Bronze Age

Mario Denti (Université Rennes 2) Damaged Greek “Orientalising” Goods in an Indigenous Western Mediterranean Context in the Iron Age

Maria Pantelidou Gofa (Professor emerita, University of Athens) Damaged Pottery, Damaged Skulls at the Tsepi, Marathon Cemetery

Giorgos Vavouranakis (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Chryssi Bourbou (28th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture) Breaking Up the Past: Patterns of Fragmentation in Early and Middle Bronze Age Tholos Tomb Contexts in Crete

Présentation de posters/Poster Presentation (Thursday and Friday, 7-8 November 2013)

Evi Margaritis (University of Cambridge) Acts of Destruction and Acts of Preservation? Plants in the Ritual Landscape of Prehistoric Greece