Apr 8, 2025
House Models for the Living and the Dead across Ancient Eurasia: Synchronicities and Diachronicities of Cross-Cultural Typologies
- 18:00 to 21:00
- External/Cooperation Event
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Vera V. Dorofeeva-Lichtmann
- Goce Naumov
- Cinzia Pappi
Diminished models of houses appear across archaeological sites of ancient Eurasia, beginning from the Neolithic times, but they are largely overlooked as a form of mapping.
This panel discussion aims to address this oversight by exploring the typological similarities and differences among house models from three cultural areas of ancient Eurasia: the Balkans, Mesopotamia, and China. By conducting both synchronic and diachronic comparative analyses of these contexts, the participants of the panels seek to understand these objects better within their functional settings.
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For further information contact: Franziska Urban franziska.urban@bbaw.de
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About This Series
Maps belong to the oldest forms of human communication and thus represent an important historical record of space. Yet, maps are much more than just a visual presentation of a territory during a certain period of time, but a reflection on historical, political, religious and cultural contexts in which they were compiled.
This series of lectures invites a critical and fresh view on mapping, its role in the global circulation of knowledge, influence on state sovereignty and royal authority, colonialism, imperialism, national identities throughout history.
Berlin is an apt place for this topic. It has historically been a meeting point of mapping practices from all over the world. The city played a key role in the genesis of the history of cartography as a distinct branch of the history of science. It hosts a huge variety of the material culture of mapping across many institutions that illustrate how a map is strongly conditioned by space and time in which it was created (historical context), by people who created it (mapmakers), and by the audience and purpose for which it was intended (users). Map is, therefore, understood as a complex social construct representing a power of knowledge.
Germany is now a major repository of mapping efforts through history, making Berlin a perfect setting for this lecture series.
The lecture series is jointly organised by Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte.