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SUMMARY:Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Cultural Creolization in Ostrobothnia\, Finland: An Interdisciplinary View on Burials\, Exchange\, and Social Identity
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nThis talk explores a remarkable Iron Age burial from Pukkila in western Finland\, dating to around AD 700\, where a cremated individual was laid to rest in a boat alongside weapons\, ritual objects\, and artefacts from across Scandinavia\, eastern Europe\, and the north. Rather than fitting neatly into a single cultural or ethnic category\, the burial reflects a world shaped by long-distance trade\, mobility\, and cultural change. \nUsing the concept of cultural creolization\, the talk shows how identities\, beliefs\, and ritual practices emerged through the blending of different traditions. The Pukkila burial challenges simple labels such as “Scandinavian”\, “Finn\,” or “Sámi\,” and instead reveals how power\, religion\, gender\, and cultural belonging were actively negotiated in the Baltic Sea region.\nMore broadly\, the talk demonstrates how creolization offers a useful way to bring archaeology\, linguistics\, and religious studies together when interpreting the past. \n  \n  \nSeminar speaker: Anna Wessman\, a professor of archaeology at Bergen University\, Norway. Her research focuses on the Late Iron Age in Scandinavia\, Finland and the Baltic countries\, Burial Archaeology and death rituals\, Avocational Metal-detecting\, Citizen Science\, Ethnographic methods\, Community Archaeology\, Museum Studies\, Digital Humanities\, and Archaeological databases. \nPhoto: Outi Pyhäranta/HS
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/talks-of-the-past-20261007-anna-wessman/
LOCATION:Blåsenhus\, seminar room 12:010\, von Kraemers allé 1\, Uppsala\, 752 36\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminars,Talks of the Past
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SUMMARY:Mini-Seminar: A culinary riddle of chalcolithic Iraq revisited: Interweaving ancient textual and archaeological evidence with ethno-culinary insights to understand bevel-rim bowls
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nA distinctive crude clay bowl is today taken as an important marker of the so-called “Uruk” cultural phenomenon which spread across Iraq\, Iran\, Syria\, and Turkey in the Late Chalcolithic period (c. 4500–2900 BC). This so-called bevel-rim bowl was also depicted in an iconic glyph in the earliest cuneiform writing\, where it was clearly associated with barley products. In excavations\, the bowls are often found in large numbers\, sometimes neatly stacked in rows. Numerous different interpretations of their use and significance have been made by specialists drawing variously on archaeological context\, formal ceramic analysis\, iconography\, cuneiform text evidence\, and more recently\, residue analysis. \nThis talk takes a fresh approach to the understudied early cuneiform evidence where the bowl is often mentioned. Informed by cross-cultural culinary traditions involving barley\, I explore a new possibility for the culinary traditions represented by the bowls\, one which may fit the textual and archaeological evidence combined. \n \nSeminar speaker: Kathryn Kelley\, an associate senior lecturer/assistant professor at the Department of Archaeology\, Ancient History and Conservation; Assyriology. She focuses on Assyriology\, economic history\, Early Dynastic Mesopotamia\, early writing\, and Near Eastern archaeology. \nFeatured photo: Uruk-period bevelled rim bowl\, c. 3400–3200 BCE\, from Habuba Kabira South in Syria. Institute for Ancient Studies\, University of Mainz\, Germany (By Schauschgamuwa – Own work\, CC BY-SA 4.0\, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59380019)
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/mini-seminar-a-culinary-riddle-of-chalcolithic-iraq-revisited-interweaving-ancient-textual-and-archaeological-evidence-with-ethno-culinary-insights-to-understand-bevel-rim-bowls/
LOCATION:Villa Lugnet\, von Kraemers allé 8\, Uppsala\, Sweden\, 75236\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Mini-Seminars,Seminars
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