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Les neuvièmes Rencontres doctorales de l’École Européenne de Protohistoire de Bibracte (EEPB) se tiendront du 13 au 15 mars 2023, au Centre archéologique européen de Bibracte (Bourgogne, France). Depuis 2015, ces rencontres visent à rassembler les doctorants et jeunes docteurs travaillant sur des problématiques communes concernant les âges du Bronze et du Fer à travers l’Europe. Pour les rencontres de cette année, les participants sont invités à présenter leurs recherches sur le thème suivant :

Construire la Protohistoire – hier, aujourd’hui, demain

Les contributions peuvent prendre la forme d’une communication orale (20 minutes) ou d’un poster (accompagné d’une communication courte de 5 minutes). Les propositions doivent être soumises avant le 6 janvier 2023.

EEPB 2023 : Appel à communication

From the 13th to the 15th of March 2023, the ninth Doctoral Meeting of the European School of Protohistory of Bibracte (EEPB) will be held at the European Archaeological Center of Bibracte (Burgundy, France). Since 2015, the EEPB Meeting aims to bring together PhD candidates and young postdocs working on common issues concerning the Bronze and Iron Ages across Europe. For this year’s meeting, participants are invited to present their research on the following theme:

Building Protohistory – then, now, tomorrow

Contributions can be made in the form of an oral presentation (20 minutes) or a poster (with a 5-minute oral presentation). Proposals must be submitted by January 6th 2023.

EEPB 2023: Call for papers

L’appel à candidatures du 4e Prix européen d’archéologie Joseph-Déchelette est ouvert jusqu’au 1er mars 2022. Ce prix s’adresse aux protohistoriens européens qui ont soutenu leur thèse de doctorat entre le 1er janvier 2019 et le 31 décembre 2021. N’hésitez pas à candidater !

Pour plus d’information : https://dechelette.hypotheses.org/  

The call for applications for the 4th Joseph-Déchelette European Archaeology Prize is open until 1 March 2022. This prize is open to European protohistorians who have defended their doctoral thesis between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2021. Do not hesitate to apply!

For more information: https://dechelette.hypotheses.org/

Appel à candidature / Call for application (FR, ENG, DE)

https://eepb.hypotheses.org/files/2021/11/Prix_Dechelette_2022_call.pdf

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En raison de la crise sanitaire mondiale liée au Coronavirus, l’école d’été MOSAICdata est reportée du 22 au 28 février 2021. L’appel à participation est donc à nouveau ouvert jusqu’au 31 novembre 2020, en espérant vous y retrouver nombreux. 

L’archéologie est une discipline qui produit de plus en plus de données et sous de multiples formes, qu’elles soient issues de travaux de terrain ou de recherche. Elle travaille par nature sur des données lacunaires et opportunistes, mais le développement des outils numériques permet désormais d’envisager d’appliquer nos questionnements sur de plus grandes quantités de variables et d’informations, notamment grâce au LOD.
L’école d’été MOSAICdata vise à rassembler les doctorants et les chercheurs pour discuter de la gestion de ces données et des outils à disposition pour les traiter. Il s’agira donc de développer les techniques existantes pour collecter les données archéologiques, les nettoyer, les aligner et les implémenter. Enfin, se sera également l’occasion de discuter des bonnes pratiques à mettre en place lors de l’utilisation de données numériques.
Cette école d’été durera six jours durant lesquels plusieurs méthodes de gestion et de traitement des données, dans différents domaines, seront illustrées et mises en application à l’aide du logiciel Rstudio.
Les candidatures sont ouvertes aux chercheurs et jeunes chercheurs (doctorant.e.s et post-doctorant.e.s) français et européens, ainsi qu’à tous les professionnels de l’archéologie. Bien qu’un intérêt dans le traitement et l’analyse des données est attendu de la part des participants, une connaissance approfondie de la méthodologie ou du logiciel n’est pas nécessaire.

Vous trouverez plus d’informations sur le site : https://l.scholtus.pages.unistra.fr/mosaicdata/
Merci de renvoyer le formulaire de participation à l’adresse umr7044-mosaicdata@unistra.fr avant le 31 novembre 2020.
Les organisateurs L. Bernard, O. Nakoinz, L. Scholtus

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Due to the global health crisis linked to the Coronavirus, the MOSAICdata Summer School is postponed from 22 to 28 February 2021. The call for participation is therefore open again until November 31, 2020, hoping to see you there.

Archaeology is a discipline that produces more and more data in many forms, whether from field work or research. By its nature, it works on incomplete and opportunistic data, but the development of digital tools now makes it possible to consider applying our questions to larger quantities of variables and information, particularly through LOD.
The MOSAICdata Summer School aims to bring together PhD candidates and researchers to discuss the management of this data and the tools available to process it. It will therefore be a matter of developing existing techniques for collecting archaeological data, curating them, aligning them and implementing them. Finally, it will also be an opportunity to discuss good practices to be implemented when using digital data.
This summer school will last six days during which several data management and processing methods, in different fields, will be illustrated and implemented using the Rstudio software.

Applications are open to researchers and young researchers (doctoral and post-doctoral), as well as to all archaeology professionals. Although an interest in data processing and analysis is expected from participants, a thorough knowledge of the methodology or software is not required.

You can find more information on the website : https://l.scholtus.pages.unistra.fr/mosaicdata/
Please send the application form at umr7044-mosaicdata@unistra.fr before november 31th 2020.
The organisers L. Bernard, O. Nakoinz, L. Scholtus

Dear colleagues,
The ANR-DFG project CELTIC GOLD (2017-2020), based in Toulouse and Mannheim, invites to its concluding conference at Mainz. The venue is Landesmuseum Mainz. We want to discuss aspects on archaeometry and technology of La Tène gold and its setting.
As it has been the aim of our project, we intend to bring together different perspectives and approaches on La Tène gold objects encompassing archaeometry, technology, as well as art, communication and social structures from the 5th century BC to the 1st century AD. In addition, we would also like to link up with the neighbouring regions and periods in order to better understand the connections, influences and contact networks throughout Europe.

The meeting starts Thursday, 17 September, in the afternoon and ends on Saturday, 19 September, at noon. Oral contributions (20 min + discussion time) will be presented in thematic sessions. Posters will be welcomed, too. The conference language is English.

The contribution proposals, including your name, institution, presentation/poster title and one-page abstract, should be mailed to celticgold@ceza.de by the end of March 2020. The scientific board will examine the proposal and compose the programme.
A conference fee of 40,– € will be charged (students & jobless 20,– €); persons presenting lectures or posters are exempt. Communications and posters will be published in a peer
reviewed conference volume. The deadline for the articles will be 1st December 2020. For detailed information on the Celtic Gold Project, the conference venue and programme please check https://celticgold.hypotheses.org. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. We are very much looking forward to hearing from you.

The ANR-DFG project CELTIC GOLD, coordinated by Barbara Armbruster (Toulouse) and Roland Schwab (Mannheim), is a joint research action with the members Marilou Nordez,
Pierre-Yves Milcent (Toulouse), Sebastian Fürst, Nicole Lockhoff (Mannheim), Susanne Sievers (Frankfurt), Maryse Blet-Lemarquand, Sylvia Nieto-Pelletier (Orleans), Martin Schönfelder (Mainz), Laurent Olivier (Saint-Germain-en-Laye) and many partners.

Session #89 – Call for papers
“Luxury in life and death in the European Iron Age. Identity – elite networks – economy – arts and crafts“

What defines an elite within a society? It may be the ability to exercise power and domination; it may be the access to specific resources. Or it can be conceptualized as the degree of centrality and connectivity within a communication and/or interaction network.

In the context of archaeological research, this last approach has the advantage that precious objects and materials, as remains of material culture, allow a reconstruction of relationships over long distances. During the Iron Age, luxury items made of precious or exotic materials were used by elite groups as symbols of power and prestige, and they were deposited as grave goods or in hoards. They can be seen as proxy variables to identify multiple highly dynamic and dense networks of influences from different regions, near and far.

The structures and mechanisms of these networks depend on the selected parameters: for example, a network of imported vessels is different from the network of precious materials like amber, especially when stylistic or craftsmanship characteristics are taken into account.

How do the networks of different precious materials and prestige objects differ?

What conclusions can be drawn from this for the social structures of Iron Age societies?

Do some places show a distinct betweenness or bridging centrality that made them operate as connectors between two cultures? And do other sites display a pivotal role as hubs or junctions within a local or regional social group, perhaps as centres of fine metalwork crafting?

In this session, we would like to bring together all these different perspectives on elite connectivity during the Iron Age, in order to obtain an even more detailed picture of the dynamic and complex processes during this period. 

We kindly invite you to submit your abstract for the session at https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2020/ before February 13^th 2020.

We are looking forward to meeting you in August!

Sebastian Fürst, Marilou Nordez & Barbara Armbruster