Session title: THE BARBARIAN IN THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY

Session title: EUROPEAN EGYPTOLOGISTS IN EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY: A MODERN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

When an egyptological session was officially incorporated for the )rst time in the agenda of the European Association of Archaeologists, during the EAA 7 Conference in Esslingen (Germany, 2001), subsequently during the EAA 8 Conference in Thessaloniki (Hellas, 2002), during the EAA 9 Conference in St Petersburg (Russia, 2003), and then during the EAA 12 Conference in Cracow (Poland, 2006), we w...

Session title: EXPERIMENTING THE PAST. THE POSITION OF EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARADIGM OF THE 21 CENTURY

In the second part of the 20 century, experimental archaeology gradually grew as a sub-discipline of archaeology. It often finds a mixed acceptance in mainstream academia, as different people mean different things when they use the term ‘experimental archaeology’. Whereas many flint knapping experiments have greatly enhanced the understanding of the lithics chaînes opératories of certain sites ...

Session title: EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND MARXISM: PAST AND FUTURE

In the last decades a number of archaeologists have stressed the politically laden nature of creating archaeological knowledge. If this is the case, then in the modern “globalized” Europe any attempt to resurrect the ghost of Marx in any field of scholarship may appear at a first sight unnecessary if not offensive or harmful. Yet, almost twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the time ...

Session title: AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF MOTHER EARTH SITES AND SANCTUARIES: RETHINKING SYMBOLS AND IMAGES, ART AND ARTEFACTS FROM HISTORY AND PREHISTORY

Political archaeology and the Growth of nationalism in historiography of Iran in early twenty century: the Case of Pirniya’s Ancient History

It is argued that whenever the political situation provides a favourable environment, the archaeological activities have been encouraged to provoke nationalism, and historians in various capacities have used archaeological data and historical records to advocate nationalist agendas.  Owing to its rich archaeological and historical past and its contemporary socio-cultural diversity, Iran is, par...