Ancient Lives, New Stories: Current Research on the Ancient Near East - Introduction

Touillon-Ricci, Mathilde; Hermoso-Buxán, Xosé L.

Abstract

The first edition of the London Postgraduate Conference for the Ancient Near East (LPCANE) took place on 1st and 2nd December 2018 at the British Museum in London. It bore the title Ancient Lives, New Stories: Current Research on the Ancient Near East, which aimed to highlight how new research and new approaches can shed light on hotly debated topics of the past and open new avenues of research. Aimed at graduate students (Master’s and PhD) and early career researchers, the primary objective of this event was to create a forum of discussion for emerging scholars to showcase their research at any stage of progress and to foster exchange between the diverse disciplines working on the Ancient Near East, including Archaeology, Assyriology, Anthropology, Historiography, Conservation and Museum Studies. Near Eastern Archaeology, Assyriology and sister disciplines often tread separate paths in spite of having a common focus of attention. Thus, in this conference we aimed to highlight overlapping ideas and the interaction and complementarity between the knowledge derived from material culture, textual sources and other types of studies, and collaboration among scholars from different disciplines was facilitated and encouraged. The chronological periods under consideration were the Palaeolithic to the Islamic conquest, and the geographical scope, Anatolia to Afghanistan and the Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula. 

Citation

Touillon-Ricci, M., & Hermoso-Buxán, X. L. Ancient Lives, New Stories: Current Research on the Ancient Near East - Introduction. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 33(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.2041-9015.1332

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Apr 27, 2022
• Deposit Date: May 10, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: May 10, 2022
• Journal: Papers from the Institute of Archaeology
• Electronic ISSN: 2041-9015
• Publisher: UCL Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-12
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.2041-9015.1332
• Publisher URL: https://student-journals.ucl.ac.uk/pia/article/id/1332/
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Special Issue: Ancient Lives, New Stories 2018 Conference Proceedings