House Models for the Living and the Dead across Ancient Eurasia: Synchronicities and Diachronicities of Cross-Cultural Typologies

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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ROUNDTABLE

House Models for the Living and the Dead across Ancient Eurasia: Synchronicities and Diachronicities of Cross-Cultural Typologies

Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, CNRS, Paris; Fellow Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin and Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science
Goce Naumov, Goce Delćev University and Educator at the Museum of Macedonia., Fellow and Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin
Cinzia Pappi, Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin

Discussant:

Paul Delnero, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Fellow Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin

THE LECTURE SERIES

Maps and Mapping in Global History and Culture II

22 January 2025, 6 p.m.	Panel discussion	How Plague became Globally Visible – Mapping as Method in Modern Western Medicine
6 March 2025, 6 p.m.	Lecture with Dialogue	Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography: Making Maps and Imaging Germany
27 March 2025, 6 p.m.	Lecture with Dialogue	Thematic Mapping in 18th to 19th-century Germany
8 April 2025, 6 p.m.	Roundtable	House Models for the Living and the Dead across Ancient Eurasia: Synchronicities and Diachronicities of Cross-Cultural Typologies