{"id":4191,"date":"2017-01-20T14:24:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T13:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tepetelegrams.wordpress.com\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2023-02-06T10:27:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T09:27:55","slug":"call-for-papers-what-is-so-special-about-neolithic-special-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/2017\/01\/20\/call-for-papers-what-is-so-special-about-neolithic-special-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: “What is so special about Neolithic special buildings?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We frequently get questions regarding the interpretation of G\u00f6bekli Tepe, and much of our work really centers around that issue. Is it a temple<\/a>, a sanctuary, something else? How does G\u00f6bekli Tepe relate to similar phenomena in contemporaneous and later sites? We want to throw some more light on this by asking the following question in a session organised in the frame of the EAA Annual Meeting 2017 in Maastricht.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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What is so special about Neolithic special buildings?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Organizers: Oliver Dietrich1<\/sup>, Laura Dietrich1<\/sup>; Deniz Erdem 2<\/sup>; Jens Notroff 1<\/sup>; Kriszti\u00e1n Oross3<\/sup><\/p>\n

(1. German Archaeological Institute, Orient Department; 2. Centre of Research and Assessment of Cultural Environment (TACDAM), Middle East Technical University; 3. Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)<\/p>\n

Extraordinary features which challenge conventional interpretations are readily denoted as \u2018special\u2019 by archaeologists. \u2018Special buildings\u2018 is an often-used label in Near Eastern Archaeology for constructions deviating in architecture, elaborate inner fittings, finds and often also treatment after the end of use (intentional destruction, burial) from domestic spaces. \u2018Special buildings\u2019 start to exist during the Epipalaeolithic and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the region between the Levant and Upper Mesopotamia, well-known examples come inter alia from sites like G\u00f6bekli Tepe, Jerf el Ahmar, Neval\u0131 \u00c7ori, or \u00c7atalh\u00f6y\u00fck.<\/p>\n

The term \u2018special building\u2019 is not unknown in the European Neolithic, although with a considerably different meaning. In Europe, constructions such as megaliths, earthworks and ditches have been approached in ways similar to the \u2018special buildings\u2019 of the Near East, without labelling them as one group however.<\/p>\n

A general approach to this issue is still missing. The essential question is whether by \u2018special buildings\u2019 we are facing a phenomenon common to Neolithic societies which has to be considered another component of the so-called Neolithic Package.<\/p>\n

The session follows two main questions:<\/p>\n

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  1. Are there really commonalities between the buildings categorized as special, i.e. is \u2018special buildings\u2019 more than an ill-defined label for the uncommon? Could we converge the information to a common definition?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Is there a tradition of \u2018special buildings\u2019 throughout the Neolithic, are they part of the \u2018Neolithic package\u2019 transferred from the Near East to Europe? If so, what elements travel, what meanings change?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Submission for Papers and Posters is open from\u00a0<\/sup> 3 Febrauary 2017, session number is 322: <\/strong><\/p>\n

      http:\/\/www.eaa2017maastricht.nl<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      We frequently get questions regarding the interpretation of G\u00f6bekli Tepe, and much of our work really centers around that issue. Is it a temple, a sanctuary, something else? How does G\u00f6bekli Tepe relate to similar phenomena in contemporaneous and later sites? We want to throw some more light on this by asking the following question […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2290,9204,116,24054256],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-architecture","tag-conferences","tag-religion","tag-special-buildings","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7243,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions\/7243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}