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Mycenaean Social Belonging from an Integrative Bioarchaeological Perspective

Descripción del proyecto

Exploración del concepto de «pertenencia» en la Grecia micénica

Desde la excavación de los famosos pozos funerarios de Micenas, los arqueólogos han intentado comprender las estructuras sociales que se manifiestan en el entierro de varias personas en la misma tumba. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos MySocialBeIng llevará a cabo e integrará amplios análisis arqueológicos, antropológicos, genéticos e isotópicos de todas las personas enterradas juntas en determinadas tumbas colectivas con el objetivo de descifrar los criterios de su selección y pertenencia social a partir de la combinación dialéctica del parentesco biológico y las prácticas sociales. Los resultados del proyecto arrojarán luz sobre el concepto de pertenencia social en el pasado de la Humanidad.

Objetivo

"Since Heinrich Schliemann excavated the famous shaft graves at Mycenae and identified the individuals as members of Agamemnon’s royal family, archaeologists have tried to understand the social structures which materialised in the collective graves of Mycenaean Greece. Whereas today’s understanding of family ties goes well beyond biological relatedness (e.g. patchwork families), prehistoric individuals buried together and their belonging are still predominantly explained by biological models – also due to the inability to trace past biological relatedness. But now the necessary methods have been developed and we will apply them to the extraordinary archaeological richness of Mycenaean Greece with its many collective graves which will serve as a paradigmatic case study for unravelling prehistoric social complexity beyond elites. MySocialBeIng will produce and integrate comprehensive archaeological, anthropological, genetic and isotopic analyses for all individuals buried together in selected collective graves (chamber, tholos) in order to decipher the criteria for their selection and social belonging out of the dialectic interplay of biological relatedness and social practices (gender, mobility, nutrition, burial, material culture). This has only recently become possible with 1) the development of bioinformatics tools to model biological relationships, 2) single-stranded DNA library production for numerous individuals, 3) innovative pedigree-based Bayesian modelling of 14C dates and 4) novel datasets of bioavailable strontium in Greece. The results will have a major impact on Mycenaean archaeology and on archaeology as a discipline by establishing a ground-breaking new approach to the study of past social relations. Moreover they will be relevant for the social sciences in general as well as for society, allowing us to fully understand the complexity of social belonging in the human past and thus helping to overcome the 19th-century “biological bias"" of belonging."

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural. Véase: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

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Régimen de financiación

ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant

Institución de acogida

LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 106 233,50
Dirección
GESCHWISTER SCHOLL PLATZ 1
80539 MUNCHEN
Alemania

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Región
Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 1 106 233,50

Beneficiarios (2)