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Mycenaean Social Belonging from an Integrative Bioarchaeological Perspective

Descrizione del progetto

Esplorare il concetto di «appartenenza» nella civiltà micenea

Dal rinvenimento delle famose tombe ad asta a Micene, gli archeologi hanno cercato di comprendere le strutture sociali evidenti nella sepoltura di diversi individui all’interno del medesimo sepolcro. Il progetto MySocialBeIng, finanziato dall’UE, produrrà e integrerà analisi comprensive di natura archeologica, antropologica, genetica e isotopica per tutti gli individui sepolti assieme all’interno di tombe collettive selezionate, nel tentativo di decifrare i criteri per la selezione e l’appartenenza sociale al di là dell’interazione dialettica di relazione biologica e pratiche sociali. I risultati del progetto getteranno luce sul concetto di appartenenza sociale nel passato dell’umanità.

Obiettivo

"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."

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP. Cfr.: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

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Meccanismo di finanziamento

ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant

Istituzione ospitante

LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 1 106 233,50
Indirizzo
GESCHWISTER SCHOLL PLATZ 1
80539 MUNCHEN
Germania

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Regione
Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 106 233,50

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