Athens Balkan Archaeology Day 2018, December 1

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Culture is not just theater and saying ‘Good Morning’ to the neighbors. It reflects the sum of all human achievements that have been accomplished and are being accomplished, inherited and upgraded, built upon generation by generation. All of humanity’s wishes, ideas and beliefs are incorporated in its culture and are reflected in the objects, buildings and machines that make up everyday life. The old Aristotelian wisdom of hylomorphism comes to mind instantly, reminding us that ‘matter’ cannot ‘be’ without having ‘form’ and when it comes to artificially made objects and structures, their ‘form’ is the mental form behind them, whether it be projected consciously or unconsciously. Archeology has its scientific aim to reconstruct man’s past through his material culture - material culture that is the reflection of his spiritual culture, which in turn cannot be comprehended just by “measuring and describing”, but requires serious semiotic, cognitive and psychological analysis. Fortunately, this year we were presented a good example of a body of scientific work which topic of interest was approached completely, both in its matter, and its form - “Macedonian bronzes and the religion and mythology of Iron Age communities in the Central Balkans” by Prof. D‐r Nikos Chausidis of the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, published by the Center for Prehistoric Research exclusively in electronic format, fully and freely available online.

In E. Stefani, N. Merousis and A. Dimoula (eds.) A Century of Research in Prehistoric Macedonia 1912-2012, International Conference Proceedings, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki 22-24 November 2012. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki Publication No 22, pp. 491-503.

The program, regisration link, and book of abstracts for the 21-22 March 2024 workshop held at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences.

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Το παρόν έργο πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας προστατεύεται κατά τις διατάξεις του ελληνικού νόμου (Ν. 2121/1993 όπως έχει τροποποιηθεί και ισχύει σήμερα) και τις διεθνείς συμβάσεις περί πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας. Απαγορεύεται απολύτως η άνευ γραπτής άδειας του εκδότη κατά οποιοδήποτε τρόπο ή μέσο αντιγραφή, φωτοανατύπωση και εν γένει αναπαραγωγή, εκμίσθωση ή δανεισμός, μετάφραση, διασκευή, αναμετάδοση στο κοινό σε οποιαδήποτε μορφή (ηλεκτρονική, μηχανική ή άλλη) και η εν γένει εκμετάλλευση του συνόλου ή μέρους του έργου.

currently in position at the mixed laboratory Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité at Nanterre (UMR 7041). She is a specialist of the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in the Aegean and the Balkans, and codirector of the Greek-French research project at the tell of Dikili Tash in Northern Greece.