ISAC Seminars – serie

Household Studies in Complex Societies

(Micro) Archaeological and Textual Approaches

Late Third Millennium in the Ancient Near East

Chronology, C14, and Climate Change

Structures of Power

Law and Gender Across the Ancient Near East and Beyond

Irrigation in Early States

New Directions

Seen Not Heard

Composition, Iconicity, and the Classifier Systems of Logosyllabic Scripts

Pomp, Circumstance, and the Performance of Politics

Acting Politically Correct in the Ancient World

Outward Appearance versus Inward Significance

Addressing Identities through Attire in the Ancient World

Changing Social Identity with the Spread of Islam

Archaeological Perspectives

Performing Death

Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean

Religion and Power

Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond

Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World

Slaves and Households in the Near East

Heaven on Earth

Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World

Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures

New Approaches to Writing and Reading in the Ancient Near East. Papers from a Symposium held February 25-26, 2005