| 10.00 |
Registration and Coffee |
| 10.30 |
Opening and Introduction |
| 11.00 |
Peter Biehl: Enclosing Places. A contextual approach to
cult and religion in Neolithic Central Europe |
| 11.20 |
Iain Morley: Time and Cycles and their Relevance to
Spiritual and Ritual Behaviour in Traditional Societies |
| 11.40 |
Camilla Briault: The Ultimate Redundancy Package:
routine, structure and the archaeology of ritual
transmission |
| 12.00 |
Lambros Malafouris: The Sacred Engagement: why religion
needs material culture? |
| 12.20 |
Yorke Rowan: Cult, Cache and the Chalcolithic: diverse
ritual practices in the Southern Levant |
| 12.40 |
Discussion |
| 1.00 |
Lunch |
| 2.00 |
Muiris O'Sullivan: Resting in Pieces: changing deposition
practices at the Mound of the Hostages, Tara, Ireland |
| 2.20 |
Gabriel Cooney: Cult in Action: Working stone, making
monuments |
| 2.40 |
Blaze O'Connor: Carving Identity: the social context of
Neolithic rock art and megalithic art |
| 3.00 |
George Eogan Culture and Cult: some aspects of Passage
Tomb Society in the Boyne Rgion, Ireland |
| 3.20 |
Discussion |
| 3.30 |
Tea |
| 4.00 |
Ruth Whitehouse: Underground Religion Revisited |
| 4.20 |
Christopher Tilley: Imagery, Architecture and Landscape:
a comparative analysis of temples in Malta and Ireland |
| 4.40 |
Timothy Darvill: Back to Within: Stonehenge and its
purpose |
| 5.00 |
Clive Bond: Walking the Track and Believing: the Sweet
Track, as a means of accessing earlier Neolithic
spirituality |
| 5.20 |
Richard Bradley: The Shipping News: land and water in
Bronze Age Scandinavia |
| Prof. Dragos Gheorghiu |
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| 5.40 |
Discussion |
| 6.00 |
End of session |
| 6.30 |
Welcome Reception, McDonald Institute for Archaeological
Research |
| 7.30 |
End of reception |
| 9.00 |
David Trump: Maltese Temple Cult: the antecedents |
| 9.20 |
Reuben Grima: The Cultural Construction of the Landscape
in Late Neolithic Malta |
| 9.40 |
Katya Stroud: Of Giants and Deckchairs: understanding the
Maltese megalithic Temples |
| 10.00 |
David Barrowclough: Divide and Rule: Fragmentation and
Accumulation in the Ritual Context of Temple Period
Malta |
| 10.20 |
Simon Stoddart: Maltese Funerary Cult in Context |
| 10.40 |
Discussion |
| 11.00 |
Coffee |
| 11.20 |
Caroline Malone: Space, Structure and Ritual in
Prehistoric Malta |
| 11.40 |
Robin Skeates: Religious Experience in the Prehistoric
Maltese Underworld |
| 12.00 |
John Robb: Practices, Traditions and Macro-traditions:
Maltese Neolithic body representations in context |
| 12.20 |
Andrew Townsend: Ephebism in Prehistoric Maltese Art |
| 12.40 |
Discussion |
| 1.00 |
Lunch |
| 2.00 |
Michael Baillie: A Range of Events-some
catastrophic-between 3200 BC and 2000 BC |
| 2.20 |
Nicholas Vella: From cabiroi to Goddesses: cult with/out
context in Maltese prehistoric archaeology |
| 2.40 |
Anthony Bonanno: The Phoenicians and the Maltese
Prehistoric Cultural Landscape |
| 3.00 |
Tea |
| 3.20 |
Piotr Drag: The Dead Righteous in Graeco-Roman
Judaism(s): Customs Related to Preserving the Post-Death
Memory of Jewish Holy Men (Zaddikim) |
| 3.40 |
Michael Anderson and Simon Stoddart: Mapping Cult
Context: GIS applications in Maltese Temples |
| 4.00 |
Discussion |
| 4.20 |
Keynote speech: Colin Renfrew |
| 5.00 |
Discussion |
| 5.20 |
End of session |
| 7.00 |
Reception |
| 7.30 |
Conference Dinner, Magdalene College |
| 9.00 |
Alan Peatfield: The Dynamics of Ritual on Minoan Peak
Sanctuaries |
| 9.20 |
Matthew Haysom: In What Context? Competing and
complementary scales of contextual analysis in the study of
Minoan religion |
| 10.00 |
Sarah Ralph: Severed Heads and Broken Pots: cult activity
in Iron Age Europe |
| 10.20 |
Discussion |
| 10.30 |
Coffee |
| 11.00 |
Latizia Ceccerelli: Archaeology of Religion and Cults.
Votive offerings within the contexts of Roman religious
practices |
| 11.20 |
Silvia Alfaye: Contexts of Cult in Hispania Celtica |
| 11.40 |
Mark Aldenderfer: Cult or Commemoration? Standing Stones
on the Northern and Central Tibetan Plateau, 500 BCE-500
CE |
| 12.00 |
Holley Moyes: The Late Classic Drought Cult: ritual
activity as a response to environmental stress among the
Ancient Maya |
| 12.20 |
Kate Spence: A Contextual Approach to Ancient Egyptian
Domestic Cult: the case of the 'lustration slabs' at
el-Amarna |
| 12.40 |
Discussion |
| 1.00 |
Lunch |
| 2.00 |
Simon Kaner: Stone Circles and Figurines: cult in context
in the prehistoric Japanese archipelago |
| 2.20 |
Naumov Goce: Homing the Dead: Neolithic burials inside
houses and vessels |
| 2.40 |
Robin Hardie: Can Representations of Maleness in European
Figurines in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic tell us anything
about Ritual and Cult ? |
| 3.00 |
Lila Janik: Shamanism, Animism, Gods, Participants,
Observers and the Visual Narrative of Rock Art: refocusing
methodological approaches and the priority of archaeological
data over ethnographic records in interpreting early
religion |
| 3.20 |
Timothy Insoll: Totems, Ancestors, and Animism: The
Archaeology of Shrines and Religion amongst the Tallensi of
Northern Ghana |
| 4.00 |
Discussion |
| 4.20 |
Tea and depart |
