L'Isolement
Rencontre du Gaaf 2026
The 2026 meeting of the GAAF dedicated to the theme of isolation was a great success in the idyllic setting of Corsica! 78 participants 22...
Gaaf Meetings
From 02 June to 04 June 2027
Blois, 41000
Image has a prominent place in people’s relationships with death, both as a testimony of loss and as an act of remembrance. At a time of celebration for the Bicentenary of the Photography (Sept...
Archives
Memory: remembering and forgetting the dead from prehistory to the present day
Rencontre du Gaaf 2025
Rich in insights into past and present societies, the question of the memory of the dead and its counterpart—oblivion—will be at the heart of the...
L'invisible (The Invisible)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2024
The aim of the 15th Meeting of the Gaaf is to explore the invisible in funerary contexts. The presentations will show how archaeology can make...
Le paysage funéraire Préhistoire-Antiquité (The funerary landscape prehistory-antiquity)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2023
The program of the 14th GAAF meeting is now available (in english for now). From April the 12th to the 14th 2023, the communications and posters...
La crémation (The cremation)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2022
For the past twenty years, methods and reflections intrinsic to the excavation and study of structures linked to the practice of cremation have...
Les funérailles (The funeral ceremonies)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2021
Exceptionally, due to health issues that forced to postpone this Meeting to be held in 2020, it was held in videoconference in 2021. The passing...
La typochronologie (Burials typochronology)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2019
Typochronology is frequently used to date inhumation burials in addition to other methods (stratigraphy, analysis of grave goods, radiocarbon...
Le corps malade (the unhealthy body)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2018
Visible or imperceptible, acute or chronic, disabled or slightly impaired, illnesses have continuously affected past populations. Over the course of...
Les réouvertures de tombes et la manipulation des ossements (re-opening of the graves)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2017
After death, the integrity of the burial can be disrupted in many ways, including through the intervention of the living. Despite the fact that...
Nos aïeux (our ancestors)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2016
Six years after the Rencontre autour du cadavre (the corpse), the annual meeting of the Gaaf is back in Marseille, from may 25 to 27 2016, dealing...
La fouille des grands ensembles sépulcraux (the issues of excavation of medieval, postmedieval and contemporary cemeteries)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2015
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Nouvelles approches (new approaches of funerary archaeology)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2014
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Le paysage du cimetière médiéval-moderne (The landscapes medieval-modern)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2013
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L'animal (the animal)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2012
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Le cadavre (the corpse)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2010
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La mort des tout-petits (the death of little ones)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2009
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Les sépultures habillées (clothes in burials)
Rencontre du Gaaf 2008
Please the the publication page. This publication is out of stock but can be...