Gaaf Meetings

Memory: remembering and forgetting the dead from prehistory to the present day

From 21 May to 23 May 2025
Grenoble

The call for papers for the 16th GAAF Meeting is now open: Rich in insights into past and present societies, the question of the memory of the dead and its counterpart—oblivion—will be at the...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Saint Cosme - Narthex de l'église (Sadil)

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...

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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...

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