GAAF 2025 programme and registration
The programme and registration forms for the Rendez-vous around Identity markers: worn on the body, inscribed in the body are now available!
You can register by following the link to the HelloAsso website or by using the QRcode.
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As part of the exhibition, researchers from a variety of backgrounds will be invited to discuss what makes the peoples of the 5th-7th centuries so unique, what kind of ‘markers’ archaeologists can explore to better understand these communities of the past. This one-day workshop will focus on the individual and what makes their identity within a group and a people. With the aim to bring a different perspective on the topic, this initiative will also addressed issues such as worn items (clothing, artefacts, jewellery, etc.), as well as biological markers, such as aDNA and dietary and mobility isotopes. All of them aiming to highlight the singularities of what constitutes individual identity and social identity.
To what extent can these cultural and biological identity markers be used to distinguish the peoples of the barbaricum? Or is the geopolitical reality too complex to decide?