The call for papers : GAAF meeting 2025
The call for papers for the GAAF 2025 event is now open. Proposals must be submitted by 30 April 2025.
This year, researchers will focus on ‘Identity markers: worn on the body, inscribed in the body’.
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?
Find all the information on the event page