Xenia (Polyxeni) Charalambidou
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, UFR03 Histoire de l'art et Archéologie, Affiliated Researcher
Current research interests:
Mediterranean archaeology, ancient craftsmanship, production and consumption, mobilities and interactions, social identities.
Pottery production and consumption, migration, technology transfer, cultural transmission and human dynamics between mother-cities, colonial establishments and the native milieux in Greece and in Southern Italy-Sicily during the Early Iron Age and the Archaic period.
Early Iron Age and Archaic feasting practices, examining linked interpretations of find-groups in context that can produce fine-scale reconstructions of the ritual/feasting landscape.
Macro- and science-based analyses of archaeological materials: macroscopic approaches, combined with archaeometric research [petrographic, elemental, microstructural], geological prospection of the areas under investigation; experimental archaeology; ethnoarchaeological research. Emphasis on the chaîne opératoire approach in context.
Mediterranean archaeology, ancient craftsmanship, production and consumption, mobilities and interactions, social identities.
Pottery production and consumption, migration, technology transfer, cultural transmission and human dynamics between mother-cities, colonial establishments and the native milieux in Greece and in Southern Italy-Sicily during the Early Iron Age and the Archaic period.
Early Iron Age and Archaic feasting practices, examining linked interpretations of find-groups in context that can produce fine-scale reconstructions of the ritual/feasting landscape.
Macro- and science-based analyses of archaeological materials: macroscopic approaches, combined with archaeometric research [petrographic, elemental, microstructural], geological prospection of the areas under investigation; experimental archaeology; ethnoarchaeological research. Emphasis on the chaîne opératoire approach in context.
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Seminars-Lectures by Xenia (Polyxeni) Charalambidou
Η μελέτη εστιάζει στον πολύπλευρο χαρακτήρα της παραγωγής και διακίνησης τεχνέργων και τεχνιτών και στον ρόλο των «περιπλανώμενων» κεραμέων πριν και κατά τη διάρκεια του ελληνικού αποικισμού. Επιπροσθέτως, αναδεικνύεται ξανά η οικολογική προσέγγιση των Peregrine Horden και Nicholas Purcell (The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History), σύμφωνα με την οποία η Μεσόγειος ήταν ένα «τοπίο» εξόχως πιο πολυσύνθετο από ένα «απλό» δίκτυο θαλάσσιων διαδρομών. Υπό αυτό το πρίσμα, συζητούνται οι σχέσεις των μεγάλων «αστικών» και μικρότερων οικισμών και της υπαίθρου στην Εύβοια και στη Νάξο για να τονιστεί η σημασία της οικονομίας σε διάφορες κλίμακες και ο αντίκτυπος αυτών των πολυπαραγοντικών δικτύων πέρα από τα εν λόγω νησιά, στις μεταναστεύσεις των κατοίκων τους μέχρι και τη Νότια Ιταλία και Σικελία.
In this lecture older and more recent archaeological evidence from a selected range of Early Iron Age and Archaic sites in the Aegean are brought together, focusing mainly on the central and southern parts of the region. Sites which can produce fine-scale reconstructions of feasting practices are discussed for the information that they provide about the extent of local and regional diversity in feasting practices.
Building on a comparative regional approach allows us to assess the value of material culture in relation to commensal activities locally, regionally, and supra-regionally and so to evaluate regional diversity and overarching trends as they become evident in the material record. Several focal points for discussion are also raised: whether polis-centred institutions of feasting were integrated into complex pre-existing cultural associations; the difficulties in distinguishing between the sacred and the profane in certain contexts; the possible roles of various social groups in feasting, beyond the elites.