Friday, September 4, 2026

Geschlechterstereotype in der Archäologie: Eine Kurzreflexion in Bild und Text

Edited by Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Bisserka Gaydarska & Uroš Matić 

Waren Männer der Urgeschichte die einzigen Jäger und haben nur sie Werkzeuge hergestellt? Waren nur Männer Träger von Kunst und Innovationen? Waren Frauen ausschließlich Sammlerinnen, an das Haus gebunden und haben sich um Kinder und Familie gekümmert? Waren alle prähistorischen Darstellungen von Frauen Muttergöttinnen? Haben Männer und Frauen die gleichen Karrierechancen in der Archäologie? Die Kurzantwort auf all diese Fragen ist die gleiche: Nein. Dies sind jedoch Beispiele für Geschlechterstereotype, denen wir in der Archäologie immer noch täglich begegnen. Sie beeinfl ussen, wie Archäolog*innen die Vergangenheit interpretieren und in der Öffentlichkeit präsentieren und auch, wie sie ihren Beruf ausüben.

Dieses Heft versteht sich als kurze, informative und kritische Antwort von Archäolog*innen auf verschiedene Geschlechterstereotype, die in der archäologischen Rekonstruktion der Vergangenheit sowie in der gegenwärtigen berufl ichen Praxis existieren. Geschlechtersensible und feministische Archäolog*innen kämpfen seit Jahrzehnten gegen Geschlechterstereotype, u.a. durch wissenschaftliche Publikationen, Museumsausstellungen und populäre Literatur. Trotz ihrer Bemühungen leben viele Stereotype weiter und gedeihen gut, sowohl in akademischen als auch in nicht-akademischen Kreisen und insbesondere in Ländern, in denen es keine archäologische Geschlechterforschung gibt oder kaum diskutiert wird. Vor diesem Hintergrund und angesichts des Aufstiegs rechtsextremer oder ultrakonservativer Ideologien und Überzeugungen weltweit, versteht sich dieses Heft als zeitgemäßer und zum Nachdenken anregender Beitrag, der offen oft unangenehme Themen im Zusammenhang mit Geschlecht in der Archäologie anspricht, um das Bewusstsein sowohl unter Fachleuten als auch bei anderen, die an der Disziplin interessiert sind, zu schärfen.

Das Heft enthält 24 häufi g anzutreffende Geschlechterstereotype in der Archäologie, die in kurzen Texten von Archäolog*innen mit Fachkenntnissen über Geschlecht in der Vergangenheit und in der zeitgenössischen Archäologie erklärt und dekonstruiert werden. Die meisten dieser Archäolog*innen sind Mitglieder der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE) der European Association of Archaeologists (EAA). Die Stereotype wurden wunderschön illustriert von dem preisgekrönten serbischen Künstler Nikola Radosavljevic. Die deutsche Übersetzung verdankt sich der großzügigen Förderung durch die Katholische Erwachsenenbildung Bayern e.V.

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Paperback ISBN: 9789464264159 | Imprint: Sidestone Press | Format: 200x270mm | 64 pp. | Series: HotAcademia | Language: English | 35 illus. (bw) | Keywords: gender; stereotypes; archaeology; inclusiveness; diversity | download cover | DOI: 10.59641/d30642gp

Herausforderung des Status quo: Dekonstruktion von Geschlechterstereotypen in der Archäologie
Bisserka Gaydarska, Laura Coltofean-Arizancu und Uroš Matić

Stereotyp 1 | Der Mann als Jäger und Archäologe im Feld und die Frau als Sammlerin und Labormaus
Bettina Arnold

Stereotyp 2 | Nur Frauen haben in Gesellschaften der Vergangenheit gekocht
Marga Sánchez Romero

Stereotyp 3 | Aktive Männer, passive Frauen
Bettina Arnold

Stereotyp 4 | Nur Frauen haben sich um die Alten und Kranken gekümmert
Marga Sánchez Romero

Stereotyp 5 | Nur Frauen haben sich um Kinder gekümmert
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Stereotyp 6 | Alle Frauen waren jung, schlank und schön, alle Männer waren jung, groß und athletisch
Brigitte Röder

Stereotyp 7 | Nur Männer waren gewalttätig
Uroš Matić

Stereotyp 8 | In der Vergangenheit konnten nur hochrangige Männer lesen und schreiben
Agnès Garcia-Ventura

Stereotyp 9 | Prähistorische Gesellschaften waren entweder matriarchal oder patriarchal
Julia K. Koch

Stereotyp 10 | Prähistorische weibliche Darstellungen zeigen Muttergöttinnen
Bisserka Gaydarska

Stereotyp 11 | Familien bestanden immer aus Vater, Mutter und Kindern
Julia K. Koch

Stereotyp 12 | Wurden zwei Frauen zusammen bestattet, so waren dies die Herrin und ihre Dienerin
Julia K. Koch

Stereotyp 13 | Biologisches und soziales Geschlecht sind dasselbe
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Stereotyp 14 | Geschlecht ist binär
Sandra Montón-Subías

Stereotyp 15 | Es gibt nur zwei Geschlechter
Pamela L. Geller

Stereotyp 16 | „Gender“ ist universell
Alice B. Kehoe

Stereotyp 17 | Gender ist eine Ideologie – auch in der Gender-Archäologie
Uroš Matić

Stereotyp 18 | Gender-Archäologie wird nur von Frauen und Schwulen betrieben
Rachel Pope

Stereotyp 19 | In der archäologischen Geschlechterforschung geht es nur um Frauen Doris Gutsmiedl-Schumann
Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann

Stereotyp 20 | Gender-Archäologie braucht es inzwischen nicht mehr
Nils Müller-Scheeßel

Stereotyp 21 | Gleichgeschlechtliche Praktiken sind eine Erfindun der Moderne oder eine Störung
Uroš Matić

Stereotyp 22 | Queere Archäologie sind letztlich nur LGBTQIA+-Forschende, die sich LGBTQIA+-Personen in der Vergangenheit vorstellen
Bo Jensen

Stereotyp 23 | Frauen haben in der Archäologie die gleichen Karrierechancen wie Männer
Maria Mina

Stereotyp 24 | In der Archäologie gibt es keine Belästigung, Übergriffe, Mobbing und Einschüchterung
Laura Coltofean-Arizancu and Bisserka Gaydarska

Weiterführende Literatur
Autor*innenliste

German language of the  English language version published in 2021

 

 
 


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Open Access Journal: Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études, section des sciences religieuses

 [First posted in AWOL 9 July 2009. Updated 4 September  2026]

Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études, section des sciences religieuses
ISSN électronique: 1969-6329
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L'Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études, section des sciences religieuses, est une publication annuelle qui regroupe principalement les comptes rendus des conférences des enseignants-chercheurs de la section des sciences religieuses, organisés par thèmes et par auteurs.
  • L'Annuaire des sciences religieuses, publié sous format papier depuis 1892, est librement accessible en ligne sur Revues.org, depuis l'année 2006-2007 (tome 115), à l'adresse http://asr.revues.org.
  • L'Annuaire de la section des sciences historiques et philologiques est publié sous format papier depuis 1873 ; il est librement accessible en ligne, sur Revues.org, à compter de l'année 2006-2007 (vol. 139) à l'adresse http://ashp.revues.org.
  • Leurs collections rétrospectives (1872-2006) ont été entièrement numérisées. Elles sont accessibles en ligne sur le portail Persée, à l'adresse http://www.persee.fr/​web/​ouvrages/​home/​prescript/​fond/​ephe.

 

  • Résumés des conférences

    Lecture Summaries

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    Anagnostes: The first AI-driven system that automatically transcribes Greek papyri from images

    Greek papyri are a unique and remarkable group of manuscripts. Written mainly between 2,300 and 1,300 years ago, they offer a rare firsthand glimpse into the ancient world and the early Middle Ages. Preserving everything from everyday documents to literary and religious texts, they provide invaluable evidence for historians, philologists, theologians, and other scholars seeking to understand the people, cultures, and ideas of the past.

    Papyrus was the primary writing material in antiquity before the widespread adoption of parchment and paper. As a result, texts written on papyrus shed light on virtually every aspect of ancient life. To name just a few examples, papyrus documents constitute the largest body of administrative, economic, and legal texts surviving from the Roman Empire. Private letters and family archives preserved on papyrus provide evidence about social groups often underrepresented in historical sources, including women and children. Thanks to papyri, we now possess literary works by ancient poets and philosophers that were long thought to have been lost during the Middle Ages. Papyrus texts also include the earliest surviving copies of the Gospels and other works of early Christian literature.

    Most papyri were—and still are—found in Egypt, where they survived thanks to the dry climate. After major discoveries of large numbers of papyri in the late 19th century, papyrology was born—the discipline devoted to deciphering, reconstructing, analysing, and understanding fragments of papyri. The main task of every papyrologist is to read and interpret a papyrus correctly and, in doing so, to bring back to life a text that has remained unread and silent for hundreds of years. Since the beginning of the 20th century, several generations of papyrologists have prepared scholarly editions of tens of thousands of new texts, thanks to which our knowledge of the past has grown and deepened immensely.

    Papyrology as a discipline has always been open to new technologies and is proud to be one of the most technologically advanced fields in the study of the ancient world. Since the recent progress in machine learning, there has been a great deal of interest in how it can be applied to the papyrological work. The question of whether AI can be trained to transcribe the text on papyrus has been constantly raised, sometimes with concern, in other cases with excitement, and always with a degree of scepticism. Today, we can answer this question with a confident "yes".

    We present Anagnostes—the first AI-driven system that automatically transcribes Greek papyri from images, developed by Elena Chepel and Anton Repushko.

    The model

    Anagnostes is a Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system powered by advanced machine-learning methods. It has been trained on both literary and documentary papyri dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 7th century CE and currently has an average character error rate (letters CER) of 17.9 % across all types of handwriting, with the best results reaching as low as 1.9–8.6%. It can read not only well-preserved, neat hands but also cursive handwriting and damaged fragments.

     


     

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    Digital Archive from Archaeological Excavations at Kourion's Amathous Gate Cemetery, Cyprus, 1995 to 2000

    Michael Given , Smadar Gabrieli , Chris Mavromati
    Data Identifier https://doi.org/10.5284/1138791
    Collection ID 1007784
    Title Digital Archive from Archaeological Excavations at Kourion's Amathous Gate Cemetery, Cyprus, 1995 to 2000
    Description This collection comprises images, Harris matrices, spreadsheet data, and GIS data from a series of excavations at Kourion's Amathous Gate Cemetery. The excavations were carried out between 1995 and 2000 by the Kourion Amathous Gate Cemetery Group, with the post-excavation and publication of the works occurring between 2017 and 2024. The Early Roman chamber tombs show evidence for commemoration through processions and libations. Following the earthquake of the 370s A.D., they were quarried out, leaving only their rear arcosolia exposed in neatly chiselled vertical facets of rock and new level surfaces for the individual cist tombs of the late fourth-sixth centuries. A well-preserved though largely commingled set of human remains represents at least 73 adults and 62 subadults buried in these tombs.
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    Thursday, September 3, 2026

    African Pastoral: Versions of Virgil's Eclogues

    African Pastoral: Versions of Virgil's Eclogues
    Richard Whitaker
    Illustrated by William Kentridge
    African Pastoral: Versions of Virgil's *Eclogues* 

    African Pastoral: Versions of Virgil’s Eclogues presents a fresh and unexpected version of the ten pastoral poems that comprise the Eclogues of Virgil (70–19 BCE). Although these poems focus on the lives of shepherds and goatherds, Virgil makes their seemingly circumscribed existence a mirror of the wider world, a world that is both his and ours. The Eclogues deal with subjects that remain vital in the twenty-first century: erotic passion of many varieties, transformation and metamorphosis, the torments of unhappy love, and the nature and power of poetry (represented by different kinds of pastoral song). With striking originality, Virgil also allowed contemporary power politics to erupt into the world of his herders and small-scale farmers, as they face confiscation of their grazing lands and fields.

    South African classicist and translator Richard Whitaker has produced eminently fluent and creative versions of Virgil’s Eclogues. He reimagines the poems in an African landscape and evokes the troubled history of land dispossession in southern Africa, introducing local equivalents for much of Virgil’s Mediterranean flora and fauna and making frequent use of words drawn from indigenous languages that have enriched his country’s variety of English.

    African Pastoral includes stunning images by South African artist William Kentridge, which interact with the versions of Virgilian pastoral in multiple ways, complementing and illuminating the poems, as well as raising points of contrast and difference between ancient and modern contexts.

    174 pages
    Languages
    English (translated from Latin)
    Dimensions
    7⤫10 in.
    ISBN (Paperback)
    ISBN: 978-1-68571-351-5 (Paperback)
    ISBN (PDF)
    ISBN: 978-1-68571-352-2 (PDF)
    ISBN (EPUB)
    ISBN: 978-1-68571-353-9 (EPUB)
    DOI
    DOI: 10.53288/0574.1.00(opens in new tab)
    LCCN
    LCCN: 2026948813

     

     

     

     

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    Itinerant Greek Sculpture in Roman Italy and Greece and the Temple of Apollo Sosianus on the Campus Martius in Rome

    Edited by  Gianfranco Adornato, Suzan van de Veld, and Miguel John Versluys
    book: Itinerant Greek Sculpture in Roman Italy and Greece and the Temple of Apollo Sosianus on the Campus Martius in Rome 

    Volume 14 | Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation  

    In Roman Italy there were many sculptures and architectural elements from the Greek world, sometimes already centuries old. These objects had been transferred to the Italic peninsula where they became an integrated part of Roman society and culture. The Greek statues that were made part of the decoration of the temple of Apollo Sosianus in Rome, one of the main subjects of this volume, are exemplary of this process of transfer, appropriation, impact and change. Such reuse of (ancient) Greek statuary is also visible in Greece itself during the Roman period. This volume brings together international specialists on this fascinating phenomenon. Critically questioning older paradigms that understood Greek statues on the move as representations of ‘Greek culture’ in the first place, this book explores new interpretative frameworks to analyse these impactful objects in their own right. 

    eBook published on:
    August 25, 2026
    eBook ISBN:
    9789004765757
    Front matter:
    20
    Main content:
    364

     

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    Graffiti in the pyramid precinct of Sneferu at Meidum — legacy records

    This publication introduces legacy records (archival records created by earlier researchers) related to secondary epigraphy (or ‘graffiti’ and ‘dipinti’) in the pyramid precinct attributed to Sneferu in Meidum, Egypt. It opens with an introduction to the research topic of secondary epigraphy and to the research history of Meidum’s graffiti and dipinti.

    Following the introduction, Part I provides an overview of the archaeological and epigraphic activities in Meidum, addressing in detail the registering, documenting, and publishing of the Meidum visitors’ graffiti and dipinti. Its main sections cover the activities of W. M. F. Petrie and F. Ll. Griffith, P. Newberry, A. J. Rowe, and eventually B. G. Gunn and J. Černý. Historical records provide access to the ancient material and an insight into historical methods of epigraphy.

    Part II of the volume presents a catalogue of graffiti and dipinti, utilising legacy records of Egyptologists and epigraphers, chiefly the unpublished corpus created by Battiscombe Gunn. The catalogue is organised into two main parts: the pyramid temple and the pyramid entrance passage. Each catalogue entry contains information on the location of the texts and images, their description, edition, and commentary. The corpus consists predominantly of New Kingdom visitors’ inscriptions, which contain a broader range of titles of the visitors and are more elaborate than most similar text groups.

    Finally, Part III contains an interpretive essay, including quantitative and qualitative analysis of the material. The corpus of visitors’ texts at Meidum highlights the mobility of professional groups in ancient Egypt, their social identity and legitimation, demonstrated also by the visitors’ investment in the production of the graffiti, as some of the texts show careful calligraphy and are of considerable length.

    Appendices provide facsimiles of the archive records from the collections of the Griffith Institute Archive, University of Oxford, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Art and Archaeology, Philadelphia.

     
    Publisher:
    Abercromby Press
    Publication date:
    2026-09-30
    ISBN:
    9781912246410

    Licence:
    Terms and Conditions of Use for Oxford University Research Archive
     

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