The Land of Fertility: South-east of the Mediterranean from the Beginning of the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, June 10–11, 2016
Institute of Archeology, Jagiellonian University, is pleased to announce its Call for Papers for the 3rd International Post-graduate Conference, The Land of Fertility: South-east of the Mediterranean from the Beginning of the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest, to be held at the Institute of Archaeology.
The international conference welcomes all Post-graduated researchers in the subject-area of Archaeology, History, Art History, Culture and Religion Studies who are interested in issues related to ancient Egypt (especially Delta region), Cyprus, Levant, Mesopotamia and Persia.
The main theme of the conference The Land of Fertility. South-east Mediterranean since the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest has been set to focus on the area of the so called ‘Fertile Crescent'. In this region the modern world started its development in the very beginning of human civilisation. Peoples living in that area were among the first in the world domesticate plants and animals and many of the ideas and objects that are in common use today have their origin in that region. What did the situation in the region look like when the Stone Age had ended? Is it possible to still regard the ‘Fertile Crescent' as a single (and very unique) region or did it break into smaller ‘pieces'? Potential themes include (but are not limited to) the problems of daily life, relations between peoples, politics, economy, demography, religion and culture.