Marijke Gnade
Marijke Gnade is Professor (by special appointment) in the Archaeology of Pre-Roman Cultures in Central Italy at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam.
Marijke has been involved in various archaeological fieldwork projects in Central and Southern Italy (Lazio, Puglia) from 1980 onwards. In 1990 she became the director of the Satricum Project, an excavation project investigating the ancient town of Satricum (modern Le Ferriere, Latina, Central Italy).
Marijke participates in various initiatives that stimulate conservation and awareness of archaeological heritage in Central Italy, and functions as an academic consultant for local authorities on opening up the cultural history of the area to a wider public. For her efforts, she received the ‘Frumento d’oro 2014’, an annual award for women who initiate special activities in the region of Lazio in Italy, thereby showing professionalism, a sense of enterprise and a range of activities that contribute to a social and cultural progress. In June 2014 she organised a major exhibition in Le Ferriere on 36 years of Dutch excavations in ancient Satricum which is the first step towards a local archaeological museum.
She has also been nominated for the prestigious 'Best Practices in Site Preservation Award 2015' of the AIA for her work on the Satricum Archaeological Research and Preservation Project.
Marijke teaches courses on burial archaeology, fieldwork methodology, ethnic identities of ancient Italy, and Etruscan and Roman archaeology. Currently, she supervises thesis projects on ancient ceramic technologies, social identities, burial archaeology, material studies, and archaeological practices. She encourages prospective phd/rma students with similar interests to contact her.
Marijke is co-initiator of the New Perspectives on Ancient Pottery Project. She also serves on the editorial boards of BABESCH and the Satricum Series (Peeters, Leuven), and is a board member of the Vereniging Vrienden van Satricum.
Marijke has been involved in various archaeological fieldwork projects in Central and Southern Italy (Lazio, Puglia) from 1980 onwards. In 1990 she became the director of the Satricum Project, an excavation project investigating the ancient town of Satricum (modern Le Ferriere, Latina, Central Italy).
Marijke participates in various initiatives that stimulate conservation and awareness of archaeological heritage in Central Italy, and functions as an academic consultant for local authorities on opening up the cultural history of the area to a wider public. For her efforts, she received the ‘Frumento d’oro 2014’, an annual award for women who initiate special activities in the region of Lazio in Italy, thereby showing professionalism, a sense of enterprise and a range of activities that contribute to a social and cultural progress. In June 2014 she organised a major exhibition in Le Ferriere on 36 years of Dutch excavations in ancient Satricum which is the first step towards a local archaeological museum.
She has also been nominated for the prestigious 'Best Practices in Site Preservation Award 2015' of the AIA for her work on the Satricum Archaeological Research and Preservation Project.
Marijke teaches courses on burial archaeology, fieldwork methodology, ethnic identities of ancient Italy, and Etruscan and Roman archaeology. Currently, she supervises thesis projects on ancient ceramic technologies, social identities, burial archaeology, material studies, and archaeological practices. She encourages prospective phd/rma students with similar interests to contact her.
Marijke is co-initiator of the New Perspectives on Ancient Pottery Project. She also serves on the editorial boards of BABESCH and the Satricum Series (Peeters, Leuven), and is a board member of the Vereniging Vrienden van Satricum.
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One of the main pillars of the research project is the storeroom of ancient Satricum (Lazio, Italy). The storeroom contains a great diversity of archaeological materials that spans nearly 700 years of settlement history, and runs from the early Iron Age to the mid Republican Period. To trace the development of pottery technology through time, three researchers are in the process of carrying out a geoprospection of the surrounding area in conjunction with an elaborate analysis of technological styles of the ancient pottery collection. In future, this work might be expanded to or incorporated with other projects in the area.
On the basis that an infant and child tomb is itself an archaeological entity, whose analysis cuts across disciplines - mainly archaeology, bio-archaeology and anthropology, but also philology, ancient literature, gender studies, pedagogy, medical humanities and digital humanities - and in order to promote an interdisciplinary approach, the conference at Trinity College Dublin involves scholars from international institutions, experienced in interdisciplinary methods, in order to create a network specifically focused on the analysis of childhood in ancient societies. The role of this network is to function as an interdisciplinary incubator, offering a platform for dialogue between disciplines around infant and child burials.
We have invited scholars working on the archaeology of Italy from the Early Iron Age through the Archaic Period (c. 1000–500 BC) to present the results of their recent researches on the topic of infant and child burials.
We envision that this platform can be a model for other archaeological studies in the future as well as ideal for developing a new methodological approach to the excavation of infant and child tombs, following best practices in archaeology.
Publication plan
The prestigious series of Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology (SIMA) has already agreed to publish the proceedings of the conference.
For further information please email Jacopo Tabolli (tabollij@tcd.ie) or Hazel Dodge (hdodge@tcd.ie).
LeFerriere, Latium), in 1977, a broad array of themes, methodologies and
analytical approaches have been pursued. A common thread is technology, which encompasses all social, economic and cultural aspects of human agency. Artefacts, built structures and even landscapes shaped by people prompt technical description and analysis while at the same time testifying to technological knowledge and know how in ancient communities.
The prolonged research history of Satricum itself, furthermore, nicely
epitomizes the development of archaeology as a discipline over almost
half a century.
The papers in the present volume address technology as a cultural phenomenon embedded in specific worldviews, social practices and human agency. At the same time, they underline the contribution of this subject to understanding technical events and choices in their social and cultural contexts.
The contributions touch upon four themes: landscape, building practices,
artefacts production, and modern visualisation techniques. Each represents a different angle through which technology might be addressed. The geographical context is broader Central Italy between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic regions. Chronologically, they cover the Bronze Age to the late Republican period. In all sections, Satricum was chosen to serve as either focus or point of departure.