Archaeology and Anthropology of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures: The Entanglements of the Levant

• Grant number: 23/00172-8
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants
• Start date: November 01, 2024
• End date: October 31, 2029
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Marcio Teixeira-Bastos
• Grantee: Marcio Teixeira-Bastos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Achim Lichtenberger ; Alexander Fantalkin ; Aris Politopoulos ; Benjamin Isakhan ; Carlos Augusto Ribeiro Machado ; Carlos Jorge Gonçalves Soares Fabião ; Eliane Aparecida Del Lama ; Ergün Lafli ; Filipe Noé da Silva ; Flávio de Leão Bastos Pereira ; Florian Janoscha Kreppner ; Gilvan Ventura da Silva ; Hanan Charaf ; Hannah M Moots ; Horácio Miguel Hernán Zapata ; Ian Hodder ; Itamar Taxel ; Ivan Esperança Rocha ; Jas Elsner ; Jérémie Schiettecatte ; Jorge Elices Ocón ; José Remesal Rodríguez ; Juliana Figueira da Hora ; Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira ; Justin Leidwanger ; Katia Maria Paim Pozzer ; Lucelene Martins ; Lucio Menezes Ferreira ; Malgorzata Kajzer ; Márcia de Almeida Rizzutto ; Marcia Severina Vasques ; Margarida Maria de Carvalho ; Maria Isabel D'Agostino Fleming ; Mark Altaweel ; Marta Lorenzon ; Naoíse Mac Sweeney ; Oren Tal ; Paulo Martins ; Pedro Merlussi ; Pedro Paulo Abreu Funari ; Roberto Ramón Rodriguez ; Rodrigo Laham Cohen ; Suzana Chwarts ; Vagner Carvalheiro Porto ; Ximena Suarez Villagran
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/22381-0 - Spatial Archaeometry, Digital Archaeology, Classical Studies and Anthropologies of the Ancient Near East., BP.JP

Abstract

This project proposes the creation of an international and interdisciplinary research center, the LAPOMED - Laboratory for Archaeology and Anthropology of Middle Eastern Populations, at the University of São Paulo, which will host the Southern Global Coalition of Excellence for Middle Eastern Studies. This scientific coalition involves researchers from many Brazilian universities - USP, UNICAMP, UNESP, UNIFESP, UDESC,UFRN, UFES, UFPEL, UFRGS, MACKENZIE, PUC-RJ,- and from foreign universities - Stanford University, Chicago University (USA); University of Oxford, University College London, University of St Andrews (GBR); Munster University (DEU); University of Vienna (AUS); Leiden University (NLD); University of Helsinki (FIN); Polish Academy of Sciences (POL); Tel AvivUniversity (ISR); University of Lisbon (PRT); University of Barcelona (ESP); Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS-Paris (FRA); Deakin University (AUT); Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Universidad Nacional de La Patagonia (ARG); Dokuz Eyul University (TUR) and Lebanese University(LBN). The proposal is to disseminate and promote the archaeological and anthropological thought and practices about the Middle East, environmental studies, biodiversity and society, long-term sustainable developments, spaces and landscapes, biosociomaterial entanglements and material analyses, engaging with diverse data sets and regions from the Middle East. The aim is to address the challenges of recording and reconstructing past landscapes; understand the cultures and local populations of the region, study the long-term impact of human conflicts on the environment; the ancient imperial borders, especially between the Roman and Persian empires; address ecological systems and human-environment interactions in the ancient world; analyze resilience in ancient cultures; also examine the visual arts in the construction of the experience with the landscapes and the imaginary of the period; address the emergence and entanglements of religions, the relationship between Roman militarism and religious fanaticism; and, finally, discuss how spaces, ancient cosmopolitics and the multiple realities of the Middle East were negotiated in the past. As well as developing critical thought about how these long-term things affect us even today in Modernity. (AU)