We invite interested participants to attend the workshop for discussion and reflection. The two seminars bookending the workshop are open to all, and are advertised as separate events.
Thursday 10th March
14:15-16:00 Dr Elizabeth Graham, UCL,
Killing people for gods…… the pastime of the Ancients?
Friday 11th March
09:00 Marianne Moen and the Human Sacrifice and Value project
Welcome and coffee
09:30 Melanie Giles
Decolonising Decapitation: rethinking the bog ‘head’ of Worsley Man, from Astley Moss
10:00 Casper Jacobsen
Aztec True Crime? Missionary Manuscripts and the Making of a Human Sacrificer
10:30 Manuel May Castillo
Deconstructing a proof of human sacrifice in the Maya region
11:00 Coffee break and discussion
11:15 Matthew Walsh
Coming to terms with ‘human sacrifice.’ Context matters.
11:45 Marianne Moen
Killing the weak? The role of gender in narratives of sacrifice
12:15 Lunch and break
14:15 Melanie Giles
Grave Goods – objects and death in later prehistoric Britain
Friday seminar at Blindernveien 11,