Call for Papers: Blood, water or DNA? Family beyond (biological) relatedness
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30. January 2026
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Call for papers
Blood, water or DNA? Family beyond (biological) relatedness
Session of the AG Geschlechterforschung at the Archäologiekongress
Bonn, 24 September 2026
Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2026
Family, ancestry, and marriage have always been subjects of archaeology and are also a recurrent theme in archaeological gender studies. Over the last two decades particularly archaeogenetics, but also other scientific methods, have reveald promising new results on kinship in archaeologically accessible populations. However, kinship and family usually supersede purely genetic descent, and parenthood, marriages and partnerships have taken place in many more forms than those that have long been discussed in our field.
There is growing awareness that a family can be constituted by social relationships just as well as descent. Adoptive parents, foster siblings, wet nurses, alloparenthood, education in institutions such as monasteries or in trusted families are just some of the possibilities of kinship and family that genetic methods cannot identify.
The subject of gender plays an important role in the investigation of family and kinship as well. In the upcoming session of the AG Geschlechterforschung we will explore this intersection.
Additionally, we also welcome presentations dealing with current research in the field of gender archaeology.
We are planning presentations in German or English of 20 minutes each. Please send your abstract of approximately 250 to 400 words to the following email address: AGGender2026@gmx.de). Submission deadline: 31.3.2026.
Organisation
Jana Esther Fries, Clara Schaller
Contact
AGGender2026@gmx.de
The complete Call for Papers in German and English can be found here as PDF-Download.
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