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SUMMARY:Living in a city. Population resilience and adaptation in pre-industrial urban settings (300 BC - AD 1500)
DESCRIPTION:Art 401 guest lecture ∙ Open to the public:  Sponsored by: Program in the Ancient World \n\nCityLife explores\, from a bioarchaeological perspective\, how historical populations adapted to an urban environment and developed resilience to the disadvantages of urban life. By exploiting the information contained in human skeletal remains\, the project will clarify the roles of biological factors in the durability and sustainability of pre-industrial urban societies. Newly developed osteological\, chemical isotope\, and genomic methods will be used in this project\, together with cutting-edge tools for statistical evaluation. CityLife will evaluate the living conditions\, economy\, population structure\, pathogen load\, and immune defenses in a sample of more than 4\,500 skeletons from Thessaloniki\, a hotspot of European urban culture. The city offers a unique constellation to study urban life diachronically from 300 BC to AD 1\,500 and investigate urbanization in a single place continuously over 1\,800 years. The main objectives of the project are to a) infer urban living standards by studying secular changes in anthropometric indexes\, infant diet\, childhood stress\, and trauma in a combined manner; b) investigate the resilience and sustainability of urban food systems by reconstructing individual diets and local supply networks; d) investigate social structures\, religious cohabitation\, and migration by genetically reconstructing the degree of kin and non-kin relationships; and e) explore the effects of pathogen exposure on human evolution and health by studying genes associated with increased immunological response and the oral microbiome. CityLife will examine empirically tangible aspects of biocultural development to answer the simple question of how humans became urban species.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/living-in-a-city-population-resilience-and-adaptation-in-pre-industrial-urban-settings-300-bc-ad-1500/
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SUMMARY:Ordinary People\, Everyday Lives ∙ Exploring the Mundane in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World. \nOur perception of the pre-modern world is often shaped by the creative expressions of its contemporaries\, such as literary works\, decorative art\, and imposing architecture designed to captivate attention. The practices and processes of everyday life\, which have left less noticeable traces\, can be harder to access\, even though it is these ordinary and mundane acts that can profoundly increase our understanding of life before modernity. Building on Bourdieu’s thesis that habitus informs practical action and Wittgenstein’s emphasis on the need to ground human experience in everyday language\, this graduate conference asks how our understanding of pre-modern societies and cultures changes if we remain faithful to what sources tell us of practices “on the ground.” As such\, this conference focuses on the lived lives of ordinary people—among others\, laborers\, artisans\, and lower clergy. We’ll explore themes of liminality and intersectionality\, practicality and processes\, customs and traditions\, and more as they relate to the quotidian in the late antique and medieval world. How did the individual perceive and navigate the world around them? What is the nitty-gritty of everyday pre-modern life\, and how do we know? 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/ordinary-people-everyday-lives-%e2%88%99-exploring-the-mundane-in-late-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages/
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