Early Romani Archaeologies

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Roma people, whose ancestors and language come from India, form a major community in all countries of Europe and are often referred to as “Europe’s largest minority.” Greece is distinctly central in Romani history, as Greek profoundly impacted the Romani language, and it was in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that settlements in the Peloponnese, Crete, and Corfu are first identified in historical records. The traces of these communities—the Romani archaeological past—have been entirely ignored by modern scholars. In this paper, we introduce the Early Romani Archaeologies Project, envisioned as an ‘archaeological ethnography’ that reconnects this past to the lives of contemporary Roma in the region. We report preliminary results of fieldwork, but more importantly, explore questions about how such a long-term project should be conceived and who it might involve and ultimately serve.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39434.0