Susanne Bocher

DAI, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin

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Within her research project on geometric and archaic bronze finds in Olympia Susanne Bocher is studying how early Greek sanctuaries were organized and how they were influenced by local and regional impacts. Especially religious activities involving votives and rituals as well as their impact on the formation of collective identities are in her focus.

Susanne Bocher studied Prehistoric and Classical Archaeology as well as Geology at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen and the University of Crete. Her PhD on geometric sheet-bronzes of Olympia was completed in 2010 and defended at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg. Since 2004 she has been working for the Olympia-Project at the German Archaeological Institute. Her current research project on early votives and their religious interpretation in the sanctuary of Olympia is part of the Project ‘Olympia and its environment’.  Since 2010 she is also involved in the Kalaureia-Project of the Swedish Institute in Athens, where she is studying and interpreting the metal finds.
 

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"Dinge zwischen Menschen und Göttern – Zu Deutungsansätzen für Dedikationspraktiken in frühen griechischen Heiligtümern"
part of the Workshop Raum, Gabe, Erinnerung

 

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forthcoming with P. Pakkanen (eds.), Cult Material. From Cult Deposits to Interpretation of Early Greek Religion, (Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens 16), Helsinki.
in prep. Oliven und ihre sozio-ökonomische Bedeutung im östlichen Mittelmeerraum während der Bronzezeit, (Studies in Ethnoarchaeology 3).
  Main Articles
forthcoming Tod und Gedenken in Triphylischen Höhen. Grabbezirke und Periboloi im antiken Makistos, in: K. Sporn (ed.), Griechische Grabbezirke klassischer Zeit. Normen und Regionalismen. Akten des Internationalen Kolloquiums Athen, 20.–21. November 2009.
forthcoming Ash – bones – votives. Analyzing the ‘black strata‘ in early Greek sanctuaries, in: S. Bocher & P. Pakkanen (eds.), Cult Material. From Cult Deposits to Interpretation of Early Greek Religion, (Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens 16), Helsinki.
2009 Oliven und Olivenöl in der Troas, in: V. Höhfeld (ed.), Stadt und Landschaft Homers. Ein historisch-geografischer Führer für Troia und Umgebung, Mainz am Rhein 2009, 60–66.
2008 with H. Birk, Kurzzusammenfassung zur Entstehung und Bedeutung der Karten von Attika J. A. Kauperts, in: M. Κορρές (ed.), Εκτέλεση, περιεχόμενο και αξία των χάρτων της Αττικής του Καούπερτ: Συμπλήρωμα της επανέκδοσης των χαρτών, Athen 2008.
2006/2007 Reconstructing Votive Cult Practices in Early Greek Sanctuaries – The Example of the Geometric Votive Bronzes from Olympia, in: Anodos 6/7, 2006/2007, 85–91.
2006 Steinmetze, Köhler, Kalkbrenner – Ethnoarchäologie in der Troas, in: M. O. Korfmann (Ed.), Troia – Archäologie eines Siedlungshügels und seiner Landschaft, Mainz 2006, pp. 387–396.
2004 with S. W. E. Blum & R. Aslan, Ethnoarchäologische Untersuchungen zum funktionalen und strukturellen Wandel dörflicher Architektur: Die “Eski Cami” von Zeytinli, in: Studia Troica 14, 2004, 201–218.
2004 with R. Aslan & S. W. E. Blum, Ethnoarchäologische Studien zur traditionellen Steinmetz- und Schmiedetechnik eines “Wanderhandwerkers” in der Troas, in: Studia Troica 14, 2004, 219–230.