The AIA «Telestes» Award for Material Culture Research in Ancient Music and Dance

The AIA «Telestes» Award aims to encourage scholarly research that explores material evidence of music and dance within archaeological context, highlighting how this evidence contributes to a deeper understanding of the cultural and social meanings and functions of music and dance within activities of ritual and everyday life. The award encourages scholars to reconstruct the many different ways and contexts in which music and dance were experienced in ancient societies. The award also presents an opportunity to bridge the gap between existing treatments of archaeomusicology or music archaeology and the possibilities offered by perspectives that have emerged within archaeology, art history, archaeology of performance, soundscape archaeology, sensory studies, auditory archaeology, aural architecture, and digital heritage. The award is open to anyone who has defended a Ph.D. thesis no more than two calendar years prior to the nomination deadline, with research welcomed on the broadly defined Mediterranean region and from other areas of the world.