Theme:
1. The Material Record: Current Trends and Future Directions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Connecting through vitreous materials: multidisciplinary approaches to Mediterranean networks in the 2nd-1st Millennium BCE
Content:
Vitreous materials, including glazed stones, faience (and glassy faience), Egyptian blue and glass, played a significant role in early human history, and were some of the oldest brilliantly coloured, artificial materials. Current studies of this fascinating material continue to diversify and focus on numerous aspects and avenues of research, such as provenance, working techniques, chemical compositions, as well as cultural contacts and trade and exchange networks galvanized by glass.
With this session, we hope to encourage interdisciplinary discourse on glass from the second and first millennium BCE, contribute to a deeper understanding of vitreous materials, and help develop directions for future research. Spanning a wide geographical and chronological range, this session will focus on new finds, compositional changes, technological advancements, and changes in glass production during this period, extending to their social implications, such as consumption, exchange and contacts facilitated by these colourful artifacts. We are especially interested in contributions related to the ancient Mediterranean and Eurasia during the 2nd and 1st millennium BCE, before the introduction of glass blowing.
We invite scholars, researchers, and experts in the field of archaeology, archaeometry, material science, and related disciplines to contribute their insights, findings, and methodologies including (but not limited to): novel technological studies, experimental replications, typological studies, presentation of specific collections, archaeological contextualization and chronology, theoretical explorations, use/reuse/recycling, provenance studies, and other interdisciplinary research.
Keywords:
Iron Age, Mediterranean trade and exchange networks, Ancient glass, Archaeometry, Typological studies, Consumption patterns
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Valentina Loncaric (Portugal) 1
Co-organisers:
Cinzia Bettineschi (Germany) 2
Leonie Koch (Germany) 3
Artemios Oikonomou (Cyprus) 4
Ivana Angelini (Italy) 5
Affiliations:
1. HERCULES Laboratory, University of Évora
2. Department of Classical Archaeology, University of Augsburg
3. Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne
4. Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center, STARC, The Cyprus Institute
5. Department of Cultural Heritage: Archaeology and History of Art, Cinema and Music, University of Padova
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