Theme:
1. The Material Record: Current Trends and Future Directions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Trade in Metals from the Bronze Age till Early Modern Times between the Carpathian Basin and the Northern Adriatic
Content:
From the beginning of the Copper Age until the pre-modern era, copper played a prominent role in the economy. Mining and trading the metal – be it pure copper or a copper alloy – created corridors of interaction that connected distant regions in Europe and beyond. Previous research has shown that these trade networks existed over the long term, and even when they were temporarily disbanded for various reasons – demographic, environmental or political – they re-emerged as soon as circumstances became favourable. The part of Europe comprising Northern Italy, the Eastern Alps, the Carpathian Basin, and the Northern Balkans was one of the geographical settings where – due to rich natural resources and their long exploitation over millennia – such networks can be traced and studied in a diachronic perspective. The study of such long-term processes requires a complex methodology that includes traditional archaeological methods, material analysis and, in the periods where they exist, the use of written evidence.
The aim of the session is to bring together researchers from different archaeological periods who deal with copper-bearing objects, objects related to mining, metallurgical technologies and metal provenance, as well as other artefacts also connected to copper trading (e.g. animals, textile or other organic materials). The focus of the session is on the diachronic consideration of metal production and trade in the respective geographical region, with a special emphasis on the connections between Italy and the Carpathian Basin, in line with the motto of the conference – Persisting with change.
Keywords:
Trade, copper, metallurgy, Eastern Alps, Carpathian Basin, Northern Adriatic
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:
Viktória Kiss (Hungary) 1
Co-organisers:
Beatrix Romhányi (Hungary) 2
Claudio Cavazzuti (Italy) 3
Ivana Angelini (Italy) 4
Affiliations:
1. Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest
2. Medieval Studies Department, Károli Gáspár Calvinist University
3. Prehistory & Protohistory Dept., University of Bologna
4. Dep. of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua
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