Theme:
2. Archaeological Sciences, Humanities and the Digital era: Bridging the Gaps
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Metals and Metalworking II: Production and Technology
Content:
Archaeometallurgy is a multidisciplinary field where researchers with different expertises and different traditions come together to answer questions related to ancient metals and metalcraft. Most research in this field is based on metallurgical analyses, but studies that involve typological seriation, experimental archaeology, or material provenancing are also common.
For this session, we welcome full-length papers on metal production and metalwork technology in a very broad sense. Some studies might involve archaeometrical analyses that aim to reveal the different steps in an operational chain. Others might be based on visual analyses, experimental archaeology, anthropology, ethnoarchaeology, or studies of written sources, e.g. of ancient recipes. The social and environmental aspects of metal production and metalwork are also of interest, e.g. organization of production, impact on the natural environment etc. As important advances in archaeometallurgical research often derive from original approaches, papers focusing on new methods will be most welcome!
Ideally, the papers should connect with the EAA meeting theme “Persisting with change”, but this is not an absolute demand. We welcome contributions from all geographic regions and time periods and do encourage students and young researchers to present their ongoing research projects.
Keywords:
Archaeometallurgy, Production, Technology, Archaeometry, Metals
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:
Matej Kmosek (Czech Republic) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Michael Neiß (Sweden) 3,4
Ragnar Saage (Estonia) 5
Sebastian Wärmländer (Sweden) 6
Heide Noergaard (Denmark) 7
Affiliations:
1. Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno
2. Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Classical Archaeology
3. Lund University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
4. Aarhus University
5. University of Tartu
6. Stockholm University, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies
7. Moesgaard Museum, Department of Archaeology
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