We are pleased to share with you the programme for the upcoming online workshop, “Archaeometallurgy in a Mediterranean Perspective: New Approaches to Ancient Metal Technologies,” which will take place from 7 to 8 December (time zone: GMT). If you would like to register, please contact Maylla Bisson at e.m.bisson@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Monday 7th December
9:15 Introduction
Session I: Tracing provenance and supply strategies
Chair: Ü. Güder
9:30 –– Rethinking Provenance through Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Copper Ingots, Daniel Finn-Kandel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10:00 –– New insights into the circulation of copper in the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age (12th-8th century BC) in the Eastern Mediterranean, Vana Orfanou (Munich University)
10:30 –– Preliminary remarks on the typology of lead objects and provenance of lead from Istros, based on the finds from the Plateau, Liviu Mihail Iancu (National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest); Adam Rabinowitz (University of Texas at Austin); Staci Loewy (University of Texas at Austin)
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK
11:30 –– New Money in the Northern Aegean? Silver and Shifting Socioeconomic Networks in Archaic Aegean Thrace, Kari Fossum (Bryn Mawr College)
12:00 –– From smelting to minting: Tracing metal production and silver circulation in the northern Aegean during the Classical and Hellenistic period, Neranztis Neranztis (University of the Peloponnese)
12:30 Discussion
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
Session II: Metal production sites
Chair : Anja Slawisch
14:00 –– Tell el-Retaba, copper and iron metallurgy on the Egyptian frontier in the Third Intermediate and Late Period, Martin Odler (Newcastle University); Jiří Kmošek (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic); Veronika Verešová (Slovak Academy of Sciences); Lucia Hulková (Austrian Archaeological Institute); Łukasz Jarmużek (University of Warsaw); Agnieszka Ryś- Jarmużek (University of Warsaw); Anna Wodzińska (University of Warsaw); Jozef Hudec (Slovak Academy of Sciences); Sławomir Rzepka (University of Warsaw)
14:30 –– “Le Quartier de la forge” of Anavlochos (Crete), Benjamin Jagou (INRAP, France); Florence Gaignerot Driessen (UMR 5133 Archéorient)
15:00 –– Producing metal at a Phoenician colony: the metallurgical corpus of La Fonteta (Lower Segura, Spain) and its sampling, 8th-6th centuries BCE, Luigi Fusco (University of Alicante)
15:30 – 16:00 BREAK
16:00 –– A metal workshop as part of a household economy in Classical Miletos (Türkiye), E. Maylla Bisson (University of Edinburgh)
16:30 –– A 7th-century BCE metallurgy workshop at ancient Methone, Camille Reiko Acosta (University of California); Debby Sneed (California State University); Vanessa Muros (University of California)
17:00 Discussion
Tuesday 8th December
9:15 Introduction
Session III: Technologies
Chair: E. Maylla Bisson
9:30 –– Zinc-rich bronzes at Iron Age Gordion (Türkiye): the golden touch of King Midas? Braden W. Cordivari (University of New York)
10:00 –– Beyond the Binary: A New Look at 1st Millennium Ternary Alloys in Western Anatolia, Aziz Cem Kayaalp (Charles University, Prague)
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 –– From Typology to Technology: Iron Knives from Skala Oropou, Katerina Kolotourou (Independent Researcher)
11:30 –– Iron Metallurgy in Archaic Milesia: Evidence from Didyma and Miletos, Marek Verçik (Charles University Prague); Ümit Güder (Hamburg University)
12:00 Discussion
12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
Session IV: Biography of objects
Chair: Marek Verčík
13:00 –– The Chosen Ones: Insights into Late Bronze Age Metalworking Practices from a Greek Hoard, Stephanie Aulsebrook (University of Warsaw)
14:00 –– The Technology of Dismantling: Shared Technical Knowledge in the Disassembly of Bronze Tripods across Greek Sanctuaries?, Azurra Scarci (Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie)
14:30 –– Metalwork and mortuary practice in the Early Iron Age cemetery of Hephaestia (Lemnos), Martina Derada (University of Pavia)
15:00 Discussion
15:30 –– Final discussions and future perspectives
Organising Committee: E. M. Bisson (University of Edinburgh); Ü. Güder (Hamburg University); A. Slawisch (University of Edinburgh); M. Verčík (Charles University)
Note: this is not a Classical Association event – please contact the organisers directly with any enquiries.
