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Young Researchers in Archaeometry Workshop

Event Details:

  • Date:          Wednesday 16 - Friday 18 October 2024
  • Time:         Duration: All day
  • Venue:       John Ioannides Auditorium, Fresnel Building, The Cyprus Institute.  Join us on Zoom for each day of the event (Meeting ID: 883 4066 0574, Passcode: 081518)
                       Note that The Keynote and movie screening on Wednesday 16 October will both be held in the Andreas Mouskos Auditorium, José Mariano Gago Hall, The Cyprus Institute

 

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Overview

Young Researchers in Archaeometry (YRA) workshop aims to give early career researchers in the Archaeological Sciences the opportunity to present their research in a friendly environment surrounded only by young students/ researchers from the same field.  We welcome all persons involved in archaeometry research of different nationalities and levels, from master students to first postdoctoral fellows.

The first YRA workshop took place in Frankfurt in 2017 and after that YRA travelled in various countries such as Austria and Portugal. This year YRA workshop comes in Cyprus and it will be held in The Cyprus Institute (STARC) from the 16th until the 18th of October

 

Programme

The main workshop will be preceded on Tuesday 15 October, by an ice breaker event (self-paid) beginning at 20:00 at Charátsi in the Old Town of Nicosia



Wednesday 16 October

09:00 – 09:30

Welcoming and registration

 

Session 1: Cultural heritage / non-invasive methods

09:30 – 09:50

Archaeometric analysis of the inks in two 15th century Greek paper manuscripts: a preliminary comparative study
Katerina Grigoriadou

09:50 – 10:10

Non-invasive material analysis of Egyptian Shabtis by XRF, Raman spectroscopy and CT Scanning
Stelios Aspiotis, Olivier Bonnerot, Samaneh Ehteram, Leah Mascia

10:10 – 10:30

Multi-analytical investigation on the carved oriental lacquerwares
Shang-ying Liu, Patrizia Tomasin, Luca Nodari, Marta Boscolo Marchi, Alfonso Zoleo

10:30 – 10:50

Coffee break

10:50 – 11:10

Revealing Hidden Histories: Using High-Resolution Portable Computed Tomography for Closed Cuneiform Tablets
Samaneh Ehteram

11:10 – 11:30

3D Visualization and Digital Recording of Sculptures through Photogrammetry: An Iconometric Examination of the Hoysala Sculptures
Poorva Salvi

11:30 – 11:50

Shallow Offshore Archaeological Prospection in Ancient Olous, Crete
Angelos Plageras, Dimitrios Oikonomou, Nikos Papadopoulos

11:50 – 12:10

Breaking into the “Black Box”: The contribution of ethnographic work in decoding Late Cypriot household structures
Chara Theotokatou

12:10 – 12:30

KWAMTENG: Sustaining And Promoting an Intangible Cultural Heritage for future generations
Paul Nkwap

 

Session 2: Ceramics, part 1

12:30 – 12:50

Clay for pots. Raw Material Determination of Sântana “Cetatea Veche” Ceramics and Determination of Firing Methods in Late Bronze Age
Alexandra Stache, Ágnes Gál, Florin Gogâltan

12:50 – 13:00

The Master, PhD, training Programs offered by The Cyprus Institute
Head of the Graduate School, The Cyprus Institute

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 – 14:20

A Dangerous Tradition: Asbestos-tempered Pottery in Prehistoric and Modern Eskişehir, Türkiye
Ashley Cercone

14:20 – 14:40

Disclosing Production Process by the Archaeometric Analysis of Bronze to Iron Age Ceramic Jars from Qatna (Central Syria)
Bianca Costi Farias, Lara Maritan, Claudio Mazzoli, Marco Iamoni, Daniele Morandi

 

Session 3: Environmental Archaeology and Bioarchaeology

14.40 – 15:10

Ongoing Archaeobotanical Research in Mycenaean Iklaina, Messenia, Greece
Symeon Gkinoudis, Evi Margaritis

15:10 – 15:30

Phytolith analysis for the investigation of plant exploitation in Bronze Age Cyprus
Georgia Kasapidou

15:30 – 15:50

Fuelling Ancient Idalion: Charcoal Analysis and Insights into 1st Millennium BCE Cyprus
Panagiotis Koullouros

15:50 – 16:30

Coffee break

(Venue: Andreas Mouskos Auditorium, José Mariano Gago Hall, The Cyprus Institute)

16:30 - 16:35 Welcome address by the President of the Cyprus Institute

16:35 – 17:15

Keynote: Domesticity, craft production and ritual: Changing patterns of human life in the 3rd millennium BCE Aegean
Assoc. Prof. Evi MargaritisDr. Michael Boyd (The Cyprus Institute), Prof. Lord Colin A. Renfrew (University of Cambridge)

(Venue: Andreas Mouskos Auditorium, José Mariano Gago Hall, The Cyprus Institute)

17:30 – 19:00

Screening of the movie: Buried Secrets of KerosNational Geographic, UK
(Watch the official trailer on Youtube)

(Venue: Andreas Mouskos Auditorium, José Mariano Gago Hall, The Cyprus Institute)

 


Thursday 17 October

  Session 4: Ceramics, part 2

09:00 – 09:20

Paint It, Red: A Technological and Compositional Study of Classical Pottery from Nea Paphos, Cyprus
Geneviève Lascombes, Edyta Marzec, Lara Maritan

09:20 – 09:40

The Clay of a Gateway Community In Cyprus – Domestic Pottery from Soli
Marie-Louise Jahn Hansen

09:40 – 10:00

Late Hellenistic braziers from Delos; provenance study and characterisation of ‘Cycladic’ type
Athena Konstandara, Edyta Marzec

10:00 – 10:20

Influence of decantation on Mediterranean clay: An experimental archaeological approach
Vania Filippou, Lara Maritan, Virginie Renson, Daria Pasqual, Silvia Cattò, Eleni Nodarou, Emma Cantisani, Maria Dikomitou Eliadou, Zomenia Zomeni

10:20 – 10:40

Coffee break

10:40 – 11:00

Envisioning Pre-Colombian Regional Trade Patterns Through Elemental Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics from Western Panama
Carly Pope, Scott Palumbo, Laure Dussubieux

11:00 – 11:20

µ-LIBS imaging as spatially-resolved and quantitative characterization method for pottery
Nicolas Herreyre, Valérie Merle, Anne Schmitt, Christine Oberlin, Clothilde Comby-Zebino, Vincent Motto-Ros

11:20 – 11:40

Fragments of the Past from Zeytinli Bahçe Höyük: Deciphering Cultural and Technological Interactions from the Late Chalcolithic to the Early Bronze Age through Ceramic Petrography
Rosa Crocco

11:40 – 12:00

Knowledge exchange in pottery production in Neolithic Northwest China: a petrographic study and the resulting development of a digital tool for petrographic image analysis in archaeology
Evgenia Dammer

12:00 – 12:20

More Than Just a Pot? An Archaeometrical Investigation of Unusual Chalcolithic Small-Sized Biconical Closed Pots from the Archaeological Sites of ”Gumelnița and Măriuța-La Movilă
Bogdan Manea, Ioana Dinca, Vasile Opris, Daniel Stoicescu, Adrian Sima, Dragos Mirea, Ana García-Vázquez, Valentin Parnic, Ion Tiseanu, Catalin Lazar

12:20 – 12:40

Mineralogical and Petrographic Study of Tuyères from Pongsolo (Lekie, Central Cameroon)
Epossi Ntah Zoila Luz-Kroll, Thomas Rose

12:40 – 13:40

Lunch break

13:40 – 15:40

Session 5: Posters

15:40 – 16.00

Coffee break

16:00 – 18:00

Lab tour

18:00 – 19:00

Keynote: The prehistoric roots of the Mediterranean diet
Dr. Juan José García-Granero (Spanish National Research Council, Spain)
John Ioannides Auditorium, Fresnel Building, The Cyprus Institute

Find out more about this colloquium     |     Watch the livestream on our YouTube channel

Between 19.00 and 20.00 a reception will follow offered by the Spanish Embassy

19:00 - 20:00 Reception sponsored by the Spanish Embassy

20:30

Dinner at Fisa & Masa, Ledras 55, Nicosia 1011
Traditional Tavern with cypriot mezes and live music

 


Friday 18 October

 

Session 6: Metallurgy, part 1

09:00 – 09:30

Keynote: The Future of Archaeological Science
Prof. Thilo Rehren (The Cyprus Institute)

09:30 – 09:50

The elemental composition of bog ores in Masovia (Poland) and its affect on the reconstruction of the smelting process
Antonina Bebłowska-Bednarkiewicz

09:50 – 10:10

Bronze Production in Archaic and Classical Northern Greece: A Archaeometric Approach to the Study of Bronze Objects from Ancient Argilos
Justine Lefebvre

10:10 – 10:40

Coffee break

10:40 – 11:00

Silver-lead and copper production on Early Bronze Age southern Sifnos: an overview
Magda Giannakopoulou

11:00 –11:20

TerraLID: Further steps towards a new ecosystem for lead isotope data in archaeology
Thomas Rose, Tim Greifelt, Katrin J. Westner, Annette Hornschuch, Yiu-Kang Hsu, Helge Wiethoff, Sabine Klein

11:20 – 11:40

Metalworking materials and practices from Late Antique Rome
Giulia Bison, Jose Cristobal Carvajal Lopez

 

Session 7: Metallurgy, part 2 and Archaeomaterials

11:40 – 12:00

Commercial High Alumina Crucibles for Melting Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metal Salt Mixtures to Replicate Ancient Glass Production
Marcel Frenken, Meghna Desai, Thilo Rehren

12:00 – 12:20

The Interaction between Persian Gulf and Indian Peninsula during the middle-late Islamic Period: Compositional Evidence for the High-Alumina Glass Bangles Discovered from Coastal Sites of Qatar and U.A.E.
Qian Cheng, Thilo Rehren, Robert Andrew Carter, Xueyan Zhang

12:20 – 12:40

Identifying a Peloponnesian palette: pigment analysis of domestic architecture from Stymphalos
Alice Clinch

12:40 – 13:00

The “production” of Minoan red serpentinite
Killian Regnier

13:00 – 13:20

Awards ceremony and group photo

13:20 – 14:30

Lunch break

14:30 – 15:00

Keynote: Ritual Faunal Deposits in Prehistoric Sanctuaries: Zooarchaeological Insights from the Gymnesic Islands (Western Mediterranean)
Dr. Alejandro Valenzuela Oliver (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (UIB-CSIC), Spain)

Find out more about this seminar

15:00 – 15:10

Closing / final remarks

16:30 – 19:30

 Experimental pyre: Food for the Gods Sacrificial Pyres in the Archaeological Record
(more details will be announced during the workshop)

 

 


Download the Program and Abstract book          |          For more information, please visit this website

 


 

The event will be in English and the event is open to the public.

This is a hybrid event.  You are welcome to join us in-person or alternatively join us via Zoom (Meeting ID: 883 4066 0574, Passcode: 081518)
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