Programme

08.00-09.00:

Registration

09.00-09.30:

Welcome and opening conference

Session 1: Provenance and networks – Chair: Daniel Albero

09.30-09.45:

Chemical Analysis of Middle Bronze Age pottery complex from the site of Grotte di Marineo – Sicily (Italy)
Giuseppe Politi, Anna Maria Gueli, Orazio Palio, Maria Turco, Stefania Pasquale, Giuseppe Stella, Quentin Lemasson, Claire Pacheco, Laurent Pichon, Brice Moignard

09.45-10.00: 

Middle Bronze Age cult hypogea of Trinitapoli (FG, Italy): pottery as a proxy for social interaction in the Tavoliere
Italo M. Muntoni, Rachele Modesto, Giacomo Eramo

10.00-10.15:

Tracing the Provenance of Red Lustrous Wheel-Made Ware (RLW): Petrographic, Geochemical and Sr-Nd Isotope Analysis
Mustafa Kibaroglu, Ekin Kozal, Andreas Klügel, Gerald Hartmann, Patrick Monien

10.15-10.30:

Wine Roman amphorae from Cap Béar 3 shipwreck (Port Vendres). Assessing the beginning of the maritime trade between Hispania Citerior (NE Spain) and Gallia Narbonensis (S France)
Verónica Martínez Ferreras, Corinne Sanchez, Michel Salvat, Marie-Pierre Jézégou, Inga Sánchez Peris

10.30-10.45:

Provenance studies of amphora production and trade patterns along the Eastern Adriatic coast in Pre-Roman period
Maja Mise, Patrick Quinn

10.45-11.00:

Provenance analysis of Punic amphorae found at Corinth: shedding new light into long-distance salt-fish trade networks in the 5th century BC
Leandro Fantuzzi, Evangelia Kiriatzi, Antonio M. Sáez Romero, Noémi S. Müller, Charles K. Williams

11.00-11.30:

Coffee break

11.30-12.30:

Poster session 1  [see list in pdf]

 

Session 2: Provenance and networks – Chair: Yona Waksman

12.30-12.45:

400 Years of Cooking Wares at Priene: Tracing Trade and Technological Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean
Silvia Amicone, Noémi S. Müller, Gerwulf Schneider, Christoph Berthold, Lars Heinze, Nina Fenn, Svenja Neumann, Evangelia Kiriatzi 

12.45-13.00:

Changes in Production Traditions of Cooking Pots during the Iron Age in the Southern Levant
David Ben Shlomo

13.00-13.15:

Spatial Patterns of the ceramic production in Colonia Augusta Achaica Patrensis
Nickoula Kougia, Helen Simoni, Paul Reynolds, Ioannis Iliopoulos, Vayia Xanthopoulou, Aikaterini-Maria Pollatou 

13.15-13.30:

Multidisciplinary characterisation of African amphorae and Red Slip Ware from the Roman city of Thaenae (Tunisia)
Rémi Rêve, Jean-Paul Ambrosi, Claudio Capelli, Abdelhamid Barkaoui, Michel Bonifay, Ammar Othman 

13.30-13.45:

The production of lead glazed tablewares in late medieval Italy and their exportation to Latin Greece: New considerations on 14th-century contexts from Corinth, Peloponnese
Florence Liard, Guy Sanders, Ayed Ben Amara, Bernard Gratuze, Stéphan Dubernet, Rémy Chapoulie , Evangelia Kiriatzi 

13.45-14.00:

Under the estuary of Aveiro: a 15th century shipwreck and its cargo of ceramics
Uxue Sanchez-Garmendia, Jose Bettencourt , Ines Pinto Coelho, Ricardo Silva, Gorka Arana, André Teixeira, Javier G. Iñañez 

14.00-15.15:

Lunch

 

Session 3: Provenance and networks – Chair: Mohammadamin Emami

15.15-15.30:

Did the student become the master? The development of the glaze technology in Cyprus during the 13th to 17th centuries AD
Carmen Ting, Athanasios Vionis, Vasiliki Kassianidou, Thilo Rehren 

15.30-15.45:

From Pastes to Glazes: Assessing Provenance and Technology of Islamic Glazed Vessels from Ancient Termez (Southern Uzbekistan)
Agnese Fusaro, Judit Molera, Verónica Martínez Ferreras, Trinitat Pradell, Josep M. Gurt Esparraguera, Enrique Ariño Gil, Shakir Pidaev 

15.45-16.00:

Early Celadon in North China: Compositional Characteristics and Technological Transmission
Shan Huang, Ian C. Freestone 

16.00-16.15:

Early domestic production of lead-glazed earthenware in Japan: Analytical studies of excavated ceramics from the 7th and 8th centuries
Junko Furihata 

16.15-16.30:

Ceramic Production Technologies and Ancient Interaction Networks of Multi Ethnic Communities at Multi-Component sites of the Átures Rapids, Middle Orinoco, Venezuela
Natalia Lozada-Mendieta,  Patrick Quinn, José R. Oliver 

16.30-17.00:

Cooffee break

 

Session 4: Ceramics as building materials – Chair: Irmagard Hein

17.00-17.15:

Evaluation of nano-lime dispersions as swelling inhibitors for the protection of clay-based building materials
Anastasia Michalopoulou, Pagona Maravelaki, Vassilis Kilikoglou, Ioannis Karatasios 

17.15-17.30:

The manufacture and distribution of tiles in Classical Chalkidike: a geochemical and petrographic study of the ceramic building economy
Elena Cuijpers 

17.30-17.45:

Ceramic Pipes of the Roman Aqueduct from raiano Village (L’Aquila, Italy):  A technological Study
Laura Medeghini, Vincenzo Ferrini, Francesca Di Nanni, Francesco D’Uva, Silvano Mignardi, Caterina De Vito 

17.45-18.00:

Technological study of early 20th centurymud bricks
Maria Amenta, Dimitra Koumpouri, Vassilis Kilikoglou, Ioannis Karatasios 

18.00-18.15:

The CLAYONRISK project: bricks manufacturing technologies to increase the built heritage resilience and to raise the common identities of peoples
Elena Mercedes Pérez-Monserrat, Lara Maritan

Session 1: Technical ceramics and vessel function – Chair: Anno Hein

9.00-9.15:

Shared technological milieus: defining the borders between wheel-made and hand-made pottery production in Early Helladic Argolid
Choleva Maria, Kiriatzi Evangelia, Petropoulos Nikos, Müller Noemi 

9.15-9.30:

An Interpretation of thermal analyses on some Glass fragments from the city Istakhr to determination about the heating temperature construction of ancient glass
Farahnaz Bayatnejad, Mohammadamin Emami, Ahmad Ali Asadi 

9.30-9.45:

Reading surfaces: on the determination and properties of surface treatments. Towards a better understanding of clay vases function.
Bastien Rueff, Pauline Debels 

9.45-10.00:

Fusion cooking pots: an integrated cooking pottery study at the northern edge of the Mycenaean world
Anastasia Dimoula, Sophia Koulidou, Zoi Tsirtsoni, Soultana Maria Valamoti 

10.00-10.15:

Petrographical and geochemical characterizations of the late antiquity unguentarium from the archaeological site of Tripolis, Denizli (southwestern Turkey)
Baris Semiz 

10.15-11.00:

Cooffee break

 

Session 2: Session in Honour of Michael Baxter 

11.00-11.30:

Talk in honor of Michael Baxter

11.30-11.45:

Preserve, enrich, share, interconnect: ongoing developments of the Lyon CERAMO database
Yona Waksman, Aybüke Özturk, Louis Eyano, Valérie Merle, Céline Brun, Marie Delavenne, Jacques Burlot, Alain Bernet, Cécile Batigne Vallet, Bertrand David , Stéphane Lallich, Jérôme Darmont

11.45-12.00:

Shot from the Hip – Dealing with imprecise and incomplete data of pottery analyses with portable energy dispersive XRF
Anno Hein, Vassilis Kilikoglou 

12.00-12.15:

Multivariate ‘mixed-mode’ analyses for characterising archaeological ceramics using the cerUB package in R
Andreas Angourakis, Verònica Martínez Ferreras, Josep M. Gurt Esparraguera 

12.15-12.30:

New venue proposals

 

Session 3: Applied decorations – Chair: Javier G. Iñañez

12.30-12.45:

Gloss Chemistry and the Origins of the Corinthian Black Figure Technique
Emilio Rodriguez-Alvarez 

12.45-13.00:

Polychrome glazed ceramics in al-Andalus (9th-12th centuries): methods of production and materials
Elena Salinas, Trinitat Pradell, Judit Molera 

13.00-13.15:

Hyperspectral Imaging assisted by False Color Infrared techniques for ceramic’s decoration studies. Achievements and Limitations.
Athina Georgia Alexopoulou, Agathi Anthoula Kaminari 

13.15-13.30:

The stability rang of diferent manganese compounds in ancient glazes
J. Molera,  G. Molina , T. Pradell 

13.30-13.45:

Reconstructing 17th century Dutch tin-glaze using information from archival and archaeological sources
Kate van Lookeren Campagne, Luc Megens, Bert-Jan Baas, Maarten van Bommel 

13.45-14.00:

Study Gilding decoration on Mina’i ceramic of Rayy and Alamut in Iran based on microscopic investigation and ancient treatise
Melika Yazdani, MohammadAmin Emami, Hossein Ahmadi, Farhad Khosravi Bizhaem 

14.00-14.15:

Study on glaze decoration technology and coloration mechanism of porcelain from Changsha kiln, Tang dynasty (618–907 A.D.), China
Qaing Li, Jiming Xu, Heliang Yao, Fan Yang, Yu Liu, Lihua Wang 

14.15-15.15:

Lunch

 

Session 4: Development of new methods and techniques – Chair: Rémy Chapoulie

15.15-15.30:

Unveiling the Sicilian and Southern-Italian red-figure vases productions and technologies through synchrotron radiation techniques
Germana Barone, Paolo Mazzoleni, Antonella Santostefano, Lara Gigli, Mattia Gaboardi, Jasper Rikkert Plaisier, Simona Raneri 

15.30-15.45:

Image analysis in ancient ceramics characterization and provenance attribution: from optical microscopy to cathodoluminescence microscopy and spectroscopy
Eleonora Odelli, Remy Chapoulie, Stefano Pagnotta, Yannick Lefrais, Federico Cantini, Vincenzo Palleschi, Simona Raneri 

15.45-16.00:

Lead and strontium isotopes and their combination to elemental chemistry to trace ceramic circulation in Mesoamerica
Virginie Renson, Hector Neff, Antonio Martínez-Cortizas, David Cheetham, Jeffrey Blomster, Michael Glascock 

16.00-16.15:

Estimating the Original Firing Temperature of Ceramics Using Biotite Study
Karel Slavíek, Dalibor Všianský 

16.15-16.30:

Synchrotron radiation through the millennium; High resolution µ-XRPD for characterizing the ceramic’s surface generated by heat transfer
Mohammadamin Emami 

16.30-16.45:

Archaeo-ceramic 2.0: investigating ancient ceramics using modern technological approaches
Lara Maritan 

16.45-17.15:

Cooffee break

 

Session 5: Development of new methods and techniques – Chair: Judit Molera

17.15-17.30:

Individualised traditions. Tracing out pottery forming techniques through X-ray micro-CT in a pottery assemblage from Middle Neolithic Sesklo (Thessaly, Greece)
Jannis Kozatsas, Kostas Kotsakis, Dimitrios Sagris, Konstantinos David 

17.30-17.45:

A study on mechanical properties of 19th-century glazes from Bordeaux

Emmie Beauvoit, Ayed Ben Amara, Nadia Cantin, Rémy Chapoulie, Camille Frugier, Bernard Gratuze, Agnès Smith, Nicolas Tessier-Doyen 

17.45-18.00:

The automatic recognition of ceramic through only one photo. The ArchAIDE App.
Francesca Anichini, Nevio Dubbini, Nachum Dershowitz, Barak Itkin, Lior Wolf 

18.00-18.15:

New trends in geochemical data grouping: supervised machine-learning methods and full-spectrum analyses
Anna Anglisano, Lluís Casas, Marc Anglisano, Ignasi Queralt 

20.30:

Conference Dinner
Restaurant En Ville

 

Session 1: Production centres and raw material studies – Chair: Claudio Capelli

9.00-9.15:

Ornamental and technological transitions within LBK and from LBK to SBK period (Eythra, Saxony)
K. Bente, H. Stäuble, Ch. Berthold, G. Sobott, U. Veit, W. Lottermoser, A. König 

9.15-9.30:

Pottery production and technological traditions at Neolithic and Chalcolithic Samos, Greece: preliminary data from Kastro-Tigani and Heraion
Sergios Menelaou, Ourania Kouka 

9.30-9.45:

Chalcolithic ceramics from Vila Nova de São Pedro (Lisbon Region – Portugal) – Textural, and chemical analysis
Rute Correia Chaves, Augusta Lima, António Monge Soares 

9.45-10.00:

Potters at the world’s end? Pottery production and resilience in Formentera (Balearic Islands, Spain) during the Bronze Age
Daniel Albero Santacreu 

10.00-10.15:

The raw material as an added value of ceramics?

Benjamin Gehres 

10.15-10.30:

Elemental analysis of pottery from the Early and Middle Bronze Age necropolis of Lapithos. The early history of a long-lived production centre in Cyprus
Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou, Noémi S. Müller, Marcos Martinón-Torres, Jennifer M. Webb,  Agnese Benzonelli , Michael D. Glascock

10.30-11.00:

Cooffee break

11.00-12.00:

Poster session II [see list in pdf ]

Session 2: Production centres and raw material studies – Chair: Evangelia Kiriatzi

12.00-12.15:

For a “best practice approach” to experimental reproductions of ancient pottery: on-site testing of raw clay with archaeological tools and installations. A pilot study from Bronze Age Crete
Simona Todaro 

12.15-12.30:

Provenance and Production Technologies of Late Bronze and Iron Age Plain and Drab Ware from Sirkeli Höyük (Cilicia, South Anatolia)
Sinem Hacosmanolu, Mustafa Kibarolu, Ekin Kozal, Hannah Mönninghoff, Joachim Opitz 

12.30-12.45:

Multiproxy-, multiscale-approach for the identification of the pottery production technologies in the North Caucasus (Russia) in the Bronze/Iron Age
Ki Suk Park, Ralf Milke, Ilias Efthimiopoulos, Erik Rybacki, Ulrich Schade, Ljiljana Puskar, Regine Ricarda Pausewein, Sabine Reinhold 

12.45-13.00:

Tradition and Adaptation: The Potting Technology of Middle Helladic Archaia Pheneos
Clare Burke, Michaela Zavadil 

13.00-13.15:

Archaeometric study of Late Classic to Roman ceramics from Northern Greece-Contribution to Archaeomagnetism
Despoina Kontopoulou , Yuri Santos, Elina Aidona, Lambrini Papadopoulou, Niki Saridaki, Christina Rathossi, Christos Serletis 

13.15-13.30:

Archaeological and petrographic examination of the transformation of pottery production in 5-6th century Pannonia (Western Hungary)
Katalin Bajnok, György Szakmány 

13.30-14.30:

Lunch 

Session 3: Production centres and raw material studies – Chair: Lara Maritan

14.30-14.45:

Studying the decoration techniques of the so-called “Port Saint-Symeon Ware” as a witness of interactions between populations in medieval north-eastern Mediterranean.
Jacques BURLOT, Yona WAKSMAN 

14.45-15.00:

Geochemical and petrographic insights into the pottery production during the Chalcolithic South-Central Iran
Takehiro Miki

15.00-15.15:

Elemental Distribution and Raman Spectrum Analysis of Raw Material Characteristics of Ancient White Pottery
Xiaoke Lu 

15.15-15.30:

Nought Point Two Per Cent Titanium Dioxide: A Key to Song Ceramics
Nigel Wood 

15.30-15.45:

Geochemical Warfare: Exploring Elemental Patterning within Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Terracotta Army, China
Patrick Quinn, Yang Ying, Xia Yin, Detlef Wilke, Shangxin Zhang, Xiuzhen Li 

15.45-16.00:

The patterns and constraints in the production of Capacha pottery: geochemical and petrographic characterization of a Mesoamerican Formative ceramic assemblage
Carlos Salgado-Ceballos

16.00-16.30:

Awards, next venue and closing