Young Researchers in Archaeometry 2023
May 15th – Deadline for abstract submission
May 31th – EXTENDED Deadline for abstract submission
June 15th – Announcement of abstracts decisions & Opening for registration
Aug. 15th – Preliminary program
Sept. 15th – Deadline for in-presence registration
Sept. 25th – Deadline for online registration
Sept. 26th – Meeting details and final program
Oct. 4th–6th – YRA 2023 Workshop in Tübingen
Registration
Please register through this form. Registration is possible for everyone, also if you are not presenting.
Registration fee for in-presence participation: 30 €. Online participation is free.
You will receive the Zoom link and abstract booklet on September 26.
Program
All times are given in Central European Time (UTC+2).
| 20:00 | Icebreaker Ratskeller (Haaggasse 4, 72070 Tübingen) |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Welcoming and registration |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Opening |
| 09:15 – 09:50 | Keynote: Susanne Greiff TBA |
| 09:50 – 10:10 | Coffee break |
| Session 1: Ceramics I and Architecture | |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | Tracing the cultural and trade relations of the Spanish Empire and the Lesser Caribbean Antilles in the 16th and 17th centuries through ceramic analysis Sonia Pujals Blanch, Jaume Buxeda i Garrigós, Roberta Mentesana |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | “Between the pots” – Archaeometric approach to a set of Iron Age kiln’s spacers Elena Paralovo, Nikolaos Zacharias |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Sacaojos (León, Spain): Archaeometric studies on earthen construction remains at the beginning of early Iron Age Alejandra Sánchez Polo |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Testing chitosan nano composite as eco-friendly hydrophobic coatings for lime and sandstone Mahmoud Shehab Eldin Mohamed Ibrahim |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Coffee break |
| Session 2: Stone and Binders – Glass and Gemstones | |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | New method for characterization and radiocarbon dating of lime mortar Nicolas Herreyre |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | Mineral thermometry of carbonates in medieval mortar binders: Burned or not burned? Moritz Takeru Zöllner, Thomas Schmid, Petra Dariz |
| 12:30 – 12:50 | Between Sri Lanka and Bohemia – Garnet as a common inlaying material in the 5th-6th centuries AD polychrome fine metalwork from the Carpathian Basin Viktória Mozgai, Eszter Horváth, Bernadett Bajnóczi |
| 12:50 – 13:10 | Chemical characterization of ancient glassy materials from southeast Hungary Zsófia Sz. Osváth, Bernadett Bajnóczi, Máté Szabó |
| 13:10 – 14:30 | Lunch break |
| Session 3: Organic materials and Geoarchaeology | |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | Fashion for the dead. Assessment of beads variability within a Chalcolithic grave from the Sultana-Malu Roșu necropolis (Romania), by means of archaeometric analysis Daniel Stoicescu, Sebastian Dumitrescu, Valentin Radu, Monica Mărgărit, Viorel Atudorei, Bogdan Manea, Cătălin Lazăr |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Hidden traces in brown layers. Analysis of early medieval waterlogged textiles and other organic remains Tracy Niepold |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | 14C geochronology applied to gut strings of modern musical instruments Marie-Gabrielle Durier |
Ada Dinckal |
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| 15:30 – 15:50 | Coffee break |
| Session 4: Palaeoenvironment and Archaeobotany | |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | Using fauna identified by ZooMS and stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes to infer the palaeoenvironment at Grassridge Rockshelter, Eastern Cape, South Africa during the late Pleistocene to mid-Holocene Bacara Ashleigh Spruit, Jerome Reynard, Benjamin Collins, Christopher Ames, Michael Buckley |
| 16:10 – 16:30 | Herbivores don’t lie: Stable isotope analysis on Magdalenian herbivore fauna from Gnirshöhle cave site Theoni Panagiotopoulou |
| 16:30 – 16:50 | Exploring human-woodland interactions in Classical, Hellenistic and early Roman Greece: Insights from wood charcoal analysis in ancient Corinth Panagiotis Koullouros |
| 16:50 – 17:10 | Beyond the domestic: Ritual practices and plant assemblages in the Nothern Peloponnese during the 1st millennium BCE Kyriaki Tsirtsi, Panagiotis Koullouros, Georgia Kasapidou, Evi Margaritis |
| Session 5: Diet and Mobility | |
| 09:00 – 09:20 | Tracing animal herding patterns of central Anatolian Neolithic populations with carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis Gökçe Öztürk |
| 09:20 – 09:40 | Variability in feeding practices during the Neolithic in the western Iberian Peninsula: An isotopic approach Sopio Paatashvili, Vanessa Navarrete |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | The Bronze Age communities from southern Spain: Cape Trafalgar Pablo González Fernández, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Alexandros-Foitos Karakostis, Eduardo Vijande Vila, Juan Jesús Cantillo Duarte, Adolfo Moreno Márquez |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Multiproxy isotopic analysis of diet and mobility from western Mediterranean: The Biniadrís Cave (Menorca) Mauricio Marciales Daza, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Eva Alarcón García, Auxilio Moreno Onorato, Monice Timm, Jörg Baten, Javier Escudero, Damiá Ramis, Dereck Hamilton |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Coffee break |
| Session 6: Metals I | |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Angkorian copper hammering: An experimental approach César Delomosne, David Bourgarit, Manon Gosselin, Clotilde Berdin, Thierry Baudin |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Resilience and innovation in craft knowledge during horizons of exceptional societal change in the Bronze Age Carpathian Basin Lauren E. F. Brown |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Archaeometry study and restoration of a roman bronze vessel Violeta Karailieva |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Following the identification of traces of Iron Age belts, towards metallurgical analysis Rita Solazzo, François Giligny |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch break |
| Session 7: Pigments and Painting | |
| 13:30 – 13:50 | Advancements in analyzing pigment materials in Indonesian rock art: Scientific approaches and their impact Moh. Mu’alliful Ilmi, Ismunandar, Pindi Setiawan, Sofwan Noerwidi |
| 13:50 – 14:10 | Archaeometric study of the Roman wall paintings of Limonum (Poitiers, France) Adriana Iuliano, Francesca Galluzzi, Isabelle Pianet, Mathilde Carrive |
| 14:10 – 14:30 | Terahertz continuous wave spectroscopy (THz-CW) for the characterization of pure pigments and binary mixtures: An innovative approach Candida Moffa |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | To color technology and beyond: First archaeometric analysis of pigments from SW Chubut, Argentine Patagonia Lucía Alejandra Gutiérrez, María Ana Castro, Analía Castro Esnal |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Coffee break |
| Poster Session 1: Metals | |
| 15:10 – 15:15 | Elemental and mineralogical study of copper slags from early Bronze Age I at Arslantepe, eastern Anatolia, Turkey Sabikun Naher |
| 15:15 – 15:20 | An archaeometric pilot study on indigenous conservation techniques of Indian bronze images Sadhish Sharma |
| 15:20 – 15:25 | How much metal is produced? An interdisciplinary approach combining LiDAR, field archaeology and portable X-ray fluorescence analysis to reconstruct production volumes Margaux Herbrich, Marion Berranger |
| 15:25 – 15:30 | Application of Ag, Cu and Pb isotopes in determining the origin of the ore for metals from Castillo de Huarmey (Peru) Maciej Kałaska, Ryan Mathur, George Kamenov, Julia Chyla, Patrycja Prządka-Giersz, Miłosz Giersz |
| 15:30 – 15:35 | The origin of lead artifacts from Novae – Applications of Pb isotopes in research on the provenance of artifacts from N Bulgaria Paula Sierpień, Maciej Kałaska, Janusz Recław, George Kamenov |
| 15:35 – 16:00 | Discussion |
| Poster Session 2: Ceramics and Binders | |
| 16:00 – 16:05 | Archaeometric analysis to identify the provenance of pinkish-redware of Pattanam site (Kerala, India) Uthara Babu, Sarath Chandrababu |
Serena D’Alfonso |
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| 16:05 – 16:10 | Neolithic under the microscope: Early pottery of inland Iberia Estíbaliz Espada-Martín |
| 16:10 – 16:15 | Ceramic analysis of a Bronze Age burial ground at Maklár-Koszpérium (NE Hungary): Raw material and firing technique Ákos Mengyán |
| 16:15 – 16:20 | Lime on the Cantabrian façade: Complex pyrotechnological processes in recent Prehistory Lucía Ruano Posada |
| 16:20 – 16:40 | Discussion |
| 20:00 | Dinner Gasthausbrauerei Neckarmüller (Gartenstraße 4, 72074 Tübingen) |
| Poster Session 3: Geoarchaeology and Zooarchaeology | |
| 09:00 – 09:05 | Geoarcheology of erosive crises and sedimentary clogging in the Lower Seine Valley: The case of small tributary valleys and the variability of anthropic forcing since the Neolithic Léa Mairaville, Damase Mouralis, Dominique Todisco, Stoil Chapkanski |
| 09:05 – 09:10 | A high-resolution approach to the site formation processes of Tinshemet Cave, Israel Pedro García Villa, Cristiano Nicosia, Yossi Zaidner, Ruth Shahack-Gross |
| 09:10 – 09:15 | Microfossils as environmental proxies: A case study of Math Pimpri, Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India Arva Nizami |
| 09:15 – 09:20 | Fossil fauna of Gopnath, Gujarat, India: A taphonomic study Adrija Chaudhuri, August G. Costa, K. Krishnan, P. Ajithprasad, Sharada Channarayapatna |
| 09:20 – 09:25 | Comparative crystallographic study and thin section analysis of faunal fossils of central Narmada Valley Sakina Halvadwala, Prateek Chakraborty |
| 09:25 – 09:45 | Discussion |
| Session 8: Metals II | |
| 09:45 – 10:05 | Preliminary research on Angkorian copper smelting processes: Typological and analytical study of copper slags from the Chhaep mining and metallurgical complex, Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia Sébastien Clouet, David Bourgarit, Brice Vincent |
| 10:05 – 10:25 | Nordic blades and northern trades? Exploring the metal sources of the early Nordic Bronze Age through a multi-proxy approach Bart Cornelis, Andreas Wittke, Daniel Berger |
| 10:25 – 10:45 | When elemental analysis and GIS meet in medieval buildings: A contribution to the study of the cathedral Saint-Pierre of Beauvais (Oise, France) Léa Chanal, Guillaume Sarah, Maxime L’Héritier, Diane Daussy, Aurélia Azéma |
| 10:45 – 11:05 | Fighting the data kraken: GlobaLID as example for a modern approach to research data management and curation in archaeometry Thomas Rose, Sabine Klein, Katrin J. Westner, Yiu-Kang Hsu |
| 11:05 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| Session 9: Ceramics II | |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Neolithic pottery production in the Adige Valley: The case studies from Riparo Gaban and La Vela (north-eastern Italy) Giulia Deimichei, Silvia Amicone, Annaluisa Pedrotti |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | Technological analysis of ceramic fabrication in early and middle Copper Age eastern Hungary: A case study from Rákóczifalva microregion Eszter Solnay, Zita Hrabák, Anthony Borel |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | Pottery traditions and raw materials used for the ancient production of ceramics in Istria, Croatia Natali Neral, Andreja Kudelić |
| 12:30 – 12:50 | From macro to micro: Advanced and experimental methods for the analysis of finishing techniques and post-firing treatments on ancient ceramics Eirini Koutouvaki, Massimo Vidale, Silvia Amicone, Eleni Aloupi, Lara Maritan |
| 12:50 – 14:20 | Lunch break |
| Session 10: Organic Residues | |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Towards a multi-analytical methodology based on molecular spectroscopic techniques for the detection and characterization of organic residues in archaeological findings Maria Eleni Konstantinou, Evangelia Ralli, Ioanna Misyri, Maria Roumpou, Aggelos Philippidis, Sophia Sotiropoulou, Apostolos Spyros, Demetrios Anglos |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Feasting at the Ness of Brodgar? Tracing subsistence patterns during the late Neolithic, Britain using organic residue analysis Julia Becher, Martine Regert, Mark Edmonds, Nick Card, Alexandre Lucquin, Ann MacSween, Anne Mitchell, Helen Talbot, Oliver E. Craig |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | A multi-analytical approach for lithic residue analysis from the Chalcolithic site of Torre Della Chiesaccia, Italy Leanne Thothiyil, Cristina Lemorini |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Minoan cooking vessels: An interdisciplinary approach on their function and use Evgenia Tsafou |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Round table How to produce high quality data and to deal with the high amount of data produced in archaeometric research? |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Closing |
Financial support by the GNAA
For the participation in presence at the workshop, members of the Gesellschaft für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie ARCHAEOMETRIE e.V. (GNAA) as students (Bachelor, Master, Diploma, Doctorate) receive a subsidy of 30 € upon presentation of the corresponding confirmation of participation. This also applies if you currently become a member of the GNAA.
For this purpose, the confirmation of participation in the workshop must be submitted to the GNAA by e-mail with the bank account data and the GNAA membership number or an application for a corresponding GNAA membership.
How to get to Tübingen
Tübingen is a university city in south-western Germany, at the centre of the state Baden-Württemberg. It is located ca. 30 km south of Stuttgart, the state capital.
You can easily access Tübingen via direct train from Stuttgart central station (IRE6, MEX12, and MEX18), or via bus lines 828 and X82 from Stuttgart Airport (STR). You can find information about connections with trains and regional buses here. Several long distance bus lines operated by e.g. Flixbus stop at Tübingen. With a car you reach Tübingen best via the B27 and B28.
YRA 2023 will take place in Hohentübingen Castle, in Tübingen’s historical city centre. Please be aware that the castle is located on a small but steep hill. Access for persons with reduced mobility is possible but require arrangements in advance regarding e.g. parking. Please contact us if this should be the case. We are happy to make all necessary arrangements for you.
Code of conduct
All participants at YRA 2023 agree to conduct themselves in a professional and appropriate manner and to ensure that all can enjoy a harassment-free event. The workshop organisers are dedicated to providing an inclusive, respectful, safe, friendly, and welcoming hybrid meeting for all participants.
We do not tolerate disruptive or disrespectful behaviour, personal messages, images, or interactions by any participant, in any form, at any aspect of the program including business and social activities, regardless of mode of participation and location.
Photography, video, recording or screen-captures of session content or presentations in any format are prohibited unless this right is granted on the slides of the respective presentation. We encourage everyone to assist in creating a welcoming and safe environment.
If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, the event organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender and/or expulsion from the event. If you are being harassed, if you notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact one of the organisers immediately.
We value your attendance and want YRA 2023 to be a safe place for everybody.