Meeting Archive
Meeting 2024
Date: 22 November 2024
Participants: ca. 40 participants constantly in Zoom meeting
Student award winner: Léa Chanal
Presentations
- Rithik Pramod: Beyond the miniature: An exploration of the artistic and religious dimensions of Tamil Nadu’s bronze scupltures
- Sabikun Naher, Md. Ashraful Alam: Surface enrichment and deterioration patterns of two silver punch-marked coins from Tekttha, Naogaon, Bangladesh: An X-ray diffraction analysis
- Meghan Parker, Ineke Joosten, Rosalijn van IJken: Degradation of tin foils on historic Leyden jars
- Katherine Rothwell, Andrew R. C. Grigg, Nicola Grahamslaw, James M. Byrne: Characterising the corrosion of the SS Great Britain using handheld XRF
- Julia Montes-Landa, Mark Box, Caroline Archer-Parré, Ann-Marie Carey, Maciej Pawlikowski, Marcos Martinón-Torres: Reconstructing letterpress technology through the Baskerville punches: new scientific data to reverse-engineer a practically lost craft
- Anaïs Walsdorf: Race and civilisation in John Percy’s Metallurgy (1864)
- Donald B. Wagner: The archaeometallurgy of iron: An introduction for students of archaeology
- Kutsi Akcicek, Sinan Acikgoz, Heather Viles: Comparative optical, chemical, and mechanical characterisation of 18th century and modern re-rolled wrought irons
- Tobias Heal, Alexandre Disser, Thomas Fischbach: Acies Ferri: Construction and provenance of Merovingian seaxes from 5th-8th century Alsace
- Léa Chanal, Guillaume Sarah, Florian Téreygeol: Improving our knowledge of the circulation of copper and its alloys: the case of the French Pyrenees at the end of the Middle Ages
- Alexandre Disser: Recent and ongoing developments of a database related to iron metallurgy
- Lilo Nilima: Marginalization and perception: The role of disabled in archaeometallurgical societies of Southern highlands, Tanzania.
- Peter Northover, Vanessa Cheel: Historical Metallurgy Society Projects: Glossary of Terms and Atlas of Microstructures
- Frank Hulek, Yannis Bassiakos, Eleni Filippaki: Studying the different mineralizations of Laurion through a combined geological and archaeological approach
- Ivan Stepanov, Khaled Al-Bashaireh, Michael Brauns: The first insight into the origins of Ammonite iron through Os isotope analyses of iron arrowheads from the Late Iron Age cemetery of Tell El Mazar, Jordan
- Paul Rondelez, Rowan Taylor: New insights in early bloom processing
- Joshua Koss, Patrick Thaden: An experimental Investigation of Medieval Helmet Forging Techniques|
- Richard Williams: Characteristics of malleable irons by the fining techniques used in their manufacture
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Meeting 2023-2
Date: 24 November 2023
Participants: ca. 60 participants constantly in Zoom meeting
Student award winner: Evgeny Shnyr
Presentations
- Diya Mukherjee: Learning, experience and experiment of ancient copper smelting technology with the reference to Harappan culture
- Farhanath K: Iron technology and its role in shaping socio-cultural dynamics in ancient India during the 1st milllenium BC: A multifaceted perspective
- Ivan Stepanov, Michael Brauns, Hannes Knapp, Anna Langgartner & Michael Geschwinde: Provenance and manufacturing technology of iron catapult bolts as a reflection of the Roman iron supply chains at the Germanic limes
- Fabio Spagiari: On the tracks of the blacksmiths: Metallurgy tools of the Roman age from northern Italy
- Sulaiman Ahmed Abiodun: Iron metallurgy in Medieval and Post-Medieval Ile Ife, Nigeria: Recent excavation at Iyekere
- Simon Aumônier & Vanessa Cheel: Mounted archaeometallurgical samples: Resin ageing effects and remounting for durability
- Linn Nordvall: Plano-convex copper ingots in Scandinavia: A methodological approach
- David A. Scott: Technical examination of a Lydian kline (bed): A unique example of Lydian sophisticated metallurgy
- Sabine Plummer & Victoria Sainsbury: Material analysis of metal inlays in ball-headed clubs from the Ashmolean Tradescant Collection
- Evgeny Shnyr: Data science in the service of archaeology: Pinpointing the geographical source of ancient lead-containing metals using machine learning
- Thomas Rose, Sabine Klein, Katrin J. Westner & Yiu-Kang Hsu: News from the GlobaLID engine room
- Peter Bray & Philippa Walton: A new copper alloy chemical analysis project for the UK 1st Millennium AD, employing Microwave Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometry (MP-AES): REMADE, University of Reading
- Malou Blank & Serena Sabatini: Copper in the Early Neolithic, a TRB flat axe from inland Western Sweden
- Mathias Mehofer & Mario Gavranovic: Archaeometallurgical studies on the Bronze Age metal procurement on the western and central Balkan
- Stephanie Aulsebrook: The complex lives of ‘meaningless scraps’: Reuse and upcycling at Late Bronze Age Mycenae
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Meeting 2023-1
Date: 22 April 2023
Participants: ca. 35 participants constantly in Zoom meeting
Student award winner: Raluca Lazarescu
Presentations
- N. Kucukarslan, T. Ota, C. Potiszil, K. Kobayashi, E. Nakamura, S. Omura: Searching for clues about the early iron history in Central Anatolia
- M. Charlton, X. (Janice) Li, A. Bevan: Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s iron
- X. Michel-Tanaka: The evolution of furnace wall making in japanese traditional iron smelting
- E. Vodyasov, O. Zaitceva, M. Vavulin: Nomadic iron production in the Altai Mountains in the 1st millennium AD: Advanced technology of box-shape furnaces
- M. Charlton: New approaches to old methods: archaeometallurgical analysis at the UCL Institute of Archaeology
- B. Cornelis, A. Wittke, D. Berger: Disentangling the Sögel-Wohlde blade tradition of the Nordic Bronze Age through a multi-proxy approach
- M. Odler: News on the research of early ancient Egyptian and Nubian copper metallurgy
- I. Calgaro, M. Radivojevic, M. Altaweel, A. S. Yermolayeva: Metal production at 2nd millennium BC Taldysai (Central Kazakhstan): An update of research
- A. Rodzinka: Complex metallurgy of the Bronze Age-Iron Age transition in Iran: Archaeomaterials and forensic investigations
- I. Stepanov, M. Brauns, U. Avner, N. Lockhoff, A. Eliyahu-Behar: Investigation of provenance of Nabataean iron tools from the Southern Levant via a combined approach of osmium isotopy and trace element analyses
- R. Lazarescu, C. Fenwick, Y. Bokbot, M. Charlton, D. Mattingly, M. Sterry: Copper production in the medieval Moroccan Sahara
- J. English, J. Prus: What were they thinking of? Metalworkers’ thought before modern chemistry
- A. B. Daoust: An introduction to the Roman blacksmith Project: Identity, labour division, and status in funerary imagery
- R. J. H. Wanhill, O. Oudbashi: Fractography and metallography of some heritage metals
- O. Oudbashi, F. Carò: Chemical-microstructural characterization of metalworking technology during the Early Islamic Period of Iran (7th to 14th centuries CE)
- S. Greiff: The 19th c. blast furnace of the Gräfenbach iron works in Germany