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Abstracts of papers presented at the YRA workshops and seminar series since 2024.

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Event Date Title Author
Workshop 2024 3D visualization and digital recording of sculptures through photogrammetry: An iconometric examination of the Hoysala sculptures Poorva Salvi
Workshop 2024 A look upon Chalcolithic pottery technology through the petrographic analysis of a batch from north of Danube Mădălina Dimache, Cristian-Eduard Ștefan
Workshop 2024 An application of XRF spectroscopy to heritage science: the case study of ancient Roman building materials from Lebanon Marcin Sokołowski
Workshop 2024 Archaeometric analysis of the inks in two 15th century Greek paper manuscripts: a preliminary comparative study Katerina Grigoriadou
Seminar 2024 Biomolecular insights into Magdalenian ungulates from Petersfels (Hegau Jura, southwestern Germany) via ZooMS and stable isotope analysis Madison McCartin
Workshop 2024 Breaking into the “black box”: The contribution of ethnographic work in decoding Late Cypriot household structures Chara Theotokatou
Workshop 2024 Bronze production in Archaic and Classical Northern Greece: An archaeometric approach to the study of bronze objects from Ancient Argilos Justine Lefebvre
Seminar 2024 Chrysocolla at high temperatures: understanding Pre-Hispanic metallurgy through Collahuasi slag analysis (Tarapaca, Chile) Sibylle Manya, Benoît Mille, Valentina Figueroa Larre, Thierry Bataille, Laurent Le Pollès, Jean-Baptiste d’Espinose de Lacaillerie
Workshop 2024 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
Workshop 2024 Commercial high alumina crucibles for melting alkali and alkaline earth metal salt mixtures to replicate ancient glass production Marcel Frenken, Meghna Desai, Thilo Rehren
Workshop 2024 Deciphering past coastal environments: Beachrock characterisation and luminescence Dating in SE Lasithi, Crete, Greece Nafsika C. Andriopoulou, Georgios C. Polymeris, Konstantinos C. Stamoulis, Michael Schöbel, Georgios E. Christidis, Stefanos Papadakis, Anna Novikova, Nikos Papadopoulos
Workshop 2024 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
Workshop 2024 Envisioning pre-colombian regional trade patterns through elemental analysis of archaeological ceramics from Western Panama Carly Pope, Scott Palumbo, Laure Dussubieux
Workshop 2024 Experimental clay processing and archaeometric analysis to determine the provenance of fine-ware ceramics from the Early Middle Ages in north-western Tuscany (Italy): preliminary results Irene Strufaldi, Sara Longo
Workshop 2024 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
Workshop 2024 Fuelling ancient Idalion: Charcoal analysis and insights into 1st millennium BCE Cyprus Panagiotis Koullouros
Workshop 2024 Furthering our understanding of the sources of the metal of Roman denarii: A multi-isotope and elemental analysis approach Tim Greifelt, Sabine Klein, David Wigg-Wolf
Workshop 2024 Identifying a Peloponnesian palette: pigment analysis of domestic architecture from Stymphalos Alice Clinch
Workshop 2024 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
Workshop 2024 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
Workshop 2024 Late Hellenistic braziers from Delos: provenance study and characterisation of “Cycladic” type Athena Konstandara, Edyta Marzec
Workshop 2024 Metalworking materials and practices from Late Antique Rome Giulia Bison, Jose Cristobal Carvajal Lopez
Workshop 2024 Mineralogical and petrographic study of tuyères from Pongsolo (Lekie, Central Cameroon) Epossi Ntah Zoila Luz-Kroll, Thomas Rose
Workshop 2024 Multi-analytical investigation on the carved oriental lacquerwares Shang-ying Liu, Patrizia Tomasin, Luca Nodari, Marta Boscolo Marchi, Alfonso Zoleo
Workshop 2024 Non-invasive material analysis of Egyptian Shabtis by XRF, Raman spectroscopy and CT Scanning Stelios Aspiotis, Olivier Bonnerot, Samaneh Ehteram, Leah Mascia
Workshop 2024 Ongoing archaeobotanical research in Mycenaean Iklaina, Messenia, Greece Symeon Gkinoudis, Evi Margaritis
Workshop 2024 Paint it, red: A technological and compositional study of classical pottery from Nea Paphos, Cyprus Geneviève Lascombes, Edyta Marzec, Lara Maritan
Workshop 2024 Phytolith analysis for the investigation of plant exploitation in Bronze Age Cyprus Georgia Kasapidou
Seminar 2024 Plant and insect remains as indicators for waterlogged dung layers – The example of the Neolithic lakeshore settlement Mooswinkel in the Austrian Alps Thorsten Jakobitsch
Workshop 2024 Revealing hidden histories: Using high-resolution portable computed tomography for closed Cuneiform Tablets Samaneh Ehteram
Workshop 2024 Shallow offshore archaeological Prospection in ancient Olous, Crete Angelos Plageras, Dimitrios Oikonomou, Nikos Papadopoulos
Workshop 2024 Silver-lead and copper production on Early Bronze Age southern Sifnos: an overview Magda Giannakopoulou
Workshop 2024 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
Workshop 2024 The RETS Project: Revealing the Senne. A hidden landmark in the historical center of Brussels, Belgium Dries Vergouwen, Ann Degraeve, Marc Meganck, Ralf Vandam, Yannick Devos
Workshop 2024 The clay of a gateway community in Cyprus: domestic pottery from Soli Marie-Louise Jahn Hansen
Workshop 2024 The interaction between Persian Gulf and Indian Peninsular 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
Workshop 2024 The “production” of Minoan red serpentinite Killian Regnier
Workshop 2024 Trace element influence on phytolith dissolution and preservation: Investigating the role of strontium and barium Nafsika C. Andriopoulou, Georgios E. Christidis
Workshop 2024 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
Workshop 2025 A Close-up on Prehistorical Household Structures, Case Study: Micromorphology in the Bronze Age Tell Settlement from Sântion-Movila Mănăstirii (Bihor County, Romania) Alexandra Stache, Florin Gogâltan, Emanoil Săsăran
Seminar 2025 Accelerated thermal and freeze-thaw cycling effects on the durability of Greek marble in built heritage Meilin Lyu
Workshop 2025 Ancient Egyptian Restoration Practices in the Second Intermediate Period: An Archaeometric and Textual Study Moaz Shaaban Talaat Ata, Hossam Hegazi
Workshop 2025 Ancient Parasitic Infection: A Millennium-Old Probable Echinococcal Cyst Discovered in an Avar Period Burial Csilla Libor, László Előd Aradi, Norbert Kapcsos M., Kristóf Fehér, Botond Heltai, Dániel Gerber, Tamás Sréter, Dániel Csete, Gergely Szenthe, Erwin Gáll
Workshop 2025 Application of Forensic Entomology in Archaeological Contexts: Insect Evidence from Medieval and Early Medieval Cemeteries in Hungary Csilla Libor, Dóra Hegyi, Virág Kristóf, Ágnes Füredi, Csaba Bozó
Workshop 2025 Application of Non-Destructive Field Investigation Methods in the Archaeological Study of a Medieval Ruined Settlement in Tolna County, Hungary Mátyás Németh
Workshop 2025 Applying a Multi-Proxy Approach to the Analysis of Archaeological Survey Ceramics from the Middle Euphrates Antonia Höhne
Seminar 2025 Archaeobotany and social change in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean: perspectives from the eastern fringes Tom Maltas
Workshop 2025 Archaeometric Analyses of Pozzolanic Mortars in Roman Thermal and Hydraulic Constructions at Nora, Sardinia Laura Buganza, Zeno Caneva, Jacopo Bonetto, Caterina Previato, Simone Dilaria
Workshop 2025 Archaeometric Analysis of Late Sarmatian Pottery Recovered from Tázlár-Templomhegy Settlement Vivien Bozsik, Krisztián Fintor, Sándor Gulyás, Dorottya Walter, Dorottya Györkös, Attila Kreiter, Máté Szemerédi
Workshop 2025 Archaeozoological Investigations in the Late Neolithic Site of Moftinu Mare-Hamiliz (Northwest Romania) Xenia Pop
Workshop 2025 Beyond Provenance: Reconstructing Exchange Routes, Production Processes, and Recycling based on Early Medieval Glass Beads from Zweeloo (The Netherlands) Nina Schreuder
Workshop 2025 Blue and Pink Across the Strait: Stylistic, Material, and Technical Study of 20th-Century Japanese and Taiwanese Ceramic Tableware Han-Chun (Joanna) Hsieh, Philippe Colomban, Ching-Fei Shih, Chun-Wei Chen
Workshop 2025 Characterization and Analysis of Wall Painting Fragments from the Sandrigo Estate of Aquileia for the Determination of a Chronological Framework Yarden Jessica Tsfoni, Clelia Sbrolli, Andrea Cipolato, Daniela Cottica, Simone Dilaria
Workshop 2025 Clay and Pots from Eneolithic period Mădalina Dimache
Seminar 2025 Colored sculptures under study: archaeometrical and symbolic approaches to pigments in pre-Columbian Ecuador Alejandra Sánchez Polo
Workshop 2025 Comparing Archaic Corinthian Pottery Through SEM-EDS and Optical Microscopy: A case study Michael Ioannou
Workshop 2025 Comparison of the Polychrome Metalworking and Decorative Techniques from the Langobardic and Gepidic periods (Late 5th and 6th Centuries AD) in the Carpathian Basin Viktória Mozgai, Eszter Horváth, László Előd Aradi, Bernadett Bajnóczi
Seminar 2025 Discover STON: a practical tool to study petrographic images and beyond! Evgenia Dammer, Romain Thomas
Workshop 2025 Distinguishing Binder to Aggregate Ratio in Historic Lime Mortars from Cyprus through FTIR Analysis: Is it Really Possible? Paola Pizzo, Petra Mácová, Jan Válek
Workshop 2025 Early Thoughts on Childhood in Early Medieval Iceland (10th–13th Centuries AD) Maren von Mallinckrodt
Seminar 2025 Egyptian blue production: a diachronic perspective Ilia Kovalev
Workshop 2025 Experimental Research of Medieval Bone Skates Kata Szathmári
Workshop 2025 Exploring AI-assisted Image Segmentation for Ceramic Thin Section Analysis: Some Experience with TagLab Elisabetta di Virgilio, Federico Parisi, Diego Ronchi, Antonio Ferrandes, Marco Callieri
Workshop 2025 First Archaeometric Results on Early Iron Age Ceramic Fragments from the Sanctuary of Apollo Pythios in Gortyn, Crete Bianca Costi Farias, Anna Bertelli, Lara Maritan, Jacopo Bonetto
Workshop 2025 Gender, Age, and Social Identity in the Middle Bronze Age Burials from Western Hungary Eszter Melis, Tamás Hajdu, Anett Gémes, Katalin Gyenesei, Fabian Kanz, István Major, Attila Mrenka, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Bálint Savanyú, Viktória Kiss
Workshop 2025 Geochemical and Mineralogical Provenance analysis of West African Pottery Juan-Marco Puerta Schardt, Andreas Gaertner
Workshop 2025 Geophysical Research of Rural Settlements of the Roman Period in the Surroundings of Crumerum (Nyergesújfalu, Hungary) Viola Tőkés
Workshop 2025 Iberian Majolica Finds in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary? Dorottya Györkös, Zsófia Nádai, László Előd Aradi, Kristóf Fehér, Erika Kereskényi, Attila Kreiter
Seminar 2025 Identifying Bronze Age alloying practices in the western and central Balkans Nicole Mittermair
Workshop 2025 Identifying Surface Treatments on Medieval Metal Artefacts András Török
Workshop 2025 Insight into the Corrosion Pattern of Cast Copper Coins from Tekttha, Naogaon, Bangladesh, Using Micro-XRD and SEM Analysis Tamanna Jahan, Sabikun Naher, Bulbul Ahmed, S.M. Tareque Abedin
Seminar 2025 Of landscape biographies and sediment archives: reconstructing the landscape history of the Kreuttal microregion in Lower Austria Doris Jetzinger
Workshop 2025 Painters by the Yarmouk: Investigating Craft Organisation through Painted Plaster Analysis at Gadara and Tall Zira’a (Northern Jordan) Elena Cantero Ros, Luc Megens, Brita Jansen, Hans Huisman, Susanne Kerner
Workshop 2025 Pottery Technology and Neolithization in the Middle Tagus Basin: Preliminary Petrographic Insights Estíbaliz Espada-Martín, Miriam Cubas, Silvia Amicone
Workshop 2025 Prehistoric Sites in Turkmenistan: A GIS-Based Overview of Spatial and Temporal Patterns Mahym Amanova
Workshop 2025 Research on Burnt Early Copper Age Houses at Marosnagylak Eszter Horváth, Dorottya Láng, András Füzesi
Workshop 2025 Strontium Isotopic and Proteomic Analyses on the Human Remains of the KGK VI sites of Sultana and Gumelnița, Romania Aurelien Tafani, Enrico Greco, Robert H. Tykot, Kévin Salesse, Hannah F. James, Christophe Snoeck, Cătălin Lazăr
Workshop 2025 Technological Investigation of the Middle Bronze Age Late Hatvan and Füzesabony Style Pottery from the Borsod Plain Region, Northeastern Hungary Ákos Mengyán, Klára P. Fischl, Ferenc Kristály
Workshop 2025 Technological Practices in the Production of Cave Paintings: An Archaeometric Approach Using Experimental Archaeology Catalina Venegas Peña
Workshop 2025 Textile Remains of the Early Avar period Cemetery at Babarc Flórián Harangi
Workshop 2025 The Datability of Nuremberger Yellow Brass Panni Kovács
Workshop 2025 The Inter-instrumental Comparability of Semi-quantitative ED-XRF Analyses of Iron Gall Inks Ophelia Kloth
Workshop 2025 The Lord of the Shrooms: A Sensor’s Quest to Detect Ancient Ergot Justina Stonyte, Paulina Morkyte, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Rasa Pauliukaite
Workshop 2025 The TerraLID metadata profile: Uniformly describing lead isotope data in archaeology Thomas Rose, Tim Greifelt, Katrin J. Westner, Annette Hornschuch, Yiu-Kang Hsu, Helge Wiethoff, Sabine Klein
Workshop 2025 The Traces of the Potter’s Hand: Pottery Experimental Reference Collection for the Analysis of Copper Age Vessels from the Carpathian Basin Eszter Solnay, Zita Hrabák, Antony Borel
Workshop 2025 The Whole, the Missing and the Disturbed: Exploring Post-Burial Practices in the Langobard Cemetery of Gyirmót-Homokdomb Regina Viktória Csordás, Eliza Orellana-González
Seminar 2025 Tracing ancient practices through archaeo-metabolomics: a new window into the sensory and medicinal landscapes of the past Barbara Huber
Workshop 2025 Tracing the Provenance of Roman Marble Statues Through Multi-Proxy Analysis Vasiliki Anevlavi, Kalina Petkova, Vesselka Katsarova, Petya Andreeva, Walter Prochaska
Workshop 2025 Unchanging Tastes: Material Choices in Hellenistic and Roman Storage Vessels from Nea Paphos Zofia Chomoncik
Workshop 2025 Understanding Copper Age Pottery Function Through Morphometric and Organic Residue Analysis Rebeka Solti, Isabel Wiltshire, Izzy Davis, Melanie Roffet-Salque, Lucy Cramp, Eszter Solnay, Márton Szilágyi, Dávis Kraus, Gábor Szilas, Zsuzsanna M. Virág, Zsuzsanna Siklósi
Workshop 2025 Urns under the Microscope: Petrographic Analysis of Eight Iron Age pots from Funen, Denmark Christina Holdgaard Schultze, Torbjörn Brorsson
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