Young Researchers in Archaeometry 2025

YRA2025 Key dates

April 1^st – Abstract submission opens
May 31^st – Deadline for abstract submission
June 15^th – EXTENDED Deadline for abstract submission
July 1^st – Announcement of abstracts decisions
July 1^st – Registration opens
Aug 15^th – Registration closes for presenters
Sept 1^st – Preliminary program available
Sept 15^th – Registration closes for participants
Oct 1^st – Meeting details and final program available
Oct 14^th–17^th – YRA2025 in Budapest
Oct 31^st – Certificates sent to participants
Jan 31^st – Submission deadline for the Proceedings.

General information

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Sponsored by:

Subcommittee on Archaeometry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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Organised by:
Viktória Mozgai
Rebeka Gergácz
Andrea Mészáros
Eszter Solnay
Enikő Somogyvári-Lajtár
Thomas Rose

We are happy to announce that the 8^th Workshop Young Researchers in Archaeometry will be held at the Eötvös Loránd University, in Budapest, Hungary. The conference will be held in person from October 14^th to 17^th, 2025 and will welcome early career researchers (masters, PhD, post-docs up to six years after their PhD) in archaeological sciences and cultural heritage studies.

With this workshop, we aim to offer a relaxed atmosphere to encourage interdisciplinary exchange between early career researchers. We are pleased to invite you for oral and poster contributions in all fields of natural sciences about archaeological and anthropological topics. In particular, early career researchers in archaeology, art history, anthropology, biological anthropology, environmental archaeology, chemistry, conservation, cultural heritage, earth science, and material science are welcome to submit an abstract for an oral presentation or poster.

Programme and social events

Oral presentations will be 20 minutes with time for discussion included. Posters should have size A0 in portrait format (width: 841 mm, height: 1189 mm).

All times are given in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2). You can convert to your local time zone with, e.g., timeanddate.com.

Oct. 14th

19:00

Icebreaker (self-paid) Treffort Kert és Könyvtár Klub (1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 4.)

Oct. 15th

09:00 – 09:30	Registration
09:30 – 09:50	Welcome
09:50 – 10:20	Keynote: Communities, connectivity and catastrophes in 6th century Pannonia: Challenges and possibilities of combining genetic, archaeological and historical perspectives István Koncz
	Session 1: Pigments, plaster and mortars
10:20 – 10:40	The inter-instrumental comparability of semi-quantitative ED-XRF analyses of iron gall inks Ophelia Kloth
10:40 – 11:00	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
11:00 – 11:20	Distinguishing binder to aggregate ratio in historic lime mortars from Cyprus through FTIR analysis: is it really possible? Paola Pizzo, Petra Mácová, Jan Válek
11:20 – 11:40	Coffee break
11:40 – 12:00	Awards ceremony
	Session 2: Glass and building materials
12:00 – 12:20	Beyond Provenance: Reconstructing Exchange Routes, Production Processes, and Recycling based on Early Medieval Glass Beads from Zweeloo (the Netherlands) Nina Schreuder
12:20 – 12:40	Research on Burnt Early Copper Age Houses at Marosnagylak Eszter Horváth, Dorottya Láng, András Füzesi
12:40 – 13:00	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
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch break
	Session 3: Metals
14:00 – 14:20	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
14:20 – 14:40	Identifying surface treatments on medieval metal artefacts András Török
14:40 – 15:00	The datability of Nuremberger yellow brass Panni Kovács
15:00 – 15:20	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
15:20 – 15:40	Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00	Guided tour in the Hungarian National Museum (1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 14–16.)

Oct. 16th

09:00 – 11:30	Visit at the Budapest Neutron Centre (1121 Budapest, Konkoly-Thege Miklós út 29–33.) or ELTE RCH Institute of Archaeogenomics (1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán utca 4.)
11:30 – 13:20	Lunch break
	Bioarchaeology, part 1
13:20 – 13:40	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
13:40 – 14:00	Early Thoughts on Childhood in Early Medieval Iceland (10th–13th Centuries AD) Maren von Mallinckrodt
14:00 – 14:20	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
14:20 – 14:40	Coffee break
14:40 – 16:00	Poster Session (see tab “Posters”)
	Session 5: Bioarchaeology, part 2
16:00 – 16:20	The Whole, the Missing and the Disturbed- Exploring Post-Burial Practices in the Langobard Cemetery of Gyirmót–Homokdomb Regina Viktória Csordás, Eliza Orellana-González
16:20 – 16:40	Experimental research of medieval bone skates Kata Szathmári
16:40 – 17:00	Archaeozoological investigations in the Late Neolithic site of Moftinu Mare-Hamiliz (Northwest Romania) Xenia Pop
17:00 – 17:20	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
20:30	Conference dinner (self-paid) Vakvarjú Étterem Pest (1061 Budapest Paulay Ede u. 7.)

Oct. 17th

	Session 6: Ceramics, part 1
09:00 – 09:20	Pottery Technology and Neolithization in the Middle Tagus Basin: Preliminary Petrographic Insights Estíbaliz Espada-Martín, Miriam Cubas, Silvia Amicone
09:20 – 09:40	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
09:40 – 10:00	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
10:00 – 10:20	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
10:20 – 10:40	Comparing archaic Corinthian pottery through SEM-EDS and optical microscopy. A case study Michael Ioannou
10:40 – 11:00	Coffee break
	Session 7: Ceramics, part 2
11:00 – 11:20	Unchanging tastes: Material choices in Hellenistic and Roman storage vessels from Nea Paphos Zofia Chomoncik
11:20 – 11:40	Geochemical and mineralogical provenance analysis of West African pottery Juan-Marco Puerta Schardt, Andreas Gaertner
11:40 – 12:00	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
12:00 – 12:20	Iberian majolica finds in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary? Dorottya Györkös, Zsófia Nádai, László Előd Aradi, Kristóf Fehér, Erika Kereskényi, Attila Kreiter
12:20 – 13:40	Lunch break
	Session 8: Geoarchaeology and geophysics
13:40 – 14:00	Prehistoric Sites in Turkmenistan: A GIS-Based Overview of Spatial and Temporal Patterns Mahym Amanova
14:00 – 14:20	Geophysical research of rural settlements of the Roman period in the surroundings of Crumerum (Nyergesújfalu, Hungary) Viola Tőkés
14:20 – 14:40	Application of Non-Destructive Field Investigation Methods in the Archaeological Study of a Medieval Ruined Settlement in Tolna County, Hungary Mátyás Németh
14:40 – 15:00	Closing

Posters

Bioarchaeology, diet, mobility

• The Lord of the Shrooms: A Sensor’s Quest to Detect Ancient Ergot
  Justina Stonyte, Paulina Morkyte, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Rasa Pauliukaite

Ceramics, pottery, glazes

• Urns Under the Microscope: Petrographic analysis of eight Iron Age pots from Funen, Denmark
  Christina Holdgaard Schultze, Torbjörn Brorsson
• 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
• Clay and pots from Eneolithic period
  Mădălina Dimache
• Blue and Pink Across the Strait: Stylistic, Material, and Technical Study of 20th-Century Japanese and Taiwanese Ceramic Tableware
  Han-Chun (Joanna) Hsieh
• 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

Pigments, mortars

• 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
• Ancient Egyptian Restoration Practices in the Second Intermediate Period: An Archaeometric and Textual Study
  Moaz Shaaban Talaat Ata, Hossam Hegazi
• Archaeometric analyses of Pozzolanic Mortars in Roman Thermal and Hydraulic Constructions at Nora, Sardinia
  Laura Buganza, Zeno Caneva, Jacopo Bonetto, Caterina Previato, Simone Dilaria
• Technological Practices in the Production of Cave Paintings: An Archaeometric Approach Using Experimental Archaeology
  Catalina Venegas Peña

Metals

• 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

Organic materials, organic residues, textiles

• Textile remains of the Early Avar period cemetery at Babarc
  Flórián Harangi
• 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

Lithics, stones, building materials

• Tracing the Provenance of Roman Marble Statues through Multi-Proxy Analysis
  Vasiliki Anevlavi, Kalina Petkova, Vesselka Katsarova, Petya Andreeva, Walter Prochaska

SAS Travel Award

The Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) sponsors a single travel award of USD 250 to support one student/ECR from low and middle income countries and/or with financial need.

Proceedings

YRA2025 teamed up with the editorial board of Archeometriai Műhely to publish the workshop proceedings as full-length peer-reviewed articles. Archeometriai Műhely is a diamond open access journal, meaning that publication and access to its articles are free of charge. More information will follow soon. Submission deadline for the proceedings is 31^st January 2026.

How to get to the venue

Venue

The conference is hosted by the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) (open location in GoogleMaps). It is easily accessible by public transport:

• Metro lines M2 (Astoria stop), M4 (Kálvin Square stop), M1 and M3 (Deák Ferenc Square stop),
• Buses lines 5, 7, 8, 107, 110, 112, 133, 178, 233, and 239 (Astoria stop).

The conference will be held at Building A of the campus.

Travel to Budapest

• By plane: Liszt Ferenc International Airport connects Budapest with most of the major European cities. Budapest is easily accessible from the airport by both public transport and taxi. The 100E bus takes the passengers directly to the city centre and conference venue, stopping at Astoria stop. It departs to the airport from Deák Ferenc Square and Kálvin Square stops.
• By train: Budapest is directly accessible by train from many major European cities via both state-owned and private railway companies, see for example https://jegy.mav.hu/. Most of the international lines arrive at Keleti Railway Station or Kelenföld Railway Station, both of which are easily accessible by metro.
• By bus: International coach services such as Flixbus connect Budapest with the larger cities of several neighbouring countries. Most of the bus terminals are easily accessible by metro.
• By car: Budapest can be easily reached via numerous public highways, for which a highway vignette is required. Please look up the fares and how to purchase a vignette at https://toll-charge.hu/en. Please keep in mind that the parking is paid in most parts of the city, including the venue of the conference.