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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Registration

Please register through this form. Registration is possible for everyone, also if you are not presenting. Workshop fees are 30 €. SAS members receive a 5 € discount; you can join SAS before 15 September to benefit from the discount.

Programme and social events

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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).

tba	Icebreaker (self-paid)

09:00 – 09:30	Registration
09:30 – 09:50	Welcome
09:50 – 10:20	Keynote
	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

	Session 2: Glass and building materials
11:40 – 12:00	Glass types in Bronze and Iron Age Southeast Hungary Zsófia Sz. Osváth, Bernadett Bajnóczi, Máté Szabó
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

09:00 – 11:30	Visit at the Budapest Neutron Centre or ELTE RCH Institute of Archaeogenomics (with 30 minutes lectures)

11:30 – 13:00	Lunch break

	Bioarchaeology, part 1
13:00 – 13:20	Identification of Genomic Markers Associated with Tuberculosis in Ancient Individuals from the Americas Ana Cristina de Lima Pedrozo Cardouzo, André Luiz Campelo dos Santos, Henry Socrates Lavalle Sullasi
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

20:00	Conference dinner (self-paid)

	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
11:40 – 12:00	Applying a Multi-Proxy Approach to the Analysis of Archaeological Survey Ceramics from the Middle Euphrates Antonia Höhne
12:00 – 12:20	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
12:20 – 12:40	Iberian majolica finds in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary? Dorottya Györkös, Zsófia Nádai, László Előd Aradi, Kristóf Fehér, Erika Kereskényi, Attila Kreiter

12:40 – 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

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
Urns Under the Microscope: Petrographic analysis of eight Iron Age pots from Funen, Denmark
Christina Holdgaard Schultze, Torbjörn Brorsson
Archaeometric analyses of Pozzolanic Mortars in Roman Thermal and Hydraulic Constructions at Nora, Sardinia
Laura Buganza, Zeno Caneva, Jacopo Bonetto, Caterina Previato, Simone Dilaria
Textile remains of the Early Avar period cemetery at Babarc
Flórián Harangi
Ceramic technology of Neolithic: case of northern Algeria sites
Bensadok Saida
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
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
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
Tracing the Provenance of Roman Marble Statues through Multi-Proxy Analysis
Vasiliki Anevlavi, Kalina Petkova, Vesselka Katsarova, Petya Andreeva, Walter Prochaska
More Than Just Fat? Rethinking Middle Bronze Age Ceramic Use and Function
Nóra Szabó
The Lord of the Shrooms: A Sensor’s Quest to Detect Ancient Ergot
Justina Stonyte, Paulina Morkyte, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Rasa Pauliukaite
Application of Geochemistry in the Provenance Analysis of the Surface Coverings of the Coréia Archaeological Complex - Morro do Chapéu (BA, Brazil)
Ana Cristina de Lima Pedrozo Cardouzo, Bruno de Azevedo Cavalcanti Tavares
Non-sign Elements in Harappan Civilization: Spatio-Temporal Mapping
Anshika Singh
Ancient Egyptian Restoration Practices in the Second Intermediate Period: An Archaeometric and Textual Study
Moaz Shaaban Talaat Ata, Hossam Hegazi
Reconstructing Ancient Diets through Residue Analysis: A Case Study from Thimlich Ohinga, Kenya
Patrick Munyao
Archaeometric study of the Purna River, Tapi basin, India: A Review
Rupesh Dhokane, Prabash Sahu
Beads as cultural blueprints: Decoding society and landscape in Iron Age Tamilagam
Rithik Pramod , Tanaya Acharjee
Blue and Pink Across the Strait: Stylistic, Material, and Technical Study of 20th-Century Japanese and Taiwanese Ceramic Tableware
Han-Chun (Joanna) Hsieh
Technological Practices in the Production of Cave Paintings: An Archaeometric Approach Using Experimental Archaeology
Catalina Venegas Peña
Iron smelting in the Árpádian period – Excavation of the Réde–Bika-rét site
Holy Fanni, Győri-Pórszász Anna, Merkl Máté Róbert
Reconstruction prehistoric settlement: An Geoarcharcheological study of Mesolithic assemblage of Bhaski, Chota Nagpur, India.
Sukanya Guha Niyogi
Compositional Diversity in Indus Faience: SEM-EDS Analysis of Beads from Gujarat
Sneha Chavali

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.