Conference Schedule
14th November 2018
13:30- Registration
15:30
15:30 Opening and welcome from the organisers
16:00 DIALOGUE 1 - Sailing Off from the Safe Harbour. Maritime Network and Connectivity in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Mediterranean
Moderator: Helen Dawson
Michael Templer (Independent Researcher)
Pre-Neolithic evidence for human visits or settlements on Mediterranean Islands
Panos Tzovaras (University of Southampton)
Cultural “koinae” and maritime networks in the 4th millennium Aegean and its adjacent
coastland: Mapping the distribution of the material culture and sites' intervisibility through
ArcGis
Angiolo Querci (Università di Pisa)
“The wind filled the belly of the sail”. A reassessment of the so called “Western String”
route
Panagiotis Kaplanis (National and Kapodestrian University of Athens)
Late Bronze Age harbors in Eastern Mediterranean
Open dialogue
17:30 Mediterranean Monologue (Keynote lecture)
18:45 Wine reception
15th November 2018
9:30 DIALOGUE 2 - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. A Second Thought on
Mediterranean Interconnection, Dynamics, and the Movements of People and Goods
Moderator: Maurizio Cattani
José Miguel Morillo León (Independent Researcher)
Warriors, sailors and traders across the Sea: a glimpse on Mediterranean islands in the III
millennium BC and the Bell Beakers phenomenon
Sergios Menelaou (University of Sheffield)
Patterns of insularity, connectivity, and ceramic interaction between Early Bronze Age
Samos, the southeast Aegean, and western Anatolia
Kewin Peche-Quilichini (INRAP & ASM UMR 5140)
Archipelago nuraghe. Origin, diffusion and divergence of an architectural model of the
Sardinian-Corsican Bronze Age
Open dialogue
10:30 Coffee break
10:50 DIALOGUE 3 - Face to Face with the Open Sea. Costal Research from Seascapes to Underwater Archaeology
Moderator: Marialucia Amadio
Zoran Čučković (Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté)
Coastlines as storylines: approaching prehistoric seascapes from the experiential perspective
Frerich Schoen (University of Tuebingen)
Seascapes of change: the strait of Sicily in the early 1st Millennium BC
Christopher Nuttal (University of Uppsala)
Backs to the Sea? Insularity and the ‘international spirit’: the rejection of seascapes in the EB II Aegean?
Alessia Monticone (Università di Sassari)
The gulf of Olbia (Sardinia): bases and development of underwater and costal research
Open dialogue
12:05 Lunch break
13:30 DIALOGUE 4 - Exegi Monumentum Aere Perennius. Building Monuments to Build
Communities
Moderator: Kewin Peche-Quilichini
Antonis Vratsalis-Pantelaios (University of Crete)
Same Sea, different waves? A contextual approach of monumentality in the islands of
Mediterranean, 4th-2nd Millennium BC.
Ralph Araque Gonzalez (University of Freiburg im Breisgau)
Monuments of cooperating communities: Sardinian nuraghi and sanctuaries
Valentina Matta (Aarhus University)
Uncovering social changes through the study of sanctuaries in Nuragic Sardinia
Open dialogue
14:30 Coffee break
14:50 DIALOGUE 5 - No Pot Is an Island. Making Sense of Pottery Production, Circulation,
and Imitation across the Mediterranean
Moderator: Giampaolo Graziadio
Paraskevi Vlachou (University of Crete)
The dispersal of comb ware pottery in the Aegean and West Mediterranean coasts in the
transitional FN-EBA period. Issues of origin and circulation in a dynamic cultural
perspective
Lorenzo Mazzotta (Università di Pisa)
Late Bronze Age Cypriot ceramics in Eastern Mediterranean – Selection and circulation
Jacek Tracz (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of
Sciences, Warsaw)
Social impact of Rhodian imitations of Cypriot pottery in Late Bronze Age
Open dialogue
20:00 Conference dinner
16th November 2018
9:30 DIALOGUE 6 - Land or Shore? Exploring Terrestrial and Maritime Resource
Management and Their Socioeconomic Importance for Island Communities
Moderator: Luca Bombardieri
Mari Yamasaki (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Concepts of insularity and maritime identities
Dominika Kofel (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences), Carly Henkel (Leiden University), Kiriaki Tsirtsi (The Cyprus Institute), Daniele
Redamante (Università di Torino) and Evi Margaritis (The Cyprus Institute)
The agriculture of the Early Bronze Age Aegean. Keros as a case study of archaeobotanical
research
Caterina Scirè Calabrisotto (Ca’Foscari Università di Venezia)
Food for thought. An isotopic investigation of diet and subsistence economy amongst Bronze
Age Mediterranean island communities
Open dialogue
10:30 Coffee break
10:50 DIALOGUE 7 - Put Your Work in a Pair of Hands. Investigating Tools and Technologies to Identify Craftsmen
Moderator: Agata Ulanowska
Jacopo Conforti (Università di Pisa)
The A Guaita knapped quartz industry: entropy and subsistence practices in a Cap Corse
Neolithic settlement
Maryline Lambert (Durham University)
Composition and uses of reddish processed stones from Corsican prehistory
Katarzyna Żebrowska (University of Warsaw)
Sicilian textile tools from the Bronze Age – a research project to investigate the prehistoric
technology of textile production
Marco Romeo Pitone (Newcastle University)
Reconstructing the Earliest Metallurgy of Cyprus: experimental copper smelting at Pyrgos-
Mavroraki
Open dialogue
12:05 Lunch break
13:30 DIALOGUE 8 - Home Sweet Home. Settlements, Domestic Architecture and Dynamics of Dwelling
Moderator: Anna Depalmas
Florencia Debandi, Alessandra Magrì and Alessandro Peinetti (Università di Bologna)
Stone, earth and fire. Living on Pantelleria island 3700 years ago
Marta Pais and Luca Doro (Università di Sassari)
Domestic architecture in the Nuragic settlement of Palmavera (Alghero, Sardinia): the Hut 42
Cezary Namirski (Durham University)
Nuragic settlement dynamics: new results from Sarrabus and Ogliastra (Sardinia)
Open dialogue
14:30 Coffee break
14:50 DIALOGUE 9 - Through the Looking Glass: Islands on the Verge of Change
Moderator: Manuel Calvo Trias
Kevin Spathmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
The last Cypriot ware in Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean. Difficulties and possibilities Proto-
White-Painted Ware can offer for ‘Dark Age’ Exchange Systems
Guy De Mulder (Ghent University) and Mark Van Strydonck (Independent Researcher)
Radiocarbon evidence for an abrupt cultural change at the transition of the Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age at the Balearic Islands (Mallorca and Menorca)
Christian Vonhoff (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
The silver studded sword from Cyprus, Tamassos T. 12 (CA II), in the Cambridge
Fitzwilliam Museum Collection – Iron Age Reflections of LBA hero burials?
15:50- Final remarks
16:20
16:20- Artistic performance
16:30
PDF documents of the Conference Schedule and Book of Abstracts can be downloaded from the links below
