Archaeometry '96, Urbana, Illinois, USA

Since Internet transmission from the Illinois server for the Archaeometry '96 conference is very slow we have decided to mirror some of the information on our server in the UK. The remainder of this document summarizes the provisional programme as announced in Sarah Wisseman's email on 31 January 1996.

Abstracts can be found on the SAS server

Department of Archaeological Sciences

University of Bradford, UK

International Symposium on

Archaeometry

May 20-24, 1996, Urbana, Illinois, USA

Provisional Program

SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1996

• 2:00 p.m. Tour of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave. (Meet in the 5th Floor Lobby, no charge)
• 2:00-5:00 p.m. Visiting hours at the World Heritage Museum (4th Floor of Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., no charge)
• 5:00-8:00 p.m. PRE-REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green, Rooms A-C (ground floor)

MONDAY, MAY 20

(Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Rooms A-C)

• 8:00-9:00 REGISTRATION AND MOUNTING OF POSTERS FOR SESSION A.
  (N.B.: Posters for Session A should remain up for TWO days)
• 9:00-9:10 Welcome and Introductions

TECHNOLOGY/PROVENANCE OF STONE, PIGMENTS, PLASTER

• 9:10-9:40 Review of Marble Provenance
  Y. Maniatis (REVIEW)
• 9:40-10:00 A NAA Data Base for Mediterranean Marbles
  Norman Herz and Michael Glascock
• 10:00-10:20 Isotopic Strontium: its Potential for Improving the Determination of the Provenance of Ancient Marble
  Sam C. Carrier, Norman Herz, and Bruno Turi
• 10:20-10:40 Obsidian Characterization by Laser Ablation ICP-MS and its Application to the Prehistoric Trade in the Mediterranean and the Near East: The Sources and Distribution within the Aegean, Anatolia and Armenia
  B. Gratuze
• 10:40-11:10 COFFEE
• 11:10-11:30 Lithic Raw Material Provenance Studies in Hungary
  Katalin T. Biro
• 11:30-11:50 Lime Burning in an Open Fire: A Reconstruction Experiment to Simulate the Manufacture of Early Neolithic Terrazzo Floors
  Maria Thais Crepaldi Affonso and Ernst Pernicka
• 11:50-12:10 A Comparison Study of Light Pigments used in Iydot and Mihew Tombs, Saqqara, Egypt
  Mona F. Ali
• 12:10-12:30 Non-destructive Spectroscopic Detection of Pigments containing Co(II) in Renaissance Italian Works of Art
  M. Bacci and M. Picollo
• 12:30-2:00 LUNCH BREAK

TECHNOLOGY/PROVENANCE OF CERAMICS AND GLASS

• 2:00-2:20 The Presumption of Local Provenance and Other Deadly Sins
  Peter M. Day, Neil J. Brodie, and Vassilis Kilikoglou
• 2:20-2:40 Hydrogen Reduction as a Strategy for Firing Chinese Ceramics
  Pamela Vandiver, Tim Levine, James W. Mayer, and Leopold May
• 2:40-3:00 Group Therapy in Crete in Crete: a Comparison between Analyses by INAA and Petrographic Thin Section of Early Bronze Age Pottery from Knossos
  Alexandra Tsolakidou, Peter M. Day, Evangelia Kiriatzi, and Vassilis Kilikoglou
• 3:00-3:20 The Provenience of some Mycenaean and Related Pottery found in the Tombs at Tel Akko and Laish/Dan in Israel
  J. Gunneveg, F. Asaro, and H. V. Michel
• 3:20-3:40 Postmanufacture Effects on the Chemical Characterization of Prehistoric Pottery: Evidence from the Central Mississippi River Valley
  J. W. Cogswell, L.M. Ross, Jr, M. J. O'Brien, H. Neff, and M. D. Glascock
• 3:40-4:00 COFFEE
• 4:00-4:20 Salado Ceramic Production: Provenance and Intervillage Exchange
  Arleyn W. Simon
• 4:20-4:40 Mapping Ceramic Compositional Variation and Prehistoric Interaction in Pacific Coastal Guatemala
  Hector Neff
• 4:40-5:00 Ceramic productions of Islamic and Hispano-Moresque Workshops in Spain (10th to 16th Centuries): General Trends and Reference Groups
  J. Molera, M. Vendrell-Saz, T. Pradell, and M. Garcia-Valles
• 5:00-5:20 Ceramic Physical Properties as Indicators of Technology
  V. Kilikoglou, G. Vekinis, Y. Maniatis, and P. M. Day
• 6:00-8:00 RECEPTION AND COMPUTER FAIR, Beckman Institute for Science and Technology, 405 N. Mathews (Atrium, ground floor)

TUESDAY, MAY 21

(Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Rooms A-C)

TECHNOLOGY/PROVENANCE OF CERAMICS/GLASS, II

• 8:30-8:50 Why Lead Glazes?
  M. S. Tite
• 8:50-9:10 Possibilities of Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) for the Determination of Lead Isotope Ratios and Isotopic Analysis of Glazes from the Medieval Ceramic Industry of Andenne (Belgium)
  Wim Devos, Luc Moens, Frank Vanhaecke, Richard Dams, and Emile C. Joel
• 9:10-9:30 The Results of an Archaeometric Examination of Glass from Sepphoris, Israel
  W. Patrick McCray, A. Fischer, and W. D. Kingery
• 9:30-9:50 Glass after Rome
  I.C. Freestone and M. J. Hughes
• 9:50-10:10 An Analytical Study of Roman Mosaic Tesserae to Investigate Their Re-Use in Medieval Enamels, and Some Comments on the Origins of their Opacifying Agents
  Jennifer L. Mass, Mark Wypyski, and Rabia Demiralp
• 10:10-10:30 White European glass trade beads
  R. G. V. Hancock, S. Aufreiter, and I. Kenyon
• 10:30-1:30 COFFEE AND POSTER SESSION A

TECHNOLOGY/PROVENANCE OF METALS

• 1:30-1:50 Copper Production from Sulfide Polymetal Ores of the East-Northern Balkans Eneolithic Culture
  Natalja Ryndina, Ginda Indenbaum, and Vera Kolosova
• 1:50-2:10 Metal Technology and Refractories from Iron Age Bronze Melting Workshop at Khirbet edh-Dharih, Jordan
  Sabine Klein, Andreas Hauptmann, Pamela Vandiver, and Carol Handwerker
• 2:10-2:30 Preliminary Study on Formation Process and Corrosion-resisting Mechanism of Chinese Black Mirrors
  Changsui Wang, Minoru Suzuki, W. Thomas Chase
• 2:30-2:50 Manufacturing Techniques of Belt and Harness Fittings of the X century A.D.
  Natalja Eniosova and Veronica Murashova
• 2:50-3:10 Scientific Investigations of Romano-British Metalworking
  Justine Bayley
• 3:10-3:30 Large Scale-Small Size Production: Roman Brass-Making Crucibles
  Thilo Rehren
• 3:30-4:00 COFFEE
• 4:00-4:20 The Sourcing of Southern African Tin Artefacts
  Mike Grant
• 4:20-4:40 Determining the Technological Origins of Iron and Steel
  David Starley
• 4:40-5:00 Precious Metals and Provenance Enquiries using ICP-MS-LA
  M. F. Guerra, C.-O. Sarthre, J.-N. Barrandon
• 5:00-5:20 The Mapungubwe Gold Jewelry: Chemical and Metallographical Analyses of the Oldest Known Gold Work in Southern Africa
  Duncan Miller and Suzanne Young
• 5:20-5:40 The Use of Sulphur in Hollow Ancient Gold Objects
  Gerhard Eggert
• 5:40-6:00 DISMOUNTING OF POSTERS (SESSION A)

(EVENING FREE)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22

(Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Avenue)

THEME SESSION: BIOLOGICAL REMAINS AND ORGANIC RESIDUES

• 8:30-8:40 Introductions
• 8:40-9:10 Paleodiet and Biochemistry
  Noreen Tuross
• 9:10-9:40 Diet Reconstruction with Stable Isotopes of Collagen and Apatite: Examples from Africa, Micronesia and North America
  Stanley Ambrose
• 9:40-10:10 Stable Isotope Ratios and Coastal Diets in the Later Stone Age of South Africa: A Comparison and Critical Analysis of Two Data Sets
  Judith Sealy
• 10:10-10:40 The Use and Abuse of Trace-Elements for Paleodietary Inferences
  James H. Burton
• 10:40-11:00 COFFEE
• 11:00-11:15 DISCUSSION
• 11:15-11:45 Lipid Biomarkers in Archaeology
  R. P. Evershed
• 11:45-12:15 (Organic Residues)
  Tania Oudemans
• 12:15-12:30 Discussion
• 12:30-2:00 LUNCH BREAK
• 2:00-2:30 Recovery of Ancient DNA from Skeletal Remains
  Bernd Herrmann
• 2:30-3:00 Ancient DNA and the Study of the New World
  D. Andrew Merriwether and Robert E. Ferrell
• 3:00-3:15 Discussion
• 3:15-3:40 COFFEE
• 3:40-4:10 Radiocarbon Dating of Organic Materials
  R. E. M. Hedges
• 4:10-4:40 U-Series and ESR Dating in Archaeology
  Henry P. Schwarcz and W. J. Rink
• 4:40-5:10 Conservation Via Parylene Gas Phase Polymer Technology: A Perspective from the Windover Bog Site (8BR246)
  J. M. Adovasio and B. Humphrey
• 5:10-5:30 Discussion
• 6:00-8:00 RECEPTION AND CONSERVATION EXHIBIT, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkaid Pavilion, 500 E. Peabody.

THURSDAY, MAY 23

(Illini Union, Green St., Rooms A-C)

• 8:00-8:30 MOUNTING OF POSTERS (POSTER SESSION B)
  (N.B.: Poster for Session B should remain up for TWO days)

BIOMATERIALS

• 8:30-8:50 Paleodietary Studies Based on the d13C Content of Cholesterol: Assessment of Dietary Differences Between English Inland and Coastal Communities
  A. W. Stott, S. Jim, R. P. Evershed, and N. Tuross
• 8:50-9:10 A Solubility Profile Study of Acid Treatment of Archaeological Bone Mineral for Isotopic Paleodietary Analysis
  Lori E. Wright, Tosha Dupras, Henry P. Schwarcz, and Martin Kynf
• 9:10-9:30 A Chemical 87Sr/86Sr Plateau Method for Obtaining Sr-Isotope Signatures from Fossil Bones and Teeth
  S. Hoelzl and P. Horn
• 9:30-9:50 Biochemical Criteria for the Characterization of Thermally-Altered Bone
  R. E. Taylor, P. E. Hare, D. Von Endt, and J. Kokis
• 9:50-10:10 Mesolithic `Mastics': The Source of Natural Products in the Mesolithic of NortheRn Europe
  E. M. Aveling, C. Heron, and L. Larsson
• 10:10-10:30 Investigations of Stone Tool Function through Use-wear, Organic Residue, and DNA Analysis
  Bruce L. Hardy
• 10:30-1:30 COFFEE AND POSTER SESSION B
• 1:30-1:50 Central European Pine Tar Technologies
  Curt W. Beck, Edith C. Stout, Jonathan Bingam, Jonathan Lucas, Vandana Purohit
• 1:50-2:10 Chemical Nature of Balm Components used for Mummification in an Early Ptolemeic Mummy
  Johann Koller and Ursula Baumer

FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY

• 2:10-2:40 Archaeological Soils and their Magnetic Properties (REVIEW)
  Jörg Fassbinder

Geological Prospection subsession (moderater: Albert Hesse)

• 2:40-3:00 A 100-500MHz Band FM-CW Ground Penetrating Radar for Archaeological Prospecting
  Hiroyuki Kamei, Shu Murayama, Masatsugu Shimizu and Yoshiyuki Naito
• 3:00-3:20 Resolving Discrepancies between Interpretations of Georadar Data and Reality
  Juerg Leckebusch
• 3:20-3:40 COFFEE
• 3:40-4:00 Potential Focussing in Electrical Prospecting
  Cedric Panissod and Alain Tabbagh
• 4:00-4:20 Building an Archaeological Site: The Champaign Facility for Testing Non Invasive Techniques in Archaeology, Phase I
  Joyce Baird, John Issacson, Thomas J. Riley

Geo-chemical archaeology subsession (Moderator: )

• 4:20-4:40 Identification of Activity Areas on Prehistoric Housefloors by Chemical Analysis of Anthropogenic Sediments
  William D. Middleton
• 4:40-5:00 An Innovative Analysis of the Total, Inorganic and Organic Soil Phosphorus of a Prehistoric Mohawk Indian Site
  Henry J. Chaya
• 5:00-5:20 Assessment of Habitational Intensity of Occupation at Harappan Site Dholavira, through Elemental Analysis of Anthropogenic Soils
  Y. S. Farswan and V. Nautiyal
• 6:30 p.m. SYMPOSIUM BANQUET, Illini Union Ballroom

FRIDAY, MAY 24

(Illini Union, Rooms A-C)

DATING OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC MATERIALS

• 8:45-9:15 REVIEW
  G. A. Wagner
• 9:15-9:35 Radiocarbon Calibration for Dating based on Amino Acid Racemization: Newest Results on the Field of Age Determination of Fossil Bone Samples
  Janos Csapos and Zsuzsanna Csapo-Kiss
• 9:35-9:55 Radiocarbon Dating: Organic Residues at the Microgram Level
  D. Kirner, R. Burky, R. E. Taylor, and J. R. Southon
• 9:55-10:15 Radiocarbon Dating of Prehistoric Rock Paintings from Texas
  Marian Hyman and Marvin W. Rowe
• 10:15-10:35 A New Spatial-temporal Model of the Dispersal of Domesticates from their Near Eastern Center of Origin to the Atlantic Coast, based on the Analysis of Recent Compilations of Radiocarbon Dates
  Ilona Matkovszki
• 10:35-11:00 COFFEE
• 11:00-11:20 Dating of Materials up to 100,000 years old with Accelerator based Radiocarbon Dating: an Eternal Dream or Reality in the Near Future?
  K. Vandeputte, L. Moens, R. Dams, and J. Van der Plicht
• 11:20-12:20 DISCUSSION: TRAINING AND PLACEMENT IN ARCHAEOMETRY
  (moderated by the Society for Archaeological Sciences)
• 12:20-1:45 LUNCH BREAK
• 1:45-2:45 DISCUSSION: FUNDING FOR ARCHAEOMETRY
  (moderated by the Societyfor Archaeological Sciences)

DATING, II

• 2:45-3:05 Uranium Series Dating of Flowstones from the Great Orme Mine
  Helen L. King
• 3:05-3:25 ESR Dating on the Stratigraphy of Yunxian Homo Erectus, Hubei, China
  Chen Tiemei, Yang Quan, and Hu Yanqiu
• 3:25-3:50 COFFEE
• 3:50-4:10 New Data on Secular Change in the U.S. Southwest Geomagnetic Field and a New Version of the Southwest Archaeomagnetic Master Curve
  Jeffrey L. Eighmy and Jason M. LaBelle
• 4:10-4:30 A Climate-driven Dating Tool for Pre-historic Archaeology
  Tim Rolph and Jan Bloemendal
• 4:30-5:00 DISCUSSION AND CLOSING OF SESSIONS.