Previous Semester Programs

Lara Mccarry (University of Tübingen)

Land of culchies and cattle: tracing cattle mobility in Iron Age Ireland using multi-isotope (δ¹⁸O, δ³⁴S, ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) analysis

Simone Piovesan (University of Tübingen)

Early Celtic glass artefacts from the west Nördlinger Ries. Scientific analyses on the origin, production, and distribution of glass around the princely seat on the Ipf

Dr. Emma Loftus (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany)

Challenges for modelling the frequency of human burials: case studies from southern Africa

Special Talk: Senior Prof. Dr. Klaus Nickel (University of Tübingen, Germany)

 Future perspectives for archaeometry: thermodynamic approaches for the evaluation of ancient ceramics

Irene Strufaldi (University of Pisa, Italy)

Developing a clay raw material database for early medieval ceramic production in Tuscany (Italy)

Efraim A. Andreadakis (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Organisation of pottery production in early Iron Age Etruria: insights in proto-urban centres

Maria Diakatou (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Early Etruscan cities: continuity and innovation in Orientalising pottery production

Dr. Mercedes Navero Rosales (University of Granada, Spain)

Ivory provenance analysis during the recent Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula

Maharishi Kalla (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Organic resource exploitation at urbanised Tell Koubba II in Early Bronze Age Levant

Bianca Costi Farias (University of Padova, Italy)

Remains of a sacred past: archaeometric characterization of protogeometric to archaic ceramics from the Sanctuary of Apollo Pythios in Gortyn, Crete (Greece)

Dr. Jan Dekker (University of Turin, Italy)

What is a gram worth? Evaluating minimal and common sample sizes in palaeoproteomic research

Prof. Dr. Marion Weber (National University of Colombia, Colombia)

Provenance of archaeological artefacts of the pre-Hispanic Nahuange y Tairona societies, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia

Paula Becerra Fuello (University of Granada, Spain; University of Tübingen, Germany)

The multi-proxy study of cremations: the cemetery of Los Milanes (Almeria, Spain)

Dr. Petra Tušlová (Charles University, Czech Republic; The Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens, Greece)

Unbroken tradition. The handmade pottery in Roman Thrace

Tamara Michealis (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Reconstructing animal mobility – Oxygen and carbon isotope analyses applied to animal remains from the site of Mesa Redonda (Seville, Spain)

Dr. Torbjörn Brorsson (Ceramic Studies, Sweden)

Analyses of pottery – Much more than natural science. Examples from Scandinavia and Iceland

Prof. Dr. Christoph Snoeck, Dr. Hannah James (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Beyond just mobility: using strontium isotope analyses in archaeology

Marika Ciela (University of Trento, Italy)

Crafting with bones. Tempering strategies in Neolithic pottery production in northeast Italy (6th–5th millennia cal. BCE)

Jun-Prof. Dr. Alice Toso (University of Bonn, Germany)

Biomolecular applications to historical archaeology: case studies from Bonn to Mongolia

Giulia Deimichei (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Investigating ceramic production in the early Iron Age site of Duna Feniglia (Orbetello, GR): an archaeometric approach

Kathleen Schaupp (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Broken memories – Glass composition and technology as a reflection of the craftsman knowledge in the 16th century glass workshop Scharfenstein-Süd, Münster valley, Black Forest

Dr. Elena Marocchino (University of Ferrara, Italy)

Geoscience and archaeometry in the preservation of medieval and renaissance heritage: a scientific journey through Ferrara's historical materials

Nina Finkel (University of Tübingen, Germany)

On the crossroads: an investigation of the isotopic and chemical composition of copper and bronze finds from Troy

Dr. Susanna Cereda (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

Of fire and water: a microarchaeological investigation of the Kropfsberg mine (North Tyrol, Austria)

Aitor Brito Mayor (University of Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Spain)

Food and healing in a colonial spot: zooarchaeology and isotopes at hospital de San Martín (Canary Islands, 15th – 18th AD)

Dr. Dobereiner Chala-Aldana (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Isoscape modelling: comments on map scaling and isoscapes application in prehistoric mobility analyses

Eirini Koutouvaki (University of Padova, Italy)

Black, white, red: analysis of a late 5th-3rd mil. painted decorated ceramic class from Mahtoutabad, southeastern Iran

Kelly Brandão (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Clay-based materials of the Monte Castelo site – Amazon

Tinoco Domínguez (University of Granada, Spain)

Social archaeozoology applied to the study of food in the Bronze Age settlement of Peñalosa (Baños de la Encina, Jaén, Spain)

Julia Becher (University of York, UK; Université Côte d'Azur, France)

Pots, people, place. Investigating the use of ceramics in late Neolithic, Orkney

Gökçe Öztürk (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Tracing animal herding patterns of central Anatolian Neolithic populations with carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis

Lara van der Schüür (University of Cologne, Germany)

Narrating clays - A multidisciplinary exploration of the local pottery production at Elusa (northern Negev, Israel) in Imperial Roman and Byzantine times - A preliminary report

Pablo González-Fernández (University of Tübingen, Germany)

The Bronze Age human remains from Cape Trafalgar (Cádiz, Spain). Paleodiet, paleomobility and activity reconstruction

Ramón López-Gijón (University of Granada, Spain)

Health and disease in the past through palaeoparasitology

Meryem Büyükyaka (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Archaeological and archaeometric studies of Iron Age basket-handle amphora and mortaria from Tell el-Burak

Elena Revert Francés (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Organic residue analysis at the transition to the Iron Age in south Iberia

Dr. Vanessa Linares (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)

“The invisible trade”: organic residue analysis of small ceramic vessels from Tel Shadud, Tel Bene Beraq and Tel Yehud during the late Bronze Age

Thomas Rose (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)

Blown away by old material: new insights into the unalloyed copper process of the Chalcolithic southern Levant (4500–3800 BCE)

Qi Zeng (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Preliminary ORA result of consumption practices in Hazor during late Bronze Age

Dr. Lua Valenzuela Suau (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)

Animal husbandry and mobility patterns during the Prehistory of the Balearic Islands (Spain). New contributions through strontium and oxygen analyses (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr and δ¹⁸Ο)

Sinem Hacıosmanoğlu (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Exploring the profile of Cilician clay deposits: the implications for the provenance study of Bronze and Iron Age potteries from Sirkeli Höyük, southern Anatolia, Turkey

Marcel Frenken (University of Tübingen, Germany)

A petrographic overview of the Greek transport amphora from Tell el-Burak, Lebanon

Eirini Koutouvaki (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Pottery traditions during the emergence of the first states. Analysis of the late Chalcolithic 3-5 pottery assemblage from eastern Ḫabur area, Iraqi Kurdistan

Andrea Martínez-Carrasco (University College London, UK)

State control of production and distribution of Inka-Style pottery in the southern border of Tawantinsuyu (Inka state)

Dr. Petra Tušlová (Charles University, Czech Republic)

Identifying regional pottery production in the Roman Thrace based on archaeometric data. The case study of Yurta-Stroyno

Zaira García López (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

Necrosol: soil formation and archaeological implications

Michaela Schauer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)

What has p-XRF ever done for us?! Prejudices towards an analytical method and suggestions to overcome them

Enrique Fernández-Palacios (University of La Laguna, Spain)

Microscopic and biomolecular analyses of a Neolithic combustion feature from Abric del Xicotó (Spain)

Barbara Huber (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Germany)

Exploring ancient aromatics, spices and smells capes through metabolic profiling

Giulia Deimichei (University of Trento, Italy)

When the potter has a choice: petrographic study of North Italian Neolithic ceramic production

Dr. Javier Escudero-Carillo (University of Tübingen, Germany)

A good place to live? Herd management in the lower Guadalquivir Valley in southern Iberia during the 3rd mill. BC: the site of Valencina-Castilleja

Evelyn Ibanhez Pilih (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Mobility patterns of ancient Eurasian pastoralists informed by ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr analysis and landscape-use

Valeria Tiezzi (University of Pisa, Italy)

From pots to cultural dynamics: technological choices in 5th and 4th millennium Po Plain (Italy)

Marcel Frenken (University of Tübingen, Germany)

The Philosophers Stone and the Latrine of Secrets –Mineralogical and chemical analysis of early modern technical ceramics and lead glazed earthenware from Mannheim

Arvin Raj Mathur (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Biomolecular investigations of pottery and cuisine during Periods 1 and 2 at Harappa, Pakistan

Julia Becher (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Reconstructing vessel use at Lydenburg Heads site, South Africa, using GC-MS and GC-c-IRMS

Dr. Umberto Veronesi (University College London, UK)

Archaeology and the alchemical laboratory. Exploring early modern alchemical practices at colonial Jamestown (Virginia) and the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)

Dr. Petra Tušlová (Charles University, Czech Republic)

Pottery in context. Different methods and approaches to pottery studies

Dr. Berta Morell-Rovira (University of Vigo, Spain)

Middle Neolithic funerary practices in north-eastern Iberian Peninsula: chronology, long-distance exchange networks and gender relationships

Dr. Marek Verčík (Charles University, Czech Republic)

The iron and metalworking on the western Anatolian littoral during the Archaic period

Ada Dinckal (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Take it with a grain of salt; Micromorphology and diagenesis at the site of Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa

Eirini Koutouvaki (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Clayey sediments and pottery fabrics in the wider Ierapetra area (Crete)

Enrique Fernández-Palacios (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Approaching formation processes at the aboriginal site of Belmaco Cave (La Palma, Canary Islands) through the combined use of soil micromorphology and lipid biomarker analysis

Sinem Hacıosmanoğlu (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Provenance analysis and production technology of late Bronze and Iron Age Plain Ware from Sirkeli Höyük in the Ceyhan Plain, Cilicia, South Anatolia (Turkey)

Beatrice Boese (University of Tübingen, Germany)

A window into the past. Mortars of the so-called Ginnasio (Solunto, Sicily) as a key-element for a better understanding of ancient building techniques and the chronological development of a Hellenistic-Roman city

Dr. Tillmann Viefhaus (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

Raman spectroscopy – A non-invasive analytic method in archeology/archaeometry

Dobereiner Chala-Aldana (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Investigating mobility and social interaction along southern Iberia during the Bronze Age through isotopic and GIS analyses

Baptiste Solard (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Back to black: a mineralogical and chemical characterisation of Atticising 4th century B.C. black gloss

Dr. Stephen Buckley (University of York, UK)

Sequential thermal desorption and pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry: current state of the ‘art’ and future potential for archaeometry

Mauricio Marciales Daza (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Diet reconstruction through C and N stable isotopes: the Bronze Age population in the Biniadris Cave, Menorca, Spain

Rivka Chasan (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Food choices and dietary practices during the 6th to 5th Millennium BC in the southern Levant: evidence from organic residue analysis

Jorge Meza Paggi (University of Tübingen, Germany)

δ¹⁸O my Goodness! The potential and limitations of stable oxygen isotopes for the study of animal husbandry. The case of the Chalcolithic lower Guadalquivir Basin, Spain

Julia Becher (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Once upon a time in Africa. Dietary reconstructions of late hunter-gatherers and early farming communities in South Africa using organic residue analysis