The meeting is scheduled to take place at the MARQ-Archaeological Museum of Alicante on October 14 and 15, 2021. There will be sessions in the morning and afternoon. Papers will be approximately 30 minutes including 10 minutes question and answer time. A large group of specialists will present a general picture of archaeological research on hard raw materials of animal origin (bone, antler and ivory) from more recent prehistoric and protohistoric periods from both the Iberian Peninsula and also more far away territories in Western and Central Europe as well as the Central Mediterranean area.
The meeting has a double objective: on the one hand, we seek to evaluate the actual situation involving the study of bone working and use during the Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe, focusing on the impact of the appearance and generalized use of metal tools in each region; and, on the other hand, we seek to promote a necessary dialogue between researchers, one that will allow them to improve and advance along new paths of study at both a methodological and epistemological level.
Scientific management:
Juan A. López Padilla – Nöelle Provenzano
japadi@diputacionalicante.es
Administrative Secretary:
Inmaculada Cartagena Marín
Encarnación González Climent
Olga Manresa Bevia
infomarq@dip-alicante.es
Promoted by: MARQ-Museo Arqueológico de Alicante
Researchers with a long history of research in this field of study, such as Alice M. Choyke from the Central European University in Budapest/Vienna, and Noelle Provenzano, from the CNRS in Marseille have been invited. Together with them, as well as other outstanding researchers such as Selena Vitezovic, from the Institute of Archaeology in Belgrade, Justyna Baron, from the University of Wroclaw in Poland, and Rozalia Christidou, from the CNRS in Lyon, will offer us a complete panorama of the study of bone artifacts at the beginning of the Metal Ages over a wide area of Europe: from Poland to Albania and Greece and from northern Italy to the Carpathians.
LIVE BROADCAST
Here are the links to the live broadcast of the Congress from the Archaeological Museum of Alicante (MARQ)
Many other researchers from various universities, research institutes, museums and other Spanish and international entities, will also present the latest research on this part of the archaeological record from the Iberian Peninsula: from the worked bone and ivory materials from a megalithic sites in Portugal and the extraordinary Chalcolithic sites of Valencina de la Concepción and Los Millares; to those worked bone assemblages documented in the Copper and Bronze Age settlements of the southeast, east and central area of the Iberian Peninsula such as Los Castillejos, Camino de las Yeseras or La Vital; the latest results of research on tools and bone, antler and ivory ornaments from the Argaric sites; and final presentation of finds from some emblematic Late Bronze from some places such as Cabezo Redondo or the Iron Age site of Ullastret.
Speakers
Alice Choyke
Central European University, Budapest/Vienna
Ana Catarina Sousa
University of Lisboa
Auxilio Moreno Onorato
University of Granada
Bernadeta Kufel-Diakowska
Wroclaw University, Poland
Claudia Pau
University of Granada
Corina Liesau Von Lettow-Vorbeck
Autonomous University of Madrid
Eva Alarcón García
University of Granada
Josep Lluís Pascual Benito
Prehistory Museum of Valencia
Juan Antonio López Padilla
MARQ-Archaeological Museum of Alicante
Justyna Baron
Wroclaw University, Poland
Manuel Altamirano
UNED Córdoba
Marcin Diakowski
Archaeoreplica, Poland
Marta Blasco Martín
University of Valencia
Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla
University of Tübingen, Germany
Miriam Luciañez-Triviño
University of the Basque Country
Noëlle Provenzano
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique de Marseille, France
Rozalia Christidou
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique de Lyon, France
Ruth Maicas Ramos
National Archaeological Museum
Selena Vitezovic
Institute of Archaeology in Belgrade, Serbia
Thomas X. Schuhmacher
German Archaeological Institute in Madrid
Registration for the congress will be open from 15 June
