S10B+S10C



S10B+S10C

Room 2.123

Amber in ancient Europe and the Mediterranean area: from traditional to multi-proxy research approaches

Session organizers: Orlando Cerasuolo, Miglė Urbonaitė-Ubė, Ivana Angelini, Janusz Czebreszuk, Konstantinos Nikolentzos, Katarina Kostanti, Mateusz Jaeger

S10B+S10C , Tue Sep 1 2026, 9:00 - 16:30, Room 2.123

9:00-9:20 - From Isturitz to Verucchio. A Long-Term Perspective on Amber Life Cycle, Crafting Techniques, and Innovation / O. Cerasuolo

9:20-9:40 - 50 Shades of Amber Artefacts / A. Cetwińska, K. Kwiatkowska, D. Manasterski

9:40-10:00 - Simetite from the Early Bronze Age Carpathian Basin / M. Jaeger, K. Köhler, G. Kulcsár, P. Piszora, R. Patay, V. Kiss

10:00-10:20 - 5,000-year-old pyramids, not from Giza but from Augustów. Unique amber beads from north-eastern Poland and their cognitive value / A. Cetwińska, D. Manastersk, K. Kwiatkowska, E. Wagner-Wysiecka, J. Martecki, M. Bogacki

10:20-10:40 - Computed tomography based method for assessing tool and technique of holemaking in amber / M. Cwaliński, E. Popkiewicz

10:40-11:00 - Investigating Amber Dissemination Processes In The European Bronze Age Through Typology / B. Serbe

11:00 – 11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Tracing the Amber Route. New Insights from the EBA Settlement of Vervò (Trentino - Northern Italy) / P. Bellintani, I. Angelini, E. Mottes

11:50-12:10 - Archaeometric Analysis of Mycenaean Amber from the Hellenic Archaeological Mission Authority (HAMA) Collection in 2026 / J. Czebreszuk, K. Nikolentzos, K. Kostanti, I. Sobkowiak-Tabaka, J. Proch, M. Kontaki, P. Lazaris, T. Zygouris

12:10-12.30 - Workshop or household? Crafting amber for the living and the other world / A. Tsuvaltsidis

12:30-12:50 - Investigating Amber Processing at Campestrin (Grignano Polesine): an interdisciplinary approach / U. Thun Hohenstein, I. Angelini, P. Bellintani

12:50-13:10 - Carved ambers from sites of preroman Campania: amulets and jewelry between imports, local production, and circulation / A. C. Montanaro

13:10-13:30 - Where has all the amber from Late Bronze Age gone? New data from Kukuliškiai site, western Lithuania / M. Urbonaitė-Ubė, E. Pranckėnaitė

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-14:50 - Amber Roads Revisited: Connectivity and Craft in the Early Iron Age / K. N. Hagemann, M. Chytráček, L. Kučera, M. Golec, Z. Golec Mírová, D. Mischka, V. Zemek, J. Martínek, M. Dienstpier

14:50-15:10 - Baltic Amber, Routes, and Elite Graves: Polish Evidence in the Hallstatt Exchange Network / A. Józefowska-Domańska, K. Dzięgielewski, M. Golec, Z. Golec Mírová , L. Kučera , K. Hagemann, J. Martínek, M. Chytráček, D. Mischka, V. Zemek

15:10-15:30 - Hypothesis And Experiments On Amber Working In Iron Age Picenian Context / M. Fiorentini

15:30-15:50 - The Amber Heart Of Poland: Kuyavia In The Iron Age Amber Trade / P. Suchowska-Ducke, M. Danielewska-Teska, A. Romańska, J. Bednarczyk

15:50-16:10 - Amber Color Change: From Ancient Recipes to Experimental Results / I. Angelini, M. Vidale

16:10-16:30 - Final debate