Detailed Schedule WIC2009

SUNDAY February 15th

15.00 - 19.00

Early registration and drinks reception - ALL WELCOME

Institute of Archaeology

MONDAY February 16th

10:00 - 11:30

Registration and poster hanging (all sessions)

NHM lobby

11:30 - 12:00

Opening session

NHM Flett

12.00 - 13.00

Lunch - poster viewing

NHM lobby

12.25 - 12.50 (optional)

Jane Humphris: UCL Institute of Archaeology

Film: A recent ethno-experimental iron smelt in Rwanda

NHM Flett

Session1: Africa Chair: Professor Bertram Mapunda

13:00 - 13:05

Opening Africa session by Professor Bertram Mapunda

13.05 - 13.25

Pamela Eze-Uzomaka

Iron and its influence on the prehistoric site of Lejja

NHM Flett

13.25 - 13.45

Philip De Barros

Early and Late Iron societies in the Bassar Region of Togo, West Africa, comparing iron technology and production, settlement patterns, food practices, burial practices etc

NHM Flett

13.45 - 14.05

Bernard Clist

Our Iron smelting 14C dates from Central Africa: from a plain appointment to a full blown relationship.

NHM Flett

14.05 - 14.25

Akin Ige

Yoruba iron metallurgy: raw materials, routine and ritual

NHM Flett

14.25 - 14.55

Coffee and Tea Break - Poster viewing

NHM lobby

14.55 - 15.15

Ed Wilmsen

Mining and moving specular hematite in Botswana, ca. BCE100- CE900

NHM Flett

15.15 - 15.35

Freda Nkirote

Later iron age technology of the Mt. Kenya region

NHM Flett

15.35 - 15.55

Jane Humphris & Louise Iles

Pre-colonial iron production in Great Lakes Africa: recent archaeometallurgical research at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.

NHM Flett

15.55 - 16.15

Peter Schmidt

Bricolage, ritual performance and habitus (forgotten) in Barongo iron smelting

NHM Flett

16.15 - 17.15

Discussion Session

NHM Flett

TUESDAY 17th February - Supported by TATA STEEL

Session 2: INDIA Chair: Dr Sharada Srinivasan

9.30 - 9.35

Opening Indian Subcontinent session by Dr Sharada Srinivasan

9.35 - 9.55

Carla Sinopoli

Ferrous metallurgy in 1st mill BC south India

NHM Flett

9.55 - 10.15

Lalit Pandey

Recent archaeometallurgical discoveries of iron in Southeast Rajasthan

NHM Flett

10.15 - 10.35

Jake Keen

Wild Smelting: India and Africa

NHM Flett

10.35 - 10.55

VibhaTripathi

An ethno-archaeologial survey of iron working in India

NHM Flett

10.55 - 11.15

Sriperumbudur Jaikishan

New insights of wootz steel of Telangana

NHM Flett

11.15 - 11.35

NHM Flett

11.35 - 11.55

Coffee and Tea Break - Poster viewing

NHM lobby

11.55 - 12.15

Anura Manatunga

Iron in pre-modern Sri Lanka

NHM Flett

12.15 - 12.35

Gillian Juleff

Linear furnaces and direct smelting: the technological achievements of Sri Lanka and evidence for wider Asian technological traditions

NHM Flett

12.35 - 13.30

Discussion Session

NHM Flett

13.30 - 14.30

Lunch - poster viewing

NHM Lobby

13.55 - 14.15  (optional)

Dr Gillian Juleff: University of Exeter

Slide-show of recent smelting in Sri Lanka

NHM Flett

Session 3: Invention, Innovation, and Inspiration Chair: Dr Gill Juleff

14:30 - 14.35

Opening Indian Subcontinent session by Dr Gill Juleff

14.35 - 14.55

Randi Håland

Meroitic ironworking and culture seen in a global context

NHM Flett

14.55 - 15.15

Patrick Darling

The World's earliest smelting? Its inception, evolution and impact in northern Nigeria

NHM Flett

15.15 - 15.35

Ravindra Singh

The origin and development of iron technology in India

NHM Flett

15.35 - 15.55

Han Rubin

Casting iron in ancient China

NHM Flett

15.55 - 16.15

Salvador Rovira

Questioning research on early iron in the Mediterranean

NHM Flett

16.15 - 16.45

'High Tea' presented by Tata Steel

NHM Lobby

16.45 - 17.05

Michael Brauns

Production and trade of iron in the iron age of southern Germany

NHM Flett

17.05 - 17.25

Ben Roberts

Competition, collapse or choice? The appearance of iron in western Europe

NHM Flett

17.25 - 17.45

Alan Williams

Crucible steel in Medieval swords and armour

NHM Flett

17.45 - 18.05

Peter Halkon

Perceptions of smiths and metalworkers- cultural evidence from Britain and beyond

18.05 - 18.35

Discussion Session

NHM Flett

18.30 - 20.30

TATA Drinks reception

NHM Earth Sciences Foyer

WEDNESDAY February 18th

Session 4: West and Central Asia Chair: Prof Ziad al Saad

9:30 - 9.35

Opening West and Central Asia by Prof Ziad al Saad

9.35-9.55

Xander Veldhuijzen

Discovering the Underdug: Determining Middle Eastern Iron Production Sites through Artefact Slag Inclusions

NHM Flett

9.55-10.15

Yosha al Amri

The iron ore mine of Mugharet el-Wardeh, Jordan

NHM Flett

10.15-10.35

Jim Roames

The metal workshop at Tell Tayinat, Turkey

NHM Flett

10.35-10.55

Adi Eliyahu-Behar

Iron smithing under Neo-Assyrian domination (c7th BCE) at Tel-Dor, Israel

NHM Flett

10.55-11.15

Sylvain Bauvais

Forging activities in Jaffa during Ottoman Palestine

NHM Flett

11.15-11.35

Coffee and Tea Break - Poster viewing

NHM Lobby

11.35-11.55

Jang-Sik Park

Characterization of iron technology at medieval Talgar in Kazachstan

NHM Flett

11.55-12.15

John Merkel

New aspects of the 9th and 10th century Islamic period metallurgical workshop excavated at Merv, Turkmenistan

NHM Flett

12.15- 12.55

Discussion

NHM Flett

12.55 -13.50

Lunch - poster viewing

NHM Lobby

Session 5: THEORY Chairs: Prof Bryan Pfaffenberger & Dr Pierre Lemonnier

13:50 - 13:55

Opening Theory session by Prof Bryan Pfaffenberger & Dr Pierre Lemonnier

13.55 - 14.15

Caroline Robion-Brunner

Variability in iron smelting practices: confrontation of technical, cultural and economic criteria to evaluate the metallurgical diversity in the Dogon area (Mail)

NHM Flett

14.15 - 14.35

Ed Wilmsen

Epistemic communities and epistemological translocations in early modern southern Africa, ca. BCE100 - CE 900

NHM Flett

14.35 - 14.55

Bertram Mapunda

Superstitious science or ingenous superstition? Grappling with symbolism in Indigenous African iron technology

NHM Flett

14.55 - 15.15

Louise Iles

Applying ethnographic presents to archaeological pasts: the relevance of memories of iron production in western Uganda

NHM Flett

15.15 - 15.35

Michael Charlton

Evolutionary approaches to the archaeology of iron working

NHM Flett

15.35 - 15.55

Ann Feuerbach

3-D thinking: A cognitive framework and analytical method for the study of archaeometallurgy

NHM Flett

15.55 - 16.15

Coffee and Tea Break - Poster viewing

NHM Lobby

16.15 - 16.35

Krysta Ryzewski

Nailing down manufacturing processes, technique and innovation: Colonial nail production

NHM Flett

16.35 - 16.55

Maria Kostoglou

Iron, connectivity and social change in the ancient Mediterrannean World

NHM Flett

16.55 - 17.35

Discussion

NHM Flett

THURSDAY February 19th

Session 6: EAST ASIA Chair: Professor Han Rubin

9:30 - 9.35

Opening East Asia session by Prof Han Rubin

9.35 - 9.55

Quansheng Huang

Preliminary studies of the Western Han Dynasty iron smelting sites and slag in Pingan county

NHM Flett

9.55 - 10.15

Philippe Dillmann

Preliminary investigations on the corrosion scales of two ancient cast iron Chinese artefacts

NHM Flett

10.15 - 10.35

Murakami Yasuyuki

Iron production in Han and pre-Han periods in Sichuan Chengdu Plain, China

NHM Flett

10.35 - 10.55

Jianli Chen

The manufacture techniques and dates of iron objects found in several sites in China

NHM Flett

10.55 - 11.15

Brian Gilmour

Technology transfer across the Indian Ocean and South China Sea: a case study of the iron industry at Santubong, Sarawak

NHM Flett

11.15 - 11.35

Coffee and Tea Break - Poster viewing

NHM Lobby

11.35 - 11.55

Jang-Sik Park

Iron and steel making in ancient Korea deduced from the microstructure of iron artefacts

NHM Flett

11.55 - 12.15

Anna Bennett

Late 1st millennium BC iron tools and weapons from a burial site in West Central Thailand - a metallographic study

NHM Flett

12.15 - 12.55

Discussion

12.55 - 13.50

Lunch - Poster viewing

NHM Lobby

Session 7: SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES Chair: Professor Vincent Serneels

13:50 - 13:55

Opening Scientific Approaches session by Professor Vincent Serneels

13.55 - 14.15

Chris Carey

Geoprospection and the integration of geochemical and magnetometer datasets: an Exmoor case

NHM Flett

14.15 - 14.35

Quanyu Wang

A scientific study of bloomery iron from experimentally smelted bog ore and sand ironstone

NHM Flett

14.35 - 14.55

Arne Jouttijarvi

Iron and processes in the blacksmith's workshop, on source determination of iron and the residue for smithing processes

NHM Flett

14.55 - 15.15

Philippe Dillmann

From Soissons to Beauvais: ferrous reinforcement in gothic French cathedrals from Picardy

NHM Flett

15.15 - 15.35

Anne Mertens

Iron production in the region of Liege in the Middle Age: contribution of slag analyses

NHM Flett

15.35 - 15.55

Michael Charlton

Measuring variation in iron production slags

NHM Flett

15.55 - 16.15

Coffee and Tea Break - Poster viewing

NHM Lobby

16.15 - 16.35

Matthew Baker

Computational fluid dynamics as a tool for the study of pre-industrial iron smelting furnaces

NHM Flett

16.35 - 16.55

Dana Drake Rosenstein

Dating Metallurgy: alternatives to radiocarbon

NHM Flett

16.55 - 18.15

Discussion

NHM Flett

18.30 - 20.30

Rio Tinto Drinks reception + buffet

NHM Earth Treasury Gallery (1st floor)

FRIDAY February 20th

Session 8: ENVIRONMENT Chair: Professor Don Wagner

9:15 - 9.20

Opening Environment by Professor Don Wagner

9.20 - 9.40

Barbara Eichhorn

Fuel for iron - metallurgy and wood exploitation in the Dogon country, Mail

NHM Flett

9.40 - 10:00

Edwinus Lyaya

The bio-metallurgy of Tanzania: charcoal species for traditional iron working

NHM Flett

10:00 - 10.20

Danielle Arribet-Derion

Quantifying iron production in medieval Europe - reflections on the methodology and compaarrison with African metallurgy

NHM Flett

10.20 - 10.40

Ralph Fyfe

The environmental impact of large-scale ironworking: pollen and geochemical evidence for Romano-British iron exploitation on Exmoor

NHM Flett

10.40 - 11.00

Tim Mighall

The fuel supply and woodland management  at a 14th century ironworks in Snowdonia, a multidisciplinary approach

NHM Flett

11.00 - 11.20

discussion

NHM Flett

11.20 - 11.30

Closing Statement - Proceedings information

NHM Flett

11:30 - 12:00

Coffee and Tea Break - Poster removal

NHM Lobby