Conference Schedule

Schedule of Events:

Saturday February 18th, 2012

Session I: 9:00–10:30 am Materiality writ Large

1. Pottery in the Landscape: Ceramic Analysis at the City-Kingdom of Idalion, Cyprus
Rebecca Bartusewich, University of Massachusetts – Amherst

2. Object Trajectories: tracing values in Western Hallstatt Europe
Adrienne Frie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

3. From Artifact to Narrative
Jill Bierly, University of Massachusetts – Amherst

4.  The Minoan Melting-Pot : the Material, the Technique and the Culture. Divergences in Processual Approaches of Bronze Age Cretan Ceramics Since the Sixties
Florence Liard, Université Catholique de Louvain

10:30-10:45 am Break

Session II: 10:45–12:15 pm Materials in Society

1. Trade or Migration?: A Study of Red Black Burnished Ware at Tell Qarqur, Syria
Kyra Kaercher, Boston University

2. Exotica: The role of foreign luxury goods in the emergence of Mycenaean palatial administration
Allison Cuneo, Boston University

3. Material Choice and Labor Requirements in Iron Age Spindle Whorls: An Experimental Approach
Thaddeus Nelson, Stony Brook University

12:15-1:45 pm Lunch Break

Session III: 1:45–2:45 pm Materiality and Identity

1. Agency, Apotropaism, and Material Culture in Early Medieval Gaul
Katherine French, Boston University

2. Family Ties: Constructions of Identity and Materiality of the Mummy Shrouds of Deir el Medina
Lisette Jimenez, University of California – Berkeley

3. Awl the Small Things: The Ritual Deposition of Worked Bone Objects at the Acropolis of El Zotz, Peten, Guatemala
Sarah Newman, Brown University

4. A Study of rifle ammunition frequency variation from five Revolutionary War sites: Evidence for individual agency?
Stacey Whitacre, University of South Carolina

2:45-3:00 Break

Session IV: 3:00-4:00 pm Materials and Science

1. The Reinscription and Digitization of one Athenian Stele
Cameron Pearson, City University of New York – Graduate Center

2.  Seeing Red: Brick Variation and Industrial Architecture at Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, NY AD 1650-1690
Martin Schmidheiny, University of Massachusetts – Boston

3. Digital Objects Representation in Research and Education: The Value of 3D for Knowledge Acquistion in Archaeology
Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco, University of California – Merced

Session V: 4:00-5:00 pm Reaction and Discussion

1. Dr. Mary Beaudry, Boston University

2. Dr. Paul Goldberg, Boston University

3. Dr. Carl Knappett, University of Toronto