Conference Programme

09.45-10.30

Opening ceremony

Welcome remarks (at 10.00)

Assistant Professor Damrongpon Inchan

Dean of Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University

Dr Komatra Chuengsatiansup, MD

Director of Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre

Mr Chinnawut Winyalai

Director of Division of Archaeology, Fine Arts Department, representing the Director-General

Representative of BUMA

10.30-11.20 Keynote presentation I

Dr Vincent PIGOTT

The making of Southeast Asian archaeometallurgy

Topic: Copper-base metallurgy in Southeast Asian Prehistory and Protohistory: origins, distribution, exchange, and beyond

11.20-11.40

Mélissa CADET (Academia Sinica)

Sayavongkhamdy, T., Souksavatdy,V., Luangkhoth, T.,Chang, N., Dillmann, Ph. and Pryce, T.O.

Extracting, smelting and exchanging copper at the Vilabouly Complex (Laos)

11.40-12.00

Joyce WHITE and Elizabeth HAMILTON (Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology)

Using Archaeometallurgical Data to Infer Economic Systems in Prehistoric Thailand

12.00-12.20

Charles HIGHAM (University of Otago)

The origins, establishment and implications of copper-base metallurgy in Southeast Asia

12.20-12.40

Oliver PRYCE (CNRS)

A partial protohistory of the Southwest Silk Road: archaeometallurgical evidence from Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan

Topic: Mines and metal ores (I)

12.40-13.00

LI Zhen (Institute for History and Culture of Science & Technology, Guangxi Minzu University)

Huang Quan-sheng and Liu Rui

Preliminary study on the ancient mining and metallurgical sites at Tongshanling of Jiangyong County, Hunan Province

13.00-13.20

AOKI Mika (Kansai University)

"The Tada silver-copper mine, Japan: Silver production using liquation process illustrated in the Fukiyanozu"

13.20-14.20 Lunch Break

Topic: Mines and metal ores (II)

14.20-14.40

NAKANISHI Tetsuya (Kyushu University)

Geochemical research on pre-modern copper smelting site “Kamino-Tokoya”, Besshi copper mine, Japan

14.40-15.00

Olga ZAITCEVA (National Research Tomsk State University)

Ivan S. Stepanov and Evgeny V. Vodyasov

The ancient iron mines in South-Eastern Altay (Siberia, Russia)

Topic: Copper-base technologies across the landscape of Asia

15.00-15.20

Ivan STEPANOV (South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology of the Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

First study of the early Iron Age copper technology in the middle Trans-Urals

15.20-15.40

CUI Chunpeng (Institute of Archaeology National Museum of China)

Xiangming Dai, Wei Tian and Yuyun Tang

Scientific study on smelting relics unearthed from Xiwubi site in Jiang County, Shanxi Province, China, ca. 1700 BC to 1300 BC

15.40-16.00

SASADA Tomotaka (Ehime University)

Ch. Amartuvshin, L. Ishtseren, Y. Tajiri, T. Adachi and E. Izawa

Ancient copper production in Gobi Desert, Mongolia

16.00-16.20

Clouet SÉBASTIEN (Sorbonne Université)

Local copper production in Angkorian Cambodia: the Chhaep mining district, Preah Vihear province

16.20-16.40 Break

Topic: Archaeometallurgy of technical ceramics (I)

16.40-17.00

WANG Quanyu (Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University)

Rongyu Su and Shan Huang

A preliminary study of ceramic model and mould fragments from Baidian, Houma foundry site

17.00-17.20

SUN Zhenfei (Institute for Cultural Heritage and History of Science & Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing)

Innovative interpretations of trace elements and lead isotope data of crucibles found at the Shang city in Zhengzhou

Topic: Archaeometallurgy beyond Asia

17.20-17.40 CANCELLED

Frederik RADEMAKERS (The British Museum)

Georges Verly and Patrick Degryse

Copper in the Nile Valley: a diachronic assessment of metal production and circulation in ancient Egypt and Sudan

17.40-18.00

Francesco GRAZZI (Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara)

R. Filardi, B. Agostini, F. Cantini, F., Galeotti, M., Cagnini, A., Agnoletti, S., Brini A., Baruffetti, M., Porcinai, S., Scherillo, A., Fedrigo, A., Hillier, A. and Speranza, L.

Non-destructive diagnostic of the manufacturing process of the Porta Sud of Battistero di Firenze by Andrea Pisano through neutron and muon nuclear techniques

Topic: Archaeometallurgy of technical ceramics (II)

09.50-10.10

DU Jingnan (Institute of Culture and Heritage, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an)

Archaeometry overview of ceramic molds unearthed from cast-copper site based on functional exploration

10.10-10.30

GAO Yi (Institute for Cultural Heritage and History of Science & Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing)

Determining the ceramic firing temperature with FTIR absorptivity method

Topic: Metals and their production across Asia

10.30-10.50

PANG Shou (Institute for Cultural Heritage and History of Science & Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing)

Yanxiang Li

Reconnaissance and archaeometallurgy research of Yujianao smelting site in Yangxin County, Hubei Province

10.50-11.10

Francis CLARAVALL (University of the Philippines-Archaeological Studies Program)

Victor Paz and Helen Lewis

The analysis of the metal artefact assemblage from the Dewil Valley archaeological sites, Palawan Island, Philippines

11.10-11.30

KUTSANA Takahiko (National Museum of Nature and Science)

Yoichiro Hisa and Kouji Ito

Study of relics related to brass production and processing from the 16th century to the beginning of the 17th century in Japan

11.30-11.50

LIU Tian (Institute for Cultural Heritage and History of Science & Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing)

Liu Zhiyan and Liu Siran

The Empire of Silver: An insight of the Ming Dynasty silver-based monetary system from stylistic and scientific investigation of Ming silver ingots

11.50-12.10

IZAWA Eiji (Kyushu University)

Silver and gold production in 16^th and 17^th century Japan

Topic: Ferrous Technologies across Asia (I)

12.10-12.30

Evgeny VODYASOV (National Research Tomsk State University)

Olga Zaitceva

The earliest box-type iron smelting furnaces in Asia: new data from Southern Siberia

12.30-12.50

S. JAIKISHAN (Bhavans New Science College, Narayanaguda)

R. Balamuralikrishnan and S.S. Yamjala

Advanced characterization of ancient Wootz steel implements: a comparative study

12.50-13.10

QIAN Wei (Institute for Cultural Heritage and History of Science & Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing)

Classification of non-metallic inclusions in ancient iron and steel materials

13.10-14.10 Lunch Break

Topic: Ferrous Technologies across Asia (II)

14.10-14.30

ZOU Guisen (Guangxi Minzu University)

From Bowl furnaces to small shaft furnaces: new evidence from ancient bloomery iron smelting site at Liuzhuoling in Guangxi, Southern China, ca. 400 AD to 700 AD

14.30-14.50

Yoddanai SUKKASAM (The Fine Arts Department, Ministry of Culture)

A study of ancient iron smelting site: the prehistoric metallurgy in Li basin, Northern Thailand

14.50-15.10

Stéphanie LEROY (LAPA-IRAMAT, NIMBE, CEA, CNRS, Paris-Saclay University)

M. Hendrickson, E. Vega, E. Delqué-Kolic, B. Vincent, P. Venunan, C. Pottier and D. Soutif

Iron exchange networks in the Khmer kingdom between the 9th and the 15th centuries (Angkor, Cambodia). A review of the IRANGKOR project

15.10-15.30

ZHANG Xinrui (Institute for Cultural Heritage and History of Science & Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing)

Yanxiang Li and Alifujiang·Niyazi

The Analysis of meteoritic iron unearthed from Narensu Grave in Torri County, Xinjiang

Topic: Archaeometallurgy, innovations, and technological diversity and change (I)

15.30-15.50

NIWA Takafumi (Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties)

"Long history of “Northern style” curbed blow pipe(tuyere): From Eurasian Steppes to Japan"

15.50-16.10

NAGATA Kazuhiro (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Eiji Yamasue

Thermodynamics on the innovation of ironmaking from copper smelting in the Early Iron Age

16.10-16.30 Break

Topic: Archaeometallurgy, innovations, and technological diversity and change (II)

16.30-16.50

Marcos MARTINóN-TORRES (University of Cambridge)

Xiuzhen Li, Yin Xia, Agnese Benzonelli, Andrew Bevan, Shengtao Ma, Jianhua Huang, Liang Wang, Desheng Lan, Jiangwei Liu, Siran Liu, Zhen Zhao, Kun Zhao and Thilo Rehren

Surface chromium on the Terracotta Army bronze weapons: new answers and new questions

16.50-17.10

Pual CRADDOCK and Alessandra GIUMLIA MAIR (Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences)

The Black-patinated inlaid copper alloys of Asia: Diversity and connections

Topic: Making bronze: manufacturing techniques in the ancient Asia (I)

17.10-17.30

PENG Peng (Faculty of Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Cast for Novelty: An Alternative Way of Metalworking in Early China

17.30-17.50

Merika SAGUANWONG (The Fine Arts Department, Ministry of Culture)

Non Nong Hor: a local bronze drum producing workshop in late prehistoric Thailand

17.50-18.10

Donna STRANHAN (National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution)

Casting the Buddha Across Southern Asia

18.10-19.00 Keynote presentation II

Assist Prof Thomas FENN

Amartuvshin Chunag, William Honeychurch and Badma-Oyu Badamkhatan

The Production, Consumption and Flow of Copper-Based Metals in Bronze and Iron Age Mongolia: Results of recent pXRF Analyses

12.00-12.50 Keynote presentation III

Prof Chen Kunlong

JIANJUN Mei and WU Wang

Interaction and localisation: new insights into early metallurgy in China

Topic: Archaeometallurgy, innovations, and technological diversity and change (II)

12.50-13.10

Omid OUDBASHI (Department of Conservation of Cultural and Historical Properties, Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran)

Transition from arsenical copper to tin Bronze in Prehistoric Iran: a new look to analytical data

Topic: Making bronze: manufacturing techniques in the ancient Asia (II)

13.10-13.30

LI Xuizhen (Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum, Xi’an)

Thilo Rehren, Yin Xia , Weixing Zhang, Jian Fu and Wenbin Shao

Special Ritual Practice?: Molten Bronze Ding in the Qin First Emperor’s Mausoleum Complex

13.30-13.50

NAGAE Takekazu (Faculty of Art and Design, University of Toyama)

Boonyarit Chaisuwan, Bunchar Pongpanich, Tsutomu Saito and Yasuji Shimizu

Microstructure and fabrication method of ancient bronzeware in Thailand

Topic: Mining and metalworking: its impact on ancient environment and societies

13.50-14.10

LIU Siran (Institute of Historical Metallurgy and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing)

Zou Guisen, Zhong Richen and Cui Tao

New copper ores and the rise of great Shang bronze metallurgy: the first evidence of sulphidic copper ore smelting in Bronze Age China

14.10-14.30

LAM Wengcheong (Department of Anthropology/History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Mo Linheng, Luo Shengqiang and Chen Jianli

The manufacturing and supply system of iron in the southern frontier regions of the Han empire: a case study of iron manufacturing remains and artifacts from Hunan province

14.30-14.50

Miljana RADIVOJEVIC (UCL Institute of Archaeology)

Dorian Fuller

Fuel for the steppe metal: Eurasian Steppe Bronze Age metallurgy and landscape impact

14.50-15.30 Break

Topic: New ways to look at ancient metallurgy: new and/or advanced analytical techniques in archaeometallurgy

15.30-15.50

LIN Junling (Institute of Historical Metallurgy and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing)

Liu Siran

Development of certified reference materials for the analysis of the composition of ancient Chinese bronzes

15.50-16.10

YANG Huan (Centre for Materials and Conservation Research in Archaeology NPU Institute of Culture and Heritage)

Jiang Ling, Fang Zhao, Fang Minghui and Yang Junchang

Research on the solidification mechanism and related technical problems of ancient Chinese bronze

16.10-16.30

David Bourgarit (CNRS)

Brice VINCENT

More than twenty years of elemental analyses (DCP-AES and ICP-AES): new appraisals of Angkorian copper-base metallurgy

16.30-16.50

Meghna DESAI (The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia)

Thilo Rehren, S. Jaikishan, Mokun Shan and Haiwen Luo

Estimation of carbon content in un-etched hyper-eutectoid steel using image analysis

16.50-17.10

Francesco CANTINI (Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Firenze)

Grazzi, F., Creange, S., Kardjilov, N. and Kabra, S.

Non-destructive characterization of the microstructure and the manufacturing methods of four bronze statues from Rijksmuseum Oriental Collection trough application of Neutron Tomography and Neutron Diffraction

17.10-17.30

Mohammadamin EMAMI (Art University of Isfahan, Iran and IRAMAT - Institut de Recherche sur les ArchéoMATériaux, University of Bordeaux Montaigne)

Rémy Chapoulie

Synchrotron Light for characterizing the Arsenic bearing Copper in some Bronze objects from “Konar-Sandal” (3th Millennium BC), south east of IRAN

Topic: Documentary evidence, ethnography, and metals

17.30-17.50

Trongjai HUTANGKURA (Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre)

The three precious metals representing the marvellous protohistory of "India beyond the Ganges" (500 BC - 500 AD)

17.50-18.10

Constantin CANAVAS (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences)

Traditional manufacturing of pen-sharpening knives (ghalam tarosh) in Iran: An ethno-archaeological approach

18.30-19.00

Closing address