Communication and Reflection in Archaeology and Museology

Conference program

Thursday 13. 2. 2020

9:00 – 9:20
Jiří Macháček: Conference opening speech

1. Thematic block: Communication and mobility of prehistorical and historical populations

9:25 – 9:40
Michael Doneus: Investigating movement as an aid to understanding socioeconomic change and cultural relationships

9:45 – 10:00
Hajnalka Herold: Glass Networks: Tracing Early Medieval Long-Distance Trade, c. AD 800–1000

10:05 – 10:20
Ante Alajbeg: Carolingian Renaissance by Proxy: Contextualising Dark Ages Dalmatia

10:25 – 10:40
Nikolina Uroda: Wandering Monks in Early Medieval Dalmatia

10:45 – 11:05
Coffeebreak

11:05 – 11:20
Kerstin Lidén: Mobility, what is it and how is it studied? Some examples from Scandinavia

11:25 – 11:40
Wolfram Schier: Competing concepts? Transfer of knowledge and ideas as reflected by the spread of Neolithic roundels in the first half of the 5th millennium BC

2. Thematic block: Emerging of agglomerations and central places as a reflection of social processes and their reflection in social processes from Neolithic to High Middle Ages

11:45 – 12:00
Milan Kováč: Celestial cave as a mythological pattern. The foundation of Maya political centers at Uaxactun, Guatemala.

12:05 – 12:20
Vincent Guichard: The oppidum of Bibracte in Burgundy, a witness of a society in transition

12:25 – 14:00
Lunch break

3. Thematic block: Raw materials extraction and its distribution as a manifestation of communication in prehistorical and historical societies

14:00 – 14:15
Justyna Baron: Arts and crafts of the Urnfield Cultures

14:20 – 14:35
Yiannis Papadatos: Raw materials extraction in an insular world: the particularities of metal exploitation in the Early Bronze Age Aegean

14:40 – 14:55
Peter Trebsche: Did copper and salt miners communicate? An investigation of technological choices at the Late Bronze Age copper mine of Prigglitz in Lower Austria

15:00 – 15:15
Andrzej Michałowski et al.: Attempts to identify the resource base of pottery workshops in the context of archeometric studies on vascular ceramics

15:20 – 15:40
Coffeebreak

4. Thematic block: Presentation of material culture and its reflection in museum communication

15:40 – 15:55
Letizia Ceccarelli: Ceramic production and circulation in Pompeii

16:00 – 16:15
Sven Straumann: Augusta Raurica – Roman Town, Museum and Research Venue

16:20 – 16:35
Auron Tare: Cultural Heritage Management in post communist countries and its sustainability

16:40 – 16:55
Darko Babić: Interpretation and literacy as communication-management tool

17:00 – 17:15
Peter van Mensch: Transparency as museological and ethical principle

17:20 – 17:35
Markus Walz: “Engaged, professional—and female”? A gender perspective on museum education in Germany

17:40 – 18:00
Final Conference discussion, after leave for dinner