Dutch Ceramics & Glass Research Network

Another meeting of the Dutch Ceramic and Glass Research Network will take place at the UvA Archaeology department in Amsterdam, in the afternoon of Friday December 8th. 

 

As with previous meetings the aim is to provide an opportunity to facilitate informal presentations on recent or current research related to ceramic and glass on order to encourage discussion and cross-disciplinary contact. 

 

Please let us know if you are able and planning to attend by using the contact form on this website. 

 

You are encouraged to pass on this message to others who may be interested and students are welcome, however it is important that we receive a request for participation by email so that we can keep track of the numbers.

 

The programme will be from 14.00 to 17.00 and will end with drinks for those who wish to continue discussions. 

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Venue: Room 3.09, 3rd floor, BG1 – ACASA Archaeology, Turfdraagsterpad 9, Amsterdam 1012XT

 

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PROGRAMME
 

-14.00: Opening

 

-14.05 - 15.30: Short (+/- 7 minute) pitches on recent or ongoing recent research projects related to ceramics and glass:

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Jill Hilditch (UvA) - May the threads be with you: fabric analysis of archaeological terracotta loomweights.

 

Sophie Vullings (Leiden) - Research into the origin of high phosphate contents inarchaeological ceramics.

 

Martina Revello Lami (Leiden) - From standard pots to potters’ standards. Tracing pottery production in Archaic Satricum (4th – 6th BC).

 

Caroline Jeffra (UvA) - This is not the method you’re looking for: experimental archaeology for ‘Tracing the Potter’s Wheel’.

 

Loes Opgenhaffen (UvA) - The dark side of the pot: problems in 3D visualisation of archaeological ceramics.

 

Hans Huisman (RCE) - Over the rainbow? A non-destructive study of early medieval glass bead making technology using micro-CT scanning.

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-15.10 – 15.30 Coffee break

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Nina Jaspers (T.Incognita) - Provenance of faience.

 

Simone Casale (Leiden) - Ligurian compendiario faience from Dutch soil: the archaeometric evidence.

 

Marlieke Ernst (Leiden) - Colonial interactions and ceramic transformations; continuity and change of ceramic repertoires in early colonial Hispaniola and Cubagua (1494-1562).

 

Corinna de Regt & Roy van der Wielen (UvA) - Go with the fluence: laser cleaning of unglazed earthenware.

 

Natalia Donner (Leiden) - History of ceramic technologies in the Mayales River Sub-basin, Central Nicaragua.

 

Kate van Lookeren Campagne (UvA) - Glazed over: Issues relating to the reconstruction of 17th century tin-glaze recipes.

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Bertil van Os, Timo van der Hoeven en Eva Kars (RCE) - Ceramic building material Roman thermal baths Heerlen.

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-17.00: Short Discussion of DCG aims and future plans

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-17.15: Drinks and 3D scanning demonstration

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For those who wish to come earlier, lunch can be bought in the Mensa in BG5

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