Technology in Crisis

Thursday 18^th February 2016

Accueil et introduction par la Présidente de l'institut INCAL, Agnès Guiderdoni/ Introduction by the President of the INCAL institute, Agnès Guiderdoni.

Ilaria CALOI (UCL-Aegis/Université de Venise) & Charlotte LANGOHR (UCL-Aegis/FNRS)
Technological changes in ceramic production during periods of trouble: questions and perspectives

Opening lecture by Valentine ROUX
Changes in ceramic traditions and periods of crisis: between sociological changes and uncertainty in the selection process

1. Technological changes in periods of trouble and mutation: comparative and ethnoarchaeological approach

Alexandre LIVINGSTONE SMITH
History is in the details: The transformation of cultural areas in central Africa

Per Ditlef FREDRIKSEN
Experimentation, innovative acceleration and collapse: the case of ceramic technology in Iron Age western Scandinavia, c. AD 200-550

2. Technological changes in periods of trouble and mutation: Early, Middle and early Late Bronze Age Aegean

Simona Todaro, Roberta Mentesana, Peter Day & Vassilis Kilikoglou
Technological changes in the period of transition from Neolithic to Early Minoan: a view from Phaistos

Eleni NODAROU & Tom BROGAN
The times they are A-changin’: pottery production and technological change at Mochlos in the Prepalatial period

Maria CHOLEVA
A phenomenon of craft behavior in a period of mutation: the introduction and the adoption of the potter’s wheel during the EB2b and EB3 in the Aegean

Ina BERG
Technological changes in a period of trouble and mutation: Middle and early Late Bronze Age Cyclades

Friday 19^th February 2016

3. Technological changes in periods of trouble and mutation: 13^th c. BC Mediterranean

3a. Mainland

Elina Kardamaki and Konstantina Kaza-Papageorgiou
Change and continuity in the pottery tradition at Kontopigado, Athens during the late 13^th and the early 12^th century BC

Salvatore VITALE
The Troubled Century: Pottery Technology and Socio-Political Changes at Mitrou, East Lokris, During the 13^th Century B.C.

Bartek LIS
Handmade pottery in Mainland Greece during the 13^th and 12^th century BC as a sign of an economic crisis?

3b: East Mediterranean

Artemis GEORGIOU
Technological changes in periods of transformation: Re-examining the Late Cypriot ceramic industry during the 13^th to 12^th century BC transition

David BEN SHLOMO
Pottery imports and local production during the 13^th and 12^th c. BCE in the southern Levant: Change and Continuity

3c: West Mediterranean

Marco BETTELLI, Elisabetta BORGNA & Sara LEVI
Crisis Years and Pottery Systems: an Overview of the Italian Late Bronze Age