International conference on prehistoric metalwork in Vienna
A conference titled Bronze Age Metallurgy, production – consumption – exchange and 20th Anniversary Archaeometallurgical Laboratory VIAS, University Vienna the OREA Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna organized an international meeting on 23-24 May in Vienna. The 20 presentations listed in the programme of the two-day conference focused on the new results of Bronze Age copper ore mining and tin procurement as well as metalworking techniques. The presented research projects were all related to the work of the Late Bronze Age Urnfield Culture research group (Urnfield Culture Networks) and to the work of the Archeometallurgical Laboratory at the University of Vienna, celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Experimental bronze casting
(Image credit: https://vias.univie.ac.at/forschung/archaeometallurgie/projekte/)
Hungarian research groups on prehistoric metalworking were represented by the members of a Copper Age related team, Bernadett Bajnóczi and Viktória Mozgai (HAS Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences), as well as researchers of the Bronze Age, Viktória Kiss, Géza Szabó (HAS RCH IA Momentum Mobility Research Group) and János Gábor Tarbay (Archeological Department of the Hungarian National Museum). The two-day event provided a good opportunity to exchange ideas and building collaborations between experts of different fields of science.
References:
Siklósi, Zs., M. Virág, Zs., Mozgai, V., Bajnóczi, B.: The spread of the products and technology of metallurgy in the Carpathian Basin between 5000 and 3000 BC – Current questions. Dissertationes Archaeologicae Ser. 3, No. 7 (2017) 67-82.
Kiss, V., P. Fischl, K., Horváth, E., Káli, Gy., Kasztovszky, Zs., Kis, Z., Maróti, B., Szabó, G.: Non-destructive analyses of bronze artefacts from Bronze Age Hungary using neutron-based methods. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 30 (2015) 685-693.
Tarbay, J. G., Maróti, B., Kis, Z.: Introducing the spear project: The tale of the Late Bronze Age spearhead with wooden shaft from the Marshland of Kikinda, Serbia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 21 (2018) 268-274.
