Complex Societies

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9:30 - 10:00	Registration and opening

10:00 - 10:30	Carolyn A. Graves-Brown The religious meaning within Egyptian Dynastic lithics
10:30 - 11:00	Todd Whitelaw Alternative archives in clay: reconciling palatial documents with the excavated ceramic record from Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Pylos, in Greece

11:00 - 11:30	Coffee/Tea break

11:30 - 12:00	Sally-Ann Ashton Memphis as a centre of production in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
12:00 - 12:30	Frédéric Davidovits Vitruvius's recipe for the manufacture of the pigment 'Egyptian blue'
12:30 - 13:00	Ian C. Freestone Pliny and the manufacture of raw glass

13:00 - 14:00	Lunch break (to be arranged independently)

14:00 - 14:30	Andrew Shortland Cuneiform glass texts: a question of meaning?
14:30 - 15:00	Alex Bayliss Medieval English Bell-founding: validating multivariate models in archaeology using written and iconographic sources
15:00 - 15:30	Tim M. Mighall, Peter Crew, D. Thomas, C. Brookes and P. Denne The environmental impact of Medieval iron bloomeries in north-west Wales

15:30 - 16:00	Coffee/Tea break

16:00 - 16:30	Justine Bayley Medieval precious metal refining: evidence from archaeological finds and contemporary texts.
16:30 - 17:00	Marcos Martinón-Torres and Thilo Rehren 'From A to Z': Agricola's guidelines and Zwickau's practice of brass making
17:00 - 17:30	Anna Badcock and David Crossley Archives and Urban Archaeology: the Fairbank surveyors' papers and work on brown-field sites in Sheffield

17:30 - 18:30	Closure and wine reception