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Conference Program

Day 1: October 14th

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM : Coffee & Welcome

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM : Welcome by MSHE management and organizers

Regional Overview on Iron Production Areas Across France (communications in French)

(15-minute presentations with final discussion) 

9:15 AM – 9:30 AM : Zone 1 – The Armorican Massif and its Margins
Coordinator: Mr. Yacger
Participants: C. Gandini, E. Meunier, C. Le Carlier, E. Clouin, J.-B. Vivet, N. Zaour, V. Le Quellec, T. Marc, M. Yacger, M. Hubert

9:30 AM – 9:45 AM : Zone 2 – The West, Atlantic Façade
Coordinators: F. Sarreste, J. Arnoux-Dougnac
Participants: N. Dieudonné-Glad, C. Dunikowski, A. Beyrie, G. Saint-Didier, S. Paradis-Grenouillet, J. Arnoux-Dougnac, J. Bonnenfant

9:45 AM – 10:00 AM : Zone 3 – The Central West
Coordinators: F. Sarreste, M. Berranger
Participants: F. Sarreste, M. Berranger, C. Gandini, N. Dieudonné-Glad, C. Dunikowski, S. Lacroix, L. Laüt, L. Fournier, F. Couvin, P. Gibut, Ph. Lorquet, M. L’Héritier, S. Cabboi, M. Leroy, H. Laurent, J.-M. Joudou, J.-M. Laruaz

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM : Zone 4 – The Pyrenees and its Margins
Coordinators: A. Beyrie, G. Pagès
Participants: A. Disser, G. Pagès, A. Filippini, A. Beyrie, M.-P. Coustures, J.-M. Fabre, C. Dunikowski

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM : Break

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM : Zone 5 – The South-East Quarter
Coordinator: G. Pagès
Participants: G. Pagès, A. Melo, C. Dunikowski

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM : Zone 6 – The North-East Quarter
Coordinator: M. Leroy
Participants: M. Leroy, A. Disser, F. Magar, H. Laurent, S. Laurent-Corsini, M. Berranger

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM : Zone 7 – The North and the Paris Basin
Coordinator: S. Bauvais
Participants: S. Bauvais, B. Jagou, M. L’Héritier, Ph. Lorquet, S. Cabboi, V. Le Quellec, C. Colliou, N. Zaour, M. Bernard

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM : General Discussion & Summary with Zone Leaders

12:15 PM – 2:00 PM : Lunch Break

Spatio-temporal and Technical Analysis of Production Areas

(20-minute presentations + 5 minutes of questions)

2:00 PM – 2:25 PM : Ancient Iron Production in Switzerland: State of Knowledge (in French)

Vincent Serneels

2:25 PM – 2:40 PM : Ancient Ironworking in Belgium: A Multiscalar Overview and Latest Updates from the Eastern Front (in French)
Heicke Fock, Gaspard Pagès

2:40 PM – 3:05 PM : Early Iron Production in Germany
Guntram Gassman

3:05 PM – 3:30 PM : "Melting Pot" Eisenberg: An Early Roman Smelting Site on the Northern Upper Rhine
Arno Brauns

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM : Coffee & Poster Session 1

4:30 PM – 4:55 PM : Tim Young – Presentation on the British Isles (Title TBD)

4:55 PM – 5:20 PM : Technology, Landscape and Society in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in the South of the Carpathian Basin
Tena Karavodovic, Tajana Sekelj Ivančan

5:20 PM – 5:45 PM : Primary Processing of Iron in Rome and Lazio during the Municipal Era
Giorgia Annoscia, Vasco La Salvia, Francesca Zagari

Day 2: October 15th

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM : Coffee & Welcome

9:00 AM – 9:25 AM : Archaeology of Paleosiderurgy in the Basque Country: Following the Footsteps of the First Blacksmiths
Javier Franco Pérez, David Larreina-García, Iosu Etxezarraga Ortuondo, Xabier Alberdi Lonbide

9:25 AM – 9:50 AM : Iron Exploitation in the Central Catalan Pyrenees during the Late Antiquity: The Case of the Vall Ferrera (3rd–6th century AD) (in French)
Oscar Augé

9:50 AM – 10:15 AM : Transformations in Iron Production and Blacksmithing at Miranduolo (7th–10th Century): Technological and Socio-Economic Perspectives
Valenti Marco, La Salvia Vasco, Palmas Carla, Petřík Jan, Všianský Dalibor

10:15 AM – 10:35 AM : Break

10:35 AM – 11:00 AM : The Island of Elba and its Iron: Resources and Territory from the Etruscans to the Middle Ages
Alessandro Corretti

11:00 AM – 11:25 AM : Medieval Ironworking in the Pre-Alpine Bauges Massif: A Bloomery Furnace at Les Déserts (Savoie)
Alain Mélo

Role of Primary Production in Iron Economy and its Environment

11:25 AM – 12:00 PM : La Puisaye (West Burgundy), A Major Iron Production Area: Evolution and Technical Changes from the Iron Age to the Late Middle Ages (in French)
Marion Berranger, Marc Leroy, Hervé Laurent, Olivier Girardclos

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM : Lunch Break 

2:00 PM – 2:25 PM : Ferrons d’Armorique: Development and Structuring of Iron Economy in Brittany from the 5th to the 15th Century  (in French)

Etienne Clouin, Cécile Le Carlier De Veslud

2:25 PM – 2:50 PM : A Major Medieval Iron Production Site in the Segré Syncline (Loire-Atlantique and Maine-et-Loire)  (in French)
Matthieu Yacger, Tifenn Marc, Etienne Clouin

2:50 PM – 3:15 PM : Iron Production in the East of France and West of Switzerland during the Early Middle Ages  (in French)
Hervé Laurent, Alexandre Beaudet

3:15 PM – 3:40 PM : Iron Ore Mines of the Central Jura Mountains: New Prospections and Analyses of a Mountainous Production Zone  (in French)
Valentin Chevassu, Théophile Sanseigne, Vinçent Bichet

3:40 PM – 3:55 PM : Break

3:55 PM – 4:20 PM : Bog Iron Ore Deposits and Iron Production Workspaces in Altered Landscapes: Geoarchaeological Approach for Identification of Past Iron Production Environments
Tena Karavodovic, Tomislav Brenko, Sibila Borojevi Šoštari

4:20 PM – 4:45 PM : Forestry Trajectories and Proto-industries: The Case of Modern Charcoal Production in the Haut-Doubs  (in French)
Ariane Lambart, David Gocel-Chatlte, Sylvie Bepoix, Olivier Girardclos, Sandrine Paradis-Grenouillet, Valentin Chevassu, Vincent Bichet

4:45 PM – 5:10 PM : Approaching the Links Between Iron Production and Forest Economy through Dendro-anthracology: The Example of the Medieval Reduction Site at Champigneulles (54)  (in French)
Rémy Jeannot, Marc Leroy, Olivier Girardclos

5:10 PM – 5:45 PM : Rethinking the Forest Heritage of Metallurgy: Historical Ecology Survey in the Vicdessos and Siguer Valleys (Ariège)  (in French)
Vanessa Py-Saragaglia, Sylvain Burri, Léonel Fouédjeu, Mélanie Saulnier, Alexandre Disser, Vincent Labbas, Jean-Paul Métailié

7:00 PM : Closing Dinner (for participants only)

Day 3: October 16th

Contributions and Limitations of Current Methodologies Applied to the Study of Mines and Primary Production Workshops

9:00 AM – 9:25 AM : From Hammerscale to Ore: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Iron Production during the Early Iron Age
Jean Rodier

9:25 AM – 9:50 AM : Geological Complex, Complex Geochemistry: Contributions and Limitations of Global Analysis of Iron Slags for the Chemical Characterization of Armorican Deposits
Cécile Le Carlier de Veslud, Etienne Clouin

9:50 AM – 10:15 AM : First Observations Synthesizing the Chemical Signatures Linked to Iron Reduction in the Central West of France  (in French)
Solène Lacroix

10:15 AM – 11:35 AM : Break

10:35 AM – 11:00 AM : Chronology of Iron Metallurgy in the Bassar Region (Togo): The Potential of Archaeomagnetic Dating  (in French)
Giorgia Ricci, Caroline Robion-Brunner, Gwenaël Hervé, Emmanuelle Delqué-Kolic, Séverin Bakrobena Lebarama

11:00 AM – 11:25 AM : Reconstructing Production Volumes in Reduction Workshops from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: A Comparative Approach Between the Production Areas of Puisaye and Morvan-Auxois (Burgundy, France)  (in French)
Margaux Herbrich, Marion Berranger, Marc Leroy

11:25 AM – 12:00 PM : Comparing Iron Smelting Techniques: Towards a Comprehensive Approach to Efficiency
Mélissa Morel, Caroline Robion-Brunner, Chantal Radimilahy, Hélène Timpoko Kienon Kabore, Vincent Serneels

12:00 PM – 12:25 PM : Iron in the Tarn during Ancient Times: Contributions from Geophysical Prospecting  (in French)
Vivien Mathé, Anne Filippini, Marie-Pierre Coustures 

12:25 PM – 2:00 PM : Lunch Break

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM : Thematic Workshop: "Open Science in Ironworking: Data Dissemination and Sharing"  (in French)

• Archaeological and Chemical Databases: Structuring and Interoperability. The Example of the CHIPS and FERMAPYR/FERAPO Databases
  Alexandre Disser, Gaspard Pagès

• The "Archaeometal-Armorican" Project: A Collaborative Environment for Studying Metallurgies in Western France
  Cécile Le Carlier de Veslud, Emmanuelle Meunier, Etienne Clouin, Christina Gandini, Olivier Troccaz

• SIDEROS: An Archaeological and Archaeometric Database for Ironworking
  Marion Berranger, Quentin Verriez, Yuji Kato, Vinçent Sobritz, Thomas Huet

• Roundtable Discussion co-chaired by:
  Yuji Kato (Geomatician, MSHE), Quentin Verriez (UFC), Alexandre Disser (IRAMAT-LAPA), Thomas Huet (IRAMAT-LAPA), Marion Berranger (IRAMAT-LMC)