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Program

The three-day program includes oral and poster presentations (click here for the abstracts [updated 3.10.2009] and the program [updated 22.10.2009] in pdf format), social evenings and a bus excursion.

Thursday 29.10.2009
(University of Helsinki, the city campus)

10.00 OPENING OF THE SYMPOSIUM

KEYNOTES

  • Kristian Kristiansen: Theorizing material culture: a new model of Bronze Age society.
  • Valter Lang: Current trends in the research of the Bronze Age in Estonia
  • Mika Lavento: Changing interpretations of the Bronze Age and Early Metal Age in Finland


12.00 LUNCH BREAK


13.00-14.00

Zsófia Kølcze
Motivation and movement. Centre-periphery model or cultural exchange networks in Early Bronze Age Europe

Flemming Kaul & Preben Rønne
Is it possible to find a northern border of the Nordic Bronze Age culture?


14.00-14.30 COFFEE BREAK


14.30-15.30

PRESENTATION OF POSTERS AND POSTER SESSION

Mattias Pettersson & Roger Wikell
Bronze Age in the Stockholm archipelago

Sven-Gunnar Brostrøm, Kenneth Ihrestam & Roger Wikell
Rock Art in Eastern Middle Sweden -- Case study area Sødermanland

H. Nordqvist, M. Oinonen, V. Palonen & P. Tikkanen
Radiocarbon dating of bronze - is it possible?

Henrik Asplund, Terttu Lempiäinen, Jukka Luoto, Jaana Riikonen & Leena Tomanterä
The dating of a shaft fragment from a bronze celt found in Paimio, SW Finland


15.30-16.30

Tapani Rostedt
Shadows of cultures and "The burden" of archaeological research history in Finnish Bronze Age

Peter Holmblad
Centrality in the Semi-Periphery. A rise of the political economy and networking polities in the North-Eastern Baltic during the Late Bronze Age


A SHORT BREAK


16.45-17.15

Thomas Eriksson
Climatic Change and the end of the Bronze Age


17.30 CLOSING OF THE 1st DAY


19-22 SOCIAL EVENING AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY


Friday 30.10.2009
(University of Helsinki, the city campus)

9.30-11.30

Joakim Wehlin
Stranded ships in relation. Results from a correspondence analysis of the Gotlandic ship-settings

Martin Rundkvist
In the landscape and between worlds
Bronze Age sacrificial sites in the Lake Mälaren Area

Linn Mattsson
The house on the hill - a central place by the pathways to the outer world


11.30-13.00 LUNCH BREAK


13.00-14.00

Algimantas Merkevicius
Human sacrifice and body rituals in Lithuania in the Bronze Age

Lise Harvig
Danish Bronze Age cremations seen from a bioarchaeological perspective


14.00-14.30 COFFEE BREAK


14.30-15.30

Kristiina Mannermaa & Vivi Deckwirth
Wild or domestic? Osteological evidence of animal livelihoods in Early Metal Period Finland (ca. 1500 BC-200 AD)

Heidi Luik
Bronze Age bone pins in Eastern Baltic - for fixing the garment or identity?


15.30-16.00 AFTERNOON BREAK


16.00-17.00

Vesa-Pekka Herva (Oulu), Janne Ikäheimo & Kerkko Nordqvist (Helsinki)
On the occurences of metal in Fennoscandia before the Bronze Age

Uwe Sperling
Organization and extent of bronze production in the Asva settlement on Saaremaa Island. New aspects of Bronze Age metalwork and metal consumption in the East Baltic


CLOSING OF THE 2nd DAY


19- THE SYMPOSIUM DINNER IN THE RESTAURANT MANALAN KELLARI


Saturday 31.10.2009

8.30-17.30 BUS EXCURSION

Bronze Age and Early Metal Age sites west of Helsinki on the coastal zone of the Gulf of Finland
Guides: MA Henrik Jansson and PhD Tapani Tuovinen

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