Programme

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Programme and Book of Abstracts

Thursday 30 October

08:30 - 08:45 - Registration

08:45 - 09:00 - Welcoming note

SESSION 1: Plant fibre structure and identification

09:00 - 09:45 - Introductive and invited Talk: Liudmila Kozlova, INRAE, Nantes: "Textiles, wood, papyrus: what features of plant fibers dictate their usability?"

09:45 - 10:30 - Invited Talk: Hana Lukesova, University Museum of Bergen: "Unraveling Textile Heritage: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Fibre Species Identification"

10:30 – 11:00 - COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 11:25 - Emeline Retournard, Université Clermont Auvergne: "New light on fibres. The use of the reflection optical microscope to determine archaeological textile fibres"

SESSION 2: Focus on collaborative research projects

11:25 - 11:45 - Anita Quiles, CEA, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement: "MERYT : linen textiles as chronological markers for modelling a chronology of Ancient Egypt"

11:45 - 12:05 - Emmanuelle Delqué-Kolic, CEA, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement: "ISOPALIN : A multi-isotopic approach to reconstructing the growth media of flax fibres used in Ancient Egypt"

12:05 - 12 :25 - Alain Bourmaud, Université Bretagne Sud: "ANUBIS : Understanding the durability of flax fibres through the study of ancient Egyptian yarns"

12 :30 – 14 :00 : LUNCH

SESSION 3: Plant fibres in human societies I

14:00 - 14:45 - Invited Talk: Sabine Karg, Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie, Berlin: "Flax as a Multipurpose Resource in European and Egyptian Prehistory"

14:45 - 15:10 - Carlo Santulli, University of Camerino:"Hemp fabric of pictures’ canvases from art gallery in Ascoli Piceno, Italy"

15:10 - 15:35 - Jörg Müssig, University of Bremen: "Fibre forensics: Unravelling History’s textiles with DNA" 

15:35 – 16:00 - COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 4: Mechanical and structural properties of ancient plant fibre materials: characterization and simulation

16:00 - 16:25 - Camille Goudenhooft, ENSTA Bretagne: "Mechanical and biochemical features of archaeological plant fibres"

16:25 - 16:50 - Sofiane Guessasma, INRAE, Nantes:"Advanced numerical models for the understanding of mechanical behaviour of ancient plant fibres and yarns"

16:50 - 17:15 - Sanaa Galballah, Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, Le Caire: "Development of flax fibre characterization at IFAO"

17:15 – 18:00 - Tour of IRDL laboratory / Short demos of fibre characterization

Friday 31 October

SESSION 5: Advanced techniques for plant fibre characterization

08:30 - 09:15 - Invited Talk: Loïc Bertrand, ENS Paris-Saclay:"Intriguing directions to studying mineralised textiles"

09:15 - 09:40 - Alessia Melelli, Synchrotron Soleil : "Use of Synchrotron tools for ancient plant fibres characterization"

09:40 - 10:05 - Camille Berruyer, NOVITOM, Grenoble:"The use of microtomography in Archaeology: applications on ancient textile"

10:05 – 10:30 - COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 6: Plant fibres in human societies II

10:30 - 11:15 - Invited Talk: Camila Alday, University Cambridge: "Archaeobotany of textile plants: Cases from South America"

11:15- 11:40 - Lucile Beck, CEA, Laboratoire des Sciences du climat et de l'environnement :"Flax as a tool for dating painting canvas of the XXe century"

Continuing the conversation: Pathways for collaboration and shared research

11:40 - 11:50 - Introduction: Brief recap of the conference, identify shared research directions and explain the breakout format and expected outcomes

11:50 - 12:15 - Breakout Group Discussions

12:15 - 12:30 - Wrap-Up & Closing Remarks

12 :30 - 14:00 - LUNCH

14:00 - 18:00 - SOCIAL ACTIVITY