Geoarchaeological and archaeometallurgical investigations into Roman Iron
Sunday, 5th July
Session 1: SISA 2020
Rouven Turck (University of Zurich): Introduction into SISA 2020
Caroline Heitz, Mirco Brunner, Rouven Turck, Philippe Della Casa & Albert Hafner (SISA 2019): Mining Sites & Deserted Alpine Habitations – Results of the SISA 2019 field work in the Binntal (VS)
Session 2: Geology
Donat Fulda (ETHZ, Department of Earth Sciences): Local Geology
Barbara Beck (University of Lausanne, Faculté des Géosciences et de l’Environnement): Local lead and silver ores
Florence Cattin ( University of Burgundy, ARTEHIS – UMR 6298 and Université de Montréal, Département d’anthropologie): Local copper ores
Session 3: Archaeometallurgy
Vincent Serneels (University of Fribourg, Department of Geosciences): Iron Smelting
Marianne Senn (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf ): Iron forging
Monday, 6th July
Session 4: Environment
Vanessa Py-Saragaglia (CNRS/Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès – GEODE UMR5602): Long term mining-environment interaction
Albert Hafner (University of Bern, Archaeology): Alpine Climate in prehistory
Session 5: Methods
Philippe Della Casa (University of Zurich): Methods of archaeological field survey
Burkart Ullrich (Berlin, Eastern Atlas): Geophysics in high mountain mining districts
Martin Hinz (Bern, Archaeology): Agent based modelling / predictive modelling?
Session 6: Local Roman archaeology
Eckhard Deschler-Erb (University of Cologne, Archaeology of the Roman Provinces) The Roman way of life in Vallis Poenina. A comparism between Forum Claudii Vallensium and Brig-Glis, Gamsen
Andrea Schaer (Oberwangen (BE), Archaeokontor GmbH): Roman transport systems in alpine areas
Romain Andenmatten (Sion, DMTE/DMRU Département de la mobilité, du territoire et de l’environnement): Alpine deserte sites