The conference’s aims are threefold: first, to provide specialists
employing archaeological sciences, who may not often meet, the
opportunity to present their research and exchange ideas. Secondly,
the conference will emphasise the importance of archaeological
sciences and interdisciplinary approaches within Egyptology.
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Conference Topics:
1-Mining and quarrying: working at raw materials outcrops and
stone tools technology
2-Building: State controlled and domestic construction materials
and methods – stone, mud and wood
3-Pyro-technology: production and processing of metals, ceramics,
glass, faience and frit for life and the afterlife
4-Graphic and aesthetic technologies: writing, painting and
sculpture
5-Funerary technologies: materials and techniques connected with
burial and mummification
6-Agricultural and food technology: subsistence, production and
consumption
7-Domestic and local craft technologies:providing for the living and
dead - with textiles and leatherworking,carpentry, basketry, cosmetics,
ivory and bone working
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