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The Second International Symposium "Ancient and Medieval Metalworks. Archaeology-Numismatics-Nuclear Analyses"

Bucharest May 6^th - 7^th 2008

ABSTRACTS (in the order of presentations)

• Ernst Pernicka, Investigations on gold and copper objects from the Nebra hoard.
• Miljana Radivojevic, Thilo Rehren, Ernst Pernicka, Dusan Boric, Dusan Sljivar, The Beginnings of Metallurgy in Europe- Early Smelting activities in the Vinca culture.
• Anca Diana Popescu, Bogdan Constantinescu, Florin Constantin, Compositional analyses on some Bronze Age axes from the East-Carpathians area.
• Alexandra Ţârlea, Gheorghe Niculescu, Cristian Anastasiu, Mihai Florea, Bogdan Constantinescu, Compositional aspects of some Romanian Copper and Bronze objects from Bronze Age and early Iron Age
• Alexandru Vulpe, Bogdan Constantinescu, Some remarks on the Perşinari hoard
• Viorel Cojocaru, The queer gold daggers from Perşinari and Măcin.
• Bogdan Constantinescu, Gheorghe Niculescu, Migdonia Georgescu, Ernest Oberländer-Târnoveanu, Catalina Chiojdeanu, Compositional analyses of pre- and proto-historic precious metal objects from National Romanian History Museum: alluvial, primary and refined gold, electrum, auriferous silver.
• Beatrice Cauuet, Gold and silver sources from Independant Dacia to Roman Dacia. The mining site of Roşia Montana.
• Barbara Deppert Lippitz "FAKE" - Forgeries of Ancient Goldwork.
• Ivelin Kuleff, Milena Tonkova, Totko Stoyanov, Chemical composition of gold artefacts from ancient Thracia (V^thth-IV^th Century BC).
• Ilian Iliev, Ivelin Kuleff, Chemical and lead isotope composition of silver jewels from ancient Thrace (Bulgaria).
• Ivana Popović, Characteristics of Balkan-Danubian Treasures from the End of the 1^st to the Middle of the 3^rd Century.
• Alexandru Barnea, Late Roman fibulae from Tropaeum Traiani- A comparison with similar items from other sites.
• Corina Nicolae, Bogdan Constantinescu, Considerations regarding the bronze tablet discovered at Polovragi
• Thomas Faucher, From metal to coins: experiments on Greek minting techniques.
• Emanuel Petac, Bogdan Constantinescu, Analyses on Tomis autonomous coins and the politics of Mithridates VI.
• N. Civici, T. Dilo, Sh. Gjongecaj, F. Stamati, N. Pistofidis, G. Vourlias, E. Pavlidou, G. Stergioudis, E. K. Polychroniadis, III^rd century BC silver coins from Kreshpan hoard (Albania): data form bulk elemental analysis and microstructure studies.
• Melinda Torbágyi, Gheorghe Niculescu, Migdonia Georgescu, Remarks on the silver composition of the Celtic coinage in Pannonia in the light of the recent analyses.
• Theodor Isvoranu, Bogdan Constantinescu, Dan Ilie, Considerations about the metallurgy of the imitative coinage so-called "of Macedonian type" in the Lower-Danubian area, based on XRF analyses.
• Aurel Vîlcu, Bogdan Constantinescu, New researches on Koson type coinage in the light of XRF analyses.
• Csaba Tóth, Gheorghe Niculescu, Migdonia Georgescu, Remarks on the late Hungarian medieval gold coinage in the light of the recent analyses.
• Ernest Oberländer-Târnoveanu, Katiuşa Pârvan, Bogdan Constantinescu, Catalina Chiojdeanu, Gheorghe Niculescu, Migdonia Georgescu, Alexander II or Peter III? Who was the author of the radical reformation of the Moldavian coinage during the 1450's? New contributions to the Moldavian numismatics, in the light of recent atomic analyses.
• Eugen Nicolae, Bogdan Constantinescu, Compositional analyses of some imitations of Ottoman akches of the 15^th-16^th centuries.
• Discussions and coffee break
• Ana Maria Velter, Gheorghe Niculescu, Emanuel Petac, Compositions of Gold Coins minted in the Principality of Transylvania (II). The beginning of the new state [Ioan Zapolya (1538-1540) - Christophor Báthory (1576-1585)]
• Lucile Beck, Elise Alloin, U. Klein, C. Berthier, The Preuschdorf coin hoard: determination of the alloy composition by combination of PIXE and RBS.
• Nikolaus Schindel, The Beçin Coin Hoard.