Topics SOJA 25-9-2015 Session 1 Éva Halbrucker: Bronze Age sickle-blades from Százhalombatta-Földvár, Central Hungary Valerio Gentile: A Tale Of Martiality: Use – wear analysis and experimental archaeology on Bronze Age/Early Iron Age swords of the Netherlands Anique Hamelink: Jewel or honorary symbol? Samuel Meijers Huacas and community projects in Lima-Peru Ella Brady “An Examination of the Museum Exhibition as an Adult Learning Environment” Jack Victor The Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean Orientalizing Period: Session 2 Arjan Ruiter: "Pewter finds from the Low Countries: A poor man’s silver or elite objects?" Berber van der Meulen "Een Claudisch castellum te Cuijk. Het aardewerk van Cuijk-St. Martinuskerk 1964-1966" Suzan van de Velde: The Dying Niobid; a cultural biography of a Greek statue in Rome. Elisa Vecchi: Bucchero Pottery in North Western Italy: Cultural Contacts and Technological Transmissions between Ligurians and Etruscans in the VI-V Century BC Alvaro Castilla Beltran: Modelling Insular encounters: Discussing the benefits of Agent-Based Modelling of archipelago mobility strategies in the Archaic Period of the North-Eastern Caribbean (5000 BC- 500 AD). Caitlin Davis: Ritualized discourse in Mesoamerican codices – applying a Central Mexican approach to a Maya codex Session 3 Svenja Kerkhof: Dental modifications tell a gender story Karla de Roest: Searching for burial customs in a liminal world: The (in)visibility of graves in the Northern Netherlands during the later Iron Age (c. 500-250 BC) Bas van de Weerd: The late medieval landscape of Oss Petra Doeve: The long journey of early medieval wood; establishing absolute dates and determining the provenance of timbers from the Oegstgeest-Rijnfront site Pim Ofman: Advances in open source software: A GIS case study of its capabilities around the Roman colonies of Aesernia, Italy Max Caspers: Taking 3D modelling a step further: Applying historical photographs to new archaeological research in Zakynthos, Greece Session 4 Nienke Lameris: De ruimtelijke ontwikkeling van twee buurten in Utrecht: van Middeleeuws tot Modern Niek Verhoeff: De archeologie van het middeleeuwse boek Chiara Piccoli: Enhancing GIS urban survey data with the 3rd dimension: a procedural modelling approach Luigi Pinchetti: AD 400-600: A Time of Changes: Rural Society between Villas and Castles in Late Antique Molise. Fenno Noij: Linguistic Landscapes in archaeology: a reevaluation of the Kadesh inscriptions of Ramesses II Ruben Modderman: Who were the cataphracts? An archaeological and historical investigation into ancient heavy cavalry in the Near East