June 7, 2009, Hallstatt, Austria

WORKSHOP OF STUDY GROUP E

"Work and Identity: The agents of textile production and exchange in the Roman period"

Organization by Margarita Gleba and Judit Pástókai-Szeöke, and Hofrat Dr. Anton Kern and Dr. Karina Grömer of the Prehistoric Department of the Natural History Museum Vienna

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Program

9.00  Welcome address by K. Grömer

9.10  Introduction by the organisers

9.15  Margarita Gleba, CTR, Denmark - Textile Production and Trade: the case of pre-Roman Italy

9.40  Karina Grömer, NHM Vienna, Austria - Discovering the people behind: Textile-producers and their products in Iron Age Austria

10.00  Kordula Gostencnik, Magdalensberg Project, Austria - Commercial textile production or household production for domestic use? The evidence of textile-tools and written sources in Roman Noricum

10.20  Break and discussion

10.40  Sanna Lipponen, University of Oulou, Finland - Identity of textile makers in Central Tyrrhenian Italy: How did it change from childhood to old age?

11.10  Sophie Bergerbrant, Sweden - Tools of Textile production in burials and settlement related to Roman import on the Island Funnen, Denmark, during the Roman Iron Age

11.30  Judit Pástztókai-Szeöke, CTR, Denmark - Textile tools from funerary context - getting a clew to the identity of textile workers in the Roman province of Pannonia?

11.50  Discussion

12.30  Lunch

13.30  Jinyu Liu, De Pauw University, USA - Trade, traders and guilds (?) in textiles: the case of southern Gaul and northern Italy (First - Third Centuries AD)

13.50  Manuel Albaladejo, University of Valencia, Spain - Textile trade in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

14.10  Kerstin Dross, Philipps-Univbersität Marburg, Germany - Textiles and their merchants in Rome's eastern trade

14.30  Break and discussion

15.00  Isabella Benda-Weber, Austrian Archaeological Institute Vienna, Austria - Textile production centres and merchants in Roman province Asia

15:20  Berit Hildebrandt, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany - Sericarii: Silk traders or silk workers?

15.40  Miko Flohr, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands - Ulula, quinquartus and the occupational identity of fullones in early imperial Italy

16.00 - 17.00 Discussion and sum up.

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