Program – 25 October 2024


FRIDAY 25 October 2024

SESSION 15: NAUTICAL ETHNOGRAPHY Chair: Lucy Semaan
9:20-9:40 Abner Alberda and Rita Liss Ramos Pérez "Jãba: The Dugout Canoe of the Emberá People in Panama. An Ethnoarchaeological Study on Its Design, Shipyards, Shipbuilding, and Uses"
9:40-10:00 Béat Arnold "Palm tree constraints and shaping canoes"
10:00-10:20 Patrícia Carvalho, José Bettencourt, Francisco Mendes, Carla Dâmaso and Juan Martin "The Azorean whaling boat. Ethnoarchaeology of a 19th and 20th century local shipbuilding tradition"
10:20-10:40 Stefano Medas and Davide Gnola "The fleece on the stem top of traditional boats. A legacy of antiquity?"
10:40-11:10 Coffe Break
SESSION 16: NAUTICAL ETHNOGRAPHY Chair: Lucy Blue
11:10-11:30 Sarah Wagdy "From Germ to Shanshola: A Maritime Material Culture of Boats in Ezbet El-Borg at Damietta"
11:30-11:50 Swarup Bhattacharyya, John P Cooper, Zeeshan Shaikh and Vasant Shinde "The Mondal family build a chhot: hull-conception, complex joinery and a stapling tradition in a vanishing vessel of West Bengal, India"
11:50-12:10 Lucy Semaan "From tree to plank: A multi-disciplinary approach to the study of wood use in boatbuilding in Egypt through time"
12:10-12:30 Aivar Ruukel "Haabjas – Expanded Logboat of Estonia"
12:30-13:30 Lunch
SESSION 17: EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY Chair: Tom Vosmer
13:30-13:50 Martin Rodevad Dael and Tríona Sørensen "Reconstructing the late Viking-Age warship, Skuldelev 5: the evolution of the imperfect reconstruction"
13:50-14:10 Morten Ravn "The first special forces of the North – written evidence and experimental trials concerning seaborne sabotage, kidnapping and reconnaissance operations in the Viking Age and early Medieval Period"
14:10-14:30 Elisa Costa, Pat Tanner and Carlo Beltrame "Grado I shipwreck: 3D complete reconstruction and hydrostatic analysis"
14:30-14:50 Anton Divić, Pierre Poveda, Igor Miholjek and Giulia Boetto "Reconstruction hypothesis of a Late Hellenistic ship Ilovik-Paržine 1 (Ilovik Island, Croatia)"
14:50-15:10 Pat Tanner, Crystal El Safadi, Felix Pedrotti, Glafkos Cariolou and Maria Michael "Anatomy of a sinking"
15:10-15:30 Wouter Waldus "The simultaneous excavation and reconstruction of an early 16th Century Watership in the Zuiderzee-area, The Netherlands"
15:30-16:00 Coffe Break
16:00-17:00 CLOSING REMARKS
17:00-18:00 NEXT ISBSA PROPOSITIONS & DISCUSSION