Programme

Monday: 18 April 2022

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18:00 - 20:00 REGISTRATION & ICEBREAKER

Tuesday: 19 April 2022

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8:30 - 9:00 REGISTRATION (and hanging of posters)
9:00 - 9:15 Kickoff Marta, Aoife & Kristof
Ninja Rijnks-Kleikamp International and Interdisciplinary Funding programmes of the Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Michael Grabner International Journal of Wood Culture
Session 1 Built heritage
(chair: Gabri van Tussenbroek)
9:15 - 9:30 S1-O-001 Gabri van Tussenbroek Dendrochronological research in Amsterdam monuments. Timber trade, construction and methodological implications
9:30 - 9:45 S1-O-002 Karl-Magnus Melin Convex shaped church tiebeams from the 11th - 13th century in the Diocese of Lund compared with European examples
9:45 - 10:00 S1-O-003 Liisa Seppänen Unveiling the innovation behind the roof constructions of the Medieval Churches in Finland
10:00 - 10:15 S1-O-004 Philippe Sosnowska Lonely Brussels. Destination: the old built heritage and its woods
10:15 - 10:30 S1-O-005 Edwin Orsel The use and results of dendrochronological research in building history research in Leiden (the Netherlands)
10:30 - 10:36 posters one-minute poster pitches
poster S1-P-001 Adomas Vitas Oak dating in Lithuania
poster S1-P-002 Vincent Debonne The oldest known roof construction in Ghent (Belgium) sheds new light on medieval building history
poster S1-P-003 Tomáš Kolár Utilization of wood species in timber constructions across the Czech lands from the 15th to the 19th century
poster S1-P-004 Linda Lindblad The use of dendrochronology to understand aspects of sustainability in traditional wooden houses
poster S1-P-005 Maks Merela Methodological approach of wood anatomy and dendrochronology in cultural heritage
poster S1-P-006 Irena Sochová Dendrochronological dating of historical sacral constructions in Transcarpathian Ukraine
10:36 - 11:00 coffee
Session 2 Shipwrecks and archaeological structures
(chair: Aoife Daly)
11:00 - 11:15 S2-O-001 Anne Crone Marking time in the Iron Age; the dendrochronology of loch (lake) settlement in SW Scotland
11:15 - 11:30 S2-O-002 Yardeni Vorst A dendroarchaeological study of Roman-period river barges from the Lower Rhine region
11:30 - 11:45 S2-O-003 Andrine Nilsen Piers, wharfs and shipping at Masthugget, Gothenburg – Investigating private harbours through wood and stone structures
11:45 - 12:00 S2-O-004 Rik Lettany Double checking double Dutch: A reassessment of the construction features of the early modern Scheurrak SO1 shipwreck
12:00 - 12:15 S2-O-005 Minna Koivikko From a forest to a ship and into a wreck, and back again?
12:15 - 12:30 S2-PR-001 Ignacio A. Mundo Wood identification and dendrochronological techniques applied for the study of shipwrecks on the Atlantic coast of Argentina: comparison of different case studies showing limitations and potentials
12:30 - 13:30 lunch
Mixed session pre-recorded talks
13:30 - 13:45 S7-PR-001 Gretel Boswijk Isotope dendrochronology in New Zealand
13:45 - 14:00 S7-PR-002 Fusa Miyake Solar bursts recorded in tree rings
14:00 - 14:15 S1-PR-001 Motonari Ohyama A 2ka-long tree-ring chronology for hinoki cypress from central Japan and its dendroarchaeological application
14:15 - 14:30 S1-PR-002 Timothy Easton Protective symbols applied by craftsmen on worked timber during the 16th and 17th centuries, and some reasons for their application
14:30 - 14:45 S1-PR-003 Sebastian Nemestothy Roof constructions in Austria – an overview
14:45 - 15:00 S5-PR-001 Michael Grabner Short distance log transport in Austria
15:00 - 15:05 posters one-minute poster pitches
poster S2-P-001 Angela Balzano Microscopy techniques for the examination of waterlogged archaeological wood
poster S2-P-002 Daniel Peter Dalicsek Practices of shipwreck timber sampling for dendrochronology
poster S2-P-003 Anton Hansson The Gribshunden Barrels
poster S2-P-004 Ronald M. Visser Connecting ships: using dendrochronological network analysis to determine provenance and ship building practices of Roman-period river barges found in the Lower Rhine region
15:05 - 15:30 coffee
Session 2 cont. Shipwrecks and archaeological structures
(chair: Mike Belasus)
15:30 - 15:45 S2-O-006 Steven J. Allen House and Boat. Reuse of ship planking in a 10th century building at Hungate, York
15:45 - 16:00 S2-O-007 Julia Weidemüller How a broken wooden board uncovered an early medieval mill
16:00 - 16:15 S2-O-008 Mike Belasus Just bad quality? Some thoughts on the use of timber in medieval to modern shipbuilding
17:00 - 18:00 GUIDED TOURS in the medieval galleries and studios of the Rijksmuseum
18:00 - 19:45 RECEPTION at the Ateliergebouw of the Rijksmuseum

Wednesday: 20 April 2022

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Session 3 Furniture and works of art
(chair: Paul van Duin)
8:30 - 8:45 S3-O-001 Paul van Duin Dating Northern-Netherlands cabinets from the late 17th century
8:45 - 9:00 S3-O-002 Paolo Cherubini Musical string instruments: Tree-ring dating and provenancing to verify their authenticity
9:00 - 9:15 S3-O-003 Alar Läänelaid Old doors deserve attention of dendrochronologists: first examples from Estonia
9:15 - 9:30 S3-O-004 Antoinette Marie Piotrowska Lawrence-Cooper Japanese art through time: a dendrochronological investigation into cultural progression through Netsuke
9:30 - 9:45 S3-O-005 Nuria Romero Vidal The journey of nudsugana. Archaeobotanical study of the wooden sculptures from Gunayala (Panama) located at the Världskulturmuseet in Göterborg (Sweden)
9:45 - 10:00 S3-O-006 Tirza Mol Looking into Rijksmuseum’s maritime collection: provenance and function of 18th and 19th century half hull models
10:00 - 10:15 S3-PR-007 Pascale Fraiture Three altarpieces attributed to the Borman dynasty studied by dendrochronology
10:15 - 10:30 S3-O-008 Jørgen Wadum Unravelling a North Netherlandish 17th-century panel maker
10:30 - 10:35 posters one-minute poster pitches
poster S3-P-001 François Blondel Mummy labels: a witness to the use and processing of wood in Roman Egypt
poster S3-P-002 Kristof Haneca Thinking inside the box. A dendrochronological and archaeobotanical survey on a 14th century chest made in Antwerp
poster S3-P-003 Silke Lange Wooden artefacts from the castellum Velsen I, the Netherlands
poster S3-P-004 Sytske Weidema Dendro4Art. The repository for dendrochronological research data on early modern paintings and sculpture
10:35 - 11:00 coffee
Session 4 Forest history
(chair: Roberta D’Andrea)
11:00 - 11:15 S4-O-001 Elie Pinta Exploring the significance, acquisition and use of wooden resources between Norse Greenland and North America: a (re)examination of literary and archaeological sources
11:15 - 11:30 S4-O-002 Anna Helena Petersén Reconstruction of economic resources associated with timber building architecture in early medieval urban Trondheim
11:30 - 11:45 S4-O-003 Linar Akhmetzyanov A dendroecological reconstruction of forest management history in Mediterranean Abies pinsapo forests
11:45 - 12:00 S4-O-004 Sabrina Bianco Wood for funerary pyres in Barcino (Barcelona, NE Iberian Peninsula): investigating cremation structures in two necropolis (1st-3rd centuries CE) starting from charcoal analysis
12:00 - 12:15 S4-O-005 Oriol López-Bultó Sorting the trees: new evidences of woodland management at La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)
12:15 - 12:30 S4-O-006 Lisa Shindo From the exhaustive study of a mountain village to the restitution of forest: how far can dendrochronology go?
12:30 - 12:45 S4-PR-001 María Martín-Seijo Woody resources and their management during Iron Age in northwest Iberia
12:45 - 13:45 lunch
Session 5 (part 1) Evidence of timber trade and transport
(chair: Jørgen Wadum)
13:45 - 14:00 S5-O-001 Marta Domínguez-Delmás Determining the production place of works of art by dendrochronology: case studies from the Low Countries
14:00 - 14:15 S5-O-002 Manuel Broich The internal and external relations of Roman well timbers
14:15 - 14:30 S5-O-003 Anh Linh François Timber rafting on upper Garonne river: from Pyrenean Mountain forests to heritage
14:30 - 14:45 S5-O-004 Aoife Daly Past timber resources in northern Europe: a holistic approach?
14:45 - 15:00 S5-O-005 Paul Borghaerts Provenance and periods of timber trade from ‘the north’ to the northern Netherlands, 1600-1900
15:00 - 15:15 S5-O-006 Suzanne Laemers MARKS ON ART database: marks on paintings and sculpture, 1300-1700
17:00 - 18:30 EXCURSIONS (boat trip on the Amsterdam canals, with drinks and snacks)

Thursday: 21 April 2022

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Session 5 (part 2) Evidence of timber trade and transport
(chair: Anne Crone)
8:30 - 8:45 S5-O-007 Dawn Elise Mooney Timber as a marine resource: the role of Arctic driftwood in the Medieval North Atlantic
8:45 - 9:00 S5-O-008 Petra Doeve Wood exploitation and timber trade on the north-western frontier of the Roman Empire
9:00 - 9:15 S5-O-009 Damian M Goodburn Early evidence for timber trade marks on a large Roman quay found in the SE of the City of London
9:15 - 9:30 S5-O-010 Lísabet Guðmundsdóttir Timber imports to Norse Greenland. Lifeline or luxury?
9:30 - 9:45 S5-O-011 Jeroen Oosterbaan The production of barrels and casks in the Netherlands in Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period
9:45 - 10:00 S5-O-012 Vincent Labbas From research on timber supply in rural areas to regional watersheds
10:00 - 10:15 S5-O-013 Coralie Mills Sourcing timber in a historic war zone: The South East Scotland Oak Dendrochronology project
10:15 - 10:20 posters one-minute poster pitches
poster S4-P-001 Jan-Willem G. van de Kuilen Mechanical wood properties over the past 100 years
poster S4-P-002 Caroline Vermeeren History of woodland management: the Neolithic 
poster S7-P-001 Kévin Liévens The Rosewoods, where fine arts and nature conservation meet: the importance of identifying wood to the species level and the methods to do that
poster S7-P-002 Svenja Ahlgrimm Reconstruction of forest development in the medieval ore mountains using wood density of mining timber
10:20 - 11:00 coffee
Session 6 Non-invasive techniques for the study of wooden cultural heritage
(chair: Francien Bossema)
11:00 - 11:15 S6-O-001 Francien G. Bossema Tailoring X-ray imaging techniques for dendrochronology of large wooden objects
11:15 - 11:30 S6-O-002 Manu Frederickx Old and new, large and small: Non-invasive techniques applied to a musical instrument
11:30 - 11:45 S6-O-003 Sofie Dierickx Micro- and sub-µ X-ray CT scanning of Congolese heritage objects for wood identification
11:45 - 12:00 S6-O-004 Emilio Ruiz de Arcaute Martínez Unveiling the hidden world of wood. Just how far can computerized tomography take us in the stuy of wooden carvings?
12:00 - 12:15 S6-O-005 Rutile Pukiene Non-invasive dendrochronology of large wooden objects: complex use of 3D X-ray µCT and microscopic imaging helps to date the Saint Louis sculpture
12:15 - 12:20 posters one-minute poster pitches
poster S5-P-001 Kristof Haneca Dendro @ the graveyard. Wood and tree-ring analysis on medieval coffins from Ypres, Belgium (c. 1200 – 1400 CE)
poster S6-P-001 Petra Doeve The use of CT-scan in a dendrochronological study of a dug-out chest
poster S6-P-002 Stephan Nicolaij Out of the woods phase II
poster S6-P-003 Sjoerd van Daalen Measuring curved surfaces using photogrammetry
poster S6-P-004 Elisabeth Wächter X-ray-CT as possibility to date archived samples from Hallstatt, Austria
12:20 - 13:30 lunch
Session 7 Novel methods for dating and provenance analysis
(chair: Neil Loader)
13:30 - 13:45 S7-O-001 Neil J. Loader Advancing Elm dendrochronology in the United Kingdom
13:45 - 14:00 S7-O-002 Roberta D’Andrea Dendroprovenancing historical oak timber at a small geographic scale using a multi-variable approach: a preliminary study on living oak trees
14:00 - 14:15 S7-O-003 Javier del Hoyo Fingerprinting the provenance of large wood in rivers
14:15 - 14:30 S7-O-004 Martin Bridge Oxygen Isotopes assist dating buildings in Sussex (UK)
14:30 - 14:45 S7-O-005 Michael Dee Exact dating of the first Europeans in the Americas
14:45 - 15:00 S7-O-006 Mukund Palat Rao The potential of tree-ring drought atlases for dating and provenancing archaeological timbers
15:00 - 15:30 coffee
Session 7 cont. Novel methods for dating and provenance analysis
15:30 - 15:45 S7-O-007 Anna Stulcova Multi-proxy provenance studies of carbonized wood: elemental and isotopic signatures
15:45 - 16:00 S7-O-008 Johannes Edvardsson Old Wood in a New Light – A dendrochronological database
16:00 - 16:15 S7-PR-003 Hilke Schroeder Genetic analysis of „The Bed of Roses“
Closing session
16:15 - 16:30 S8-PR-001 Brita Lorentzen (The other) dendroprovenancing: Developing ethical guidelines in dendrochronological research to protect cultural heritage
16:30 - 17:00 All General discussion
17:00 - 17:15 Marta, Aoife & Kristof Clossing words
18:30 - … DINNER & PARTY at Restaurant ‘De Kroon’