The conference will cover topics pertaining to different metals, alloys, metallurgical processes and techniques, as well as to related materials such as furnaces, slag and mines, from the origins to the first half of the 18th C. AD:

• Mines

• Ancient ores and refractories

• Ancient slag

• Foundry

• Forging, joining and metal finishing

• Jewellery items, coins and tools

• History of metallurgy

• Productions and products

• Archaeometry

• Archaeomaterials and Conservation science

• Archaeometallurgy Didactics

• Archaeometallurgy of non-European countries