Friday 9th October- Afternoon
Session 1
Experimental Cremation:
Advances in Cremation Analysis Method and Practice
Chairperson: Jacqui Mulville
12.00
Registration
12.30
Buffet Lunch
13.00
Welcome and Session Introduction:
Jacqui Mulville, Cardiff Osteoarchaeology Research Group
13.15
Keynote Speaker:
Douglas Ubelaker, The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
‘Cremation Interpretation: Lessons from Modern Forensic Cases’
14.00
Alison Sheridan, National Museums Scotland
‘Cremating Miss Piggy: replicating an Early Bronze Age cremation from
Findhorn, involving a faience necklace and other artefacts’
14.30
Tim Thompson, Teeside University
‘The potential contribution of microscopic structural changes to the analysis of
burned bone’
15.00
Róisín McCarthy, IFA/ Cardiff Osteoarchaeology Research Group
‘The effects of ritual dowsing on fissure patterning in cremated bone’
15.30
Tea/ Coffee
16.00
Jo Appleby, University of Cambridge
‘Quantifying Cremation: calculating MNE and MNI from archaeological
assemblages of cremated human bone’
Session Discussion
16.3016.45
* Optional activity organised for the evening of Friday 9th October include a guided tour of
Thornhill Crematorium, Cardiff @ 17.15 (transport to and from facility available)
*Cinerary Urn No. 12, Cleatham Anglo-Saxon Mixed Rite Cemetery
Saturday 10th October- Morning
Session 2
Postgraduate Research in the Field of Cremation Analysis
Chairperson: Jacqui Mulville
8.45
Registration
9.20
Keynote Speaker:
Jacqueline McKinley, Wessex Archaeology
‘My pyres and other ashes: Reconstructing the multi-faceted rite of
cremation without burning your fingers’
10.05
Tea/ Coffee
10.25
Session Introduction:
Jacqui Mulville, Cardiff Osteoarchaeology Research Group
Jayne-Leigh Thomas, University of Edinburgh
‘Urnfield Culture cremations from Eastern Slovenia’
10.30
10.50
11.10
Filipa Cortesão Silva, University of Coimbra
‘Anthropological analysis of Roman cremation burials from Augusta Emerita,
Mérida, Spain’
Tea/ Coffee
11.30
Lise Harvig, University of Copenhagen
‘Cremation practice in a bioarchaeological perspective - how do we study
ritual aspects of prehistoric cremation through interdisciplinary work?’
11.50
Cecilia Medina-Pettersson, University of Edinburgh
‘Cremation technology and ritual in Bronze Age Scotland: Comparing and
contrasting the cremations of central Scotland and the Northern Isles’
12.10
David Gonçalves, University of Coimbra
‘Sex determination of human cremated remains using osteometric
techniques’
12.30
Kirsty Squires, University of Sheffield
‘The effect of cremation on human bone from an early Anglo-Saxon context’
12.50
Session Discussion
13.00
Buffet Lunch
*Cinerary Urn No. 12, Cleatham Anglo-Saxon Mixed Rite Cemetery
Saturday 10th October- Afternoon
Session 3
The Ancient Cremation Rite: Evidence of Ritual Practice
Chairperson: Jacqui Mulville
13.45
Session Introduction
Jacqui Mulville, Cardiff Osteoarchaeology Research Group
13.50
Fay Worley, English Heritage
‘Faunal Pyre Good Traditions in Britain: an overview and critical evaluation of
the dataset and its potential for interpretation’
14.20
Howard Williams, University of Chester
‘Cremation Fantasies’
14.50
Carmelita Troy, Headland Archaeology Ireland
‘Cremated or Burnt? – Classifying Irish Cremation Burials’
15.20
Tea/ Coffee
15.50
Kathleen McSweeney, University of Edinburgh
‘Scottish Cremations: A Review’
16.20
Holger Schutkowski, University of Bradford
‘A diachronic study of cremation cemeteries from Northern Germany’
16.5017.20
Gavin MacGregor, Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division
‘Technologies to Release the Soul’
17.2017.30
Session Discussion
*Wine and Cheese Reception following final session. 8pm dinner reservation at the North Star
Restaurant, Cardiff
*Cinerary Urn No. 12, Cleatham Anglo-Saxon Mixed Rite Cemetery
Cardiff University
School of History and Archaeology
Ancient Cremations Workshop
‘Ancient Cremation: Re-igniting the Debate’
Friday 9th & Saturday 10th October 2009
Programme and Sessions
*Cinerary Urn No. 12, Cleatham Anglo-Saxon Mixed Rite Cemetery