IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 816: Breaking Down Disciplinary Borders: Connecting Historical and Archaeological Research, IV - Investigations into Medieval Ivory
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Claire Burridge, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Carine van Rhijn, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 816-a | The Medieval Walrus Ivory Trade as Ecological Globalisation (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Economics - Trade |
| Paper 816-b | Ivory Networks in the Global Medieval: An Analytical Tour of Identifying and Sourcing Medieval Ivory Objects (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Economics - Trade |
| Paper 816-c | Exploring Elephant Ivory Bag Rings in Early Medieval Graves: A 5th-Century Phenomenon? (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Economics - Trade |
| Abstract | The proposed session presents new research into medieval ivory, addressing both objects and trading networks. The papers consider ivory from a range of sources (i.e., walrus and elephant), in different contexts, and over a wide chronology, thereby offering a window onto the diversity of research focusing on ivory and its implications for many areas within medieval studies, from environmental history to global trade dynamics. Simultaneously, these papers bring together a variety of methodologies, bridging disciplinary borders and providing an introduction to the latest scientific techniques in conjunction with more traditional analytical approaches used to study ivory. |