10/04/2026
Book of Abstracts for BECAP26 is now available!
Attached to this post + available on Academia.edu.
Detailed instructions for online and in-person participation coming soon.
See you soon!
https://www.academia.edu/165603658/Pots_and_Types_Dynamic_vs_Static_What_about_with_Typology
Pots and Types, Dynamic vs. Static: What about (with) Typology
and the Institute of Archaeology. Pottery is usually the most abundant material found on archaeological sites, and in many cases, it is the only evidence of different phenomena: lifestyle, every-day activities, communal gatherings, food habits,
29/01/2026
The deadline for submissions is extended by the end of Ferbruary!
BECAP 26 Call for papers
is usually the most abundant material found on archaeological sites, and in many cases, it is the only evidence of different phenomena: lifestyle, everyday activities, communal gatherings, food habits, exchange and trade, religious and ritual
20/10/2025
Call for Papers for BECAP 26 has been announced. Topic of the next meeting is POTS AND TYPES, DYNAMIC VS. STATIC: WHAT ABOUT (WITH) TYPOLOGY? . 👇
BECAP 26 Call for papers
is usually the most abundant material found on archaeological sites, and in many cases, it is the only evidence of different phenomena: lifestyle, everyday activities, communal gatherings, food habits, exchange and trade, religious and ritual
20/05/2024
BECAP24 meeting was successfully concluded. We wish to thank all the participants, both in person and online, for their inspiring, motivating, and interesting contributions and discussions!
16/05/2024
Session II: Technology, production, and identities
Technology, production, and identities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS7rxN0Fa3w
16/05/2024
Session I: Pottery Use in social context
Session I
16/05/2024
Join us for the live streaming of the first day of BECAP, Thursday, May the 16th, 10 AM CET on our YouTube channel (subscribe: www.youtube.com/channel/UCn099hY5i89bTaocMq_yRhg) .
Program:
10.00 Keynote lecture Athanasios K. Vionis, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus: The many facets of a pot's life cycle
SESSION I: Pottery Use in social context
11.00 Ina Miloglav and Jasna Vuković, Pottery use, value, and social significance: Decorated bowls of the Late Copper Age Eastern Croatia
11.20 Zsuzsa Hegedűs and Julie Dunne, Social aspects of pottery use in the Middle Copper Age Carpathian Basin. How fragmented settlement assemblages can help us reconstruct everyday life
11.40 Szilvia Fábián, Tibor Marton, and Péter Csippán, Reconsideration of the concept of form and function through the pottery of the Late Copper Age Baden complex
12.00 Polet Kósa, Increase in the capacity of vessels of the Late Bronze Age Gáva culture
12.20 Ioana Mihaela Potra, Table amphorae versus imported amphorae in Roman Dacia
12.40 Carina Hasenzagl, Serving Rome, Red slipped tableware between commodity and cultural expression in the Roman Empire
SESSION II: Technology, production, and identities
14.30 Marija Svilar and Clare Burke, Patterns and Meaning: The stylistic and technological analysis of Starcevo pottery from Svinjaricka Cuka, Serbia
14.50 Ákos Mengyán, Hidden identities: Ceramic petrographic analysis of two Tumulus culture Bronze Age cemeteries at Maklár (NE Hungary)
15.10 Eszter Solnay, Technical traditions and social embeddedness of pottery production in the Early and Middle Copper Age Eastern Hungary
15.30 Cesare Vita and Josipa Mandić, The pottery productions and their role in the social dynamics between indigenous and allogenous communities in the Iron Age Mediterranean. The case of Incoronata (Basilicata, Southern Italy)
15.50 Vesna Bikić, Craft product imitation and social identity: Pottery and politics in Belgrade from the 15th to the 18th centuries
SESSION III: Online
16.45 Marianna Limperaki and Silva Teresa, Duska Urem-Kotsou, Stavros Kotsos, and Areti Chondroyianni-Metoki, Sizing a Pot Up: cooking pot and tableware capacities in Late Neolithic
17.05 Nadiia Kotova and Sergey Makhortykh, The earliest multi-mouthed vessels in Europe - one of the first kind of vessels for special occasions – rituals, feasts, and social gatherings
17.25 Ilia Palaguta and Elena Starkova, “Binoculars” and “monocle-shaped” items of the Cucuteni-Trypillya culture: forms, context, possible functions
17.45 Anna Panti, Imported and local pottery in burial practices in the Thermaic Gulf region during the 6th century BC. Funerary rites and social/class stratification
18.10 Flora Miele and Beatrice Brancazi, Cencelle, a rubbish dump as a window to the past: from the mise en table to urban life between the 12th and 15th centuries
15/05/2024
Volunteers preparing BECAP materials for participants