An online conference entitled
Worked Shells in the ancient world. Material, use, typology, chronology and contexts
has been held on the 20th of May 2026 in Izmir, Turkey.
It was be organised by Ergün Laflı (Izmir, Turkey), Orsolya Láng (Aquincumi Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary), David S. Reese (Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA) and St. John Simpson (The British Museum, London, UK).
18 papers dealing with worked shell objects were presented during the symposium, which had ca. 50 participants from nine countries. The presentations have been recorded an will be made accessible via YouTube.
Poster (pdf 80kb)
Third Circular (pdf 116 kb)
Program (pdf 309 kb)
Abstracts (pdf 2,4 MB)
Publication
Revised papers of this conference will be published in Mediterranean Archaeology, issue 40, 2027. For publication guidelines and paper submissions contact Jean-Paul Descœudres or info.meditarch@sydney.edu.au.