Presentations

Invited Lectures and Seminars

2016      

• Cutler J. “Reading Between the Lines: interpreting the material evidence for textile production and textile technology in Late Bronze Age Crete”, McDonald lunchtime seminar, 2 March 2016
• Gleba M. “Textile production and consumption in the northern Mediterranean in the first millennium BCE: material and technological exchanges”, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK, 10 November 2016
• Gleba M. “Early Textiles and What We Learn from Them”, course Textiles Ancient and Modern, V&A Museum, London, UK, 6 October 2016
• Gleba M. “Textile Production and Consumption in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE”, University of Granada, Spain, 28 September 2016
• Gleba M. “I tessuti nell'antichità preromana e romana: il Veneto crocevia delle culture tessili europee”, Museum of Altino, Italy, 28 May 2016
• Gleba M. “Textile Production and Consumption in the Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE”, Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, 4 May 2016
• Gleba M. “A new spin on fibre revolution: plants, textiles and technology in the ancient Mediterranean”, GPR seminar, McDonald Institute University of Cambridge, 28 April 2016
• Gleba M. “Weaving the Past: The Archaeology of Textiles and Textile Production in the Mediterranean in the First Millennium BCE”, ASCSA open meeting, Thessaloniki, Greece, 23 March 2016
• Gleba M. “Dressed in gold: textile evidence from pre-Roman and Roman times”, Golden Legacy course, University of Padova, Italy, 27 January 2016
• Marín-Aguilera B. “Purpura, comercio y poder en el Sur iberico entre los siglos IX y VI a.C.”, University of Granada, Spain, 28 September 2016

2015      

• Gleba M. “Tracing Textile Cultures of Italy and Greece during the 1st Millennium BCE”, Greek Archaeology Seminar, University of Oxford, 5 November 2015
• Gleba M. “La produzione tessile nell'Italia antica: il caso di Grotte di Castro”, Grotte di Castro, Italy, 11 September 2015

• Gleba M. "Cloth worth a King’s Ransom: textile circulation and transmission of textile craft in the ancient Mediterranean", University of Cambridge Classical Archaeology seminar, 10 March 2015
• Gleba M. “Production and Consumption: Textile Economy and Urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe (PROCON Project)”, seminar, University of Padova, Italy, 23 February 2015

2014   

• Cutler J. “Textile Tools,” Zagora Excavation, October 2014
• Gleba M., Harris S. “Current approaches in European archaeological textile research” – seminar, China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, China, 19 November 2014
• Gleba M. “A new spin on fibre revolution: plants, textiles and technology in the ancient Mediterranean” – Association for Environmental Archaeology lecture, American Academy in Rome, Italy, 12 November 2014
• Gleba M. “Un filo nel passato: Fibre tessili e produzione dei tessuti nell’Italia preromana” – seminar, Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Roma 3, Italy, 12 November
• Gleba M. “Tracing textile cultures of Ancient Italy and Greece” – McDonald Institute lunchrtame seminar, 15 October 2014
• Gleba M. “La fibula di Monte Michele: trace di una stoffa” - lecture, Museo dell’Agro Veientano, Formello, Italy, 17 May 2014

Gleba M. “Un filo nel passato: archeologia dei tessuti nell’Italia preromana” - lecture, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy, 15 May 2014

• Harris S. “Clothing and regional identity in the Copper Age, the statue menhir evidence”, McDonald Research Seminars, University of Cambridge, February 2014
• Harris S. “Cloaks and daggers: regional clothing and identity as investigated through Copper Age statue menhirs”, Research Seminars at the University of Southampton Archaeology, February 2014

2013

• Gleba M. “Sacred cloth: consumption and production of textiles in ancient Mediterranean cultic contexts”, keynote lecture, Conference “Textiles and Cult in the Mediterranean Area in the first Millennium BC”, Copenaghen, November 2014
• Harris S. “Regional costume and identity in the north Italian Copper Age: the statue menhir evidence”, Accordia Research Seminars, Institute of Classical Studies & Institute of Archaeology, UCL, November 2013

Conference papers

2016

• Cutler J. “Tools, tablets and textiles: interweaving strands of evidence for Bronze Age textile economies on Crete”, Purpureae Vestes VI Symposium, Padova, Italy, 18 October 2016
• Cutler J. “Materialising production: textile tools, textile technology and cloth production in ancient Greece”, 2nd PROCON Workshop, British Scholl at Athens, Greece, 18 March 2016
• Cutler J. “Tools for textiles: textile technology and textile production at Poggio Civitate, Murlo in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE”, International Conference “Contextualising Textile Production in Italy in the 1st millennium BCE”, Villa Giulia Museum/ Danish Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 11 February 2016
• Dimova B. “Ancient Textile: testimonies, artefacts, analyses”, Seminarium Thracicum Round table, Centre for Thracology Prof. Alexander Fol, Sofia, Bulgaria, 31 March 2016
• Dimova B. “Textile production and consumption in Iron Age Thrace: state of the evidence”, 2nd PROCON Workshop, British Scholl at Athens, Greece, 18 March 2016
• Ruta Serafini M., Gleba M. “Evidence of ossuary dressing in the funerary ritual of pre-Roman Veneto (Italy)”, Purpureae Vestes VI Symposium, Padova, Italy, 19 October 2016
• Busana M.S., Gleba M. “Textile Production and Consumption in Roman Venetia (Italy):
  Preliminary results of the study of mineralized fibers and textiles”, Purpureae Vestes VI Symposium, Padova, Italy, 19 October 2016
• Gleba M., Cutler J., Marín Aguilera B., Harris S. “Production and Consumption: Textile Economy and Urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE”, Purpureae Vestes VI Symposium, Padova, Italy, 18 October 2016
• Gleba M. “Textile Cultures of Iron Age Central and Mediterranean Europe: breaking down the boundaries”, EAA, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2 September 2016
• Gleba M. “Textile cultures on the 1st millennium BC Europe: a view from Greece”, 2nd PROCON Workshop, British Scholl at Athens, Greece, 18 March 2016
• Gleba M., Laurito R. “La tessitura nell’Italia antica. Lo stato degli studi”, Seminar: I ricami del guerriero. Il restauro dei reperti archeologici della Tomba 382 di Herdonia, Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro, Rome, Italy, 31 May 2016 (invited)
• Gleba M. “L'arte tessile fra Baltico e Mediterraneo: evidenze archeologiche”, Round table “Vestire l’antico: materie prime e tessuti all’alba della storia”, TURISMA’, Florence, Italy, 21 February 2016 (invited)
• Gleba M., Menale I., Rescigno C. “Cumaean cremation burials with textile remains”, International Conference “Contextualising Textile Production in Italy in the 1st millennium BCE”, Villa Giulia Museum/ Danish Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 11 February 2016
• Gleba M., Mandolesi A. “Tessuti dalla Tomba dell'Aryballos sospeso, Tarquinia”, International Conference “Contextualising Textile Production in Italy in the 1st millennium BCE”, Villa Giulia Museum/ Danish Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 11 February 2016
• Gleba M. “Textiles in pre-Roman Italy: from qualitative to quantitative approach”, International Conference “Contextualising Textile Production in Italy in the 1st millennium BCE”, Villa Giulia Museum/ Danish Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 11 February 2016
• Harris S. “More than a pleasing form of real estate: what is a valuable textile and how do we identify it?” EAA, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1 September 2016
• Harris S. “Etruscan cloak experiment”, Seventh Conference of Italian Archaeology, Galway, Ireland, April 2016
• Harris S. “Garments of the archaic korai: a textile approach to iconography”, 2nd PROCON Workshop, British School at Athens, Greece, 18 March 2016
• Iacono F. “Purple Dye between the Aegean and the Central Mediterranean in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages”, 2nd PROCON Workshop, British Scholl at Athens, Greece, 18 March 2016

• Marín-Aguilera B. “Producing purple on the other side of the Mediterranean: raw material procurement and relations between local people and Phoenician settlers in Early Iron Age southern Iberia”, Purpureae Vestes VI Symposium, Padova, Italy, 18 October 2016
• Marín-Aguilera B. “Beyond post-politics: hybridity in the central-western Mediterranean Early Iron Age”, McDonald Lunch Seminars, Cambridge, UK, 27 January 2016

2015   

• Gleba M. “‘Made in Greece’ or ‘Product of Italy’? Tracing textile trade and distribution in Iron Age Mediterranean Europe”, Textile trade and distribution from the Ancient Near East to the Mediterranean 1000 BC to 400 AD / Textilhandel und -distribution. Vom Alten Orient zum Mittelmeerraum, 1000 v.Chr. bis 400 n.Chr, Kassel, Germany, 12 November 2015 (invited)
• Gleba M., Vanden Berghe I. “Dyes in Italy during the first millennium BC”, Dyes in History and Archaeology, Thessaloniki, Greece, 22 October 2015
• Gleba M., Harris S. “A new spin on fibre revolution: plants, textiles and technology in the ancient Mediterranean”, EAA, Glasgow, UK, 4 September 2015

• Gleba M. “Plant fibres in ancient Europe – raw material, technology and social change”, 2nd Cambridge workshop, 25 March 2015
• Gleba M. “Archaeological textiles of Italy: chaîne opératoire, raw materials and analysis” – International workshop ‘Fabric of Life”, British School at Rome/Villa Giulia Museum, Rome, Italy, 26 February 2015
• Harris S., Haigh S., Handley A., Sampson W.  “Fibres of foragers and farmers: material choices in the selection of plant fibres in Neolithic Europe”, UKAS Environmental and Archaeological Science Conference, Durham, UK, April 2015
• Harris S. “Building a plant fibre reference collection with research potential”, 2nd Cambridge workshop, 25 March 2015
• Harris S. “Textile iconography of proto-historic Italy: methods and research potential “ - International workshop ‘Fabric of Life”, British School at Rome/Villa Giulia Museum, Rome, Italy, 26 February 2015

• Harris S., Haigh S., Handley A., Sampson W. “Fibres of early farmers: material choices in the selection of plant fibres in Neolithic Europe”, EAA annual meeting, Glasgow, UK, September 2015

2014

• Cutler J. “Interweaving threads: interpreting the material evidence for textile production and textile technology in Neopalatial Crete” Textiles Workshop: “New Directions in Textile Research”, Cambridge University, 11 March 2014
• Gleba M. “’The Emperor's New Clothes’? Finding the cloth that made the clothing in Iron Age Italy” - Theoretical Archaeology Group, Manchester, 15 December 2014
• Gleba M. “The Wool Revolution: European Textile Technology in the Bronze and Iron Ages”, Conference “Primary Textile Technologies”, Hangzhou, China, 16 November 2014 (invited speaker)
• Gleba M., Russo Tagliente A., De Lucia Brolli M.A., Laurito R. ”Tessuti, Vesti e Ornamenti per Una Vita Oltre la Morte”, Preistoria e Protostoria in Etruria XII, Manciano, Italy, 14 September 2014
• Gleba M. “The fabric for a city: development of textile materials during the urbanization period in Mediterranean Europe”, Textile Society of America Symposium, Los Angeles, USA, 12 September
• Gleba M. “Production and Consumption: Textile Economies in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE,” North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles XII, Hallstatt, Austria, 23 May
• Gleba, M. “Iron Age Textiles of Central and Eastern Mediterranean: Comparing Textile Traditions”, Purpureae Vestes V, Montserrat, Spain, March, 20 March 2014
• Gleba, M. “Wool fibre identification and analysis: past, present and future analytical approaches”, workshop “The Distinction of Fibres”, Berlin, Germany, 17 February 2014
• Gleba, M. “PROCON Project” Textiles Workshop: “New Directions in Textile Research”, Cambridge University, 11 March 2014
• Harris S. “Textiles and wealth: a reassessment of the research potential of clothing and iconography in Italian situla art of the 6th century BC” - Theoretical Archaeology Group, Manchester, 15 December 2014
• Harris S. “Flax and Plant fibres” - Conference “Primary Textile Technologies”, Hangzhou, China, 16 November 2014 (invited speaker)
• Harris S. “Flax, innovation and change in the early Neolithic - a technological and material perspective” - Textile Society of America Symposium, Los Angeles, USA, 12 September 2014
• Harris S. “Folded, layered textiles from a Bronze Age pit pyre excavated from Over Barrow 2, Cambridgeshire, England”, North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles XII, Hallstatt, Austria, 23 May 2014
• Harris S. “Iconography of clothing and textiles: potential as a source material”, Textiles Workshop: “New Directions in Textile Research”, Cambridge University, 11 March 2014

2013

• De Siena, A., Gleba, M. and Meo, F. “Tessuti, tessitrici e tombe: nuove prospettive archeologiche sul ruolo della donna nella sfera domestica dell’arco ionico durante l’età del Ferro”, Conference “The Material Sides of Marriage - Female Goods and Women’s Economic Role in the Domestic Sphere in Greek, Roman and Byzantine times”, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Rome, 21 November 2013
• Gleba, M. and Harris, S. 2013, “Visual Frontiers: Production and Consumption of Textiles in Iron Age Italy”, International Conference “Frontiers of the European Iron Age”, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 21 September 2013
• Gleba, M. “Shellfish Purple in pre-Roman Italy: Evidence for Strozzacapponi”, - International workshop “Treasures from the Sea”, Lecce, Italy, 26-28 May 2013
• Gleba, M.  and Harris, S. “Production and Consumption: Textile Economies and Urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE”, Mediterranean Seminar, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 15 May 2013
• Gleba, M. “Textiles to Sheep: Investigating ancient wool through fibre analysis”, - Conference “Textile trade and distribution”, Marburg, Germany, 6 April 2013 (invited)

Posters

2016

• P. Basso, M. Gleba, “A lamp with remains of the wick from the necropolis of Gazzo Veronese, Italy”, Purpureae Vestes VI Symposium, Padova, Italy, 18-20 October 2016
• Vanden Berghe I., Gleba M. “Italian textiles from the first millennium BC: Dye investigation of degraded and mineralised textile remains by non-destructive and micro-destructive techniques”, Purpureae Vestes VI Symposium, Padova, Italy, 18-20 October 2016

2015

• Gleba M. “Textile Production and Consumption in Italy 1000-500 BCE”, International Conference “Craft and Production in the European Iron Age”, University of Cambridge, UK, 25-27 September 2015

2014

• Cutler J., Gleba M. "Classical textile remains in the British Museum Collection", International Symposium Purpureae Vestes V, Montserrat, Spain, 20 March 2014
• Gleba M., Daragan M., Buravchuk O. "Pandora's Box: A Textile Tool Set from a Scythian Burial in Ukraine", International Symposium Purpureae Vestes V, Montserrat, Spain, 20 March 2014

2013

• Cutler J., Gleba M. and Cartwright, C. “(Re)discovery of a new classical textile from Karabournaki, northern Greece”, The British Museum, 2 November 2013
• Harris, S. & Hofmann, K.P. "From stones to gendered bodies: regional differences in the production of the body and gender in the Copper Age statue menhirs of northern Italy and the Swiss Valais”, Central Mediterranean Conference, Cambridge University, May 2013