Fifth Balkan Symposium of Archaeometry 2016 Bridging Science and Heritage September 25-29, 2016, Sinaia, ROMANIA

Second circular (Call for papers)
General information
This is the second circular (call for papers) to announce the Fifth Balkan Symposium of Archaeometry 2016 (5th BSA2016) to take place between September 25-29, 2016, in the Carpathian resort of Sinaia, Romania. This will be the 5th edition of a tradition that began in 2008 in Ohrid (Macedonia) and continued in 2010 in Istanbul, in 2012 in Bucharest and in 2014 Nesebar (Bulgaria).
The title chosen for this year’s event is:
Bridging Science and Heritage
The organizers of the symposium are the Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH) Bucharest-Măgurele, the University of Bucharest, and the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy (for the organizing committees see: http://www.nipne.ro/events/conferences/bsa5/committee.html).
The Symposium will be focused on the application of modern physical and chemical methods in archaeometry, including nuclear methods and techniques used in dating, in the analysis, investigation and characterization of ancient artifacts, as well as their conservation and/or restoration. Subjects from the related fields of archaeology and art history will be included.
The symposium program will include invited lectures (40 minutes), oral presentations (20 minutes) and posters on the following topics:
Analytical methods for cultural heritage diagnostics, Lithic materials, Archaeometallurgy, Radiocarbon dating, GIS applications,  Preservation of cultural heritage – conservation and restoration; Optoelectronic applications, Experimental archaeology, Multidisciplinarity in archaeology

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