Exchange of goods and ideas.

Long distance trade in Asia in the 1st millennium AD.

Warsaw, April 18-20, 2016

Scientific Programme

Monday, 18.04.2016:

9.30 Opening ceremony

Session I:

10.00-10.30 Prof. Andreas Schmidt-Colinet (Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Universität Wien): Exchange of goods and ideas between East and West: Ancient and recent archaeological evidence from Palmyra.

10.30-11.00 Dr Mariusz Gwiazda (Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw): Tortoiseshell trade between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea during the Roman Period.

11.00-11.30 Iwona Zych (Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw): Traveling oil lamps — the view from the Red Sea harbour of Berenike. 

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break

12.00 – 12.30 Marek Woźniak (Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw): The Indian steel route: invention and spread of crucible steel-making down the ancient trade routes.

12.30 – 13.00 Dr Eivind Heldaas Seland (Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion Department, University of Bergen): Commodities and circuits in ancient Indian trade: a network approach.

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch break

Session II:

14.30 – 15.00 Dr Sergey Lapteff (Miho Museum): Central Asia on the crossroads of trade in prestigious goods in the 2-1 millennium BC: natural minerals and glass.

15.00 – 15.30 Marcin Wagner (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw): Fire temples in Central Asia at the beginning of the 1st millennium BC.

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 – 16.30 Dr Ladislav Stanco (Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University, Prague): What is Roman about Central Asia?

16.30 – 17.00 Prof. Marek Jan Olbrycht (Department of Ancient History and Oriental Studies, University of Rzeszów): Trade in the Caspian Sea Basin in the Parthian period.

17.00 – 17.30 Dr Joseph Zaya (Sociology and Politology Department, Finance University under the Goverment of Russian Federation): Communities of the Church of the East (so called 'Nestorian') across the trade roads.

19.00 Exhibition “Poles on the Silk Road” – opening ceremony and reception.

Tuesday, 19.04.2016

Session III:

9.30 – 10.00 Prof. Lin Ying (Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou): Ethnicity and social ranks: A preliminary report on the Byzantine gold coins and imitations uncovered from Baryannur Sum, Kulgan Province, Mongolia.

10.00  - 10.30 Dr Li Yusheng (School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest Unversity, Xi’an): Integrated study of the copper ewer from Qingshan Buddhist temple of Tang Dynasty.

10.30 – 11.00 Dr Bartłomiej Szmoniewski (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences): A Brief history of the lion as an ornamental motif in China from Han to Tang Times.

11.00  - 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 12.00 Paweł Janik (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw): Origin of "Hunnic" Cauldrons - Another Link Between Huns and Xiongnu.

12.00 – 12.30 Robert Żukowski (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences): Monsoon traders. Arab merchants in Guangzhou.

12.30 – 13.00 Dr Kiyohide Saito (Archaeological Institute of Kashihara, Nara Prefecture): Tomb no 126 at Niizawa, Nara.

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch break

Session IV:

14.30 – 15.00  Prof. Sergey Yatsenko (Department of the History and Theory of Culture. Russian State University for the Humanities): Trade and gifts in the nomadic societies of the 1st c. BCE – 3rd c. CE.

15.00 – 15.30  Dr Helen Wang (Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum): Textiles as money on the Silk Road.

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 – 16.30 Dominika Kossowska (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw): Early history of cotton.

16.30 – 17.00 Dr Marta Żuchowska (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw): Woollen textiles in China. Import, value and redistribution.

Wenesday, 20.04.2015

Session V:

9.30-10.00 Roman Żuchowicz (Institute of History, University of Warsaw): Terebinthus: polemical construct or historical figure? An investigation about historicity of some 'Buddha' in Acta Archelai.

10.00 -10.30 Katarzyna Sarek (Departent of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow): Ideal, Treasure Country: The Image of Roman Empire in Minor Chinese Sources.

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.-11.30 Mirosław Michalak (Department of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw): China in the Early Arabic and Persian Accounts: A Literary and Cultural Aproach.

11.30 – 12.00 Michał Adamiak (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw): Chin and Machin. Diverse visions of Faghfur’s kingdom in Gardisi’s Zain al-Akhbar (11 c. AD).

12.00 – 13.30 Lunch

Conference financed from the funds of National Science Centre, Poland, granted by decision no: DEC-2012/07/E/HS3/01028