Interwoven Economies: The “Chaîne Opératoire” as a Method for Comparing Regional Networks between the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa

This workshop at the Madrid Department of the German Archaeological Institute aims to employ the concept of the chaîne opératoire to compare exploitation networks both between and within the Iberian Peninsula and Western North Africa. It is organized by Paul Scheding (DAI Madrid) and Dennis Beck (University of Bonn). The primary objective is to conduct a long-term comparison to assess both permanent production zones and transient developments shaped by historical and political power structures. We aim to analyze and compare diachronic perspectives on process chains, as well as the evolution and expansion of economic frameworks and trade networks. Building on recently published studies regarding trade networks and exchange processes between North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula from prehistory to the Middle Ages, the workshop seeks to extend these studies and highlight new research potentials.

Programm:

9:00 Paul Scheding (Madrid)
Welcome & Introduction

9:15 Dennis Mario Beck (Bonn)
Keynote

10:00 Dario Bernal-Casasola (Cádiz)
Cadena operativa y artesanado haliéutico en época romana: su aplicación al Círculo del Estrecho

10:30 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 Athena Trakadas (Copenhagen)
Roman marine resource exploitation in the province of Mauretania Tingitana

12:00 Stephen Collins-Elliot (Tennessee)
Thresholds of Integration: Evaluating Long-Term Change in Economic Networks between Iberia and North Africa via Point Processes

 12:30 Alejandro Quevedo (Madrid)
Local amphorae and African imitations. The workshops of the Carthaginensis in Late Antiquity

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 Corisande Fenwick (UCL), Ihsane Aad (INSAP), Victoria Amorós-Ruiz (Alicante), Asmae El Kacimi (INSAP), Elizabeth Fentress, Kelsi Kaviani (UCL), Raluca Lazarescu (UCL), Hassan Limane (INSAP), Liam Richards (UCL), Lisa Yeomans (UCL)
Craft and technology at early medieval Walīla (Volubilis, Morocco)

15:00 Ana Mateos Orozco (Sevilla)
Early Islamic Potters between Morocco and al-Andalus. A State of the Art

15:30 Final Discussion