Dear colleagues,
The Organizing Committee, the Institute of Geological Sciences (IGS) and Institute of Archaelogy and Ethnography (IAE) of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences announce the international conference on “FROM MAGMA TO ARTIFACT: THE GEOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF OBSIDIAN” to be held in Yerevan on September 28 – October 1, 2026.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
• Petrology and geochemistry of obsidians
• Volcanic processes and physical properties of rhyolite melts
• Provenance studies of archaeological obsidian: source exploitation and raw material distribution
• Typological, technological, and use-wear analysis of archaeological obsidian
• History and methods of provenance studies in archaeology
Abstracts volume with ISBN and DOI will be printed and distributed over conference web-site