On 29 October, the Archaeometry Workshop, the principal forum and journal for heritage science in Hungary, held a lecture day to celebrate its 20th anniversary in the Ceremonial Hall of the Hungarian National Museum. The event was organized by the Hungarian Society of Archaeology and Art History, the Hungarian National Museum and the Subcommittee on Archaeometry, Committee on Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, Section of Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
In the framework of the celebration, the founding editor-in-chief, Katalin T. Biró, was honored by the members of the editorial board and the scientific community. Over the course of the full-day event, 11 international lectures were presented, with the majority given by foreign speakers from Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Austria, Romania, Slovenia and the United States. Over the past two decades, the Hungarian archaeometry research community has engaged in numerous fruitful scientific collaborations with researchers from across Europe and beyond. These partnerships flourished thanks to the availability of various international funding opportunities, including the CHARISMA, IPERION CH, IPERION HS, DAAD, IAEA CRP, and others.
The presentations highlighted the results of these collaborations on a range of topics, from prehistory to the modern times, from stone tools to metals, as well as from provenance research to dating and technological studies.
On the day following the lectures, conference participants were invited to visit the heritage science laboratories of the Budapest Neutron Centre.
