A very important issue of the colloquium on amber held since the first edition of the Amberif fair is going to be deposits and finds of fossil resins in the countries not considered as sources of the raw material.
A presentation of new scientific reports during the Amberif has been present since its first edition in the autumn of 1994. So far more than 100 lecturers from European, Asian and American countries have taken part in it. Many of them have got affiliated with this Gdansk fair event and have taken up their own initiatives of taking part in the fair by means of interesting exhibitions, auctions of nature paintings and presentations of achievements and a research equipment.
This year’s colloquium is divided into two parts. The first one, geologically-natural, is going to present the information not known so far outside a small circle of specialists, that is about Italy and Belarus. Admittedly most of amber people have heard about Sicilian symetite but almost no one about a very old Trias resin from Italian Alps. It is also worth taking into consideration if in the near future the Polesie region of Belarus is not going to become as nice surprise as the Wolyn region of Ukraine.
The people connected with amber will be satisfied by the information on a modern organization of the Gdansk University’s Museum of Inclusion because thanks to their gifts (especially very generous donations made by Bozena and Wojciech Kalandyk and Jacek Serafin) the excellent research institution was found.
In the second part we have interesting information from various fields:
• about the role of a trading centre from the beginning of our era just near the newly opened first interchange of A1 highway called “the amber one”
• about surprising fluctuations in the output of amber during previous 25 years
• about a concept of a triptych with ambers in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
A program of the colloquium – Saturday 15th March, 10.15 a.m. hall B7
I part
1. Prof. Eugenio RAGAZZI (Italy) – Deposits and finds of fossil resins in Italy
2. Dr. Maxim A. BOGDASAROW (Belarus) – Deposits and finds of amber in Belarus
3. Dr. Elzbieta SONTAG (Poland) – Holotypes of arthropods in the Baltic amber and the meaning of syninclusion (from the collections of the Museum of Inclusion in Gdansk)
II part
4. MA Marcin STAPOREK (Poland) – A centre of amber trade on the west from the mouth of Vistula during the Roman period
5. MA Wieslaw GIERLOWSKI (Poland) – Fluctuations of supply and demand of raw amber material in the years 1990-2007 on the worldwide market
6. Mariusz DRAPIKOWSKI – A concept of a triptych with amber elements in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre.
