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Dear all,
Please find attached and below copies of the conference abstract and final programme for the Association for Environmental Archaeology Autumn Conference 2012 entitled Environmental Archaeologies of Neolithisation.
If you wish to register for the conference, you can do so online at:
http://www.store.reading.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=2&modid=2&prodid=138&deptid=18&catid=11
Alternatively, download the booking form and register by post:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.aspx?lID=76676&sID=222621
Early registration closes Monday 15th October 2012, after this date a late booking fee will apply.
Further details can be found at the conference website:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeology/Conferences/AEA/AEA.aspx
Conference organisers:
Robin Bendrey, Sarah Elliott, Wendy Matthews, Amy Richardson, and Jade Whitlam
Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK
Association for Environmental Archaeology
Autumn Conference 2012
Environmental Archaeologies of Neolithisation
University of Reading (UK), 9-12 November 2012
Conference abstract
The origins and spread of Neolithic life-ways represent a pivotal change in human ecology and society. Communities transformed their relationships with the world around them, shifting away from reliance upon hunted and collected wild resources, to the management and domestication of plants and animals, alongside a pattern of increasing sedentism. These processes were played out at differing temporal and spatial scales; from the life-cycle of a single organism of a population on the path to domestication, to the dissemination of ‘new’ farming economies around the world.
The varied fields within environmental archaeology are providing increasingly detailed understanding of the agencies, processes and pathways in these transformations. These include work in the established fields of geoarchaeology, archaeobotany and zooarchaeology, alongside the major advances and exciting vistas opened in recent decades by techniques such as stable isotope analysis, geometric morphometrics and genetic studies, as well as interdisciplinary studies that integrate these approaches.
The conference aims to examine any aspect of Neolithisation at the varying scales of analysis that environmental archaeology can offer, from changes within a single site to those played out over continents.
The conference programme is now finalized, but may be subject to minor organisational changes. The Association for Environmental Archaeology will award two poster prizes at the conference.
Conference programme
FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER
Registration opens (15:30)
Keynote address (17:00 – 19:00)
New insights from Cyprus on the beginning of animal domestication and on the neolithisation in the Near East
Jean-Denis Vigne
Followed by welcome wine reception and photographic exhibition “Current Kurdish Transhumance in the north of the ancient Fertile Crescent” by Michaël Thevenin
SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER
ORAL PAPERS (09:20 – 17:10)
Terminal Epipalaeolithic Site Locations in the Southern Levant – Foreshadowing the Neolithic?
A. Belfer-Cohen, A.N. Goring-Morris and L. Grosman
WF16: Environmental context of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A settlement embedded within the process of Neolithisation
Steven Mithen and Bill Finlayson
Current Research on the Origins of Agriculture, Animal Herding and Sedentism in the Zagros Mountains of Iran and Iraq
Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Yaghoub Mohammadifar, Kamal Rasheed, Robin Bendrey, Sarah Elliott, Amy Richardson and Jade Whitlam
A Question of Territory: a multi-scale approach to Pre-Pottery Neolithic Settlement Systems in the Lower Galilee, Israel
M. Birkenfeld and A.N. Goring-Morris
The Neolithic of the Iranian Central Plateau through the study of archaeobotanical remains: the case of Tape Sialk
Hengameh Ilkhani and Alexandra Livarda
Isotopic evidence for the earliest use of ceramics in cooking meats and processing milk from sheep and goats at Hotu and Belt Caves, northern Iran
Michael W. Gregg and Greg F. Slater
The spread of farming; the environmental and social context of adoption, adaptation, rejection in early Holocene central Anatolia
Douglas Baird
Destructive delicacies: wild boar in the Neolithic of Anatolia
Louise A Martin & Yvonne H Edwards
Pig domestication and human migration from Anatolia to Europe (and back again)
Claudio Ottonia, Linus Girdland Flink, Allowen Evin, Christina Geörgi, Bea De Cupere, Wim Van Neer, László Bartosiewicz, Anna Linderholm, Ross Barnett, Joris Peters, Ronny Decorte, Marc Waelkens, Nancy Vanderheyden, François-Xavier Ricaut, A. Rus Hoelzel, Marjan Mashkour, Azadeh Fatemeh Mohaseb Karimluh, Shiva Sheikhi Seno, Julie Daujat, Fiona Brock, Ron Pinhasi, Hitomi Hongo, Miguel Perez-Enciso, Morten Rasmussen, Laurent Frantz, Hendrik-Jan Megens, Richard Crooijmans, Martien Groenen, Benjamin Arbuckle, Nobert Benecke, Una Strand Vidarsdottir, Joachim Burger, Thomas Cucchi, Keith Dobney, and Greger Larson
Stable isotope evidence for changes in human diet from the Epi-Palaeolithic to the Neolithic in Anatolia
Jessica Pearson
Two different roads to domestication? Caprine and cattle management (13,000–5,000 BC cal) in the Konya Plain of Central Anatolia: an approach using carbon and nitrogen isotopes.
Caroline Middleton
Neolithisation Process in North China: Geoarchaeological Investigation at two Early Neolithic Sites
Yijie Zhuang
Application of GIS Techniques in Exploring Settlement Patterns of the Neolithic Communities in South India
Opangtula Imsong
No Flies on Us: The Diffusion of the Neolithic in Africa
Lee G Broderick, Mary Prendergast, Oula Seitsonen, Katherine Grillo, Agnes Gidna and Audax Mabulla
Reconstructing the environmental changes at Vinča – Belo brdo
Kristina Penezić
Diet and subsistence variation in the early Neolithic of central Europe
Julie Hamilton, Robert Hedges, Penny Bickle, R. Alexander Bentley, Linda Fibiger, Daniela Hofmann and Alasdair Whittle
AEA annual AGM (17:20 – 18:20)
Conference dinner (19:30)
SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER
ORAL PAPERS (09:20 – 17:10)
Neolithisation and woodland management: can woodland management be recognised by branch age and diameter analysis?
Welmoed Out, Kirsti Hänninen and Caroline Vermeeren
Socioecological dynamics at the time of Neolithic transition in Iberia.
Joan Bernabeu Aubán, Oreto García Puchol, C. Michael Barton, Sarah B. McClure and Salvador Pardo Gordo
Crop water availability and origins of agriculture in the western Mediterranean: insights from carbon-13 analysis of cereals and wild flora associated to early Neolithic farming
Mònica Aguilera, Guillem Pérez, Juan Pedro Ferrio, Ramon Buxó, José Luis Araus, Leonor Peña-Chocarro and Jordi Voltas
Zooarchaeology in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Portugal
Maria João Valente and António Faustino Carvalho
An integrated perspective on farming in the Early Neolithic lakeshore site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)
F Antolín, R Buxó, S Jacomet, V Navarrete and M Saña
Wild and domestic animals in the earliest Neolithic sites in southern Britain
Dale Serjeantson
The causes of the Neolithic elm decline: New evidence from the Lower Thames Valley for human activity and disease
C R Batchelor
Variations on a theme: detailing cattle and pig exploitation in Early Neolithic Britain.
Sarah Viner
The Ecodynamics of Neolithic Clearance in the British Isles
Mark Robinson
Late Neolithic Wiltshire Ham: Recent discoveries from Marden Henge, Wiltshire, UK
Fay Worley
Picturing Stonehenge: providing the evidence base to inform the interpretation content of the new visitor centre
Gill Campbell, Matt Canti, Susan Greaney, Zoё Hazell, Jonathan Last, Ruth Pelling, Simon Mays and Fay Worley
Neolithisation and the landscape of Ireland
M J Bunting, N J Whitehouse, P Barratt, R Schulting, R Marchant, A Bogaard and M McClatchie
Milking the megafauna: the implications of dairying in the Irish Neolithic
Jessica Smyth and Richard P Evershed
The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Shetland: Osteological evidence from a shell midden
Rebecca Nicholson, Fay Worley and Nigel Melton
Reconstructing the landscapes of Neolithisation in Orkney, Scotland
Michelle Farrell and M. Jane Bunting
Storakaig: Environmental archaeology at the Mesolithic/Neolithic interface of Western Scotland
Steven Mithen and Karen Wicks
POSTER SESSION
Akanthou-Arkosykos, a 9th Millennium Coastal Settlement in Cyprus
Müge Şevketoğlu
First results of charcoal and phytolith analysis from Neolithic layers of Buran-Kaya IV (Crimea, Ukraine)
Aurélie Salavert, Erwan Messager, Vincent Lebreton, Natalia Gerasimenko, Simon Puaud, Laurent Crépin, Stéphane Péan, Masayoshi Yamada and Alexander Yanevich
Early oleiculture or native wild Olea in Eastern Maghreb: new pollen data from the sebkha-lagoon Halk-el-Menjel (Hergla, Central Tunisia)
Vincent Lebreton, Amor Mokhtar Gammar, Sahbi Jaouadi, Simone Mulazzani, Lotfi Belhouchet, Abdelkarim Boujelben, Jean-François Saliege, Mohamed Raouf Karray and Eric Fouache
Shell Middens in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in North Africa: Ongoing Work at Taforalt (Grotte des Pigeons), Morocco
Victoria Taylor
Early agriculture in northern Africa: first archaeobotanical data from sites in Morocco
Leonor Peña-Chocarro, Youssef Bokbot, Jacob Morales Mateos, Guillem Pérez Jordà, Lydia Zapata, and Juan Carlos Vera Rodríguez
Vegetation history, climate change and the Neolithisation of the northern Apennines, Italy
Stuart Black, Nicholas Branch, Roberto Maggi, Sophie Neville and Mike Simmonds
Stable isotopic evidence and animal management practices in Neolithic Dalmatia
Sarah McClure, Emil Podrug, Douglas Kennett and Emily Zavodny
Plant macro-remains from the early Neolithic site of Smólsk in the Kujawy region, central Poland
Aldona Mueller, Katarzyna Cywa and Błażej Muzolf
Abri des Castelli – 2140m asl: a Neolithic occupation in the Corsican mountain
S Mazet, JM Bontempi and N Marini
Wild and domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus and Sus scrofa ferus) in Prehistoric Times of Romania: paleoeconomical importance
Simina Stanc, Luminiţa Bejenaru and Mariana Popovici
Morphometric data for suines (Sus scrofa domesticus and Sus scrofa ferus) for Precucuteni-Cucuteni and Boian-Gumelnita cultures, in Romania
Mariana Popovici, Adrian Balasescu, Simina Stanc and Luminita Bejenaru
The ratio of domestic and wild animals on the Neolithic sites in Vojvodina (Serbia)
Darko Radmanović, Desanka Kostić, Jelena Lujić and Svetlana Blažić
Changes in prehistoric landscapes: archaeozoological data on Poduri tell (Bacau County, Romania)
Luminita Bejenaru and Simina Stanc
The introduction of agriculture into Ireland: evidence from plant macro-remains
Meriel McClatchie, Nicki Whitehouse, Amy Bogaard, Sue Colledge, Rick Schulting, Phil Barratt and Rowan McLaughlin
Environmental change and human impact across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition of NW Europe: new data from March Hill, N. England
S E Kneen, J J Blackford, P A Ryan and J B Innes
MONDAY 12 NOVEMBER
Optional excursion – Avebury World Heritage Site (09:00 – 17:00)
Led by Professor Richard Bradley (University of Reading), including Avebury henge and stone circles, Silbury Hill and West Kennet long barrow.