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Dear Colleagues, Included below are the details of papers and posters being presented at the Graduate Archaeology Oxford Conference 2009 “Living in the Past: Living Conditions Through Time and Space”. We hope you think that they look as interesting and exciting as we do! Registration is now open at http://www.graduatearchaeologyoxford.co.uk/registration2009.html and the conference attendee dinner can also be booked via this link. Registration is £20 (£12 for GAO members), and the dinner in an Oxford College is also £20 (including a champagne reception, 3 courses, coffee & mints). Further details of the conference can be found at http://www.graduatearchaeologyoxford.co.uk/conferences.html We look forward to seeing you at the conference soon. Any queries, please contact [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] All the best The GAO Committee. SATURDAY 28TH MARCH, 2009 9.30am – Conference registration open 10.15am – Conference Welcome SESSION 1: FROM PAST TO PRESENT – CONTEMPORARY ARCHAEOLOGY 10.30am – Sefryn Penrose (Uni. Oxford, UK): “Transitional living in post-industrial England: an archaeological view” 11.00am – Thomas John (Uni. York, UK): “An historical archaeology of the 19th century caravan trade in East Africa” 11.30am – Charlotte Newman (Uni. York, UK): “The Place of the Pauper: The West Yorkshire Workhouse in the Poor Law Era” LUNCH BREAK: 12.00pm – 1.00pm SESSION 2: BUILDING A LIFESTYLE – THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ARCHITECTURE 1.00pm – Alexander Nagel (Uni. Michigan, USA): “Colour Me Blind: The Colourful Environments of the Achaemenid Courts, c. 520-330 BCE” 1.30pm – Heini Ynnila (Uni. Oxford, UK): “Places to work and places to live: The multifunctional spaces in Pompeii insula IX, 3.” 2.00pm – Fatma Gul Ozturk (Baskent University, Turkey): “An investigation on rock-cut “Courtyard Complexes” in Cappadocia” COFFEE BREAK: 2.30pm – 3.00pm SESSION 3: LIVING CONDITIONS THROUGH TIME – THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD 3.00pm – Jane Kershaw (Uni. Oxford, UK): “The Consumption of Scandinavian Metalwork in the Danelaw”. 3.30pm – Christopher Ferguson (Uni. Oxford, UK): “Path Dependency and the Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England” 4pm – closing & poster session POSTER SESSION: 4.00pm – 6.00pm poster session (see below for details) EVENING EVENTS: For those guests and delegates pre-booked onto the dinner. 7.00pm: Drinks Reception, St Cross College. 7.30pm: Dinner, St Cross College. SUNDAY 29TH MARCH 2009 SESSION 1: LIVING CONDITIONS THROUGH SPACE – COMMERCIAL USES OF MARITIME AND TERRESTRIAL LANDSCAPES 10.30am – John Cooper (Uni. Exeter, UK): “Navigating the Nile: plain sailing or the long haul?” 11.00am – Patrick Dresch (Uni. Southampton, UK): “The Role of Slaves at Sea and the Development of Afro-Caribbean Maritime Culture” 11.30am – Constanze Rassmann (CAU, Kiel, Germany): “Non-megalithic long barrows as an indicator of exchange across the North Sea” LUNCH BREAK: 12.00pm – 1.00pm SESSION 2: LIFESTYLE AND THE LANDSCAPE – SCIENTIFIC METHODS OF INVESTIGATION 1.00pm: Ferdinando De Simone (Uni. Oxford, UK): “After the catastrophe: the Vesuvian landscape between AD 79 and 472” 1.30pm: Jamie Anderson (Uni. Oxford, UK): “Vikings and Volcanic ash: the preliminary results of a microtephra study of the Viking site of Snusgar, Orkney Islands” 2.00pm: Elisa Guerra-Doce (Uni. Reading, UK): “Alcohol and staple foods in the Late Bell Beaker period of Central Iberia: nutritional patterns of the Ciempozuelos group” COFFEE BREAK: 2.30pm – 3.00pm SESSION 3: EXPLOINTING THE LANDSCAPE IN THE PAST – THE INFLUENCE OF DIET ON LIVING CONDITIONS 3.00pm: Dragana Filipovic (Uni. Oxford, UK): “The social life of plants at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia” 3.30pm: Carlos Fernandez (Uni. León, Spain): “Marine exploitation during the “Castro” culture of the Northwest of Iberian Peninsula” 4.00pm: Robin Veal (Uni. Sydney, Australia): “Aspects of the wood fuel economy in Campania: the archaeological and historical evidence from Pompeii and surrounds, ca. third century BCE to AD79.” 4.30pm – Closing Remarks and Thanks. POSTER SESSION – 4.00PM – 6.00PM, SATURDAY 28TH MARCH 2009. (1) David Álvarez Jiménez & Sergio Remedios Sánchez: “Men of sea: the making of an identity” (2) Nicola Attard Montalto (Cranfield University, UK): “Provenancing and characterization of ochres” (3) Daniel Costura (Uni. New York, USA): “Consumption and Reinvention on the Frontier: The Life and Times of a Frontier Community in 19th Century Western New York State” (4) Maureen Costura (Uni. New York, USA): “Lambs in the Wilderness: French Aristocrats in 18th Century Frontier Pennsylvania” (5) Natividad Fuertes Prieto (Uni. León, Spain): “Lithic production during the First Iron Age at North Iberian Plateau: the case of Oteros area (León, Spain)” (6) Diana Gallagher (Boston University, U.S.A.): ““an Excellent Cure for Worms”: Parasites and Living Conditions in the New World” (7) Matilda Holmes: “From Cattle To Kittiwake: One Thousand Years of Ecclesiastical Consumption at Worcester Cathedral” (8) Erika Nitsch (Uni. Oxford): “Isotopic and historical evidence for breastfeeding practices in post-medieval London” (9) Erica Rowan (Uni. Oxford): “The Bakeries of Ostia: A Model for Flour Production” (10) Francesco Tiboni (Uni. Leicester): “Ships and sea trades in LBA EIA Mediterranean Sea: archaeological evidences of private traders” (11) Joe Williams (Uni. Kent): “Questioning a relationship between finds and access to space at a late Bronze Age site: Hut Platform 4 at Black Patch, East Sussex”