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Tuesday 19 September
Tuesday 16.00-18.00, Main Hall, Room: 6
Workshop Title: The Future of Archaeology in the Universities.
Organizer: John Collis
Thursday 21 September
Thursday morning, Main Hall Room: 5
Round Table Title: How Should We Conduct Ourselves? Dilemmas in Archaeological Ethics and Professional Conduct: A Roundtable Sponsored by the Register of Professional Archaeologists
Organizer: Jeffrey H. Altschul
Thursday morning, Main Hall Room: 7
Session Title: New advances in Central European Neolithic research
Organizers: Dani Hofmann, Penny Bickle
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
With or without a trace? A bio-archaeological view of the first farmers at Vedrovice Alena Lukes (speaker), Paul Pettitt, Marek Zvelebil
A European-wide exchange of adze blades in Bandkeramik times? Britta Ramminger
Not so different? Cemetery and settlement burials in the Lower Bavarian LBK Dani Hofmann
Diverging trajectories? Forager-farmer interaction in two adjacent regions Luc Amkreutz (speaker), Bart Vanmontfort
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Frontier Settlements of the LBK in Central Belgium Marc Lodewijckx
Reflections on the functions of pits and the spatial distribution of finds in the early Neolithic of northern France and Belgium Lévana Boiron
Scene by the Brook: Early Neolithic landscape perspectives in the Paris Basin Penny Bickle
The exploitation of animals in Villeneuve-Saint-Germain society at the end of the early Neolithic in the Paris basin Lisandre Bedault
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Thursday morning, Main Hall Room: 10
Session Title: Prehistoric Pedagogies? Approaches to teaching European prehistoric archaeology
Organizers: Karina Croucher, Hannah Cobb
Papers
9.00-9.10 Setting the scene: Introduction to the session Karina Croucher
Why study the art of Prehistoric Europe? Thomas A Dowson
Telling a story: teaching the European Iron Age John Collis
Sites in their setting, bones on a plate and learning to knap: theory and fieldwork the Palaeolithic way Anthony Sinclair
Teaching European Prehistoric Archaeology in Belgium Marc Lodewijckx
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Linking practice, fieldwork, and theory in the teaching of European prehistory Timothy Darvill
Transition/Transformation: Exploring alternative excavation practices to transform student learning and development in the field Hannah Cobb, Phil Richardson
The Virtual Walkabout approach to understanding prehistoric monuments and landscapes Nick Thorpe
Articulating the bridge between theory and practice: a consideration of posters as genres of successful assessment in European Prehistory Fay Stevens
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Thursday morning, Main Hall Room: 11
Session Title: ‘Salt of the Earth’, Salt Production and Beyond
Organizers: Sarah-Jane Hathaway, Mark Maltby
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Sun, Sea and Salt: An overview of Iron Age and Romano-British Coastal Salt Production (700BC- 450AD) in England, UK Sarah-Jane Hathaway
A saltern landscape: Romano-British salt production in the Somerset Levels Richard Brunning
Salt and Bronze in the Transylvanian Late Bronze Age Mihai Wittenberger
10.30-11.00 Coffee
The Environmental Impact of Iron Age Salt Production on the Landscape of the Seille Valley, Northeast France Naomi Riddiford
Kill and Cure: Zooarchaeological Evidence for the Salting of Meat Mark Maltby
Salt in the prehistoric diet and the possible misinterpretation of anomalous clay fragments excavated from a salt working site Jacqui Wood
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Thursday morning, Main Hall Room: 12
Session Title: The Materialities of Home
Organizers: Per Cornell, Tove Hjørungdal
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
HOMEMAKING - Exploring the Materiality and Sociability of Home in Archaeology Tove Hjørungdal
Home, Trauma and Conflict Per Cornell
The Romans at Home Troels Myrup Kristensen
There’s no place like Home: Memory and identity at Home in late prehistoric southern Scotland Olivia Lelong
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Home: blackhouses and landscapes of Ness, Lewis Tessa Poller
Archaeology, poems and the Viking Age Annika Larsson
Once upon a time and very far away … On home and home-making in the writings of Hanna Rydh Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh
The Materialities of Gumuz Home (Benishangul-Gumuz, West Ethiopia): an ethnoarchaeological approach Alfredo González Ruibal, Xurxo M. Ayán Vila, Álvaro Falquina Aparicio
Per Cornell & Tove Hjørungdal (closing words)
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Thursday morning, Restaurant Room: A
Session Title: The Death of Archaeological Theory?
Organizers: John Bintliff, Mark Pearce Discussant: Anthony Harding
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Why Archaeological ‘Theory’ Has Failed the Discipline John Bintliff
The death of theory: the death of an abstraction John Barrett
Why the death of theoretical archaeology is not a loss Alexander Verpoorte
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Autopsy or biopsy? Meditations upon a theoretical culture Geoff Carver
Theory in Central European Archaeology: Dead or Alive? Alexander Gramsch
Have rumours of the ‘Death of Theory’ been exaggerated? Mark Pearce
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Thursday morning, Restaurant Room: B
Round Table Title: Connecting Archaeological Knowledge: The Build up of a Bibliography of European Prehistory
Organizer: Gerald Rühl
Thursday morning, Sports Hall Room: D
Round Table Title: Political Conflicts and Contemporary Archaeology
Organizer: Bożena Werbart
Thursday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 5
Session Title: Experimental Archaeology – goals & (im)possibilities
Organizers: Marianne Rasmussen (Chairman), M. Schmidt, R. P. Paardekooper
Papers
14.00-14.10 Introduction
Practicabilities of experiments in archaeology Roeland Paardekooper
Proposed presentation: “Baking bread and grinding corn - publishing old experiments before making new” Martin Schmidt
The science challenge of experimental archaeology Elizabeth E. Peacock
Experimental reproduction of Solutrean technology based on refitting and technological analysis of Les Maîtreaux Presented by Bruce Bradley Thierry Aubry, Bruce Bradley, Miguel Almeida, Bertrand Walter, Maria João Neves, Jaques Pelegrin, Michel Lenoir, Marc Tiffagom, Michael Miller
15.30-16.00 Coffee
The Value of Experimental Archaeology for Reconstructing Ancient Seafaring Timm Weski
Building Houses and Building Theories Marianne Rasmussen
Principles for Experimental Textile Archaeology –Problems and Possibilities Eva Andersson, Linda Mårtensson
Experiments in manufacturing decorated objects of the Maglemose period Th. Terberger, P. Toft
Thursday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 7
Session Title: Archaeology in Europe: Global or Parochial?
Organizers: Claire Smith, Arkadiusz Marciniak
Papers
14.00-14.10 Introduction
Archaeology – Anthropology – History. Unconscious foundations and conscious expressions of social life Stanisław Tabaczyński
Archaeologists. Who we are? From the Spanish ambiguity to the European convergence Inés Domingo
Archaeology in Central Europe. Parochial or European? Arkadiusz Marciniak
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Converging trends in Archaeological Resource Management in Europe Willem Willems
Digging it up down under Claire Smith, Heather Burke
Impact of Globalization on the Heritage Management in Northwestern Thailand Rasmi Shoocongdej
Thursday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 10
Round Table Title: The European Lanscape Convention: Starting Action
Organizers: Nora Andrikopoulou-Strack, Felipe Criado, Graham Fairclough, Zbigniew Kobyliński, Karsten Paludan-Müller, Tom Bloemers
Thursday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 11
Session Title: Rescue excavations in motorways, pipelines and other large infrastructure development projects
Organizer: Sławomir Kadrow
Papers
14.00-14.10 Introduction
Rescue archaeology in Romania - an overview (1991 - 2006) Paul Damian, Corina Borş
Protection of archaeological monuments in the light of legislation past and present days Lech Czerniak, Marek Gierlach
The national program of the protection of archaeological monuments within the investment of the construction of motorways guidelines, the range of the investment, organization, standards Lech Czerniak, Rafał Maciszewski
Garden Archaeology Brian Dix
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Early Neolithic Settlement Structures in the Light of Rescue Surveys of the A4 Motorway near Cracow Sławomir Kadrow
Yamal – Europe Gas Pipeline organizational and research experiences Michał Kobusiewicz
Importance of archaeology in restoration of historic parks and gardens based on research in Poland Tadeusz Morysiński
Selected Aspects of Analyses of Settlements in the Light of Rescue Surveys of the A4 Motorway near Cracow Ryszard Naglik
Roads, Rescue and Research: Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven? Dáire O’Rourke
Life at the Nexus of the Wetlands and Coastal Prairie, Los Angeles, California Richard Ciolek-Torrello, H. Altschul
Thursday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 12
Session Title: Knowledge, Belief and the Body
Organizers: Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Katharina Rebay, Jessica Hughes
Papers
14.00-14.10 Introduction
A stable body: long-term traditions of self-knowledge in prehistoric Europe John Robb
Changing beliefs in the Maltese Body 5000-1000 BC Simon Stoddart, Caroline Malone
'Know Thyself' The inside story of the classical body Jessica Hughes
Practices of burial in Pitten Katharina Rebay
15.40-16.10 Coffee
Burials, funerary rites and beliefs in the Bronze Age of the NW Iberian Peninsula Ana M. S. Bettencourt
Materialization and technological knowledge Sheila Kohring
The language of craftsmanship Harald B. Høgseth
Embodying Belief: Practice as a Form of Knowledge Lise Bender Jørgensen
Bronze Age Potters, Potting and Performance Sandy Budden, Joanna Sofaer
Concluding discussion Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Katharina Rebay, Jessica Hughes
Thursday afternoon, Restaurant Room: A
Round Table Title: Cold War heritage
Organizer: John Schofield
Thursday afternoon, Restaurant Room: B
Session Title: Living mobility - Crossing-border Archaeology in the modern world
Organizers: Serena Sabatini, Anita Synnestvedt
Papers
14.00-14.10 Introduction
The cultural heritage site as a meeting point for multicultural interactions Anita Synnestvedt
To be a world citizen in a local environment Annika Bünz, Fanny Steen
Gendered travels in the Bronze Age and the present Sophie Bergerbrant
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Local communities, spheres of mobility and the makings of archaeology Per Cornell
Sailing along the edge of the world. Rock carving ships with sails and the question of long distance expeditions and crossing of cultural borders Li Winter
Mobility, cultural diversity and archaeology Serena Sabatini
Final Discussion: Stephani Koerner
Thursday afternoon, Sports Hall Room: D
Session Title: The "Closed Context" in Context III Organizer: Constanze Witt
Papers
14.00-14.10 Introduction
Fossils, Time Capsules and Matrices Reconsidered: what we have asked, what role the closed context plays, and why it matters Constanze Witt
Graves as Closed Contexts: Theory, Method and Beyond… Philippe Della Casa
The Ghosts of Memory: How dead things continue to act through Time Laurent Olivier
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Close your eyes and think of… Geoff Carver
"Closed Context" and the Archaeological Record in Burials: The Evidence of Two Cases Distant in Time Angel Fuentes, Antonel Jepur
Surfaces, "closed contexts" and the Harris Matrix David Bibby
Thursday all day, Main Hall Room: 1
Session Title: Regional Analyses of Spatial and Social Dynamics
Organizers: Tina Thurston, Roderick Salisbury
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Putting Place on the Map Matthew Fiztjohn
Two scales of sociality: The spread of rectangular dwellings in the forager Neolithic of Northern Europe Andre Costopoulos, Samuel Vaneeckhout
Spatial Analysis of Neolithic Circular Enclosures Peter Biehl
10.30-11.00 Coffee
A Multi-Scalar Approach to Settlement Pattern Analysis: The Neolithic-Copper Age Transition on the Great Hungarian Plain Attila Gyucha, William Parkinson
Transition and Tradition: Social Practice in the Hungarian Early Copper Age Roderick Salisbury, Margaret Morris
Settlement and environment in the Late Copper Age along the southern shore of Lake Balaton Szilvia Fábián, Gábor Serlegi
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Socio-political dynamics in later prehistoric Ireland: insights from the pollen record Gill Plunkett
Land Tenure and Social Practices in later Prehistoric Oxfordshire Patrick Daly
Imagining Danish prehistory through 50 years: methodological and paradigmatic transformations in regional and interregional archaeology Tina Thurston, Mette Roesgaard Hansen, Joergen Westphal
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Reconstructing Shared Memory: Problems in Archaeological Analysis Ezra Zubrow
Mapping Waves of Human Impact in New England: A Multidisciplinary Approach Kimberly Kasper
Space in Archaeological Thought and the Nature of Theoretical Change Benjamin Kamphaus
Thursday all day, Main Hall Room: 2
Session Title: Small World: A New Look at Figurines and Objects
Organizer: Dragos Gheorghiu Discussant: Peter Biehl
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
The surprising powers of miniaturisation: figurines, bonsai trees and Walt Disney Douglass W Bailey
The clay people: proposal for an alternative interpretation Marie Chantal Frere-Sautot
Figuring out Identity: Figurines and the Body in the Ancient Near East Karina Croucher
On large and ambiguous Neolithic figurines from Northern Greece Christina Marangou
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Size Matters: Contemplating “Performative” Aspects among Prehistoric Figurines of the Mediterranean Lauren Talalay
Looking for Maleness in prehistoric figurines in SE Europe Robin Hardie
On the side: Neolithic T-shaped and stalk-like figurines from the so-called ‘Zagros Group’ Aurelie Daems
Some views about the figurines of the Hamangia culture George Neagu
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
The assemblage of figurines from Isaiia, Cucuteni culture Romeo Dumitrescu
The Figurines of the Serezliivka type of in the Late Eneolithic: A phenomenon of the Pontic steppe Yuri Rassamakin
An alternative approach to Scandinavian Iron Age humanoid figures: investigating the theme of masking Ing-Marie Back Danielsson
Early Olmec Figurines, 3000 B.P. Ann Cyphers
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Prehistoric Ladies Irena Kolistroska Nasteva
“The god from pouch”? (The anthropomorphic figurine from the Gnezdovo site) Veronika Murasheva
Posters
The gestures of the Gumelnitza figurines Valentina Mihaela Voinea
Changing the scale - playing with figurines Gloria Grati
Thursday all day, Main Hall Room: 3
Session Title: Making a medieval town – continuity or new quality. Different patterns of early medieval European urbanization.
Organizer: Andrzej Buko, Maciej Trzeciecki, Aleksandra Rzeszotarska-Nowakiewicz
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Cracow in archeological researches Kazimierz Radwański, Anna Tyniec-Kępińska
Changes in development of the Main Market Square in Kraków Cezary Buśko
Urban Archaeology – a new approach Andrzej Gołembnik
10.30-11.00 Coffee
The Northern Limit of Medieval Urbanism Reidar Bertelsen
Early Urbanization in Norway Petter B. Molaug
Carlisle, a town on the Anglo-Scottish frontier Mike McCarthy
The urban question in Iberia during Visigothic Period Lauro Enciso Olmo
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
The City in al-Andalus and its Historical and Cultural Value Antonio Malpica Cuello
The creation and extension of towns in the duchy of Normandy in the XI-XIIth centuries, town planning and hierarchy of towns Bernard Gauthiez
Towns in Early Medieval Italy: new archaeological perspectives Sauro Gelichi
The problems of beginning of mediaeval towns in the Northern Caucasus Irina Arzhantseva, Svetlana Rusanova
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Changes in palaeodemography of Riga inhabitants in process of urbanization (14th - 18th centuries) Gunita Zarina
From stronghold to town – the Polish case Przemysław Urbańczyk
Viking Age emporia around the Baltic Sea – a cul de sac of the European urbanization? Mateusz Bogucki
Kalisz as an example of development of the medieval centre in Poland Tadeusz Baranowski
Thursday all day Main Hall, Room: 4
Session Title: Human impact on Lowland, Upland and Mountain Geosystems –Similiraties and Differences
Organisers: Tomasz Kalicki, Bartłomiej Sz. Szmoniewski
Papers: 9.00-9.10 Introduction
Dry feet: reported obstruction and sedimentation on a UK flood plain modelled as the effect of prehistoric riparian and cross-river activities Brian Durham
Human impact on slope processes in NE Poland Ewa Smolska, Piotr Szwarczewski
The Early Medieval hillforts and landscape in the basin of Neman (Belarus) H. Siemanchuk, A. Siemanchuk
Palaeogeographical records of anthropogenic influence on lowland fluvial geosystems of western part of Belorussian Polesye: case studies from Tsna and Yasiolda river valleys G. Calderoni, T. Kalicki, S. Savchik, G. Simakova
Influence of human activity and environmental changes on the Eneolithic geosystems of Black Sea coast: key study from Ostrov site (Romania) Valentina Voinea
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Similarities and Differences of Geomorphic Features of Location of two prehistoric settlements in Lowland in Central Poland (Poster) Piotr Kittel
Natural conditions of settlement in the valleys of rivers in central Poland against the background of the climatic changes in the Roman period and Early Middle Ages Ewa Stupnicka, Tadeusz Baranowski, Witold Bender
Environmental determinants of the development of settlement in the Trzciniec cultural circle Jacek Górski, Przemysław Makarowicz
From the Baltic coast to the Carpathian Foreland: differences of settlement patterns between the northern and southern peripheries of the Pomeranian culture in the Early Iron Age Karol Dzięgielewski
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Diachronic Settlement Analyses in the Eastern Swabian Alb, South Germany, from the Neolithic until the La Tène Period Claudia Pankau
Man and environment on the example of the Strzemieszyce Losien region S-Poland (Poster) Tomasz Kalicki, Dariusz Rozmus, Bartłomiej Sz. Szmoniewski
Anthropogenic changes of valley geosystems: case studies from the Vistula river valley eastward of Cracow (southern Poland) (Poster) Tomasz Kalicki, Joanna Plit
Reaction of eastern Forecarpathian geosystems on climatic and anthropogenic changes: case studies of Raba valley Tomasz Kalicki, Anna Budek
Record of human settlement and agriculture in mountain river alluvium (the case of the Upper San River alluvium in the Bieszczady Wysokie) (Poster) Józef Kukulak
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Similarities and Differences in Exploiting Central and Outland Landscapes in Eastern Norway Kathrine Stene
Revealing a Landscape “in between” the Archaeological study of a culturally Insular Region in Southeastern Germany Matthew L. Murray
Coastal or mountainous environments: how prehistoric man selected his living sites. A case study from Greece Maria Gkioni
The exploitation of wild reindeer in the South Norwegian mountains during the Iron Age and Medieval times Svein Indrelid, Anne Karin Hufthammer
Charcoal Analysis from Neolithic Site of Moravany (Slovakia) (Poster) M. Moskal, M. Lityńska-Zając, E. Badal
Thursday all day, Main Hall Room: 6
Session Title: Archaeological Information Systems in Europe and their impact on the management of the heritage
Organizers: Paul Gilman, Marie-Jeanne Ghenne
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
The Never-ending Story: archaeological archives and the race against technology Katarzyna Bronk-Zaborowska
“Seek And You Will Find (Luke 11,9)” Archaeological Inventories in the canton of Bern and other parts of Switzerland Renate Ebersbach
The Central Archaeological Inventory of Flanders Erwin Meylemans
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Where the needs meet - the archaeological heritage management and community planning in Finland Vesa Laulumaa
Preparing for new heritage legislation in England: current work by national and local government to develop heritage information systems Stewart Bryant
Digital Heritage Monument Records – from planning to science and back Markus Steffen, Sascha Schmidt
La Carte archéologique and heritage protection Philippe Hannois
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
The archaeological map: the principle taken the other way round Gertrude Blancquaert
Archaeological Information Systems: from the bottom up Geoff Carver
Inter-linking Archaeological Archipelagos? Experiences from conceptual modelling of archaeological data and processes Keith May
15.30-16.00 Coffee
The Dutch Knowledge Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage (two papers) Hans de Haan Ronald Wiemer Dutch National Service for the Archaeological Heritage Ronald Wiemer, Hans de Haan
“Datascape”: The Historic Landscape and the character of information and knowledge Graham Fairclough
The Planarch 2 Project and SMRs Paul Gilman, Marie-Jeanne Ghenne, Casper Johnson
Thursday all day, Main Hall Room: 8
Session Title: Quantitative Archaeology and Advanced Archaeological Computing
Organizer: Benjamin Ducke
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Classification of Archaeological Material Culture Using Fuzzy Logic Sorin Hermon
Modelling the Effects and Testing the Potential Significance of Post-Depositional Transformations of Artifact Assemblages Geoff Carver
Anatomy of a Semi-Digital Excavation Paulina Suchowska, Benjamin Ducke
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Landscape Archaeology and Intra-Site Analysis in a 3D GIS Undine Lieberwirth
Old Excavations and and New Technology in Romania Alexandru Morintz
Standards for Archaeological Documentation Franco Niccolucci, Andrea D'Andrea, Sorin Hermon, Achille Felicetti, Tomaso Zoppi, Giulia Marchese
W3C Standard Languages and Open Source Tools for Archaeological Data Management Achille Felicetti, Franco Niccolucci, Andrea D'Andrea, Sorin Hermon
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Agent-Based Modelling for Archaeology Mark Lake, James Conolly
Digging Your Own Grave: generic skills from an archaeological simulation Clive Orton
QuickBird Imagery and Surface Visibility in Intensive Surveys: an example from Antikythera James Conolly
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Adaptive Sampling in Field Survey: a new approach and some preliminary results Kris Lockyear, Clive Orton
Exploiting Scale and Spatial Dependence in Landscape Survey Datasets Andrew Bevan
Archaeology as a Development Risk: how can statistics help to draw the line? Philip Verhagen, René Isarin
Thursday all day, Main Hall Room: 9
Session Title: Animals and Alimentation: The Material Culture of Animals in Diet and Cuisine
Organizers: Krish Seetah, Aleksander Pluskowski, Sara Robinson
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Animals and the creation of monuments: new roles for cattle in the southern Neolithic of India Stephanie Meece
Conquering gluttony: Dietary piety in the construction of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman identity Naomi Sykes
From village to state: a dynamic modelling of food and culture at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka Ruth Young, Robin Coningham
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Icons for wealth, bird fibulae and falconry in Scandinavia Kristina Jennbert
Animals as food; animals as the history of food in northern Apulia from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages: the zooarchaeological evidence Antonietta Buglione
Molluscan fauna from the archaeological site of “Tell Jenin” in the West Bank – Palestine Ademar Ezzughayyar
The dietary contribution of cattle at the Eneolithic site of Vučedol (Croatia) Tajana Trbojević Vukičević, Snježana Kužir, Krešimir Babić
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Everyday and ritual food of Eurasian Steppe Bronze Age nomads (3000 BC) Natalia Shishlina
Animals, alimentation and the cultural identities of the living and the dead in Roman Britain Natalie C. C. White
An experimental butchering process of four specimens of wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus): methods, results and applications Manuel Pérez Ripoll, Paula Jardón, Juan Vicente Morales Pérez
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Tools of the trade: technology and food preparation Ryan Rabett, Krish Seetah
Meat and diet: historic, archaeological and iconographic sources Marta Caroscio
Tall and wealthy - social aspects of stature, food, food preparation and animals in the Early Iron Age in Östergötland, Sweden Maria Petersson
Thursday all day, Restaurant Room: C
Session Title: ‘From microprobe to spatial analysis – Enclosed and buried surfaces as key sources in Archaeology and Pedology’
Organizers: Jörg Völkel, Matthias Leopold, Kai Fechner, Yannick Devos
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
FIRST SECTION: Multi-proxy methods for enclosed spaces, from Chalcolithic to Modern times
Methods and results of soil science applied to (proto)historical enclosed areas Matthias Leopold, Jörg Völkel
Characterising archaeological occupation surfaces, boundaries and enclosed spaces through soil micromorphology Helen Lewis
Interest of the archaeological study of «akkerbergs» for recognizing Early Medieval rural settlements in Lorraine (France, VIIIe-XXe centuries) Jean-Marie Blaising, Franck Gérard
The application of phosphate cartography to the investigation of intra-site settlement space: the development of a research protocol Devos Yannick, Kai Fechner, Jari Hinsch Mikkelsen, Jean-Louis Slachmuylder
10.30-11.00 Coffee
SECOND SECTION: Results for Bronze Age to Roman enclosures and houses
Synthetical results of a multi-proxy approach to protohistoric enclosures and houses between Rhine and Seine Kai Fechner, Yannick Devos, Jari Hinsch Mikkelsen, Joseph Hus, Christian David
Ribemont-sur-Ancre. The specialisation of inner spaces in an enclosure with cultual character Gerard Fercoq du Leslay
Confrontation of the archaeological and pedological approaches: an Ist-IVth century AD enclosure with agricultural vocation at the Chapelle Saint-Nicolas in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt (Val-d’Oise, France) Vanessa Rouppert, Jean-Yves Dufour, Kai Fechner
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
THIRD SECTION: Results and methods specific to Celtic enclosures
A qualitative and quantitative approach to the archaeological documentation of big scale excavations in Northern France. The contribution of spatial analysis and another view on the role and the characterisation of the protohistorical ‘Atrebati’ habitats Gilles Prilaux, Alain Jacques
Past Landuse and Pedogenesis on eroded Landscapes in the Vicinity of the Celtic Square Enclosures of Sallach (Lower Bavaria, Germany) Anja Hoffmann, Sabine Müller, Jörg Völkel
Methods of excavation and of analysis of La Tène farmsteads (the so-called «fermes Picardes»). François Malrain
Peat, soils and sediments in the surroundings of the celtic square enclosure of Poign (Bavaria, Germany) – geoarchives for the reconstruction of human impact on the landscape Alexandra Raab, Matthias Leopold, Jörg Völkel
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Posters
Buried anthropic soils in the center of Brussels (Belgium): looking for fields in a proto-urban context Yannick Devos, Luc Vrydaghs, Kai Fechner, Christine Laurent Ann Degraeve
Man-made «dark earth» and paleosurface horizons: an improved archaeological exploitation based on geophysical mapping and other soil approaches Christian David, Kai Fechner
Phosphate mapping, magnetic susceptibility and other approaches to Neolithic to Roman (long)houses Kai Fechner, Jozef Hus, Yannick Devos, Jari Hinsch Mikkelsen, Luc Vrydaghs, Jean-Louis Slachmuylder
Phosphorus-analyses in ancient settlements, sacred and funerary sites. Methods and combinations for the future Kai Fechner, Yannick Devos, Jari Hinsch Mikkelsen, Christian David
Friday 22 September
Friday morning, Main Hall Room: 5
Session Title: Opening doors for Archaeologists: Making Malta Work
Organizers: Kenneth Aitchison, Mark Spanjer
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
The Work of Making Malta Willem Willems
The heroic myth of rescue archaeology and the realities of European archaeology today Kenneth Aitchison
Archaeological Research and Commercial Archaeology David Jennings
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Towards a wider ownership of the archaeological process John Barrett
Bibracte: a Centre for European Archaeology and its ambitions Vincent Guichard
The Application of the Malta Convention in Belgium Marc Lodewijckx
Archaeological heritage in competition with economic and political interests: how can Valletta be made to work? Anthony Harding
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Friday morning, Main Hall Room: 6
Round Table Title: Eco-Archaeology. A New Perspective to explore the technological changes of garbage
Organizers: Dimitriadis George, Gheorghiu Dragos
Friday morning, Main Hall Room: 10
Session Title: Crusade, Colonisation and Conversion: Material Traces at the Frontiers of Medieval Christendom
Organizer: Aleks Pluskowski Moderator: Krish Seetah
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
The Impact of the Swedish Crusades on Finnish Society in the 12th and 13th centuries AD Esa Mikkola
Who lived where? On the inhabitants of post-conquest town and castle of Viljandi, South Estonia, and of the surrounding territories (13th century) Arvi Haak
The Archaeological Traces of the Teutonic Order’s Conquest of Prussia. The Example of the Tribal Land of Barthia Tomasz Nowakiewicz
Teutonic Knights and Animal Exploitation: preliminary work from Malbork Castle, Poland Mark Maltby
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Montfort Castle Project Adrian Boas
Teutonic Castles in the Kingdom of Jerusalem Rabia Khamese
Astronomical Orientations of Romanesque Churches in Slovenia Saša Čaval
“Ecological Imperialism?” Investigating the Environmental Impact of Crusading and Colonisation at the Frontiers of Medieval Europe Aleks Pluskowski
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Friday morning, Main Hall Room: 11
Session Title: ‘Going Underground: The Public Wants the Public Gents’
Organisers: Sarah McCarthy, Kalliopi Vacharopoulou
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Getting to the Hart of the Mater: How and what do People really feel about Archaeology? Sarah McCarthy
Conflicts in Public Archaeology: Then, Now, Why & How Helene McNeill
‘But I Want Nothing This Society’s Got.’ Who Buys the Past at Tintagel Hilary Orange
‘Exploring Archaeology’: Commemorating the Dead Through Public Archaeology Howard Williams, Sean Hawken, Elizabeth Williams
10.30-11.00 Coffee
The Public Wants What the Public Gets but What Happens When the Public Actually Gets What It Wants? Caroline Sandes
The Public Perception of Preservation and Presentation of Ancient Monuments in the Mediterranean – Is There such a Thing? Kalliopi Vacharopoulou
Conflicts in the Contemporary use of Archaeological Sites: Examples from Greece Georgios Alexopoulos
Seeing Archaeology from a Different Angle: an Editor’s Perspective on Understanding Audiences Diane Scherzler
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Friday morning, Main Hall Room: 12
Session Title: Large burial mounds and the emerging of social power
Organizers: Leszek Słupecki, Ladislav Smejda Chair: Henrik Thrane
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
The kurgan mound as a sign of memory, identity and power in the Iron Age Siberian societies Natalia Berseneva
Early medieval magnificent burials in Pomerania – context and interpretation Felix Biermann
The Big Princely Mounds in Russia: History and Archaeology Vladimir Ja. Petrukhin
The Great Barrows from Pidhirci in western Ukraine Radosław Liwoch
10.30-11.00 Coffee
The emergence and purpose of large burial mounds from the 6th to 11th century middle Sweden John Ljungkvist
“Royal” mounds and boat graves: the notion of stirps regia in Migration and Merovingian Period Scandinavia Svante Norr
Cosmic symbolism at pre-Christian Scandinavian cult sites – with particular references to Uppsala Olof Sundqvist
Great mounds in Medieval Scandinavian Literature Rudolf Simek
Tradition of earthen mounds in the Kraków region Jacek Górski, Ewa Kubica-Kabacińska
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Friday morning, Restaurant Room: C
Session Title: Histories of Archaeology: who, what, why, and how have we excavated, written and divulged?
Organizers: Ana Cristina Martins, Koji Mizoguchi
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Archaeology and the building of national Identity: the origins of French archaeology between historical and anthropological discourses Laurent Olivier
Were pictures needed? The Battle to stratify and re-structure the pre-Roman Britons 1800-1900 Stephen Briggs
The prehistoric «lieux de mémoire» in the context of the affirmation of Portuguese identity in the early 20th century Ana Cristina Martins
Modern motives: Japanese archaeology and fin-de-siecle European imaginings Simon Kaner
10.30-11.00 Coffee
A brief history of Japanese prehistoric studies from 1970s: history of the acceptance of theory from abroad Takeshi Ishikawa
Reflexions: towards an archaeology of the history of archaeology Geoff Carver
Theorising the history of contemporary archaeological theory Koji Mizoguchi
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Friday morning, Sports Hall Room: D
Session Title: Forest architecture: Traditions of timber building in Europe
Organizers: Kenneth Brophy, Gordon Noble
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Holocene Woodlands, Phenomenology and Plausibility Nicki J. Whitehouse, David N. Smith
The house that Jack built: archaeological discourse, timber halls and the construction of Neolithic narratives in south-west Scotland Phil Richardson
From big houses to cult houses: early Neolithic timber halls in Scotland Kenneth Brophy
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Turf- the missing component Roy Loveday
Barrow building and forest exploitation in the Earlier Neolithic of Denmark 4000-3500 BC Gordon Noble
Forest, Fire, Farm Gavin MacGregor
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Friday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 5
Session Title: The North Atlantic as an archaeological region
Organizers: Przemysław Urbańczyk, Orri Vésteinsson
Papers
14.00-14.10 Introduction
Exploring Isle Saint-Jean: The First European Settlements on Prince Edward Island, Canada Rob Ferguson
The topography of Iron age burials in Iceland Adolf Friðriksson
Kings and townspeople in early Bergen, Norway Gitte Hansen
A Viking age shieling in highland E-Iceland Karen Milek, Garðar Guðmundsson, Gavin Lucas
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Placing a medieval seasonal trading site into a regional and international context Howell M. Roberts, Ramona Harrison
Contrasting Lives: An analysis of the combs and pins from Bornais, Scotland Niall Sharples
The church in the North Atlantic Orri Vésteinsson
“Leif Eriksson Slept Here:” Situating L’Anse aux Meadows in the Vinland Sagas Birgitta Wallace
Posters
Norse subsistence on the island of Sandoy, Faroe Islands Seth D. Brewington
The Bishop’s cows George Hambrecht
Coastal Finds: The analysis of faunal remains from NW Iceland Yekaterina Krivogorskaya
Fresh fish & monks: A high status inland monastery in Late Medieval Iceland Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir
Friday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 6
Session Title: Beyond gender – on the importance of a ‘gay’ rather than a ‘grey’ past
Organizers: Tove Stjärna, Lotta Fernstål
Papers
14.00-14.10 Introduction
Technological transformations and embodied engagements: A queer approach to the interpretation of prehistoric personal identity Hannah Cobb
Queering bodies, boundaries and surfaces: art, animals and the Neolithic Oliver Harris, Michał Pawleta
Queer perspectives? Karina Croucher
Taming bodies and transforming being in the Formative period of northwestern Argentina Benjamin Alberti
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Queer Vikings? Live Norderval Waldersloev
Searching for Camp and missing the evidence? Promises and pitfalls of Queer Viking Age archaeology Bo Jensen
Beyond shamans and transvestites? The elusive materiality of queer archaeology Alexander Andreeff
Ancient DNA and Postmodern Kinship: Keeping Sight of the Forest amidst the Family Trees William J. Meyer
Products of our own imagination: queering the (pseudo)science of human origins Thomas A Dowson
Friday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 10
Session Title: Processing and analysis of larger amounts of pottery from closed contexts. The use and limits of different statistic methods
Organizers: Barbara Horejs, Reinhard Jung, Peter Pavúk
Papers
14.00-14.10 Introduction
Possibilities and Limitations in Analysing Ceramic wares Barbara Horejs
Cooking pottery in the Aegean – an attempt of methodological approach Bartłomiej Lis
Post-medieval pottery as an indicator of function and wealth Marianna Niukkanen
The origin of the Early Bronze Age ceramic of the Volga-Ural region Oleg D. Mochalov
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Classification, Counting and Publication of Aegean Painted Pottery around the Mediterranean Reinhard Jung
Processing and analysis of ceramic finds at the Egyptian site of Tell el-Daba Bettina Bader
The quantification of amphorae from Roman Sagalassos, Turkey Markku Corremans
Standardizing variability: approaches to quantities of pottery from Roman sites Robin P. Symonds
Pottery processing at Troy. Typology, Stratigraphy and Correspondence Analysis: how they work together Peter Pavúk
Cognitive Theory of Prototypes and Categorization in Pottery Studies. The Analysis based on Cypriot Lagynoi Samples Sebastian Borowicz
Friday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 11
Session Title: Departure from the homeland: Indo-Europeans and archaeology
Organizers: Marc Vander Linden, Karlene Jones-Bley
Papers
14.00-14.10 Introduction
Indo-European Archaeology – What it is, and why it is important Karlene Jones-Bley
Indo-European without Indo-Europeans: Prehistoric Europe as a Culture Area John Robb
The dutch group - IE *tewtā. The evolution of ethnic groups in north-western Europe Raimund Karl
Word and figure: a lucky combination on the Valcamonica rocks for the study of Pre-Christian symbolism and religion Adolfo Zavaroni
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Language and institutions: the role of the Divine Twins, and the journey of the sun Kristian Kristiansen
Bodily attributes and semantic expressions: knees in rock art and Indo-European symbolism Åsa Fredell, Marco V. García Quintela
Reconstructing and recognizing a prehistoric thunder god David Steel
Drinking from the horn of plenty: on the use of historical data for prehistoric analogical reasoning Marc Vander Linden
The Costume of Iranian Peoples of Classical Antiquity and the Homeland of Indo-Iranians Sergey Yatsenko
Friday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 12
Session Title: Decoding deposition. Intra-site spatial analyses
Organizers: Petr Kvétina, Imogen Wood
Papers
14.00-14.10 Introduction
The complex intra-site analysis of Upperpalaeolithic site Kamennaya Balka II Ekaterina Vinogradova
Decoding deposition, multi-level analysis of deposition trends within prehistoric ceramic assemblages Imogen Wood
‘Ritual’ and ‘domestic’: interpreting the social importance of complex pit deposition using GIS and spatial modelling techniques Ben Edwards
Neolithic Settlement and Refuse Management Petr Květina
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Where did they fire pottery? Spatial analysis of the Late Bronze Age settlement in Turnov-Maskovy zahrady site, Czech Republic. Richard Ther
The Archaeobotany of the Late Bronze Age Settlement at Prague-Hostivar, Czech Republic. Petr Kocar, Ladislav Smejda
Some remarks on intra-site analyses in SW Poland Justyna Baron
Cultural interactions in the Iron Age Trans-Urals Sofya Panteleyeva
Early Medieval castle of Libice on digital map (Czech Republic) Jan Marik
Decoding a palimsest: the bandceramic settlement of Hanau Klein Auheim Ulrike Sommer
Friday afternoon, Restaurant Room: A
Session Title: Object Re-Fitting Studies - Beyond Châines Opératoires To Social Interpretations
Organizers: John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarska
Papers
14.00-14.10 Introduction: what can re-fitting studies tell us J. Chapman, B. Gaydarska
Changing land-use signatures in Middle Pleistocene Europe: some results from refitting at Boxgrove M. Pope
Refitting: micro-space, micro-time and micro-history of the Solutrean occupations of Les Maîtreaux M. Almeida, T. Aubry, M.J. Neves, B. Walter
From reconstructed lithic production sequences to the social group in a Late Magdalenian settlement F. Audouze
Megalithic technology in western France. The mental refitting of the core-outcrop E. Mens
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Re-fitting pits and the dynamics of Neolithic occupation in Eastern England D. Garrow, M. Knight, E. Beadsmoore
Pottery fragmentation at two Neolithic sites in northern Italy: Fimon and Rivoli M. Dalla Riva, L. Barfield
‘Off with their head!’ Figurine re-fitting in the Balkan Chalcolithic B. Gaydarska
‘The show goes on!’: enchainment and the persistence of materiality in marine shells in Neolithic Greece J. Chapman
Refitting repasts: a spatial exploration of food processing, sharing, cooking and disposal at the Dunefield Midden campsite, South Africa Brian A. Stewart
Friday afternoon, Restaurant Room: B
Round Table Title: Ceramic Production Centres in Europe
Organizers: Derek Hall, Marta Caroscio, Maciej Trzeciecki
Friday afternoon, Restaurant Room: C
Round Table Title: Transnational Archaeology
Organizers: Kenneth Aitchison, Gerhard Ermischer
Friday afternoon, Sports Hall Room: D
Session Title: Future Climate Change and its Implications for Archaeological Landscapes and Cultural Resource Management
Organizers: Andy J. Howard, Keith Challis, Mark Kincey, David G. Passmore
Papers
14.00-14.10 Introduction
Evaluating current models of climate change Stefan Harrison
Fluvial archives, Holocene climate change and archaeological resource management in Northern England David Passmore, Clive Waddington, Tim Van der Schriek, Andy Moores
Modelling the archaeological implications of future climate change using a Geographic Information System: a case study from midland Britain Mark Kincey, Keith Challis, Andy Howard
15.30-16.00 Coffee
World Heritage Sites and Climate Change – Developing Indicators for Change Rob Woodside
Water-Household, Future Climate Change and the Physical Preservation of the Archaeological Sites Martine van den Berg, Henk Kars, Hans Huisman, Robert van Heeringen
Accelerated Late-Holocene alluviation of a small river valley; geoarchaeological investigation of the Frome catchment, UK A. G. Brown, C. J. Carey
Translating the correlation of climate-human relationship in Southern Balkan Peninsula. Can past foresee the future? Maria Gkioni, Maria Geraga, George Ferentinos
Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 1
Session Title: The Materiality of Death – Bodies, Burials, Beliefs
Organizers: Fredrik Fahlander, Terje Oestigaard Discussant: Per Cornell
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Flesh and bone: material strategies during the 4th to 2nd millennia BC in Scotland Gavin MacGregor, Paul Duffy
Religious Symbolism And The Use Of Gold In Burial Contexts In The Late Middle Helladic And Early Mycenaean Period Helène Whittaker von Hofsten
You only die twice. The social life of dead bodies Fredrik Fahlander
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Excavating the kings’ bones: the materiality of death in practice and ethics today Terje Oestigaard, Anders Kaliff
Ritual and remembrance at Archaic Crustumerium – the excavations of Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy) Ulla Rajala
From Corpse to Ancestor: The Role of Tombside Dining in the Transformation of the Body in Ancient Rome Regina Gee
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Aesthetics and Performance: the uses of objects and bodies in graves of the Egyptian Predynastic period (4th Millennium BC) Alice Stevenson
Death and the body in the Ancient Near East Karina Croucher
Cremation cemeteries under level ground - monuments over the ancestors and the collective memory Anna M. A. Wickholm
Stones and bones. The myth of Ymer and mortuary practises Christina Lindgren
15.30-16.00 Coffee
The usage of the ochre in the East Baltic Stone Age burials Ilga Zagorska
Live and death in the Bronze Age of the NW of Iberian Peninsula Ana M. S. Bettencourt
A road to the other side/The road for the Viking´s soul Åke Johansson, Camilla Grön
Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 2
Session Title: The Baden Culture and the Outside World
Organizers: Martin Furholt, Marzena Szmyt, Albert Zastawny
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Problems in the Archaeological Legacy: The TRB/Lengyel-Baden Conundrum Maximilian O. Baldia
Phenomena of Religious Life of the Baden Culture and their Social Background at the Central Danube Region Anna Endrődi
The Boleráz - Style in the Context of supra-regional interaction in Late Neolithic time Martin Furholt
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Late Copper Age settlement of Ecser (County Pest, Hungary): Archaeological and enviromental archaeological investigation Katalin Herbich, Pál Sümegi, Róbert Patay
Balatonőszöd - an irregular Baden settlement in Hungary Tünde Horváth
Anthropological analysis of the Baden Culture Kitti Köhler
Mapping of the late neolithic Cultural Groups in Austria Christian Mayer
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
The most Badenian flint. The Jurassic flint of variant G and its role in the late Neolithic of central Europe (3100 - 2300 BC) Andrzej Pelisiak
Settlement and economy of Funnel Beaker-Baden society in Kujavia and Gostynin Lake District Małgorzata Rybicka
Baden Cultural Identities? Late Copper Age Funerals reviewed Claudia Sachße
The Baden and the Globular Amphora cultures: interactions and more? Marzena Szmyt
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Isolated grave of the Baden culture from the Polish Beskidy Mts. Paweł Valde-Nowak
Jevišovice Culture in Slovakia Jana Šuteková
Baden culture influences east of the Carpathian Mts. M. Yu. Videiko
The Funnel Beaker/Baden settlement in Little Poland Albert Zastawny
Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 4
Session Title: Skull Collection, Modification, and Decoration
Organizer: Michelle Bonogofsky
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Europe
Talking Heads: Evidence for Temporary versus Permanent Head Deposition in Prehistoric Cave Sites of Northern England. Stephany Leach
Ancestors or Enemies? Bronze Age Skull Manipulation and Funerary Effigies from Southeastern Europe Petya Hristova
Headhunting and Social Power in the European Iron Age Ian Armit
Getting A-Head in Early Medieval Europe Howard Williams
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Kings, Saints and Criminals: The Removal and Display of Heads in Later Anglo-Saxon England Jo Buckberry
Skull Relics and Skull Symbolism in Late Medieval and Post-Medieval Central Europe Estella Weiss-Krejci
Eurasia
Skull Deformation in the Context of Visual Symbolism Svetlana Sharapova
Human Skulls in the Ritual Practice of the Okunev Culture Elena Miklashevich
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Middle East
The “Skull Cult” and the Hoarding, Decoration and Deposition of Animal and Human Skulls at Neolithic Çatalhöyük Stephanie Meece
Oceania
The Dental Aging of an Overmodeled Skull from the Sepik River Valley Jeremy Graham
Melanesian Modeled Skulls and Mortuary Ritual Michelle Bonogofsky
What Lies Beneath: Unmasking a “Trophy” Skull Without Removing the Mask Monica Faraldo, Linda Taylor
15.30-16.00 Coffee
New World
Bone Modifications Related to Decapitation Sacrifice in Mesoamerica: Burial 4 of the Moon Pyramid at Teotihuacan, Mexico Grégory Pereira, Michael Spence, Saburo Sugiyama
Investigating the Origins of Nasca Trophy Heads Using Ancient DNA Analysis Kathleen Forgey
Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 7
Session Title: Defence Structures from Central Europe to the Aegean in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC
Organizers: Josef Batora, Janusz Czebreszuk, Sławomir Kadrow, Johannes Müller, Knut Rassmann
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Defensive Architecture in Crete in Late/Final Neolithic and Bronze Age Tomas Alusik
The early Bronze Age settlement of Rybnik near Levice (Southwest Slovakia) Jozef Bátora, Knut Rassmann
From the village to the fortified urban settlement: the case of Poliochni on Lemnos (Greece) in the 3rd Millennium BC Massimo Cultraro
Pudliszki - the verification of an old hypothesis Janusz Czebreszuk, Mateusz Jaeger, Johannes Müller
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Fortified settlement in Bruszczewo. Current stage of interpretation Janusz Czebreszuk, Johannes Müller
Middle Bronze Age fortified settlements in North-Western part of Romania G. Fazecas
Early Bronze Age Fortified Settlements at Trzcinica (District of Jasło), site 1 Jan Gancarski
The Late Bronze age fortified settlement from Suncuius Calin Ghemis
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Fortified Bronze Age Tell Settlements within the Carpathian Basin Florin Gogâltan, Emese Apai
"It is not the walls that make the city": fortified and unfortified settlements in the 3rd mill. BC eastern Balkans Mariya Ivanova
The Middle Eneolithic fortified settlements in Bohemia Jan John
Bruszczewo: The Fortification next to the lake Jutta Kneisel
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Bronze Age hillforts in the Alps Rüdiger Krause
Perspectives of the Defence Structures in Austria in the 3rd and 2nd Millennia BC Alexandra Krenn-Leeb
Remarks on probable defence structure at Radłowice in Silesia Irena Lasak, Mirosław Furmanek
Defence settlements from the Early Bronze Age in the area of Central Europe Szymon Nowacki
Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 8
Session Title: Beyond Types, Composition and Production Techniques: what insights can studying metal provide into the social dynamics of prehistoric communities in Europe?
Organizers: Tobias Kienlin, Bénédicte Quilliec, Ben Roberts
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Metal sources, metal trade, weight units, workshops, religion: which system of political and economic structures existed behind the phenomena accessible to archaeologists? Jan Bouzek
Forging the Axes: Implications of Metallography for the Organization of Early Bronze Age Metalworking Tobias L. Kienlin
The Bronze-maker and his networks Peter Northover
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Metals and the Late Bronze Age exchange network of Aegean-type products Andrea Vianello
To decorate or not to decorate? That is the question Shaun Moyler
Thinking through technology: an experimental approach to the cognition of prehistoric copper working Julia Wiecken
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Fields and funerals. Cultivation and Iron Making on Gotland during the Early Iron Age Anna Arnberg
Iron production in southeast Norway Status and potentials for obtaining knowledge from a mass material Bernt Rundberget
To show or to hide metallic weapons? Bénédicte Quilliec
15.30-16.00 Coffee
“Doing agency” in Early Bronze Age British archaeometallurgy. A brief exploration of the practicalities of combining archaeometric datasets with social theory Peter Bray
Cultural Transmission and Material Transformation: analysing the ‘spread’ of metal in Western Europe Ben Roberts
Tracing the Tools: Transmission of Metallurgical Knowledge in Migration Period Scandinavia Nancy L. Wicker
Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 9
Session Title: Sacralia Ruthenica - Archaeology about the Christianisation of Eastern Europe (10th - 13th Century)
Organizers: Mirosław P. Kruk, Aleksandra Sulikowska-Gąska, Marcin Wołoszyn
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Byzantine and Russian Devotional Articles in the Collections of the National Museum in Kraków and the National Museum in Warsaw Mirosław P. Kruk, Aleksandra Sulikowska-Gąska, Marcin Wołoszyn
Between religion and politics - tradition of "cross kissing" in the Kievan Rus – selected problems (10th - 12th century) Grzegorz Rostkowski
Historical Truth Versus Archaeological Reality. Two Perspectives on the Monza Reliquary Jörn Staecker
Change in Faith or Shift in Culture? Christianity and Christianisation in the Archaeology of Europe Alexander Musin
Arms and Christianisation. The Motif of the Cross on the Early Medieval Weapons – Selected Problems (Poster) Tomasz Kurasiński
10.30-11.00 Coffee
On the Dating of Some Types of Pectoral Crosses During the Middle Ages in Bulgaria Lyudmila Doncheva-Petkova
Cross Encolpia from Odessos-Varna as Proof for the Byzantium-Kiev Rus’ Relations in the 11th-12th c. Anna Haralambieva
Byzantine-type Reliquary Pectoral Crosses in South-East Hungary Imre Szatmári
Pectoral Crosses in Bohemia in their Context and the question of the Opočnice hoard Kateřina Horníčková
Old – Russian Encolpia with the Image of Enthroned Theotokos and Their Byzantine Prototypes Svetlana V. Gnutova
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Medieval Devotional Articles from Belarus in the Context of European Pilgrimages Aleksander Baškow
Sacral Byzantine Objects from the Territory of Belarus Kristina Lavysh
The Image of Sacred Cross in the Sign System of the Grand Duke's Costume in the Territory of Belarus between the 10th and 15th Centuries (Poster) Hanna Barvenava
Early Medieval Devotional Articles from Zvenigorod (Ukraine) Viera Hupalo
Devotional Articles from the 17th and 18th Century Noblemen’s Graves from a Post-Bernadine Church in Dubno (Ukraine) (Poster) Viera Hupalo
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Crosses from the Great Barrows in Podhorce in western Ukraine (Poster) Radosław Liwoch
Encolpia from the “Horodyszcze” Stronghold in Trepcza, Nearby Sanok Jerzy Ginalski
Religious symbols or jewels – cross finds at the early medieval cemeteries in Daniłowo Małe, district Białystok (Poster) Dariusz Krasnodębski
Russian Devotional Objects from North-East Poland Discovered in Graves (11th -13th Centuries) Arkadiusz Koperkiewicz
“Boris and Gleb” Type Encolpion from Czułczyce, Sawin gmina, Lublin Voivodship (Poster) Tomasz Dzieńkowski, Marcin Wołoszyn
Gem from Przemyśl – Antique Influences and Christian motifs Grażyna Bąkowska
Archaeology About Personal Piety on Polish Lands at the End of the Middle Ages Barbara Chudzińska
Saturday 23 September
Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 1
Session Title: Neolithisation as if history mattered
Organizer: Håkon Glørstad
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Becoming Neolithic in Southern Britain Nick Thorpe
Tasks, Transformations, and Transitions: The transition from hunting and gathering to farming in the northern Irish Sea basin Hannah Cobb
Neolithic ≠ Neolithisation – Complex strategy and trade as the indicators of Neolithisation process in Mesolithic England and Jomon Japan Junzo Uchiyama, Kati Lindström
10.30-11.00 Coffee
The Neolitisation in SW-Norway – a result of local ecological conditions as well as social and cultural influences Lisbeth Prøsch-Danielsen, Mari Høgestøl
History in prehistory – the latter Neolithic/Early metal Age period as history Christopher Prescott
The Northern Province? – The Neolithisation of Eastern Norway Håkon Glørstad
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Late hunter-gatherer and early farmer contacts on the southern Baltic – a critical review J. Kabacinski, Th. Terberger
Neolithisation as if history mattered – or vice versa: The Younger Stone Age in northern Fennoscandia Marianne Skandfer
Stone Age Transitions- Social memory in cultural reproduction and change Helena Knutsson, Kjel Knutsson
The concept of Neolithisation - Processual remains in a Postmodern World? Håkan Petersson
Discussion and Closing Comments Christopher Prescott
Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 2
Session Title: Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe: Interpreting the Archaeological Records
Organizers: Pierre Allard, Françoise Bostyn, François Giligny, Jacek Lech
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Ideology and Context with The European Flint Mining Tradition Paul Wheeler
“ Hidden in Heaps By Their Kennels ” : Do We Really Know Why Was Flint Extracted From The Neolithic ‘Flint Mines’ of Central Southern Britain? Miles Russell
The Early Neolithic Flint Mine of ‘Casa Montero’ (Madrid, Spain) Marta Capote, Nuria Castañeda, Susana Consuegra, Cristina Criado, Pedro Díaz-Del-Río
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Flint Extraction and Processing in the North-East of Scotland in the Later Neolithic Period Alan Saville
Open-Cast Flint Mining, Very Long Blade Production and Long-Distance Exchange : An Example from Bulgaria Laurence Manolakakis
Flint Mining off the Danubian Communities in The Ojców Jura near Cracow Jacek Lech
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Remarks On The Prehistoric Flint Mine Site At Spiennes (Belgium) on the Occasion of its Discovery 140 Years ago Hélène Collet, Anne Hauzeur, Jacek Lech
Surplus Production in the Belgian Linearbandkeramik : the Flint Workshops of Verlaine Pierre Allard, Laurence Burnez-Lanotte
L'extraction Intensive Des Minéraux Non Métalliques À La Protohistoire Ancienne Dans La Moitié Nord de L'europe Yoann Gauvry
A New Flint Mine in the Paris Basin: Flins-Sur-Seine/Aubergenville and the Mauldre River Complex Françoise Bostyn, François Giligny
Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 3
Session Title: European Perishables: Exploring the Potential of an Invisible Material Culture Organizers: Mary Ann Owoc, Linda Hurcombe Discussant: Lise Bender Jorgenson
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
European Perishables: Techniques, Interpretations and Results Mary Ann Owoc, Linda Hurcombe
Centre for Textile Research in Copenhagen: Archaeology of Textiles and Textiles in Archaeology Margarita Gleba
Tips and Tricks for Perishable Impression Casting, Perishable Analysis, and Perishable Conservation Jeff Illingworth
Looking for organic material culture via the evidence from inorganic remains Linda Hurcombe, Linda Lemieux
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Experimenting with Baskets: A Series of Nut Storage Experiments Exploring a Potential Use of Baskets in Prehistory Penny Cunningham
Experimental and Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Perishables: Case Studies of Hide Drums and Shoe Hay Lynda Aiano
Social Stories in Clay: Perishable Impressions from the Isles of Scilly, UK Mary Ann Owoc, Kelly Manske
Discovering Textile Finds and Textile Tools North of the Middle Danube Area Tereza Belanová
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Baskets and Ropes on a Greek Ship (6th Century, B.C.E.) Found in the Bay of Pollensa (Malloca, Spain) Carmen Alfaro
Early Medieval Silk Textiles from Kałdus and Gruczno, Northern Poland: Implications for Trade and Community Interaction Małgorzata Grupa
Materiality at the edge: Perishables from marginal living in early medieval Europe c. 400-1100 AD Helene McNeill
Pre-Hispanic Caribbean Cotton Joanna Ostapkowicz
Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 4
Session Title: ‘Building Bridges With The Past: The Significance of Memory and Tradition In The Genesis And Transmission Of Culture’
Organizers: Chrysanthi Gallou, Mercourios Georgiadis
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Material Identity – Archaeology and the Creation of Cultural Identity Charlotta Hillerdal
With Hitler in Valhalla. Modern Swedish Right-Wing Extremism and the Use of the Past Felicia Markus
“Embalmed Hearts-Safeguarded Bones: Individual Death, National Resurrection And Social Remembrance Expressed Through The Greek Maritime Past” Eleni Stefanou
"Rock Art, Landscape And Social Memory" Melanie Wrigglesworth
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Biography And Material Tradition: Building Cairns In The Kilmartin Glen Philip Richardson
The Hill of Senhora Da Graça (Mondim De Basto, Norte De Portugal) as a Site of Memory throughout the Centuries Antonio Pereira Dinis
Living In The Mountains: Arkadian Identity In The Classical Period James Roy
Athletics and the Formation of Female Identity in Ancient Sparta Pantelis Konstantinakos, Metaxia Papapostolou
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Landscapes of Death and Memory in Mycenaean Greece Chrysanthi Gallou
The Role of Tradition in Burials in Late Bronze Age Eastern Anatolia Mercourios Georgiadis
Being an Immigrant: Memories, Practice and Identity. A Case Study Magdalena Naum
Cremation Cemeteries under Level Ground - Monuments over the Ancestors and the Collective Memory Anna Wickholm
Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 5
Session Title: Continuity or Change? Working through Neolithic landscapes
Organizers: Nicki J. Whitehouse, Rick Schulting
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Chair: Rick Schulting
Of cattle, mice and men: tracing the first domesticates and commensals along the Neolithic danubian routes Adrian Balasescu, Thomas Cucchi, Lenka Kovacikova, René Kysely, Valentin Radu, Anne Tresset
Two peas in a pod? A social perspective on identity, daily life and material culture of the early LBK Alena Lukes
Working Neolithic Landscapes in the Polish Lowlands Peter Bogucki
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Settlement and eco-dynamics in Neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland Nicki Whitehouse, John O’Neill, Gill Plunkett
Alternative continuities? Challenging change in the Early Neolithic of Dorset Oliver Harris
Neolithic landscapes in the Humberhead Levels: assessing relationships between domestic, ritual and environmental change Henry Chapman, Ben Gearey
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Chair: Nicki Whitehouse
Food-ways in the Neolithic of Britain Rick Schulting
The role of animal fodder in the subsistence economy of Neolithic lake shore settlements in the Alpine range and its palaeoecological implications Marlu Kühn, Stefanie Jacomet, Lucia Wick
Animals, architectures, and changing human-animal relationships in Neolithic Cotswold-Severn long barrow sites Lesley McFadyen, Richard Thomas
Continuity or Change in the Neolithic Landscape of the Nene Valley, Central England? Tony Brown, Phil Allen, Ian Meadows, Karen Deighton
Working stone, linking arenas and actions of Neolithic life Gabriel Cooney
Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 6
Session Title: Current Research and Education in Underwater and Maritime Archaeology
Organizers: Andrzej Pydyn, Joe Flatman
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Partnerships in Nautical Archaeology: Case Studies from North Carolina and Alaska Timothy J. Runyan
Maritime Archaeology: Education, Advocacy and International Development Colin Breen
Maritime Archaeology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Marek Jasiński
Broadening the Picture: New Challenges and Perspectives in Underwater and Maritime Archaeology in Poland Andrzej Pydyn
Advances in Maritime Archaeology and the University of Southern Denmark Thijs Maarleveld
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Looking Back to a Decade of Teaching Ship Archaeology in Germany Timm Weski
Education in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology at the University of Kiel Sunhild Kleingärtner
Maritime Archaeology in Estonia Kristin Ilves
Education and Training Programmes in Underwater Archaeology at National Taras Sevchenko University of Kiev Yana Morozova
Collaboration is the Key: Developing Field and Work Skills in Collaboration with Government, Museum and Commercial Underwater Cultural Heritage Organisations Mark Staniforth
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Maritime Archaeology and Bournemouth University David Parham
Dig! Places: Blending Creative Writing and Archaeology Joe Flatman
Preserves, Programs, and the Public Archaeology Network: Promoting and Protecting Submerged Cultural Resources in Florida Della Scott-Ireton
Port Meadow, Oxford, UK: Investigation and Reburial of an Eroding River-Boat in the Context of the Geoarchaeology and Social History of a Major Navigable Waterway Brian Durham
The NAS and International Collaboration in Maritime Archaeology Mark Beattie-Edwards
Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 7
Session Title: Geographies of Power: Administrative, Political and Royal landscapes in the early medieval world
Organisers: Alex Sanmark, Sarah Semple
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
The archaeology of frontiers and boundaries Mike McCarthy
Political landscapes in late Iron Age Iceland Adolf Friðriksson
Political landscapes and power centres in early medieval England and Europe Sarah Semple
Reconstructing regions through digitally modelled landscapes Daniel Löwenborg
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Assembly sites and royal routes in Viking and early medieval Sweden Alex Sanmark
Consilium and convento: political practice in early medieval Scandinavia Svante Norr
Gold figurines and glass beakers. Lunda – a central place of religious significance Eva Skyllberg
Lunda - the tenant farm, the watermill and the townyard Lena Beronius Jörpeland
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Between the strongholds in Poznań and Giecz. Noble estate in Krzyżowniki, Poland Monika Kwiatkowska
From Princely Graves to Wooden Tower Houses - symbols of power in the landscape of Western Poland Adriana Ciesielska
The women at Valsgärde: their life and burials Anne-Sofie Gräslund
Power in the shadow of power: The chieftain’s farm of Valsgärde, Gamla Uppsala parish, Sweden Anneli Sundkvist
Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 8
Session Title: European Egyptologists Gaze The Future
Organizers: Amanda-Alice Maravelia, Galina A. Belova
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Small Objects from the Temple Deposits at Tell Ibrahim Awad, Egypt Tatjana A. Sherkova
A Stelophorous Statuette of an Adorer with a Hymn to the Solar God Re Amanda-Alice Maravelia
Naos of the Decades Anne-Sophie Goddio-von Bomhard
10.30-11.00 Coffee
The Enigma of the Cities of Heracleion and Thonis Revealed Franck Goddio
Archaeological Researches at Kom Tuman (Memphis) in 2005-2006 Galina A. Belova
Column Bases from Kom Tuman (Memphis) Alexi A. Krol
Studies of Ancient Egyptian Footwear: Technological Aspects Part III: Leather-Reinforced Fibre Sandals from Qasr Ibrim André J. Veldmeijer
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Leather-Work in Egypt at c. 1000 BCE Edward Loring
A Bronze Figurine of a Priestess from the Mit-Rahina Bronze Hoard Sergej V. Ivanov
Studies of the Seaworthiness and Maneuverability of the Egyptian Sea-going Vessels of the New Kingdom Alexander Belov
A Child’s Woolen Tunic from Byzantine Egypt Sophia Tsourinaki
Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 9
Session Title: Bronze and Iron Age strongholds in Central and Southeast Europe, new results
Organizers: Louis D. Nebelsick, Carola Metzner-Nebelsick Speaker: Wiesław Zajączkowski
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Strongholds in the second and first millennium BC
Once upon a ‘Heidenschanze’ – Writing a History of Early Silesian Hillfort Archaeology Karin Reichenbach
Jívová – Tepenec, Moravian hillfort from the Late Bronze Age Vendula Vránová
Social transition and spacial organisation: the problem of the end of the strongholts in Northeast Hungary at the beginning of the Early Iron Age Carola Metzner-Nebelsick
“Research on the Margins, approaching the Peripheries of fortified Sites in Western Bohemia” Libor Janíček, Ricky Kubicek
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Elites and the Landscape: Hallstatt Strongholds in Central Europe
Early Iron Age strongholds in Great Poland: recent research on their date and internal organisation Anthony F. Harding
“Milejowice site 19, Wrocław district – a recently discovered settlement partly fenced with palisade-like constructions and its importance for the study of Hallstatt period society in the south-west region of Poland” Ewa Bugaj
“The Polish-German Stronghold Project, new perspectives on Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Strongholds East and West of The Odra-Nysa Corridor” Zbigniew Kobyliński, Louis D. Nebelsick
The Power and the Glory: Hillforts, Monumentality and Early Iron Age Elites in Central Slowenia Phil Mason
“Recent excavations and research on the Mont Lassois near Vix in Burgundy, results of the Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Kiel” Angela Mötsch
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
On the Brink of History: Strongholds of the Late Hallstattt and Latène Periods
Iron Age Strongholds and their Environs. The South-Bohemian Perspective Dagmar Dreslerová, Alžběta Danielisová
La Tène Culture hilltop settlement on the Oberleiserberg in Lower Austria. Recent excavations Maciej Karwowski
“Iron Age Hillforts in Transdanubia (Western Hungary) new results on an old topic” Erzsébet Jerem
Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 10
Session Title: The Unquiet Past: Cultural Heritage and the Uncertain Social Geography of Risks of Exposure to Ecological Hazards and Political Violence
Organizers: John Carman, Stephanie Koerner Discussant: Tim Darvill
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Reflective approaches to Field Research and Problems generated by the ‘Expert – Public’ Divide in Archaeologies of Cultural Heritage John Barrett
Coming full circle: public archaeology as liberal social programme, then and now John Carman
Doku-porn: visualising stratigraphy. Geoff Carver
The terms “risk” and “uncertainty” as component of social reality construction based on the archaeological paradigm Ulf F. Ickerodt
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Geographies of value Gail Higginbottom, Philip Tonner
Let’s not go to the dogs tonight. Rhetoric as a strategy of accountability in archaeological outreach Bo Jensen
The Unquiet Past and Spaces where Reasons Matter. Biological Hazard, Sustainable Development and Archaeology in Northwestern England Stephanie Koerner, Lorna Singleton
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Doing Archaeology in the Risk Environment: Beyond "Epistemic-Ontological Precaution" Koji Mizoguchi
The Shifting Place of the ‘War of All-Against-All’ and Other Paradoxes of Major Paradigms for ‘World Heritage’ Laurent Olivier
Nostalgic Futurism, Conflicting Temporalities and Archaeological Epistemic Conflict Ian Russell
Anthropomorphic Pictural Conventions and Cultural Heritage in Precolumbian Central Andean Tiahuanaco Mathieu Viau-Courville
Archaeology on the Western Front: A European Perspective Ross J. Wilson
Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 12
Session Title: The Site and the Community
Organizer: Andrzej Pelisiak
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Settlement differentiation of Magdalenian culture in central Europe Marta Połtowicz
Symbolic and “supposed” graves in the settlements of the Linearbandkeramic culture in south eastern Poland Aleksander Dzbyński, Maciej Dębiec
Central Europian and Balkan Culture Contacts in the Volhyn and Upper Dniester Territory in IV-III Millenniums B.C. as Dialogue of Cultures Taras Tkachuk
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Funnel Beakers Culture economy and natural environment in The Western Carpathians Mountains Renata Zych
The spatial organization of the Funnel Beaker settlement in the Gostynin Lake District Małgorzata Rybicka
The Structures with Traditions of Corded Ware Culture on the Territory of Southern Belarus: the Results and New Aspects of the Research Mikolaj Kryvaltsevich
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Good Neighbours? Houses, fences and spatial organization on early iron age sites in eastern middle Sweden Susanna Eklund, Anna Onsten-Molander
What has been left? Traces of social organisation in the Roman Period archaeological material from the area of central Poland Justyn Skowron
Settlement and Society of Funnel Beaker Culture in Central Poland Andrzej Pelisiak
Settlement-, environmental- and landscape archaeology in Eastern Central Europe between anglo- american influence and communist ideology Grietje Suhr
Saturday all day, Restaurant Room: B
Session Title: The history of archaeological practice – reflections on technology and social organisation in field work
Organizers: Åsa Gillberg, Ola W. Jensen Discussant: Jarl Nordbladh
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Archaeological Practices in the Early Modern Period Dietrich Hakelberg
“To ransack the wall would give trouble and would waste time” - Hillfort Archaeology in Saxony in the 19th century Susanne Grunwald
Amazing Graves. Why practices differed in German 19th century digging Gisela Eberhardt
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Title not available Frauke Kreienbrink
Processes of professionalisation and marginalisation: a constructivist study of archaeological field practices in Sweden 1870-1910, part I Ola W. Jensen
Processes of professionalisation and marginalisation: a constructivist study of archaeological field practices in Sweden 1870-1910, part II Åsa Gillberg
Excavating an Identity: British fieldwork in the first half of the twentieth century Julia Roberts
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
The history of archeology in Champagne (France): goals, methodology, techniques and means Jan Vermoerkerke
The international context of fieldwork: information from the archive Margarita Díaz-Andreu
Working at archaeology: manual labour and archaeological knowledge Nathan Schlanger
Feminism in post-colonial practice? Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh
Saturday all day, Restaurant Room: C
Session Title: European Anthropological Spaces. Archaeology vs. Anthropology?
Organizers: G. Dimitriadis, D. Gheorghiu
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Nature’s chaos and cultural order: The Mandala Tells and the Lower Danube landscape D. Gheorghiu
From the “Natural” Forest to the Forest of Signs. The Production of Rock Art and the Management of Space by EBA Societies G. Dimitriadis
Between Anthropology, History and Prehistory A. Guerci
10.30-11.00 Coffee
La Liguria occidentale et la circulation du métaux dans le Bronze Final des Alpes de l' ouest; l'intérêt des métallurgistes pour le territoire de la montagne G. Dimitriadis, D. Delfino
Light at the end of the passage: The way Megalithic art was viewed and experienced G. Nash
The Connection Between the Terrestrial and Celestial Landscape during the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin (Orientation of Houses) E. Pàzstor
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Remote Sensing as a tool for palaeo-geographic reconstractions: the Sarcidano – Barbagia di Seulo area, Province of Cagliari, central Sardinia M. G. Gradoli, M. T. Melis
The Cultural Nature of Natural Places in the Alps F. Nicolis
Saturday all day, Sports Hall Room: D
Session Title: The Archaeology and Archaeoprospection of Large Rivers and River Confluences
Organizer: A. G. Brown
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
The Bova Marina Archaeological Project: the geoarchaeological investigation of the San Pasquale River Valley, Calabria, Italy G. Ayala, E. Reinhardt, J. Robb, L. Foxhall
Predictive modelling of multi-period geoarchaeological resources at a river confluence: The geoprospection of geoarchaeological resources A. G. Brown, A. Howard, K. C. Challis, C. J. Carey, M. Kincey, L. Cooper
Holocene relict alluvium and colluvium in Belgium, Luxembourg and Northern France. The current state of research. K. Fechner, R. Baes, G. Louwagie in collaboration with : L. Deschodt, R. Langohr, A. Gebhardt, B. Bécu,
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Settlement history and changes of the natural processes in the main valleys of Carpathian Foreland: case studies from the Targowisko site in Raba valley (southern Poland) Tomasz Kalicki, Beata Grabowska, Jacek Górski, Elwira Izdebska, Bartłomiej Konieczny, Siarhei Sauchyk, Galina Simakova, Jarosław Wilczyński, Michał Wojenka, Valentina Zernitskaya
Processes of archaeological site formation in alluvial settings of the Midwestern region, USA: a geoarchaeological framework William G. Monaghan
Late Quaternary river environments and archaeological prospection in the Till-Tweed basin, northern England David G. Passmore, Clive Waddington, Tim van der Schriek
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
An assessment of the effectiveness of Geophysical Techniques in the East Midlands Region, England Alastair Macintosh, David Knight, Mark Pearce
The Valleys of the Large Rivers as a Centre of Settlement in the Late Bronze Age Pontic Steppe Landscape Magda Pieniążek-Sikora
A geoarchaeological approach to managing Neolithic archaeology in a river valley setting: A case study from northern England Clive Waddington, David G. Passmore
Large palaeorivers and floodplains as archaeological landscapes A. G. Brown, L. Basell
General sessions
Friday morning, Restaurant Room: A
Session Title: General Session: Stone Age
Chair: Peter Biehl
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Remarks on the chronological position of the Szeletian in the Bükk Mountains György Lengyel, Zsolt Mester
Lost on Ignition: Identifying Hunter-Gatherer Domestic Fire Technology in the Southern British Mesolithic Paul N. Backhouse
Reading the past through the Levantine Rock Art scenes: relevant thematic and stylistic changes as a reflex of cultural dynamics in the Spanish Mediterranean region Esther López-Montalvo
Mid-Atlantic Super-Long Distance Obsidian Exchange: Provenance and Provenience Carolyn D. Dillian, Charles A. Bello, M. Steven Shackley
10.30-11.00 Coffee
The Battle Axe Culture Pottery of South Sweden Ole Stilborg
A Neolithic, Bronze Age and Post Roman settlement site at Milfield, Northumberland (UK), in its Landscape Context Clive Waddington
Dating a multi-period settlement site at Milfield, Northumberland (UK) (Poster) Ben Jonson
Special foods, special places and ordinary people: A glimpse into the life of Bronze Age hunter- gatherers on Lake Baikal, Siberia Andrzej Weber
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Saturday all day, Restaurant Room: A
Session Title: General Session: Bronze & Iron Age
Chair: Diana Gergova
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
Beyond Stonehendge: Seeking The Start of the Bluestone Trail Timothy Darvill The Disappearing Children: Burial and Childhood in South Scandinavia During 2300-500 BC Sophie Bergerbrant
Lusatian Pottery: Workshop Features in SEM/EDS and Statistical Analysis Adam Walanus, Joanna Trąbska, Urszula Kobylińska
Pots in Action: Pottery in Central Sweden During the Transition Between the Bronze and the Iron Age Thomas Eriksson
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Continuity and Change at Sommarange Skod – a Bronze Age Ritual Site Helena Victor
Archaeology and Material Culture: Interpreting the Archaeological Record Neculai Bolohan
Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age Relationships Across The Carpathians Attila László
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Gender, Agency and Status in the Early Iron Age in Latium Vetus. Investigating Past Identities Though The Analysis of Burial Evidence Francesca Fulminante
Golden Mascs in Thracian Burials Diana Gergova
Sacred Dacian Enclosures And Their Landscape Valeriu Sîrbu, Dan Ştefan, Duţescu Magdalena
Ritual and Inventory in a Dacian Enclosure in the Carpathian Mountains Valeriu Sîrbu, Sebastian Matei
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Saturday all day Main Hall Room 11
Session Title: Roman Empire and Beyond
Chairs: Halina Dobrzańska, Eric De Sena
Papers
9.00-9.10. Introduction
Roman Pottery in Coastal Etruria: an Archaeological and Archaeometric Approach Marinella Pasquinucci, Simonetta Menchelli
Roman Maritime Villas in Dalmatia and Istria Vlasta Begović Dvoržak, Ivana Dvoržak Schrunk
Routes of the Main Roman Roads in Dardania: Comparative Analysis with the Paths of Modern Highways Vladimir Petrovič
Workshops of Luxurious Funerary Monuments from Viminacium (Moesia Superior) Sanja Pilipovič
Attempt at Anthropological Reconstruction of a Roman Time Man from Macedonia (Poster) Fanica Veljanovska
10.30-11.00 Coffee
The Cult of Venus at Tomis Zaharia Covaçef
The Porolissum Forum Project (2004-2006). Archaeology on the fringes of the Roman Empire Eric C. De Sena, Alexandru V. Matei
Paradigm of liberty in the Byzantine Empire 4th –7th centuries Adriana Claudia Cîteia
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Early Christian Roman Imports in the Territory of the Central Balkan Between the 4th and 6th Centuries Olivera Ilić
Western Germanic Tribes and Romanisation of the Barbaricum Artur Błażejewski
Graves of “Princes” on the Przeworsk Culture Cemetery at Szarbia (Southern Poland) Ryszard Naglik
The Carpathian Borrows Culture (III-IV centuries A.D.) Liana Vakulenko
Pottery Production Centres in European Barbaricum: Interdisciplinary Research Project Zofipole (Southern Poland) Halina Dobrzańska, Andrzej Kielski, Krystyna Wodnicka
Weapons of the Barbarous Population of Central and South-Western Crimea of the Sarmatian Period (Poster) Kirill Firsov
Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 3
Session Title: General Session: Medieval & Historical Archaeology Chair: Hanna Kóčka-Krenz
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction Byelorussian territory in the Migration Period Vadim Shadyra
The beginnings of the development of the Prague culture on the territory of Belarus Valiantsina Viarhei
Weaving technologies in migration: evidence of entwined cultures from female inhumations in northern and central Europe of the mid first millennium AD Sue Harrington
10.30-11.00 Coffee
The historical and cultural contacts between Polatsk Land and Scandinavian countries during the Viking Age (according to the archeological data) Siarhei Dziarnovich
No Man is an Island – on causes and effects in the creation of ethnicities and archaeological identities of the past Nanouschka Myrberg
The Old-Russian costume: reconstruction on the basis of an archaeological data in the Upper Volga area Yulia Stepanova
Village settlements of Polatsk region in 10 - middle 16th centuries Marat Vasiljevich Klimau
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Materialschlacht: An ethnographic study of the Western Front Ross J. Wilson
Private and rural houses of the French Atlantic Coast (near Nantes and Saint-Nazaire) from the end of the Celtic period until the Middle Ages: the contribution of the rescue archaeology Christophe Devals
The hunting of moose in pitfall trap systems during the Medieval period in Gråfjell, South-east Norway Tina Amundsen
The castle of Hlusk in the 16th c.: interpretation of the archaeological data in the light of written sources Iryna Hanetskaya
15.30-16.00 Coffee
The Castle in Tykocin at the Polish-Lithuanian Border Magdalena Bis
Life and Death in the Post-Medieval Parish of St Benet Sherehog Lynne Cowal
Recording and Analysis of the Russian Orthodox (Native Aleut) and Public Cemetery, Unalaska Island, Alaska Charles A. Bello
Friday morning, Restaurant Room: B
Session Title: General Session: Culture Heritage and Modern Information Technology
Chair: Włodzimierz Rączkowski
Papers
9.00-9.10 Introduction
The branding of Minoan archaeology Anna Simandiraki
Values in the Historic Landscape and of the Cultural Heritage Karin Beckman-Thoor
Post-Excavation Management and Interpretation: the Augustinian Priory at Kells Miriam Clyne
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Applications of web-technologies in archaeology: perspectives and problems Nikolas Papadimitriou, David Kenny
Spreading the W.O.R.D Jelena Bekvalac
How to tell the story. Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in the Age of Internet Ingvild Solberg Andreassen
Teaching archaeology and the Internet: methods and services developed at Humbul to facilitate a difficult relationship Andrea Vianello
12.30 -14.00 Lunch
Poster session
Thursday all day, Sports Hall
Landscape setting and orientation symbolism of earlier Neolithic linear domestic and funerary constructions in central and northwest Europe Willy Adam
Settlement of Communities of the Linear Band Pottery Culture on the Upper Vistula River Basin Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny
Linear Pottery Settlement Structure in North-West Bohemia, Czech Republic (study of socio-economic dynamics in microregions) Ales Kacerik
The Neolithic Hoards from Poland Marta Kaflińska
Mineralogical Examination of Neolithic Pottery (Linear Band Pottery Culture) from Southern Poland Anna Rauba-Bukowska
Neolithic Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Plastics From Zakrzowiec, Site 6, Niepołomice Commune, Małopolskie Voivodship Paweł Jarosz
Geoarchaeological Studies on the Neolithic Megalith at Newgrange, Ireland Ian G. Meighan, Barrie N. Hartwell, Anthony E. Fallick1 and Derek D. A. Simpson
Method for studying multilayered sites An example: Ároktő-Dongóhalom Bronze Age site Pusztainé Fischl Klára ‘ Animal Husbandry and Organised Grazing. Animals, people and landscape in western Östergötland during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Maria Petersson
Funerary discoveries form the Alburnus Maior site (Roşia Montană, Alba county, Romania) Mihaela Simion, Cătălina Neagu
Beyond the Tribal Hidage - early state formation in post Roman Britain Sue Harrington
GIS and the archaeological sites in different landscapes of medieval Caucasus V. Kovalevskaya, Z. Tsarikaeva
Chersones Taurica - one of the most important center of maritime trade of the Pontis Euxine in the Ancient and Medieval periods Julia A. Pronina
Ancient and Medieval anchors from the underwater archaeological investigations in the water area of Sebastopol Victor V. Lebedinski
Site Tölö - the first remains of an Early Medieval wooden stave church on the Western coast of Sweden Petra Nordin
Stoneware vessels Grażyna Nawrolska
Archeologycal Research of Medieval Market Town-Mohi Reconstruction of Mohi medieval market town with GIS methods Pusztai Tamás
Aerial Archaeology in Flanders (Belgium) Marc Lodewijckx, Jean Bourgeois, Marc Meganck, Rene Pelegrin, Jacques Semey
Usage of Lumınescence in Dating in Archaeological Material Niyazi Meriç, Mehmet Koşal, M. Altay Atlıhan
Phenomenon of clay Lena Angelkoska
Zooarchaeology in Serbia: Considerations on the Recent Scientific Researches Galja Zokić
Zooarchaeology and taphonomy. A example: in one pampean fortlet (Fortlet Otamendi (1858-1869). Argentine. Aurora Oliva, Aurora Benito
The adventure of interpretation Anita Synnestvedt
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