monumental landscapes subsistence and 09:25 schiesberg, sara; zimmermann, andreas 10:40 coffee break siemens lecture hall bosch conference room Stages and Cycles: The Demography of Populations Practicing 11:00 schiesberg, sara Collective Theories, Methods and Results The Bone Puzzle. Reconstructing Rites in Collective Tombs 09:00 schmitt, felicitas; bartelheim, martin; bueno ramírez, primitiva 09:00 o’connell, michael 09:50 rinne, christoph; fuchs, katharina; kopp, juliane; 11:25 cummings, vicki Just passing by? Investigating in the Territory of the Builders The pollen evidence for early prehistoric farming impact: towards a better schade-lindig, sabine; susat, julian; krause-kyora, ben The social implications of construction: a consideration of the earliest of the Southern European Plains. The Case of Azután, Toledo. understanding of the archaeological fi eld evidence for Neolithic activity in Niedertiefenbach reloaded: The builders of the Wartberg Neolithic monuments of Britain and 09:25 carrero pazos, miguel; rodríguez casal, antón a. western Ireland 10:15 klingner, susan; schultz, michael 11:50 pollard, joshua Neolithic Territory and Funeral Megalithic Space in (Nw. Of 09:25 diers, sarah; fritsch, barbara The physical strain on megalithic tomb builders from northern How routine life was made sacred: settlement and monumentality in ): A Synthetic Approach Changing environments in a Megalithic Landscape: the Altmark case –results of an anthropological-paleopathological investigati- later Neolithic Britain 09:50 schülke, almut 09:50 feeser, ingo; dörfler, walter on of remains from the Hessian-Westphalian Megalithic Soest 12:15 sheridan, alison Megalithic monuments and depositions in wetlands: Diff erent elements, Zooming in: Regional to local human-environment interactions during Group in Erwitte-Schmerlecke Non-megalithic and megalithic monuments in Britain and Ireland from places and expressions of in a TRB-landscape – a case from the Neolithic in 10:40 coffee break the late 5th to the 3rd BC: tracing trajectories and building 10:15 artursson, magnus; andersson, magnus 10:15 kramer, annette; bittmann, felix 11:00 marÇais, anne-sophie plausible narratives Early Neolithic (4000-3300 BC) Monumental Landscapes in Vegetation in change – Neolithic land use in northwestern Germany The gallery grave of Bury and Bazoches-sur-Vesle: An inter-site compa- 12:40 lunch break Southwestern , Southern – A New Perspective 10:40 coffee break rison of two Late Neolithic deceased populations of the Paris Basin 14:00 o´sullivan, muiris butruille, camille; weinelt, mara 10:40 coffee break 11:00 11:25 boaventura, rui; silva, ana maria; ferreira, maria teresa Not available 11:00 przybyŁ, agnieszka Winter Climate Variability in Central Northern during the Neolithic Bones within tombs: characterizing builders and users of tombs during 14:25 jones, carleton klooss, stefanie; fischer, elske; kirleis, wiebke Monumental barrows in the Neolithic landscape between the and 11:25 the 4th-3rd Millennia BCE in Portuguese Estremadura. Regional traditions and distant events – Parknabinnia and other atypical Development of Neolithic plant economy in Northern Germany rivers 11:50 laporte, luc; bocoum, hamady court tombs in north Munster, western Ireland and Southern 11:25 reinhold, sabine Towards other banks : reviewing Senegambian megalithism 14:50 greaney, susan 11:50 Whitehouse, Nicki; McLaughlin, Rowan; McClatchie, Meriel; The monumental landscape of Maikop 12:15 bonatz, dominik Understanding ceremonial monument complexes in Wessex, , Barratt, Phil; Schulting, Rick; Bogaard, Amy The Megaliths of Sumatra: Phenomenological and Contextual Approaches in relation to concepts of power Landscape ecological and archaeological dynamics of early farming 12:40 lunch break communities on the western European margins social diversitY and differentiation 14:00 robin, guillaume siemens lecture hall 12:15 blank bÄcklund, malou Why decorating monumental tombs? A view from South-East Asia Tracing dietary change of the megalithic population in Southwestern Sweden th 14:25 adams, ron saturday, the 20 of june 14:00 salanova, laure 12:40 lunch break Building Workforces for Large Stone Monuments: The Labour Dynamics Forms of diff erentiation in the dead during the 4th millennium BC in 14:00 sjögren, karl-göran of a Living Megalithic Tradition in Eastern Indonesia 08:00 eXcursion Northern Neolithic subsistence in Falbygden. Some new data 14:50 wunderlich, maria 14:25 madsen, thorsten 14:25 malone, caroline Social implications of megalithic construction - A case study from Structural changes in social organisation of TRB society in Eastern Megaliths, people and palaeoeconomics in prehistoric Nagaland and Northern Germany Jutland 14:50 fernandes, ricardo 15:15 milesi, lara 14:50 andersen, niels h. Dietary diversity during the Neolithic Building community: signifi cant places now and before How major monuments defi ned the identity of Neolithic farmers 15:15 Rück, Oliver 15:40 coffee break 15:15 szmyt, marzena ‘Baalberge scrutinized‘ or The Nomadolithic in Central Germany 16:00 rosenstock, eva; masson, astrid; zich, bernd Stone graves in 4th and 3rd mill. BC between Vistula and . 15:40 coffee break Moraines, megaliths and moo: putting the prehistoric tractor to work Similar forms, diff erent contexts, variable meanings 16:00 terberger, thomas; kabacinski, jacek; czekaj-zastawny, ag 16:25 dehn, torben 15:40 coffee break nieszka; kotula, andreas; schmölcke, ulrich Personal testimonies inside megalithic monuments 16:00 pospieszny, Łukasz; krenz-niedbaŁa, marta The site of Dabki 9 and the neolithization of Chosen or equal? Social organisation in Middle and Late Neolithic revisited 20:00 conference dinner − ResTauRaNT GalileO 16:25 jarosz, paweŁ social diversitY and differentiation Social diff erentiation as refl ected in the burial rite siemens lecture hall in the Southern Poland 16:50 hofmann, daniela; husty, ludwig friday, the 19th of june 09:00 garcia sanjuan, leonardo The hole in the doughnut. Enclosures, prestige and selective adoption Burial practices and social hierarchisation in Copper Age southern in the south German later Neolithic monuments and their builders Spain: New evidence from Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain) 17:15 verdonkschot, jadranka einstein lecture hall 09:25 valera, antónio carlos A Room With A View (On The Lake). Tracing back social organization in Landscapes of complexity in South Portugal during the 4th and BC the Neolithic through pile dwelling architecture 09:00 terberger, thomas; lüth, friedrich; piezonka, henny; schulz, anna; burger, joachim 09:50 lorenz, luise The early Neolithic in northern Germany in the light of archaeometric Diachronic Spatial Analysis of the Distribution and Function of results on human remains Northern Central European Funnel Beaker grave 12:15 boaventura, rui; moita, patrícia; pedro, jorge; nogueira, 12:15 schafferer, georg; rassmann, knut 12:15 danborg torfing, tobias venue map daily schedule pedro; machado, susana; mataloto, rui; pereira, andré; Megalithic monuments as manifestation of tradition and sites of Liselund: an Early Neolithic causewayed from Thy, wissenschaftszentrum kiel máximo, jaime; almeida, luís memory: Analysing architecture and the distribution of megalithic northwest Denmark th Tombs and Geology: Physical constraints and funerary choices phenomena in northern Germany 12:40 lunch break tuesday, the 16 of june during the 4th-3rd- millennia BCE in Central-South Portugal. 12:40 lunch break 14:00 rück, oliver 12:40 lunch break 14:00 darvill, timothy; lüth, friedrich Three Baalbergian Monuments near Belleben, Salzlandkreis: Bosch Fraunhofer conference room 16:00 opening session Finds, Features and Explanations Siemens conference room – 14:00 jiménez jáimez, víctor Investigations at Friedrichsruhe Barrow Cemetery, Kr Parchim, lecture hall 18:00 opening greetings Iberian Neolithic and ditched enclosures: a comparative Mecklenburg, Germany johannes müller (Chair and Speaker of the Priority Programme) history of their interpretation 14:25 schierhold, kerstin; gleser, ralf claus voncarnap-bornheim (State Archaeological Department of 14:25 milesi, lara; jiménez jáimez; víctor, márquez; josé enrique Case-study of Erwitte-Schmerlecke, : An archaeological Schleswig-Holstein) th Ditched Enclosures in Southwest Iberia: New Perspectives, New Approaches contribution to Hessian Westphalian Megaliths and thursday, the 18 of june hans-dieter bienert (Programme Director Humanities and Foyer 14:50 caro, jose l.; marquez-romero, j.e.; jiménez jáimez, víctor their role in early monumentality of the Northern European Plain Wardrobe Social Sciences, dfg) monuments of stone, wood and earth Monumental entrances at Iberian Neolithic and Chalcolithic ditched 14:50 raemaekers, daan; van der velde, henk m. eszter bánffy (Director Romano-Germanic Commission (RGK) einstein lecture hall enclosures. Entrance 1 at Perdigões (Portugal) as case study. A monumental burial site from the Funnel beaker period opening lecture 1 Einstein WC / Washroom 15:15 johannsen, niels nørkjær; nielsen, simon k. at Oosterdalfsen (the ) lecture hall 09:00 bakker, jan albert martin hinz and johannes müller Megalithic tombs, stone heap graves and in northwestern 15:15 mccormack, lynda The Dutch hunebedden, especially D26-Drouwenerveld, which was Think twice: Landscape and social meaning of megaliths Jutland: spatial and cultural relationships Monumentality, Liminality and The Negotiation of Ritual Space in the almost completely excavated in 1968 and 1970, and about which a final 0pening lecture 2 15:40 coffee break Irish Passage Tomb Tradition

report will soon appear Reception lee clare, oliver dietrich and jens notroff 16:00 gebauer , anne birgitte 15:40 coffee break 09:25 nobles, gary Building Göbekli Tepe – the emergence of early Neolithic communities The enigma of the Neolithic cult houses – Graves, shrines or social statement? 16:00 , vincent; mens, emmanuel; pillot, lucile; poncet, didier; The wooden monuments of the Dutch wetlands: a monument out of time in Upper 16:25 eriksen, palle mathe, vivien; cousseau, florian; leroux, valérie-emma 09:50 zych, renata 19:00 Tustrup culthouse - architecture and destruction Construction and life of a megalithic landscape: two forms of monu – welcome reception Phenomenology of spatial organization of Kujavian long barrows 23:00 16:50 klassen, lutz; knoche, benedikt mentality in the Charente valley (France) 10:15 matuszewska, agnieszka Barrows, magic circles and the function of causewayed enclosures 16:25 perschke, reena Verification project of megalithic tombs in (Poland) Cafeteria 17:15 nielsen, finn ole sonne The geometrical settings of Carnac (Brittany): Staircase/Lift 10:40 coffee break th Enclosures and Timber Circles on Bornholm A non-archaeoastronomical point of view wednesday, the 17 of june 11:00 saile, thomas Entrance 16:50 hauf, daniela stefanie; kelm, rüdiger Altheim. Monumentality in fourth millennium BC Bavaria? The European Route of Megalithic Culture – Pathways to Europe’s monuments of stone, wood and earth 11:25 gronenborn, detlef einstein lecture hall monumental landscapes earliest stone architecture siemens lecture hall Monuments of what? Mega-sites of the in the northern Upper and Middle Rhine valley 09:00 furholt, martin; mischka, doris parker pearson, mike 11:50 eibl, florian The Phasing of Megalithic construction activities in Northern Central Germany 09:00 material culture in monumental settings Long-distance landscapes: from quarries to monument at Ritual earthen monuments with pottery deposits of Michelsberg- 09:25 whittle, alasdair bosch conference room Type – examples of a completely new type of landscape installations Deaths and entrances: Bayesian modelling of the radiocarbon 09:25 fábregas valcarce, ramón; rodríguez-rellán, carlos Monuments on the move. Assessing megaliths’ agency over of the Early Copper Age in southern Bavaria chronology of enclosures and collective mortuary deposits 09:00 brindley, anna NW Iberian landscapes 12:15 strobel, michael; veit, ulrich; frase, jörg; vogt, richard 09:50 cassen, serge The TRB pottery from Ostenwalde 1, Kr Aschendorf-Hummling: another look 09:50 brozio, jan piet An der Peripherie: Ein trichterbecherzeitliche Siedlungslandschaft in Measuring distance in the monumentalities of the Neolithic in western France 09:25 struckmeyer, katrin Settlements and Megaliths in Eastern Holstein Mittelsachsen zwischen und Mulde 10:15 chambon, philippe; ghesquière, emmanuel Archaeometric analyses of pottery in the Funnel Beaker Culture 10:15 mennenga, moritz 12:40 lunch break Cemetery and alignments of steles from the beginning of the 5th millenni- 09:50 drenth, erik; bakker, jan albert Recent archaeological studies of TRB settlements in 14:00 schmütz, kay; rinne, christoph um at Fleury-sur-Orne (Normandy, France) Contact Finds between the TRB culture and the Vlaardingen Haldensleben-Hundisburg: a small region with two traditions 10:40 coffee break northwestern Germany between Hoek van Holland and Amsterdam 14:25 beran, jonas 11:00 mens,emmanuel 10:40 coffee break 10:15 menne, julia What‘s going on in the southeast? Searching for the funeral and ritual Standing stone of western France: the other monumentality 11:00 seidel, ute; regner-kamlah, birgit Pottery of the Funnelbeaker-Westgroup in Northwest Germany The Michelsberg Culture of Northern Baden-Württemberg: practices beyond the Megalithic Oikumene. Examples from the land 11:25 pape, eleonore 10:40 coffee break of Brandenburg. A shared ideology of death? The architectural elements and the use(s?) of a case study of a neolithic landscape with enclosures and 11:00 lorenz, luise; hinz, martin 14:50 cicilloni, riccardo the monumental late Neolithic gallery graves of western Germany and the open sites Typochronological models for Funnel beaker Pottery from Megalithic monuments in () Paris Basin 11:25 hage, franziska megalithic and non megalithic graves in Northern 15:15 rezepkin, alexej 11:50 bueno ramírez, primitiva Büdelsdorf: Enclosure, megalithic and non-megalithic graves 11:25 larsson, lars The origin of megaliths in the Northwest From to symbol: The role of paintings in the ideological in a microregion of the Funnel Beaker Period Flint use in ritual contexts 15:40 coffee break construction of European megaliths 11:50 dibbern, hauke 11:50 bye-jensen, peter 16:00 trifonov, viktor and megalithic tombs between the Elbe Causewayed enclosures under the microscope – Preliminary Early In The Western Caucasus: Evolution Of Construction and the Eider – Studies on the Neolithic in western Holstein results of a large scale use-wear analysis project