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East African Association for Paleoanthropology and Paleontology (EAAPP) Sixth Biennial Conference Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia JULY 30 – AUGUST 2, 2017 Conference Program Draft issued May 24, 2017, and subject to change. Please see https://eaappinfo.wordpress.com/2017-2/2017-conference-program/ for most updated version of the conference program. Sunday, July 30th Time Session 4:30pm – 6:00pm Registration and Reception Monday, July 31st Time Session Authors Title Opening remarks 9:00am - 9:15am Opening Session Zeresenay Alemseged (EAAPP president and host) 9:15am - 9:30am Opening Session Ethiopian official Keynote Remarks 9:30am - 9:45am Fossil Hominins Leslie Aiello Keynote Lecture Abel Marinus Bosman, Laura Tabitha Buck, Hugo Reyes-Centeno, 9:45am - 10:00am Fossil Hominins Filling in the gaps: virtual reconstruction of the Kabua I cranium Christopher Brian Stringer, Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou 10:00am - 10:15am Fossil Hominins Hugo Reyes-Centeno, Katerina Harvati Anatomical affinities of the Mumba X cranium from Tanzania Did Australopithecus afarensis include climbing in its locomotor 10:15am - 10:30am Fossil Hominins Zeresenay Alemseged repertoire? 10:30am - 10:45am Coffee/Tea Break Marine Cazenave, Jose Braga, Anna Ottle, John Francis Thackeray, The endostructural bony organization at the distal humerus: do 10:45am - 11:00am Fossil Hominins Frikkie de Beer, Jakobus Hoffman, Metasebia Endalamaw, Blade Engda Paranthropus and early Homo differ? Redae, Roberto Macchiarelli 1 A new reconstruction of the juvenile Homo erectus pelvis KNM-WT 11:00am - 11:15am Fossil Hominins Martin Haeusler, Nomie Bonneau, Cinzia Fornai 15000 from Nariokotome, Kenya Tina Luedecke, Timothy G. Bromage, Ottmar Kullmer, Oliver Sandrock, Dietary versatility in early Homo and Paranthropus from Southeast 11:15am - 11:30am Fossil Hominins Jens Fiebig, Ulrike Wacker, Friedemann Schrenk, Andreas Mulch, Johann Africa Wolfgang Reassessing taxic diversity in South African hominids and how we 11:30am - 11:45am Fossil Hominins Jeffrey H. Schwartz analyze human fossils Morphological reinterpretation of MH2 Australopithecus sediba pelvis 11:45am - 12:00pm Fossil Hominins Cinzia Fornai, Martin Haeusler based on a new virtual reconstruction 12:00pm - 12:15pm Fossil Hominins Yoel Rak, Assaf Marom What can Dmanisi's variation tell us about Homo's origins? Johan Arif, Kurt W.Alt, Satoshi Kawada, Dorrit Jacob, Hideo Iwai, Akio 12:15pm - 12:30pm Fossil Hominins JA-53, a big fossilized isolated lower incisor from Sangiran, Indonesia Iwanade 12:30pm - 1:30 pm Lunch Margherita Mussi, Flavio Altamura, Elisa Brunelli, Eliana Catelli, Fossil footprints at Gombore (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia): 1:30pm-1:45pm Footprints Alessandro Cecili, Luca Di Bianco, Blade a rare snapshot of Pleistocene environments Engda, Rita T. Melis, Flavia Piarulli, Lorena Russo, Noemi Tomei Marco Cherin, Angelo Barili, Giovanni Boschian, Elgidius B. Ichumbaki, New bipedal footprints from Laetoli support marked body size variation 1:45pm - 2:00pm Footprints Dawid A. Iurino, Giorgio Manzi, Fidelis T. Masao, Sofia Menconero, Jacopo in early hominins Moggi Cecchi. Charles Musiba, Alex Pelissero, Cassian C. Magori, Joshua Mwankunda, Photogrammetric comparisons of footprint morphology of the recently 2:00pm - 2:15pm Footprints Henry Bunn, discovered hominin footprints at Laetoli with the G1/G2-3 hominin prints Mohamed Sahnouni, Mathieu Duval, Josep Maria Pares, Alfredo Perz- Gonzalez, Van der Made, Salah Abdessadok, Zoheir Harichane, Isabel Discovery of stone tools and cutmarked bones dated to 2.2-1.95 Ma 2:15pm - 2:30pm Archaeology Caceres, Abdelkader Derradji, Nadia Kandi, Mohamed Medig, Kamel from Ain Boucherit (Algeria) Boulaghraief "To have and have not": lithic technology of the 2.4 Ma assemblage 2:30pm - 2:45pm Archaeology Erella Hovers from A.L. 894, Hadar, Ethiopia The Omo-Shungura archeological record: preliminary results of the on- 2:45pm - 3:00pm Archaeology Anne Delagnes, Tiphaine Maurin, Pascal Bertran, Jean-Renaud Boisserie going researches 2 3:00pm - 3:15pm Coffee/Tea Break Tegenu Gossa, Asfawossen Asrat, Bienvenido Martinez-Navarro, Elizabeth 3:15pm - 3:30pm Archaeology M. Niespolo, Paul R. Renne, Angesom Riesom, Ravid Ekshtain, Gadi The newly discovered Early Stone Age site of Melka Wakena, Ethiopia Herzlinger, Natnael Ketema, Chen Zeigen, Erella Hovers, The technological context of LCT emergence: A preliminary 3:30pm - 3:45pm Archaeology Hilary Duke, Sonia Harmand comparison of non-LCT lithics from Kokiselei 6 and Kokiselei 4, West Turkana, Kenya Julio Mercader Florin, Mathew Abtosway, Siobhan Clarke, Chris DeBuhr, Fernando Diez Martin, Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo, Julien Favreau, Fossilized starch shows Acheulean harvesting of yams 1.7 million 3:45pm – 4:00pm Archaeology Makarius Itambu, Federico Krause, Patrick Lee, Audax Mabulla, Robert years ago at Olduvai Gorge Patalano, Laura Tucker, David Uribelarrea, Dale Walde Berhane Asfaw, Yonas Beyene, Gen Suwa, Katsuhiro Sano, Hideo The early Acheulean and paleoenvironments at Konso, southern 4:00pm - 4:15pm Archaeology Nakaya, Shigehiro Katoh Ethiopia 4:15pm - 4:30pm Archaeology Ana Mara Barn Parra The Acheulien in the Atacama Desert, Chile Plio-Pleistocene bone surface modifications from the Middle Awash 4:30pm - 4:45pm Archaeology Yonatan Sahle, Sireen El Zaatari, Tim D. White (Ethiopia): Implication for cut mark studies and claims of early butchery Sileshi Semaw, Michael Rogers, Naomi Levin, Dietrich Stout, Isabel The Gona Paleoanthropology Research Project: 6 million years of 4:45pm - 5:00pm Archaeology Caceres, Gary Stinchcomb, Jan van der Made, Henry Gilbert, Nelia human biological and behavioral evolution Dunbar, William McIntosh Reporting on a newly discovered Acheulean and MSA Assemblages in 5:00pm – 5:15pm Archaeology Taliwawa Masao Karatu northern Tanzania Tuesday, August 1st Time Session Authors Title 9:00am – 9:15am Archaeology Keynote Speaker TBA Keynote Lecture Structure and variability in Levallois technology in the Middle Stone 9:15am – 9:30am Archaeology Alison Mant-Melville Age of Kenya and Ethiopia Yonas Beyene, Yonatan Sahle, Berhane Asfaw, Stanley H. Ambrose, Tim 9:30am – 9:45am Archaeology Revealing the Middle Stone Age of the Middle Awash D. White, Giday WoldeGabriel Ongoing investigation of prehistoric sites on the Kilwa Basin, Coastal 9:45am - 10:00am Archaeology Amanuel Beyin, Kokeli P. Ryano Tanzania 3 Through a volcanic glass darkly: viewing modern human origins with 10:00am - 10:15am Archaeology Nick Blegan, Francis H. Brown the lens of raw material transport Unraveling of the complexity of prehistoric compound adhesive 10:15am - 10:30am Archaeology Sebastian Scheiffele, Yonatan Sahle production through an ethnoarchaeological investigation 10:30am - 10:45am Coffee/Tea Break Shannon McPherron, Steve Schwortz, Jonathan Wynn, Christopher 10:45am - 11:00am Archaeology The Middle Stone Age Site of Negus Kabri, Asbole, Ethiopia Campisano, Alan Deino, Zeresenay Alemseged, New research on the Kohl-Larsen collections from Mumba 11:00am - 11:15 am Archaeology Nicholas J. Conard, Knut Bretzke, Laure Dayet, Andrew W. Kandel Rockshelter, Tanzania Pre MIS 4 (>59 ka) archaeological deposits from Mochena Borago Steven A. Brandt, Abbebe Mengistu Taffere, Benjamin Smith, George 11:15am - 11:30am Archaeology Rockshelter: implications for testing the Highland SW Ethiopia OIS 4 Brook, Nathan Lawres Refugium Theory Enza Elena Spinapolice, Marina Gallinaro, New investigations in Southern Ethiopia (Yabelo and Gotera): 11:30am - 11:45am Archaeology Haftom Berhane, Tadele Salomon, Andrea Zerboni Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological evidences Variability of backed pieces in the Horn of Africa during the Late 11:45am - 12:00pm Archaeology Alice Leplongeon, Clement Menard Pleistocene and Holocene The Mountain Exile Hypothesis: How humans benefited from and re- 12:00pm - 12:15pm Archaeology Ralf Vogelsang, GÃtz Ossendorf, Minassi Girma MA shaped African high altitude ecosystems during Quaternary climate changes. Excavation of Nunge salt-work archaeological site: Pre-Kaole town 12:15pm - 12:30pm Archaeology Emanuel Thomas Kessy settlement at Bagamoyo Role of remembrance in the origin and growth of trade in north eastern 12:30pm – 12:45 pm Archaeology Kedebe Geleta Africa: the place of Ethiopia 12:45-1:45 Lunch Xenopithecus koruensis: new insights on an obscure early Miocene 1:45pm - 2:00pm Paleontology Rutger J. W. Jansma, Kieran P. McNulty catarrhine from Koru, Kenya Cranial variation in Theropithecus oswaldi: A 3D geometric 2:00pm – 2:15pm Paleontology Dagmawit Abebe Getahun morphometric analysis Gen Suwa, Yonas Beyene, Shigehiro Katoh, Katsuhiro Sano, Tomohiko 2:15pm - 2:30pm Paleoecology The revised chronology and fauna of the Chorora Formation, Ethiopia Sasaki, Berhane Asfaw 4 Kevin K. Takashita-Bynum, Cynthia M. Liutkus-Pierce, Luke A. Beane, Paleolandscape reconstruction of Early Miocene sediments from 2:30pm - 2:45pm Paleoecology Aryeh Grossman Loperot, Kenya: mineralogy and stable isotope geochemistry Suid remains from two early Homo sites: Ledi-Geraru, Gurumaha Fault 2:45pm – 3:00pm Paleoecology Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, Antoine Souron Block, Lee Adoyta, and Makaamitalu, Busidima Formation (Afar, Ethiopia) New insights into the paleoenvironments of Australopithecus 3:00pm - 3:15pm Paleoecology Laurence Dumouchel, Rene Bobe anamensis in the Omo-Turkana Basin, eastern Africa Investigating faunal evolution in the Shungura Formation, Turkana 3:15pm - 3:30pm