Ancient DNA: applications in human evolutionary history Organised by Professor Erika Hagelberg, Professor Michael Hofreiter and Professor Christine Keyser Wednesday 20 - Thursday 21 November 2013 DAY 1 DAY 2 SESSION 1 SESSION 2 SESSION 3 SESSION 4 Human migration Chair Erika Hagelberg Historical transformations Technical issues Human evolution debates 09.00 Welcome by Royal Society Chair Anders Götherström Chair Michael Hofreiter Chair Paul Mellars & lead organiser Agnar Helgason Paula Campos Eva-Maria Geigl Carles Lalueza-Fox Assessing the authenticity of Pleistocene humans in the Palaeogenomic analysis of Paleogenomics and the 09.05 13.30 clonal sequence reads from 09.00 13.30 Americans/East Asia and their ancient humans: Mesolithic-Neolithic transition ancient samples: a case study environment methodological issues in Europe from Iceland 09.30 Discussion 14.00 Discussion 09.30 Discussion 14.00 Discussion Pontus Skoglund David Reich Anne Stone Genomic analysis of prehistoric Erika Hagelberg The landscape of Neandertal 09.45 Impacts of colonization in the 14.15 populations in Europe: 09.45 Shall we still worry about 14.15 ancestry in present-day humans Americas authentication and population contamination? history 10.15 Discussion 14.45 Discussion 10.15 Discussion 14.45 Discussion 10.30 Coffee 15.00 Tea 10.30 Coffee 15.00 Tea Marie-France Deguilloux Concepción de la Rua Odille Loreille Where are the Caribs? Ancient The Neolithic transition in the Elena Gigli Next generation sequencing 11.00 DNA from ceramic period 15.30 Cantabrian fringe (Peninsula 11.00 15.30 Ancient DNA studies: new solutions to unidentified human remains in the Lesser Iberica) perspectives on old samples human remains cases Antilles 11.30 Discussion 16.00 Discussion 11.30 Discussion 16.00 Discussion Claudio Ottoni Yinqiu Cui Human ancient DNA from the Matthias Meyer Kinship analysis of ancient Barbara Bramanti ancient city of Sagalassos Increasing the resolution - new 11.45 human remains based on Y- 16.15 11.45 16.15 Evolutionary consequences of (Turkey): a diachronic view of molecular methods improve chromosomal, autosomal and the past pandemics mtDNA variation from Roman access to archaic human DNA mitochondrial DNA to Byzantine time 12.15 Discussion 16.45 Discussion 12.15 Discussion 16.45 Discussion 12.30 LUNCH 17.00 CLOSE 12.30 LUNCH 17:00 CLOSE .