B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"
Joris Peters
› An ancient taboo?: Marine turtle consumption in the Eastern Mediterranean - Franciscus Koolstra, University of Groningen (NL)
10:50-11:10 (20min)
› Of mice and men in Southern Levant: new evidence for the role of the Natufian sedentism process in the origin of the house mouse - Thomas Cucchi, National Museum of Natural History of Paris (FR)
11:10-11:30 (20min)
› Mousetrack : tracking the earliest evidence for the house mouse dispersal in Cyprus and Anatolia using Geometric Morphometrics Analysis and aDNA. - Katerina Papayiannis, National Museum of Natural History of Paris (FR)
11:30-11:50 (20min)
› Evolution of the Cypriot vertebrate fauna during the Neolithic transition, 13th – 9th millennia BP - Jean-Denis Vigne, National Museum of Natural History of Paris (FR)
11:50-12:10 (20min)
› Establishing phenotypic variations in fallow deer: a geometric morphometric approach - Julie Daujat, University of Nottingham (UK)
12:10-12:15 (05min)
› A Snapshot of an Ancient Agricultural Landscape in the Negev Desert, based on remains of small mammals - Tal Fried, University of Haifa (IS)
12:15-12:20 (05min)
› The Entomofauna of Cave Areni-1 (Vayots Dzor, Armenia) - Margarit Marjanyan, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan (AM)
12:20-12:25 (05min)
B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"
Guy Bar-Oz
› Domestication and spread of domestic animals in the upper Tigris - Hitomi Hongo, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Kanagawa (JP)
13:30-13:50 (20min)
› The forager-herder trade off, from broad spectrum hunting to sheep management at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey - Mary Stiner, University of Arizona, Tucson (US)
13:50-14:10 (20min)
› Assessing changes in mobility/activity patterns during first domestication and husbandry stages on archaeological samples of Capra: Tell Halula (Syria) as a case study - Roger Alcàntara Fors, University of Barcelona (ES)
14:10-14:30 (20min)
› The transition from hunting to herding in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of southern Jordan - Cheryl Makarewicz, University of Kiel (DE)
14:30-14:50 (20min)
› Faunal assemblages in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition of the Southern Caucasus: a view from Damjili Cave, West Azerbaijan - Saiji Arai, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Kanagawa (JP)
14:50-15:10 (20min)
› Subsistence Strategies at the Aceramic Neolithic Site of Chogha Golan, Iran - Britt Starkovich, University of Tübingen (DE)
15:10-15:30 (20min)
B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"
Hitomi Hongo
› Prehistoric horse exploitation on the central Anatolian plateau: assessing the hypothesis of local domestication - Benjamin Arbuckle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA)
16:00-16:20 (20min)
› A dovecot in the Negev: pigeon management in a marginal region of the Byzantine Empire - Nimrod Marom, University of Haifa (IS)
16:20-16:40 (20min)
› Domestication Process in Southwest of Iran, the Case of Tepe Rahmat Abad - Hossein Davoudi, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran (IR)
16:40-16:45 (05min)
› Our first chicken dish: Factors for the integration and dispersal of chicken in/to the Greco-Roman diet - Lee Perry Gal, University of Nottingham (UK)
16:45-16:50 (05min)
› Pathological alterations of the humerus as a possible marker of early caprine management and domestication - Michaela Zimmermann, University of Munich (DE)
16:50-16:55 (05min)
Strategies for animal exploitation from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic
B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"
Mary Stiner
› Ungulate skeletal element profiles: A possible marker for territorial contraction and sedentism in the Levantine Epipaleolithic - Reuven Yeshurun, University of Haifa (IS)
16:55-17:15 (20min)
› Effects of environmental change, human mobility and hunting strategies on food procurement during the Natufian and PPNA in Eastern Jordan: The evidence from Shubayqa - Lisa Yeomans, University of Copenhagen (DK)
17:15-17:35 (20min)
› Baynunah Camel site, a Neolithic kill-site in the Arabian Peninsula - Mark Beech, Tourism & Culture Authority, Abu Dhabi (AE)
17:35-17:55 (20min)
› Exploitation of animal resources in the Early Neolithic of Thrace: preliminary results from the site of Nova Nadezhda, Bulgaria - Selena Vitezović, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade (RS)
17:55-18:00 (05min)
› Mollusks from the archaeological excavations of Areni-1 cave (Armenia) - Laura Harutyunova, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan (AM)
18:00-18:05 (05min)
Animal economy during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age
B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"
Benjamin Arbuckle
› Stable isotope evidence for subsistence patterns at Prehistoric Monjukli Depe, Southturkmenistan - Jana Eger, Free University of Berlin (DE)
09:00-09:20 (20min)
› Faunal remains from the Chalcolithic levels of RML 79 (Beirut, Lebanon) - Yasha Hourani, Independent researcher (LB)
09:20-09:40 (20min)
› Animal Bones from the Early Bronze Age Site of Shengavit, Yerevan, Armenia - Pam Crabtree, New York University (US)
09:40-10:00 (20min)
› Subsistence economy and land use during the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age in south-eastern Bulgaria - Bea De Cupere, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (BE)
10:00-10:20 (20min)
› Faunal Remains and Worked Bone Objects from the Chalcolithic Levels at Tepecik-Çiftlik, Southern Cappadocia, Turkey - Pam Crabtree, New York University (US)
10:20-10:25 (05min)
› The archaeozoology of household activities from the Early Bronze Age site of Çukuriçi Höyük in western Anatolia - Stephanie Emra, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (AT)
10:25-10:30 (05min)
› Production, consumption and disposal - a consideration of spatial variation in faunal distributions at Early Bronze III Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel - Tina Greenfield, University of Manitoba (CA)
10:30-10:35 (05min)
› Emergence of complexity in Neolithic-Early Bronze Age in Greece: new zooarchaeological evidence - Angelos Hadjikoumis, University of Sheffield (UK)
10:35-10:40 (05min)
› Animal economy at Karkemish from the Middle Bronze to the Iron Age - Elena Maini, University of Bologna (IT)
10:45-10:50 (05min)
› Exploring Ubaid-Period Agriculture in Northern Mesopotamia: The Fifth-Millennium BC Animal Remains from Tell Ziyadeh, Syria - Scott Rufolo, Canadian Museum of Nature (CA)
10:50-10:55 (05min)
› Investigating the animal economy of Kaymakçı, a regional center of the Late Bronze Age, in Western Turkey - Francesca Slim, University of Groningen (NL)
10:55-11:00 (05min)
› The terrestrial fauna of Early Iron Age Salut (Oman) - Laura Strolin, University of Geneva (CH)
11:00-11:05 (05min)
B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"
Marjan Mashkour
› Impact of geographical position, political influences and trade activities on animal economy in the Early Islamic periods in Syria and Lebanon. - Emmanuelle Vila, University of Lyon II (FR)
11:55-12:15 (20min)
› Caprines, dromedaries and parrotfish, archaeozoology from an early Islamic trade center - Pernille Bangsgaard, Museum of Natural History of Denmark, Copenhagen University (DK)
12:15-12:35 (20min)
B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"
Canan Çakırlar
› Stopover on the Incense Route. What Faunal Remains Can Tell about Diet, Daily Life and Economy in the Nabataean Town Elusa - Sina Lehnig, University of Koln (DE)
14:25-14:30 (05min)
› Animal exploitation in the Samarkand Oasis (Uzbekistan) at the time of the Arab conquest: zooarchaeological evidence from the excavation at Kafir Kala. - Eleonora Serrone, University of Bologna (IT)
14:30-14:35 (05min)
› The exploitation of terrestrial and aquatic animals at ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, United Arab Emirates) - Wim Van Neer, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (BE)
14:35-14:40 (05min)
Animal, bones and archaeology: theories and methods
B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"
Julie Daujat
› Printable comparative collections: short- and long-term potentials - Guy Bar-Oz, University of Haifa (IS)
14:40-14:45 (05min)
› Butchering technology during the Early Bronze Age I: an examination of microscopic cut marks on animal bones from Nahal Tillah, Israel - Jeremy Beller, University of Victoria (CA)
14:45-14:50 (05min)
› Zooarchaeological insights into non-elite funeral customs of the early dynastic/early Old Kingdom inhabitants of Memphis, Egypt. - Herbert Böhm, University of Vienna (AT)
14:50-14:55 (05min)
› Sweating the small stuff: heavy fraction collection and analysis from EB Tell es-Safi/Gath - Annie Brown, University of Manitoba (CA)
14:55-15:00 (05min)
› Bad contexts, nice bones – and vice versa? Reflections on depositional processes around the monumental building of Oymaağaç Höyük, Turkey - Günther Karl Kunst, University of Vienna (AT)
15:00-15:05 (05min)
› Manot Cave (Western Galilee, Israel) as a late Pleistocene Hyena den: New evidence from Area D - Meir Orbach, University of Haifa (IS)
15:05-15:10 (05min)
› Ageing lambs – non-linear prediction models for estimating age from breadth measurements - Nadja Pöllath, University of Munich (DE)
15:10-15:15 (05min)
› Identifying Dietary Customs in Zooarchaeology: Kashrut as a Case Study - Abra Spiciarich, Tel Aviv University (IS)
15:15-15:20 (05min)
› Bone artefacts from Kale-Krševica: a Late Classical and Early Hellenistic period 'Hellenised' site in south-eastern Serbia - Selena Vitezović, Institute of Archaeology of Belgrade (RS)
15:20-15:25 (05min)
B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"
Haskel Greenfield
› Origins of Land Tenure? Integrating isotopic evidence from caprines and equids at Chalcolithic Köşk Höyük, Central Anatolia - David Meiggs, Rochester Institute of Technology (US)
10:15-10:35 (20min)
› Summer lovin means births in autumn and winter: sheep and goat seasonality of birth in recent and Neolithic Cyprus - Angelos Hadjikoumis, University of Sheffield (UK)
10:35-10:55 (20min)
› Mobile and sedentary pastoralism in Central Zagros from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, Iran. The contribution of new archaeozoological data. - Sarieh Amiribeirami, University of Tehran (IR)
10:55-11:15 (20min)
› Pigs in Between: Pig Husbandry in the Late Neolithic in Northern Mesopotamia - Max Price, Harvard University (US)
11:15-11:35 (20min)
Symbolic use of animals during the Neolithic and Bronze Age
B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"
Emmanuelle Vila
› Hatching bees – identification and possible meanings of insect figures at Göbekli Tepe - Sebastian Walter, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin (DE)
11:35-11:55 (20min)
› Households, Feasting, and Community at a Middle Bronze Village on Cyprus - Mary Metzger, Vancouver Community College (CA)
11:55-12:15 (20min)
› The Living and the dead: Zooarchaeological comparison between domestic and mortuary faunal assemblages in a Middle Bronze Age Village in Northern Israel - Zohar Turgeman-Yaffe, University of Haifa & Israel Antiquities Authority (IS)
12:15-12:35 (20min)
› The Cult of Horus & Thoth: A Study of Egyptian Animal Cults in Theban Tomb 11, 12, and 366 - Salima Ikram, American University in Cairo (EG)
12:35-12:55 (20min)
› Small carnivores from a Late Neolithic burial chamber at Çatalhöyük, Turkey: Pelts, rituals, and rodents. - Kamilla Pawłowska, University of Poznan (PL)
12:55-13:00 (05min)
Symbolic and funeral practices during the historical times
B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"
Angelos Hadjikoumis
› Ethnicity and social stratification: information from Late Second Temple Period assemblages - Ram Bouchnick, Kinneret Academic College (IS)
14:30-14:50 (20min)
› Cockles and oysters witness ritual ceremonies in the Artemis Cithone sanctuary on the Kalabaktepe near Miletus - Alfred Galik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (AT)
14:50-15:10 (20min)
› Old dentitions and young post-crania: sheep burials in the Ptolemaic-Early Roman animal necropolis at Syene/Upper Egypt - Ursula Mutze, University of Munich (DE)
15:10-15:30 (20min)
› Interpreting AD 6th century Byzantine bird representations from the monastery of Tall Bī'a, Northern Syria - László Bartosiewicz, Stockholm University (SE)
15:30-15:50 (20min)
› Roman horse burials in Beirut - Chahoud Jwana, Lebanese University Beirut, Lebanon / MOM Lyon, France
15:50-15:55 (05min)