Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Time Event  
14:00 - 18:00 Registration - Near the city centre, at the Archaeological Research Unit, 12 Gladstonos street, 1095 Nicosia
 

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Time Event  
08:15 - 08:30 Bus meeting - Meeting point at Solomos Square (bus stop for intercity buses). The bus will leave at 8:30am SHARP. We advise you to be there at 8:15am.
 
08:30 - 09:00 Bus journey - From Solomos Square to UCY  
09:00 - 09:45 Registration & coffee - Atrium (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Levants" - UCY  
09:45 - 10:20 Welcome addresses (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis") - V. Kassianidou (ARU), T. O’Connor (ICAZ), M. Mashkour (ASWA), J.-D. Vigne  
10:20 - 10:50 Presentation of Dept of Antiquities (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis") - M. Solomidou-Ieronymidou  
10:50 - 12:25 Humans & biodiversity (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis") - Joris Peters  
10:50 - 11:10 › An ancient taboo?: Marine turtle consumption in the Eastern Mediterranean - Franciscus Koolstra, University of Groningen (NL)  
11:10 - 11:30 › 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)  
11:30 - 11:50 › 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)  
11:50 - 12:10 › 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)  
12:10 - 12:15 › Establishing phenotypic variations in fallow deer: a geometric morphometric approach - Julie Daujat, University of Nottingham (UK)  
12:15 - 12:20 › A Snapshot of an Ancient Agricultural Landscape in the Negev Desert, based on remains of small mammals - Tal Fried, University of Haifa (IS)  
12:20 - 12:25 › The Entomofauna of Cave Areni-1 (Vayots Dzor, Armenia) - Margarit Marjanyan, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan (AM)  
12:25 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 15:30 Domestication I (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis") - Guy Bar-Oz  
13:30 - 13:50 › Domestication and spread of domestic animals in the upper Tigris - Hitomi Hongo, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Kanagawa (JP)  
13:50 - 14:10 › The forager-herder trade off, from broad spectrum hunting to sheep management at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey - Mary Stiner, University of Arizona, Tucson (US)  
14:10 - 14:30 › 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)  
14:30 - 14:50 › The transition from hunting to herding in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of southern Jordan - Cheryl Makarewicz, University of Kiel (DE)  
14:50 - 15:10 › 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)  
15:10 - 15:30 › Subsistence Strategies at the Aceramic Neolithic Site of Chogha Golan, Iran - Britt Starkovich, University of Tübingen (DE)  
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break (Atrium (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis")  
16:00 - 16:55 Domestication II (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis") - Hitomi Hongo  
16:00 - 16:20 › Prehistoric horse exploitation on the central Anatolian plateau: assessing the hypothesis of local domestication - Benjamin Arbuckle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA)  
16:20 - 16:40 › A dovecot in the Negev: pigeon management in a marginal region of the Byzantine Empire - Nimrod Marom, University of Haifa (IS)  
16:40 - 16:45 › Domestication Process in Southwest of Iran, the Case of Tepe Rahmat Abad - Hossein Davoudi, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran (IR)  
16:45 - 16:50 › 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)  
16:50 - 16:55 › Pathological alterations of the humerus as a possible marker of early caprine management and domestication - Michaela Zimmermann, University of Munich (DE)  
16:55 - 18:05 Strategies for animal exploitation from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis") - Mary Stiner  
16:55 - 17:15 › Ungulate skeletal element profiles: A possible marker for territorial contraction and sedentism in the Levantine Epipaleolithic - Reuven Yeshurun, University of Haifa (IS)  
17:15 - 17:35 › 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)  
17:35 - 17:55 › Baynunah Camel site, a Neolithic kill-site in the Arabian Peninsula - Mark Beech, Tourism & Culture Authority, Abu Dhabi (AE)  
17:55 - 18:00 › 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)  
18:00 - 18:05 › Mollusks from the archaeological excavations of Areni-1 cave (Armenia) - Laura Harutyunova, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan (AM)  
18:15 - 18:30 Bus meeting - The bus will at 18:30 SHARP.  
18:30 - 19:00 Bus journey - From UCY to the French Institute (59 Strovolos Avenue).  
19:15 - 20:30 Keynote presentation: Early Neolithic Cyprus (French Institute in Cyprus) - Jean-Denis Vigne
 
20:30 - 22:00 Cocktail dinner (+photography exhibition "Claude Lelouch cinema through photographies") (French Institute in Cyprus)
 
22:00 - 22:10 Bus journey - From the French Institute to Solomos Square.  

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Time Event  
08:15 - 08:30 Bus meeting - Meeting point at Solomos Square (bus stop for intercity buses). The bus will leave at 8:30am SHARP. We advise you to be there at 8:15am.
 
08:30 - 09:00 Bus journey - From Solomos Square to UCY  
09:00 - 11:05 Animal economy during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis") - Benjamin Arbuckle  
09:00 - 09:20 › Stable isotope evidence for subsistence patterns at Prehistoric Monjukli Depe, Southturkmenistan - Jana Eger, Free University of Berlin (DE)  
09:20 - 09:40 › Faunal remains from the Chalcolithic levels of RML 79 (Beirut, Lebanon) - Yasha Hourani, Independent researcher (LB)  
09:40 - 10:00 › Animal Bones from the Early Bronze Age Site of Shengavit, Yerevan, Armenia - Pam Crabtree, New York University (US)  
10:00 - 10:20 › 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)  
10:20 - 10:25 › Faunal Remains and Worked Bone Objects from the Chalcolithic Levels at Tepecik-Çiftlik, Southern Cappadocia, Turkey - Pam Crabtree, New York University (US)  
10:25 - 10:30 › 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)  
10:30 - 10:35 › 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)  
10:35 - 10:40 › Emergence of complexity in Neolithic-Early Bronze Age in Greece: new zooarchaeological evidence - Angelos Hadjikoumis, University of Sheffield (UK)  
10:45 - 10:50 › Animal economy at Karkemish from the Middle Bronze to the Iron Age - Elena Maini, University of Bologna (IT)  
10:50 - 10:55 › Exploring Ubaid-Period Agriculture in Northern Mesopotamia: The Fifth-Millennium BC Animal Remains from Tell Ziyadeh, Syria - Scott Rufolo, Canadian Museum of Nature (CA)  
10:55 - 11:00 › Investigating the animal economy of Kaymakçı, a regional center of the Late Bronze Age, in Western Turkey - Francesca Slim, University of Groningen (NL)  
11:00 - 11:05 › The terrestrial fauna of Early Iron Age Salut (Oman) - Laura Strolin, University of Geneva (CH)  
11:05 - 11:35 Coffee break (Atrium (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis")  
11:35 - 12:35 Animal economy during the historical times I (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis") - Marjan Mashkour  
11:55 - 12:15 › 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)  
12:15 - 12:35 › Caprines, dromedaries and parrotfish, archaeozoology from an early Islamic trade center - Pernille Bangsgaard, Museum of Natural History of Denmark, Copenhagen University (DK)  
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 14:40 Animal economy during the historical times II (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis") - Canan Çakırlar  
14:25 - 14:30 › 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)  
14:30 - 14:35 › 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)  
14:35 - 14:40 › 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)  
14:40 - 15:25 Animal, bones and archaeology: theories and methods (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis") - Julie Daujat  
14:40 - 14:45 › Printable comparative collections: short- and long-term potentials - Guy Bar-Oz, University of Haifa (IS)  
14:45 - 14:50 › 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)  
14:50 - 14:55 › Zooarchaeological insights into non-elite funeral customs of the early dynastic/early Old Kingdom inhabitants of Memphis, Egypt. - Herbert Böhm, University of Vienna (AT)  
14:55 - 15:00 › Sweating the small stuff: heavy fraction collection and analysis from EB Tell es-Safi/Gath - Annie Brown, University of Manitoba (CA)  
15:00 - 15:05 › 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)  
15:05 - 15:10 › Manot Cave (Western Galilee, Israel) as a late Pleistocene Hyena den: New evidence from Area D - Meir Orbach, University of Haifa (IS)  
15:10 - 15:15 › Ageing lambs – non-linear prediction models for estimating age from breadth measurements - Nadja Pöllath, University of Munich (DE)  
15:15 - 15:20 › Identifying Dietary Customs in Zooarchaeology: Kashrut as a Case Study - Abra Spiciarich, Tel Aviv University (IS)  
15:20 - 15:25 › 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)  
15:25 - 16:00 Coffee break (Atrium (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis")  
16:00 - 17:20 (Atrium (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis")  
17:20 - 17:30 Bus meeting - The bus will leave at 17:30 SHARP.  
17:30 - 18:00 Bus journey - From UCY to Solomos Square.  
18:00 - 20:00 Free time  
20:00 - 23:55 Gala dinner with live music! (Mezostrati Tavern)
 

Friday, June 9, 2017

Time Event  
08:00 - 08:20 Presentation of the Cyprus Museum (The Cyprus Museum) - Despo Pilides, Department of Antiquities of Cyprus
 
08:20 - 09:30 Happy Hour of archaeological finds! (The Cyprus Museum)
 
09:30 - 09:45 Bus meeting - Meeting point at The Cyprus Museum. The bus will leave at 9:45am SHARP. You are advised to be there around 9:30am
 
09:45 - 10:15 Bus journey - From the Cyprus Museum to UCY New Campus  
10:15 - 11:35 Animal management and husbandry (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis") - Haskel Greenfield  
10:15 - 10:35 › Origins of Land Tenure? Integrating isotopic evidence from caprines and equids at Chalcolithic Köşk Höyük, Central Anatolia - David Meiggs, Rochester Institute of Technology (US)  
10:35 - 10:55 › 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)  
10:55 - 11:15 › 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)  
11:15 - 11:35 › Pigs in Between: Pig Husbandry in the Late Neolithic in Northern Mesopotamia - Max Price, Harvard University (US)  
11:35 - 13:00 Symbolic use of animals during the Neolithic and Bronze Age (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis") - Emmanuelle Vila  
11:35 - 11:55 › Hatching bees – identification and possible meanings of insect figures at Göbekli Tepe - Sebastian Walter, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin (DE)  
11:55 - 12:15 › Households, Feasting, and Community at a Middle Bronze Village on Cyprus - Mary Metzger, Vancouver Community College (CA)  
12:15 - 12:35 › 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)  
12:35 - 12:55 › 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)  
12:55 - 13:00 › Small carnivores from a Late Neolithic burial chamber at Çatalhöyük, Turkey: Pelts, rituals, and rodents. - Kamilla Pawłowska, University of Poznan (PL)  
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch  
14:30 - 15:55 Symbolic and funeral practices during the historical times (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis") - Angelos Hadjikoumis  
14:30 - 14:50 › Ethnicity and social stratification: information from Late Second Temple Period assemblages - Ram Bouchnick, Kinneret Academic College (IS)  
14:50 - 15:10 › Cockles and oysters witness ritual ceremonies in the Artemis Cithone sanctuary on the Kalabaktepe near Miletus - Alfred Galik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (AT)  
15:10 - 15:30 › 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)  
15:30 - 15:50 › Interpreting AD 6th century Byzantine bird representations from the monastery of Tall Bī'a, Northern Syria - László Bartosiewicz, Stockholm University (SE)  
15:50 - 15:55 › Roman horse burials in Beirut - Chahoud Jwana, Lebanese University Beirut, Lebanon / MOM Lyon, France  
15:55 - 16:25 Coffee break (Atrium (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis")  
16:25 - 17:00 (B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis")  
17:10 - 17:20 Bus meeting - The bus will leave at 17:20 SHARP. Be close by at 17:10.  
17:20 - 17:50 Bus journey - From UCY New Campus back to the city centre.  

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Time Event  
07:45 - 08:00 Bus meeting - From Solomos Square (bus stop for intercity buses). The bus will leave at 8:00am SHARP. We advise you to be at the meeting point at 7:45am.
 
08:00 - 20:30 Tour of the archaeological beauties of the island of Aphrodites :)