ASWA 2017 - Nicosia - Sciencesconf.org

Tue. 06

Wed. 07

Thu. 08

Fri. 09

Sat. 10

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Registration

14:00 - 18:00 (4h)

Registration

Near the city centre, at the Archaeological Research Unit, 12 Gladstonos street, 1095 Nicosia

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Bus meeting

8:15 - 8:30 (15min)

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.

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Bus journey

8:30 - 9:00 (30min)

Bus journey

From Solomos Square to UCY

Registration & coffee

9:00 - 9:45 (45min)

Registration & coffee

Atrium (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Levants" - UCY

Welcome addresses

9:45 - 10:20 (35min)

Welcome addresses

B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"

V. Kassianidou (ARU), T. O’Connor (ICAZ), M. Mashkour (ASWA), J.-D. Vigne

Presentation of Dept of Antiquities

10:20 - 10:50 (30min)

Presentation of Dept of Antiquities

B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"

M. Solomidou-Ieronymidou

Humans & biodiversity

10:50 - 12:25 (1h35)

Humans & biodiversity

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)

Lunch

12:25 - 13:30 (1h05)

Lunch

Domestication I

13:30 - 15:30 (2h)

Domestication I

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)

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Coffee break

Atrium (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"

Domestication II

16:00 - 16:55 (55min)

Domestication II

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

16:55 - 18:05 (1h10)

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)

Bus meeting

18:15 - 18:30 (15min)

Bus meeting

The bus will at 18:30 SHARP.

Bus journey

18:30 - 19:00 (30min)

Bus journey

From UCY to the French Institute (59 Strovolos Avenue).

Keynote presentation: Early Neolithic Cyprus

19:15 - 20:30 (1h15)

Keynote presentation: Early Neolithic Cyprus

French Institute in Cyprus

Jean-Denis Vigne

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Cocktail dinner (+photography exhibition "Claude Lelouch cinema through photographies")

20:30 - 22:00 (1h30)

Cocktail dinner (+photography exhibition "Claude Lelouch cinema through photographies")

French Institute in Cyprus

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Bus journey

22:00 - 22:10 (10min)

Bus journey

From the French Institute to Solomos Square.

Bus meeting

8:15 - 8:30 (15min)

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.

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Bus journey

8:30 - 9:00 (30min)

Bus journey

From Solomos Square to UCY

Animal economy during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age

9:00 - 11:05 (2h05)

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)

Coffee break

11:05 - 11:35 (30min)

Coffee break

Atrium (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"

Animal economy during the historical times I

11:35 - 12:35 (1h)

Animal economy during the historical times I

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)

Lunch

12:35 - 14:00 (1h25)

Lunch

Animal economy during the historical times II

14:00 - 14:40 (40min)

Animal economy during the historical times II

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

14:40 - 15:25 (45min)

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)

Coffee break

15:25 - 16:00 (35min)

Coffee break

Atrium (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"

Poster session

16:00 - 17:20 (1h20)

Poster session

Atrium (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"

Bus meeting

17:20 - 17:30 (10min)

Bus meeting

The bus will leave at 17:30 SHARP.

Bus journey

17:30 - 18:00 (30min)

Bus journey

From UCY to Solomos Square.

Free time

18:00 - 20:00 (2h)

Free time

Gala dinner with live music!

20:00 - 23:55 (3h55)

Gala dinner with live music!

Mezostrati Tavern

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Presentation of the Cyprus Museum

8:00 - 8:20 (20min)

Presentation of the Cyprus Museum

The Cyprus Museum

Despo Pilides, Department of Antiquities of Cyprus

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Happy Hour of archaeological finds!

8:20 - 9:30 (1h10)

Happy Hour of archaeological finds!

The Cyprus Museum

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Bus meeting

9:30 - 9:45 (15min)

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

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Bus journey

9:45 - 10:15 (30min)

Bus journey

From the Cyprus Museum to UCY New Campus

Animal management and husbandry

10:15 - 11:35 (1h20)

Animal management and husbandry

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

11:35 - 13:00 (1h25)

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)

Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 (1h30)

Lunch

Symbolic and funeral practices during the historical times

14:30 - 15:55 (1h25)

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)

Coffee break

15:55 - 16:25 (30min)

Coffee break

Atrium (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"

General discussion & next ASWA conference

16:25 - 17:00 (35min)

General discussion & next ASWA conference

B 108 (ground level) - University House "Anastasios G. Leventis"

Bus meeting

17:10 - 17:20 (10min)

Bus meeting

The bus will leave at 17:20 SHARP. Be close by at 17:10.

Bus journey

17:20 - 17:50 (30min)

Bus journey

From UCY New Campus back to the city centre.

Bus meeting

7:45 - 8:00 (15min)

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.

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Tour of the archaeological beauties of the island of Aphrodites :)

8:00 - 20:30 (12h30)

Tour of the archaeological beauties of the island of Aphrodites :)

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