1st August 2016
Palaeolithic Mesolithic Conference
20th – 22nd October 2016
Dear Colleagues
We would like to invite you to a three day conference on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic.
The first two days will be short papers on recent research with posters. The third day will be
open to the general public, highlighting some of the major fieldwork projects in the morning
and a focus on Palaeolithic art in the afternoon including a showing of the latest film on
Chauvet. Conference fees will cover abstracts, teas, coffees and sandwich lunches with wine.
Please return this form by Monday 5th September
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I would like to attend the full conference for £85
I would like to attend on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st October only for £60
I would like to attend on Saturday 22nd October only for £30
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Please return to: Dr Claire Lucas (Palaeolithic-Mesolithic conference), British Museum, Department of
Britain, Europe & Prehistory, Franks House, 56 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ
If you are attending from abroad or are unable to pay by cheque, please contact Dr Claire Lucas
directly for other payment options: [email protected]
Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Conference
20th – 22nd October 2016
Thursday 20th October
10.00-10.10
Introduction
10.10-10.30
Recent Investigations into the Stone Age site of Isimila,
Tanzania
10.30-10.50
J. Cole, J. McNabb, M. Bates, P.
Bushozi, A. Kwekason, D. Nash,
P. Toms & G. Duller
L. Basell & M. Posnansky
10.50-11.10
J. Cole & R. Hosfield
Winter is coming: How to think a northern survival strategy?
11.10-11.30
S.G. Lewis, N.M. Ashton, R.
Davis & P.G. Hoare
New data from Warren Hill, Mildenhall and their implications
for Lower Palaeolithic archaeology associated with the
Bytham River
11.30-12.00
Coffee
12.00-12.20
R. Davis, N. Ashton, S. Lewis &
S. Parfitt
12.20-12.40
R. Hosfield, C. Green & S. Black
12.40-1.00
1.00-1.20
E. Egberts, L.S. Basell, K.
Welham, A.G. Brown & P.
Toms
P.G. Hoare & J.L. McCullough
1.20-2.10
Lunch
2.10-2.30
C. Harris, N. Ashton & S. Lewis
The distribution of early Palaeolithic sites in Britain
2.30-2.50
M.B. Roberts
2.50-3.10
A. Shaw, M.-A. Julien, R. Bates,
M. Bates, C. Gamble, J.
McNabb, M. Pope & B. Scott
Sites and landscapes: research and curatorial priorities for
Palaeolithic archaeological remains and Pleistocene sequences
Crossing the Threshold: niche construction and the
enculturation of landscape during the early Middle
Palaeolithic at La Cotte de St Brelade
3.10-3.30
B. Scott, M. Bates, R. Bates, A.
Shaw, M. Pope, S. Duffy & A.-L.
Ravon
Tea
Lost landscapes of La Manche: intertidal Pleistocene sites in
Jersey
4.00-4.20
M. Knul, A. Korstjens, P.
Gillingham & J. Stewart
4.20-4.40
P. Woodman, T. Higham & R.
Carden
D. Minnikin
The influence of climate change on changing terrestrial
mammal communities including the Neanderthal and
Anatomically Modern Human
Castlepook and Ireland’s MIS3 Faunas- IQFP (2)
3.30-4.00
4.40-5.00
Excavations at the Stone Age Site of Nyabusora, Tanzania
Handaxe and non-handaxe assemblages during MIS 11 in
northern Europe: Recent investigations at Barnham, Suffolk,
UK.
A rolling stone gathers some gloss? New investigations at
Knowle Farm
Hominin habitats in the Hampshire Avon Valley
Worthington Smith’s small amateur coterie: the sharing of
knowledge and the dispersal of a valuable collection
The contribution of megafaunal tuberculosis to Palaeolithic
extinctions
Friday 21st October
10.00-10.20
R. Miller, P. Noiret, J. Stewart,
M. Knul, Y. Waersegers, E.
Stassart, L. Janssens, J. van der
Plicht, C. Ankjærgaard, T.
Reimann, P. Dardenne, V.
Baeten, J.F. Pierna D. Vincke &
K. Wilkinson
The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition: A multidisciplinary
approach to the chronostratigraphy of climate change and
human occupation at Trou Al’Wesse (Belgium)
10.20-10.40
New perspectives on the Early Upper Palaeolithic of Eastern
Europe
Kostënki 18 and the Mid Upper Palaeolithic burial record of
European Russia
11.20-11.50
R. Dinnis, A. Bessudnov & N.
Reynolds
N. Reynolds, R. Dinnis, A.A.
Bessudnov, T. Devièse & T.
Higham
A.J.E. Pryor, A.W.G. Pike, J.
Svoboda, M. Oliva, S. Sázelová,
M. Roblíčová, A. Dudin, M.K.
Jones & C. Gamble
Coffee
11.50-12.10
W. Davies & R. Farbstein
12.10-12.30
Claire Lucas
12.30-12.50
E. Blinkhorn, C. Conneller, S.
Bello, J. Dobbie, S. Duffy, M.
Bates, R. Bates, M.-A. Julien, M.
Pope, B. Scott & A. Shaw
Defining Eurasian Palaeolithic Innovations in Ceramic
Technology (DEPICT): Scales of analysis and behavioural
plasticity/transferability
From fragments of decorated osseous artefacts from the
Middle Magdalenian: What can we reconstitute?
New finds from the Magdalenian site of les Varines, Jersey
12.50-1.10
J. Kotthaus
1.10-2.00
Lunch
2.00-2.20
W. Mills
2.20-2.40
S.B. Grimm, I. Barnes, S.
Charlton, T. Higham, H. Reade &
R. Stevens
N. Milner, B. Taylor, C.
Conneller, S. Blockley, I. Candy,
B. Elliott, B. Knight, P. Langdon,
A. Little, I. Matthews, A. Palmer
& C. Rowley
10.40-11.00
11.00-11.20
2.40-3.00
3.00-3.30
Tea
3.30-3.50
D.K. Plaza
3.50-4.10
N. Milner, C. Conneller, B.
Taylor, M. Bamforth, A. Bayliss,
J. Carty, S. Croft, B. Elliott, B.
Knight, A. Little, A. Radini, H.
Robson, C. Rowley, M. Taylor &
E. Tong
S. Charlton, M. Alexander, M.
Collins, N. Milner, P. Mellars, T.
O’Connell, R. Stevent & O. Craig
4.10-4.30
4.30-4.50
S. Piper
Prey mobility and Gravettian subsistence strategies on the
European mammoth steppe
Between the caves and the sea - human recolonisation of
Lateglacial Britain
Exploring Archaeology with Landscapes: Movements through
the Late Glacial Channel River system and Continental England
UP-NORTH – Recolonisation, diversification, and the influence
of climate
Horses and hoofprints: a Long Blade site at Flixton Island
Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunters in the Garden of Eden of
first farmers. Most important results from my PhD project
“Mesolithic in Kuyavia” (central Poland)
Star Carr: A case study in palethnography
Rediscovering Oronsay: Biomolecular Approaches to Skeletal
Material from Cnoc Coig
Middens Below the Machair: Further Evidence for the
Mesolithic of the Western Isles of Scotland
Saturday 22nd October
Digging our Ice Age Past
10.00-10.30
Nick Ashton
10.30-11.00
Beccy Scott & Matt Pope
11.00-11.30
Coffee
11.30-12.30
Alice Roberts
12.30-1.30
Lunch
Stepping into Britain: Early human footprints and the
Happisburgh Project
Ice Age Island: Neanderthals and the Jersey Project
Digging for Ancient Britain
Ice Age Art
1.30-2.00
Jill Cook
2.00-2.30
Jean-Michel Geneste
2.30-3.00
Ice Age Art at the British Museum since the 2013
exhibition
The making of Chauvet
The final passage: a new film about Chauvet cave by
Martin Marquet
3.00-3.30
Tea
3.30-4.30
Panel Discussion: Alice Roberts, Jean-Michel Geneste, Nick Ashton, Jill Cook, Clair
Lucas, Matt Pope & Beccy Scott