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Friday 22 May 2015
McDonald Institute Seminar Room
9.00-9.15 Valentina Borgia and Emanuela Cristiani
Welcome
9.15-9.30 Prof. Graeme Barker
Introduction
9.30-9.50 Marta Arzarello
University of Ferrara, Italy
The Italian case in the context of the first European peopling
9.50-10.10 Monica Gala, Ivana Fiore
Soprintendenza alMuseo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico ‘L. Pigorini’, Italy
The origins of bird hunting in Eurasia: investigations on avifaunal assemblages during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic
10.10-10-30 Stefano Benazzi
University of Bologna, Italy
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
The Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition as viewed through the Italian human remains
10.30-10.50 Coffe break
10.50-11.10 Daniele Aureli
University of Siena, Italy
How to compare it? New horizon in the study of lithic industries
11.10-11.30 Leonardo Carmignani
University Rovira I Virgili, Spain
Between flake and blade in Middle-Palaeolithic
11.30-11.50 Filomena Ranaldo
University of Siena, Italy
Evolution of lithic production systems during the transition from Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic in southern Italy
11-50-12.10 Fabio Negrino
University of Genova, Italy
From Neanderthals to AMH in the Ligurian region: the current state of knowledge
12.10-12.30 Marco Peresani
University of Ferrara, Italy
The impact of Uluzzian lithic technology for reconstructing the cultural dynamics across the Middle – Upper Palaeolithic transition
12.30-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.20 Marcello Mannino(1), Sahra Talamo (1) and Michael Richards (2)
1Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2 University of British Columbia, Canada
Palaeolithic diets and subsistence in Italy: new reconstructions through isotope analysis.
14.20-14.40 Emanuele Cancellieri
University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Lithic technology around the great Adriatic plain in the last glacial Maximum
14.40.15.00 Federica Fontana (1), Stefano Bertola (2), Maria Giovanna Cremona (3), Fabio Cavulli (4), Laura Falceri (1), Alessia Gajardo(1), Davide Visentin (1), Antonio Guerreschi (1)
1 University of Ferrara, Italy
2 University of Innsbruck, Austria
3 Via Beverora, 34 – 29121 Piacenza, Italy
4 University of Trento, Italy
Re-colonising the Southern alpine fringe: diachronic data on the use of sheltered space in the late Epigravettian site of Riparo Tagliente
15.00-15.20 Domenico lo Vetro (1,2), Andrè Carlo Colonese (3), Zelia Di Giuseppe (2), Lorenzo Nannini (2), Francesco Trenti (2), Niccolò Mazzucco (4,5), Giulia Ricci (1,2), Francesca Romagnoli (1,2), Beatrice Vacca (2), Fabio Martini (1,2), Lucia Sarti (5)
1) University of Firenze, Italy.
2) Museo e Istituto Fiorentino di Preistoria, Firenze, Italy.
3) BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, UK
4) Research Group in Archaeology of Social Dynamics, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
5) University of Siena, Italy
Late Pleistocene-Holocene hunter gatherers in Central Mediterranean. Human-environment relationship in Southern Italy and Sicily
15.20-15.40 Stefano Bertola
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Raw material provenance and circulation during the late Upper Palaeolithic of the Venetian and Trentino areas
15.40-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-16.20 Julien Riel Salvatore, Claudine Gravel-Miguel
University of Montreal, Canada
Arizona State University, USA
New Insights into Epigravettian Funerary Ritual at Caverna delle Arene Candide
16.20-16.40 Katerina Douka
University of Oxford, UK
Chronological resolution of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Italy
16.40- 17.00 Discussion
Saturday 23 may 2015
McDonald Institute Seminar Room
9.00-9.20 Enza Spinapolice
University of Cambridge, UK
Technological organization in the Salento Mousterian (Apulia, Italy) shows Neanderthal logistic land use
9.20-9.40 Valentina Borgia
University of Cambridge, UK
Hunting high and low: reconstructing hunting strategies during the European Upper Palaeolithic through the analysis of stone tools and bone points
9.40-10.00 Emanuela Cristiani (1) and Dušan Borić (2)
1University of Cambridge, UK
2 Cardiff University, UK
Social networks and connectivity among the foragers of Italy and the Balkans
10.00- 12.00 Round Table
12.00 End of the Conference