24th of May
9:30 – 10:00 CONFERENCE OPENING
SESSION 1: Palaeolithic Hunting Party
10:00 – 10:35 Keynote lecture: Archaeozoology in Croatia: A personal perspective
Dr Siniša Radović
Institute for Quaternary Palaeontology and Geology, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
10:35 – 10:55 Early exploitation of bears in Schöningen and other Palaeolithic open-air sites
Ivo Verheijen1,2
1Forschungsmuseum Schöningen, Germany
2Institute of Prehistory, Early History and Medieval Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, Tübingen University, Germany
10:55 – 11:15 Counting Fragments: A New Holistic Approach to Quantifying ZooMS-Identified Bone Fragments for Analysis
Megan A. Saunders1, Luca Michaelis1, Susanne C. Münzel1, Keiko Kitagawa2,3, Britt M. Starkovich1,2, Nicholas J. Conard2,3, Samantha Brown1
1Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
2Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
3Department for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
11:15 – 11:35 New data from combining ZooMS and archaeozoology to reconstruct subsistence strategies and paleoenvironmental contexts during the Uluzzian in Italy
Sara Silvestrini1, Federico Lugli1, Matteo Romandini1, Cristina Real2, Eduardo Sommella3, Emanuela Salviati3, Carlo Crescenzi3, Pietro Campiglia3, Carmine Collina4, Marco Peresani5,6, Enza Elena Spinapolice7, Stefano Benazzi1
1Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
2Departament de Prehistòria, Arqueologia i Història Antiga, Universitat de València, València, Spain 3Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università di Salerno, Fisciano, Salerno, Italy
4Museo Civico Archeologico Biagio Greco, Mondragone, Caserta, Italy
5Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Scienze Preistoriche e Antropologiche, Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
6Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milano, Italy
7Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy
11:35 – 11:50 Coffee break
11:50 – 12:10 Prey mobility at the Upper Palaeolithic Yana site complex, Russia
Wouter Bonhof
Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, UK
12:10 – 12:30 The domestication of dogs revisited: Palaeogenetical and morphological data from Goyet Cave
Aristeidis Strimenopoulos
Department of History and History of Art, Facultat de Lletres, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
12:30 – 12:50 Pleistocene Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy at Abrigo da Buraca da Moira (Central Portugal)
Alexandre Paya1, Telmo Pereira2,3,4,5, Cleia Detry2, Jordi Rosell6, Patrícia Monteiro7,8, Eduardo Paixão8,9,10, David Nora8,10, Sandra Assis11,12, Carlos Simões8, Marina Évora8,13, Vânia Carvalho14, Trenton Holliday15,16
1Independent researcher
2Centro de Geociências da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
3Cooperativa de Ensino Universitário
4Intituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
5Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
6Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain
7Laboratório de Arqueociências, Direção Geral do Património Cultural, Portugal
8Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
9 Laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments, Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Neuwied, Germany
10The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
11Center for Research in Anthropology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Lisabon, Portugal
12Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
13Centro de Estudos Globais, Departamento de Ciências Sociais e Gestão, Universidade Aberta, Portugal
14Museu de Leiria, Câmara Municipal de Leiria, Portugal
15Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
16Centre for the Exploration of the Deep Human Journey, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
12:50 – 14:20 Lunch break
SESSION 2: Ironing the Antiquity
14:20 – 14:55 Keynote lecture: A horse with a name. A journey through the human-horse relationship in the Early Iron Age southeastern Alpine region
Dr Borut Toškan
Research Centre SAZU, Institute of Archaeology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
14:55 – 15:15 Ritual patterns? Exploring the taphonomy of the Late Hellenistic site of Vodica, Northeastern Bulgaria
Stella Nikolova
National Archaeological Institute of Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria
15:15 – 15:35 Feast, Famine or Fancy: Iron Age relationships to marine molluscs
Holly Young
Institute of Archaeology, Orkney College, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK
15:35 – 15:55 Canid Caves: The Fauna of Fishmonger’s Swallet
Jessica Peto1, Jacqui Mulville2, Julia Best2
1University of Exeter, Devon, UK
2School of History, Archaeology and Religion, University of Cardiff, UK
15:55 – 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 – 16:30 Morphological diversity of dogs from Przeworsk culture in the territory of Poland
Zuzanna Majbrodzka
Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
16:30 – 16:50 The Roman Equids from Lisbon: the remains of Praça da Figueira and Sommer
Ana Beatriz Santos1, Roshan Paladugu2
1Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa; Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
16:50 – 17:10 The Late Antique dietary habits in Western Serbia: a case study of the Čačak – Dvorište Gimnazije site
Mladen Mladenović1, Teodora Mladenović2, Katarina Dmitrović3
1Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia
2Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia
3National Museum Čačak, Serbia
17:10 – 17:45 Keynote lecture: Vets as Archaeozoologists
Prof Tajana Trbojević Vukičević, PhD, DVM
Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb
25th of May
CONFERENCE EXCURSION:
Krapina Neanderthal Museum
Trakošćan castle
26th of May
SESSION 3: Historical Beasts (and Where to Find Them)
10:00 – 10:35 Keynote lecture: What do geneticists do in zooarchaeology?
Prof Vlatka Čubrić Čurik
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science, Laboratory for archaeogenetics
10:35 – 10:55 From the wetlands to the farmyard: The presence and role of domestic geese and ducks in Zuid Holland, 150-1700 AD
Noé de Segovia de Kraker
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Holland
10:55 – 11:15 Bones of the Northumbrian Landscape – A New Zooarchaeology of Jarrow Anglo-Saxon Monastery
Megan Leake
Department of Archaeology, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, UK
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 11:50 Underrated for too long? Guinea pigs in pre-colonial Peru
Céline Erauw
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK
11:50 – 12:10 Identifying cultural and dietary changes through archaeozoology: a case study from the early modern stratum in the area of the El Kal Viejo (Old) Synagogue in Belgrade
Maja Kokanović
Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia
12:10 – 12:30 Poster session
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
SESSION 4: Neolithic Workshop
14:00 – 14:35 Keynote lecture: Animal disease and archaeology
Dr László Bartosiewicz
Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden
14:35 – 14:55 Aurochs to Cattle: investigating the Mesolithic – Neolithic Transition in the Basque Country using Sequential Strontium, Oxygen and Carbon Isotopes
Hector Kelly1, Jacob I. Griffith2,3, Richard Madgwick1, Roger Alcantara Fors1,6, Javier Ordoño4, Alfonso Alday5, Christophe Snoeck2,3
1School of History Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, UK
2Research Unit: Analytical, Environmental & Geo-Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
3Multidisciplinary Archaeological Research Institute, Department of Art Sciences and Archaeology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
4Department of Archaeology and New Technologies, Arkikus, Spain
5Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
6Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
14:55 – 15:15 Domestic animals in the early Neolithic of the Pannonian Plain: animal husbandry and patterns of settlement seasonality at the Gospođinci-Nove zemlje site
Danica Grujić
Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia
15:15 – 15:35 Re-writing archaeology. The Chiomonte-La Maddalena Neolithic alpine site (Piedmont, Italy): review and integration of zooarchaeological assessment from 1988 to 2022
Alessia Monticone1,2, Elisa Panero2, Beatrice Demarchi1
1Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Torino, Italy
2Ministero della Cultura, Musei Reali di Torino, Torino, Italy
15:35 – 15:55 Fashion Objects or Religious Trend? About the animal perforated teeth in the funerary caves from the Carvalhal de Aljubarrota valley (Alcobaça,Portugal) during the 4th and 3rd millennium BCE
Cátia Delicado1,2
1Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde da Universidade de Coimbra; Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
15:55 – 16:10 Coffee break
SESSION 5: Archaeozoology – Making the World a Better Place
16:10 – 16:30 Isotope provenancing of modern moose in Scandinavia: a computational workflow for (zoo)archaeological applications
Elena Armaroli1, Federico Lugli1,2, Anna Cipriani1,3, Thomas Tütken4
1Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
2Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
3Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA
4Institute of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
16:30 – 16:50 The Deer Turn: Reimagining Nature and Culture Duality Through Human – Red Deer Relations in Scotland’s Archaeological Past
Kath Page
Institute of Archaeology, Orkney College, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK
16:50 – 17:10 Osteological Re-analysis of Falconry in Britian: A Case Study of Raptors from Faccombe Netherton
Hannah D. Britton1, Naomi Sykes1, Stuart Black2
1University of Exeter, Devon, UK
2University of Reading, Berkshire, UK
17:10 – 17:30 A Future for Fallow Deer: Management and Repercussion
Jack Sudds
Archaeology Department, University of Exeter, Devon, UK
17:30 – 17:50 ARCHAEOWILD: Modern problems require ancient perspectives
Dimitrije Marković1, Mirko Vranić1, Amalia Sabanov1, Teodora Mladenović1, Teodora Radišić1, Mihailo Radinović1
1Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia
17:50 CLOSING CEREMONY
19:00 Conference dinner
Fakin Craft Bar
POSTER SESSION
- Animal resources in Medieval Torres Novas (Central Portugal): A zooarchaeological perspective from the Christian context of Prédio Alvarenga
Patrícia Aleixo1, Marco Liberato2
1Independent researcher
2Centro de Estudos em Arqueologia, Artes e Ciências do Património, Coimbra, Portugal
- Preliminary results of faunal analysis from Mtsvane Gora, Georgia
Alexander Symons
Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
- Unravelling Pre-Roman Iron Age Livelihoods: An analysis of animal remains from Horodca Mică and Ulmu sites in Moldova
Ismini Venetatou1,2
1Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin, Germany
- Pigging out: Food at a Manor House in Medieval Walles
Gillian Scholz1
1Cardiff University, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, UK.