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Going
Over: the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-west Europe
A conference organised by
the School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University,
and supported by the British Academy
To be held in the Julian Hodge Lecture
Theatre, Cardiff University
16-18 May 2005
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Monday 16 May 2005
9.15 |
Welcome and introduction
Alasdair Whittle (Cardiff University) |
9.30 |
Mesolithic myths: rethinking practice
Graeme Warren (University College, Dublin) |
10.00 |
Beyond the models: construing the history of ‘Neolithisation’
in central Europe
Detlef Gronenborn (Römisch-Germanisch Zentralmuseum,
Mainz) |
10.30 |
From Mesolithic to Early Neolithic in the west
Mediterranean
Jean Guilaine (Centre d’Anthropologie, Toulouse) |
| 11.00 |
Coffee |
11.30 |
Mesolithic/Neolithic transitions in north-west
Spain
Pablo Arias (University of Cantabria, Santander) |
12.00 |
Mesolithic/Neolithic transitions in western France
Chris Scarre (Cambridge University) and Luc Laporte
(Rennes University) |
12.30 |
Discussion |
| 1.00 |
Lunch |
2.00 |
New research on climate in NW Europe from the
sixth to fourth millennia BC
Mark Macklin (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) |
2.30 |
Neolithic farming on either side of the North
European frontier: continuity or change?
Amy Bogaard (Nottingham University) |
3.00 |
Diet shifts across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition
in north-west Europe
Mike Richards (Bradford University) |
| 3.30 |
Tea |
4.00 |
Mesolithic/Neolithic transitions
Julian Thomas (Manchester University) |
4.30 |
Discussion |
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Tuesday 17 May 2005
9.30 |
The Mesolithic-Linearbandkeramik transition in
the Paris Basin
Pierre Allard (University of Paris 10) |
10.00 |
Neolithic fragrances: Mesolithic-Neolithic interactions
in western France
Grégor Marchand (CNRS, Rennes) |
10.30 |
The start of the Neolithic in the sandy lowlands
of Belgium: hunter-gatherers in transition
Philippe Crombé (Ghent University) |
| 11.00 |
Coffee |
11.30 |
From forager to farmer in the Lower Rhine Basin
Leendert Louwe Kooijmans (Leiden University) |
12.00 |
Tracing early Neolithic human mobility with strontium
and oxygen isotopes: evidence from south-west Germany
Alex Bentley (Institute of Archaeology, UCL) |
12.30 |
Discussion |
1.00 |
Lunch |
2.00 |
New research in the field of lipid analysis
Richard Evershed (Bristol University) |
2.30 |
Substitution of species, techniques and symbols
at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in western Europe
Anne Tresset and Jean-Denis Vigne (CNRS, Paris)
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3.00 |
Looking at bodies of evidence: the human skeleton
and Mesolithic/Neolithic transitions
Rick Schulting (Queen’s University, Belfast) |
| 3.30 |
Tea |
4.00 |
The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition as seen from
ancient DNA sequences (aurochs, cattle and human)
Joachim Burger (Mainz University) |
4.30 |
From Mesolithic to Neolithic modes of thought
Alan Barnard (Edinburgh University) |
5.00 |
Discussion |
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Wednesday 18 May 2005
9.30 |
Copper and jade: economic and ritual change in
the European Neolithic and its importance for understanding
the beginnings of the Neolithic in the western Baltic
Lutz Klassen (Institute of Prehistory, Moesgård):
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10.00 |
Mistrust traditions – consider innovations?
The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in southern Scandinavia
Lars Larsson (Lund University) |
10.30 |
Scales of landscape, scales of community: a view
from eastern Britain
Mark Edmonds (Sheffield University) |
| 11.00 |
Coffee |
11.30 |
From midden to megalith: the Mesolithic/Neolithic
transition in western Britain
Vicki Cummings (University of Central Lancashire) |
12.00 |
Parallel worlds: approaching the Mesolithic/Neolithic
transition in Ireland
Gabriel Cooney (University College, Dublin) |
12.30 |
Discussion |
1.00 |
Lunch |
2.00 |
The people and their times: dating and temporality
in the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition
Alasdair Whittle (Cardiff University) |
2.30 |
The temporality of place: monuments and memory
Chris Tilley (Institute of Archaeology, UCL) |
3.00 |
Bringing the house down: Neolithic households,
material culture and the death of the domus
Andy Jones (Southampton University) |
| 3.30 |
Tea |
4.00 |
The people who live in big houses
Richard Bradley (Reading University) |
4.00 |
Concluding discussion |
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