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Monday, 3 July, 2006
8:30-9:30am- Registration and coffee. IoA Room 609
(Coffee breaks will be in this room. Posters will be displayed here)
9:40am - Introductory Remarks -
Professor Peter Ucko, former director Institute of Archaeology
IOA Seminar Room 612
Session (all day) Gathered resources: foragers, wood fuels and the environmental impact
links to abstract
10:00 am - Barbara Eichhorn (JW Goethe University, Frankfurt)-
Holocene Environmental Change and Landuse at Ounjougou, Mali
10:30 am - M. Adebisi Sowunmi (University of Ibadan, Nigera)
Humans and the mangrove in southern Nigeria
11:00 am - Bernard Clist (IRD/UR92, Paris)
The first villages of Central Africa : archaeological evidence of long-distance contacts, early land-use and the colonization of various ecosystems before 2500 BP
11:30 am ... Coffee Break
11:45 am - Alexa Hohn (JW Goethe University, Frankfurt)-
Savannas or forests? The environment of human settlements in southern Cameroon during the first millennium BC
12:15 pm - Steffi Kahlheber (JW Goethe University, Frankfurt)-
Pearl millet in the rainforest: plant use by early settlers in Southern Cameroon during the first millennium BC
12:45 pm - Louise Iles (UCL)-
The selection and use of plants within Bugandan iron-smelting traditions
1:15- 2:15 pm... Lunch break
2:15 pm - Alexander Antonites & Annemari Raath (Pretroria)-
The state of paleoethnobotany in South Africa
2:45 pm - Caroline Cartwright (The British Museum)-
Wood charcoal assemblages from cave sites in the south-western Cape, South Africa: implications for Late Quaternary vegetation
3:15 pm - Lucy Allcott (UCL)-
Evidence for Podocarpus forest and changes in anthropogenic wood use at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
3:30 pm ... Coffee break
4:00 pm - Christine Sievers (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)-
Fruits, Nuts and Seeds in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
4:30 pm - Ursula Thanheiser (Vienna)-
Subsistence strategies in the early and middle Holocene in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
5:00 - 5:45 pm ... Discussion
5:45 pm ... Wine reception. Room 609
Welcoming remarks by Stephen Shennan, Director, Institute of Archaeology
Tuesday, 4 July, 2006
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