Tuesday, 4 July, 2006

Session (morning) Agricultural beginnings: cultivation, domestication and early dispersal
links to abstracts

IOA Seminar Room 612

9:00 am - Koen Bostoen (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium)-
Lexical evidence for the mixed subsistence economies of early Bantu speech communities

9:30 - Roger Blench [to be read in absentia]-
African agricultural tools: implications of synchronic ethnography for agrarian history

9:50 am - Julius Bunny Lejju (Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda)-
Archaeobotanical Evidence for Africa’s earliest banana?

10:20 am - Coffee Break

10:45 am - Katharina Neumann (J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt)-
Banana hunting only?: Perspectives of phytolith research in the African rainforest

11:15 am – Robert Marchand, Antje Ahrends, Jemma Finch (York)-
Environment change and agricultural transformation: Emerging concepts from a biodiverse area with little archaeology

11:45 depart for Kew Gardens (Richmond, London)

1:15-2:30 Lunch at Jodrell Laboratory Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.

Tours of Laboratories, and Facilities, including Anatomy Lab, Cereal Garden, Princess of Wales Greenhouse, The Economic Collection (including Ancient Egyptian Material)

4:30pm Tea at Jodrell. Conference Photograph
With Kew Bookstall (discounted books)

From 5pm-6:30pm. Free time in Garden.

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