Schedule

Schedule

The Fifth International Workshop for African Archaeobotany will be held 2-5 July, 2006
at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. For scheduled papers and absracts select days below.

Institute of
Archaeology

LINKS

Wednesday, 5 July, 2006

Session (half-day) Archaeobotany and political economy: Cash crops, perennials and the organization of production
links to abstracts

9:00 am - Chris J. Stevens (Wessex Archaeology and Institute of Archaeology, UCL)-
Gardens, kitchens, animal pens, and flax-processing: The workmen's village at Tell el-Amarna

9:30 am - Rim S.Hamdy & Ahmed M. Soliman (Cairo)
The Image and Camouflage of Pomegranate in ancient Egypt: Continuity and Disruption

10:00 am - Dorian Fuller (UCL)–
Agricultural innovation and State collapse in Meroitic Nubia: The impact of the Savanna package.

10:30 am - Ahmed G. Fahmy, Sakuji Yoshimura & Nozomu Kawai -
Plant macro remains from a Middle Kingdom Site at North Saqqara, Egypt

11:00 am - Sally McAleely (UCL)-
Plant remains as material culture: using the analytical concept of the chaîne opératoire to study wreaths and garlands from ancient Egypt

11:30 am - Coffee break

11:45 pm - Mary Anne Murray (UCL)-
Tadmakka/Essouk – Medieval plant remains from the Malian Sahara

12:15 pm - Mans Schepers (Groningen)–
Back to the Fayum: Roman and Neolithic sites in Egypt revisited

12:45 pm - Ingrid Heijen (Leiden)
The missing maize - archaeobotanical research in Southern Malawi

1:15 pm - Ruth Pelling (UCL)–
Patterns in the archaeobotany of Africa: Towards a database for the northern continent

1:45 pm – Andrew Reid (UCL)–
Islands of Agriculture on Lake Victoria

Lunch

2:30-6:00 Laboratory Session (Rooms 306, 308, 313).

3:30-4 Coffee Break, Room 609

(Note additional access to laboratories can be arranged)

7:30 CONFERENCE DINNER
At MAGHREB Moroccan Restaurant, Islington, London

return to Tuesday, 4 July, 2006. . . . return to Monday, 3 July, 2006

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