20th Conference of the IWGP
Groningen, The Netherlands
Programme
Overview Main Programme (Offerhauszaal 1112.347)
Overview Parallel Programme (Geertsemazaal 1112.351)
Detailed Scientific Programme
General infromation
Registration
There are three opportunities to complete your registration. The first is on Sunday afternoon, between 5:00 and 8:00 PM at Broerstraat 9, the Archaeobotany Laboratory.
The second registration opportunity is on Monday morning, between 8:00 and 9:00 AM in the Academy building (main venue). We realize this time slot may not be sufficient to register everyone, but this is not a problem; additional registration will be available during all breaks on Monday (coffee breaks and lunch break).
For late arrivals, registration will also be possible on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday between 8:00 and 9:00 AM.
Instructions for posters and oral presentation
Please note that the IWGP logo is available for download from our website, should you wish to include it in your presentation or poster (optional).
Papers:
o Each oral presentation has a total time slot of 15 minutes, including time for questions. We therefore strongly recommend preparing a 12-minute presentation. You will receive a time warning at 9 minutes (3 minutes remaining) and another at 11 minutes (1 minute remaining). Do respect your colleagues and stick to the time available.
o Please make sure to hand in your PowerPoint presentation (no Prezi or PDF) in the room where your session takes place, during a coffee or lunch break before your scheduled time slot.
Posters:
o Posters should be in portrait orientation and must not exceed A1 size. Other than that, you are free to design them as you wish.
o There are two poster sessions (see also the Scientific Programme). Posters for Sessions 1, 5, 6, and 9 can be put up from Monday morning onwards and must be in place by Wednesday lunchtime at the latest. Posters for Sessions 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 12 can be put up on Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning and will remain on display until the end of the conference.
1112.347 Offerhauszaal
Monday 21 July
Tuesday 22 July
| SESSION 6 – Plant Management, Plant Cultivation & Resilience | Chair: Aylen Capparelli & Karolis Minkevicius | ||
| 08.30 | Ferran Antolín et al. | Agricultural changes, productivity and crop water availability in the NE of the Iberian during the Neolithic period (5500-3000 BCE) | |
| 08.45 | Andrés Teira-Brión et al. | Mosaic agriculture and ecological adaptability: the legacy of millets in the Iberian Peninsula | |
| 09.00 | Catherine Longford et al. | Beyond the Silos: Neolithic to Bronze Age cereal agriculture in England | |
| 09.15 | Fiona Walker-Friedrichs et al. | Explore Bronze Age Agriculture in Jutland: Insight from Stable isotope and Weed Ecology | |
| 09.30 | Wiebke Kirleis et al. | Late rye cultivation in central Europe: cultivation practices, weed biodiversity and genetic plasticity of rye | |
| 09.45 | Karolis Minkevičius | Rye: A Key to Unravelling Changing Farming Strategies in the Roman Iron Age SE Baltic | |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| Chair: Wiebke Kirleis | |||
| 10.30 | Julia Salova et al. | Crops or societies? Reconstructing Agricultural Trends through Archaeobotanical, Archaeogenetic, and Isotopic Data in Central and Eastern Europe (1000 BC – 1000 CE) | |
| 10.45 | Katleen Deckers et al. | Grapes and olives in ancient Southwest Asia between 6500 and 600 BC: Examining their cultivation, management and significance for resilience of societies. | |
| 11.00 | Ella Kempf et al. | Agriculture and plant management in semi-arid Central Asia. Archaeobotanical study of Bronze and Iron Age sites in southern Uzbekistan | |
| 11.15 | Xingyi Liu | Cultivation Strategies in Pastoral Landscapes | |
| 11.30 | Amalia Sabanov et al. | Was there a wetland farming model in the Early Neolithic? Investigating agriculture in Pelagonia (North Macedonia) using functional weed ecology | |
| 11.45 | Amy Holguin et al. | Mid-5th millennium BCE arable land-use at the lake-dwelling of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid | |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch Break | ||
| 13.30-15.00 | Poster session: sessions 1, 5, 6, 9 | ||
| Chair: Karolis Minkevicius | |||
| 15.30 | Alexander Weide et al. | Understanding the formation of early weed floras in southwest Asia | |
| 15.45 | Sullivan Heywood et al. | Investigating the regional complexities of agricultural production and settlement resilience through the 4.2 ka event in Central Anatolia, Türkiye. | |
| 16.00 | Charlène Bouchaud et al. | The late arrival of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) cultivation in north-western Arabia | |
| 16.15 | Amr Shahat | The Nile and Its people: plant-water relationshiop along the Nile and is community resilience against climatic changes | |
| 16.30 | Christine A. Hastorf et al. | Identifying archaeological geophytes in high Andean early foodways. The long-lived focus on tubers in Andean cuisine | |
| 16.45 | Hiroo Nasu et al. | Experiments on the maintenance and propagation of wild azuki bean (Vigna anguralis) populations using fire. Toward understanding the maintenance of wild azuki bean populations by Jomon people | |
| 17.00 | Makayla Harding et al. | A novel archaeobotanical framework for understanding the history of plant foods in Aboriginal Australia | |
Wednesday 23 July
| SESSION 1 – Wild Plant Use | Chair: Anna Florin | ||
| 08.30 | India Ella Dilkes-Hall et al. | The art of wooing Nature: botanical resources and medico-socio-cultural development in Late Pleistocene Sunda. | |
| 08.45 | Elise Matheson et al. | 47,000 years of plant use in the semi-arid zone of Australia at Juukan 2 rockshelter, Puutu Kunti Kurrama Country | |
| 09.00 | Kseniia Boxleitner et al. | Archaeobotany at Surungur rock shelter: A glimpse into 5,000 years of rural subsistence strategies in Central Asia | |
| 09.15 | Philippa Ryan et al. | Wild plant uses in Nubian farming villages, northern Sudan | |
| 09.30 | Kuangyuan Nong et al. | Rediscovering a lost millet: Evidence of the use of Eragrostis sp. at the Bronze Age Xiaohe Cemetery, China | |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10.30-11.00 | Lisa Lodwick Award | ||
| Chair: Wiebke Kirleis | |||
| 11.00 | Tina Roushannafas et al. | ‘Rewilding’ Later Prehistoric Britain: What can ‘wild’ mean in the archaeobotanical record? | |
| 11.15 | Dragana Filipović et al. | A desired weed? The archaeobotany of Dasypyrum villosum, a wild wheat relative with precious genes | |
| 11.30 | Alexa Höhn | “Wild” trees in West African farmscapes — the case of the shea tree | |
| 11.45 | Chris Stevens et al. | A multi-proxy approach to the identification of wild plant resources in the later Jomon period of Japan | |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch Break | ||
| Chair: Lucy Kubiak-Martens | |||
| 13.30 | Jose Julian Garay Vazquez et al. | Foraging at the fringes of the Amazon: Archaeobotanical study of hunter-gatherer subsistence systems of Serrania la Lindosa, Colombia. | |
| 13.45 | Francesco Breglia et al. | Foraging-based economy in a mid-Neolithic community in northeastern Italy: new insight from Molino Casarotto | |
| 14.00 | Maria Rousou | On the footprints Pistacia spp. fixed oil: an ancestral Mediterranean practice. The case study of the Late Aceramic Neolithic site of Khirokitia in Cyprus. | |
| 14.15 | Blanca Garay-Palacios et al. | Re-thinking the Neolithic plant record in the Iberian Peninsula: insights from La Draga (Banyoles, Spain), a site with extraordinary preservation | |
| 14.30 | Nysa Loudon | The Materials, Ecology, and Aesthetic Properties of Gathered Plant-based Cordage, Textiles, and Basketry in Prehistoric/Historic Scotland | |
| 14.45 | Ayelen Delgado Orellana et al. | Woody plant uses in the temperate forest of south America: the archaeological evidence from Southern Chile | |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| Chair: Welmoed Out | |||
| 15.30 | Ceren Kabukcu | A long term view of wild plant subsistence in the semi-arid regions of Southwest Asia | |
| 15.45 | Barbara Proserpio et al. | Plant Exploitation Strategies from the Natufian to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A: a View from the Black Desert (Jordan) | |
| 16.00 | Elisa Brandstätt et al. | Past exploitation of wild fruit trees and shrubs at the early Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük, Central Anatolia. | |
| SESSION 5 – Archaeobotanical Data | Chair: Jennifer Bates | ||
| 16.15 | Karen Stewart et al. | The Future of Archaeobotanical Data Sharing in New England: Bridging Generational Gaps | |
| 16.30 | Felix Bittmann et al. | ArboDat+ – the new edition of ArboDat 2016/2018 | |
| 16.45 | Ivanka Hristova et al. | The Swedish National Infrastructure for Digital Archaeology and ArboDat 2016: Enabling FAIR Archaeobotanical Data Online | |
| 17.00 | Elizabeth Stroud et al. | Interoperable data from late prehistoric lakeshores sites of northern Greece, southern Albania and North Macedonia | |
| 17.15 | Ruth Pelling et al. | Ensuring FAIR data is actually findable: developing a community-wide and accessible digital infrastructure for archaeobotanical data in England’ | |
Thursday 24 July
| SESSION 4 – Exploring the Archaeobotany of Food | Chair: Lucy Kubiak-Martens & Andreas G. Heiss | ||
| 08.30 | Amaia Arranz-Otaegui et al. | Food in Transition: Current gaps and future prospects on the study of “Amorphous Charred Objects” | |
| 08.45 | Jessi Berndt et al. | Crunchy Beer. Experimental approaches in determining beer, bread, or porridge of Neolithic amorphous charred objects | |
| 09.00 | Pierre-Antoine Vivier | SEM and X-ray microtomography : a protocol to study carbonized gallo-roman loaves | |
| 09.15 | Melody Li | Exploring Taste in Archaeobotany: A Toolkit of Theory and Methods | |
| 09.30 | Nicole Boenke | Perspectives on food – recipes in the field of tension between processing, consumption and meaning | |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| Chair: Christine Hastorf | |||
| 10.30 | Yu-chun Kan | Crust in pieces and feasts in antiquity. Culinary practices in late Neolithic Northern China | |
| 10.45 | Lucy Kubiak-Martens et al. | Cooking in the northern Neolithic: culinary practices around the 3rd millennium BCE as revealed through joint organic residue analysis | |
| 11.00 | Lara González Carretero et al. | Culinary records from prehistoric Britain: a combined archaeobotanical approach for the analysis of charred food remains | |
| 11.15 | Ines Nabernik Bošnjak et al. | Food choices of Slovenian pile dwellers from the 4th and 3rd millennium BC | |
| 11.30 | Caroline Douché et al. | The ‘Mesopotamian taste’? Aromatic plants at the 3rd mill. site of Kunara (northern Iraq) | |
| 11.45 | Trevor Lamb | Roots as Food and Flavour in Alaska’s Kodiak Archipelago, 3200–200 BP | |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch Break | ||
| 13.30-15.00 | Poster session: sessions 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 | ||
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15.30 | Group Photograph | ||
| 16.00-16.15 | Update IWGP Research Groups | ||
| 16.15-16.45 | Arranz-Otaegui et al. | Ethics in Archaeobotany | |
| 16.00-17.30 | Lab sessions | Location: Palaeobotany laboratory – Broerstraat 9, room 901 | |
Friday 25 July
| 08.30 – 10.00 | No Programme | ||
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| SESSION 4 – Exploring the Archaeobotany of Food | Chair: Federica Maria Riso & Tania Valamoti | ||
| 10.30 | Maria Gabriela Musaubach | Crunchy residues: archaeobotanical analysis of pre-Hispanic culinary practices | |
| 10.45 | Theoni Baniou et al. | Culinary choices, cooking practices and the socio-economy of fruits at the east of Hispania: a multi-proxy approach to foodways of Roman Guissona | |
| 11.00 | Federica Maria Riso et al. | Urban Foodways and Socio-Economic Dynamics in Roman Italy: an archaeobotanical approach | |
| 11.15 | Merit Hondelink et al. | Floral food items in archaeological cesspit samples and historical culinary texts. similarities and differences | |
| SESSION 8 – Global Plant Domestication |
Chair: Amy Bogaard | ||
| 11.30 | Yawei You | Transcending the niche of wild progenitor: An ecological niche perspective on the origins and spread of soybeans in China | |
| 11.45 | Cristina Castillo Cobo et al. | Interdisciplinary approaches to the evolutionary dynamics of vegetative agriculture in the Ethiopian Highlands: archaeobotany and ethnobotany of Enset | |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch Break | ||
| Chair: Alexander Weide | |||
| 13.30 | Robert N Spengler III | Rethinking Domestication: Ecological Release and Insularity Pressures | |
| 13.45 | Jade Whitlam | Developmental plasticity and genetic selection shaped cereal evolution in the Early Holocene southern Levant | |
| 14.00 | Aurélie Salavert et al. | New outcomes of a multidisciplinary project on the domestication and spread of opium poppy | |
| 14.15 | Camila Alday | Looking at South America’s cotton (Gossypium barbadense) through aDNA, archaeobotany and textile analyses | |
| 14.30 | Aylen Capparelli et al. | Past cultural practices in South American native algarrobo propitiating germination? Highlighting Neltuma chilensis managing during the last 500 years through archaeobotanical, morphometric and experimental approaches | |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15.30-17.30 | Closing session | ||
1112.351 Geertsemazaal
Monday 21 July
No parallel programme
Tuesday 22 July
| SESSION 11 – Movement of plants |
Chair: Tania Valamoti | ||
| 08.30 | Dorian Q Fuller | Expansion, Extension, Localized or retreating? A comparative approach to patterns in the dispersal of Old World crops | |
| 08.45 | Mir-Makhamad Basira et al. | Plant Introductions and Domestications in Central Asia from the Neolithic to Mongol Times | |
| 09.00 | Kim Pangyu et al. | Culinary Practices in Prehistoric Times: Insights from Lentil Excavations in the Ganges Region | |
| 09.15 | Kiki Karanikola et al. | The earliest millet in the Balkans: recent AMS dates from Skala Sotiros and the introduction of millet in southeastern Europe. | |
| 09.30 | Girolamo Fiorentino et al. | New evidence of Triticum timopheevii in the Italian Peninsula during Protohistory: rethinking the role of this crop as indirect indicators of long-range contacts | |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10.30 | Clémence Pagnoux | Wine and viticulture on both shores of the Mediterranean during the 1st millennium BC: cultural exchanges, varietal diversity and adaptation | |
| 10.45 | Julian Wiethold | Stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) – Archaeobotanical evidence exterior its natural habitats, evidence for planting during Roman times and relevance in Gallo-Roman funerary rites in western, northern and northeastern Gaule | |
| 11.00 | Mariana Costa Rodrigues | A city in the midst of change. Waterlogged plant foods in riverside Lisbon Early modern period | |
| 11.15 | Mark Nesbitt | The Clarkson chest. An eighteenth century time capsule of West African ethnobotany | |
| SESSION 12 – General Session |
Chair: Roman Hovsepyan | ||
| 11.30 | Alexia Decaix et al. | Crops and Cultures: Exploring Cereal Diversity in the Southern Caucasus from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age | |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch Break | ||
| 13.30-15.00 | Poster session: sessions 1, 5, 6, 9 | ||
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15.30 | Lucas Proctor | Late prehistoric plant use and the origins of cultivation in the southern piedmont of the Al-Hajar Mountains, Sultanate of Oman | |
| 15.45 | Hamad Mohamed Hamdeen | New evidence of the Adansonia digitata L. remains from the Christian Mud-building in the Third Cataract Region (Sudan) | |
| 16.00 | Doga Karakaya et al. | Connecting local ecologies to Middle Bronze Age political economies: Storage and processing of organic consumables at Zincirli Höyük, south-central Turkey | |
| 16.15 | Ying Yang et al. | Forests and the Monument. The Use of Wood in the Terracotta Army Pits and Mausoleum of China’s First Emperor | |
| 16.30 | Tom Maltas | Old data, new perspectives: crop diversity and its agroecological significance in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean | |
| 16.45 | Thorsten Jakobitsch et al. | Combining pollen and plant macroremains to reconstruct vegetation and climate of a wetland settlement: The case study of the Late Neolithic pile dwelling site Mooswinkel (Austria) | |
| 17.00 | Sinyati Robinson Mark | Food Economies in Ancient Swahili Cities: Archaeobotanical Evidence from Kilwa Kisiwani | |
Wednesday 23 July
| SESSION 2 – Method Development within Archaeobotany | Chair: Welmoed Out | ||
| 08.30 | Christina M. Carolus et al. | Ancient Protein Analysis in Archaeobotany: New Frontiers and Future Directions | |
| 08.45 | A.D. Fischer et al. | New light on old remedies. Tracing medieval medical plant use by integrating sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding with traditional archaeobotanical techniques. | |
| 09.00 | Hannah Caroe et al. | An integrated, multi-stranded approach to identifying germination in the archaeobotanical record. A case study of Anglo-Saxon Sedgeford | |
| 09.15 | Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė et al. | Novel methodologies for correlating new crop dispersal with climate change: broomcorn millet as a case study | |
| 09.30 | Matthew Conte et al. | Making a good impression: a protocol for producing ceramic seed impression replicas and their potential for archaeobotanical research | |
| 09.45 | Dimitri Teetaert et al. | Identification and 14C dating of plant temper materials preserved in ceramics from the Neolithic period to Early Middle Ages in Northwestern Europe (ORG-ID project) | |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10.30-11.00 | Lisa Lodwick Award | ||
| Chair: Jennifer Bates | |||
| 11.00 | Miguel Tarongi et al. | How diverse are the pulses ? A quantitative study of intra and interspecific morphological differences in pulses seed shape | |
| 11.15 | Madelynn von Baeyer et al. | The Persistent Appeal of Prunus Morphometrics to Determine Ancient Domestication and Dispersal. How Close Are We Now? | |
| 11.30 | Mizanur Rahman | Identification of Asian rice genotypes; combining Geometric Morphometrics (GMM) and Random Forest Model (RFM). | |
| 11.45 | Jalen Green et al. | Identifying anatomical variability in yams (Dioscorea spp.) | |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch Break | ||
| Chair: Alexander Weide | |||
| 13.30 | Jiaxin Chen et al. | Morphometric distinction between Acute bulbosus phytoliths (silicified epidermal hair cells) from Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica leaves | |
| 13.45 | Wendy Matthews | Developing integrated palaeoethnobotany: High-resolution micro-contextual approaches to understanding the sustainability of human-plant inter-relationships | |
| 14.00 | Daniel Fuks et al. | Archaeobotanical stratigraphy | |
| 14.15 | Jerome Ros et al. | Effects of underground silo storage on long-term grain preservation: 10 years of experiment | |
| 14.30 | Rubi Wu et al. | The functional weed ecology of paddy rice management: a case study from the Nishikubo wetland, Japan | |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| SESSION 7 – Traditional Ecological Knowledge & Archaeobotany | Chair: Aylen Capparelli | ||
| 15.30 | Meriel McClatchie et al. | Traditional grain storage practices in Ireland | |
| 15.45 | Carla Lancelotti et al. | Pastoralists or agriculturalists? Ephemeral cultivation as a strategy for adaptation to drylands | |
| 16.00 | Maria Laura Lopez et al. | Food dynamics in Colonial Tucumán: the case of the archaeological site of Guayascate (Cordoba, Argentina) as a model of transdisciplinary intervention | |
| 16.15 | Sonja Filatova | The dynamics of crop spectra in Odisha between the present and the Neolithic – an ethnoarchaeobotanical perspective | |
| 16.30 | Sonia Archila | High altitude tubers in the Colombian Andes and the interpretation of past plant-people interactions | |
| 16.45 | Tereza Majerovičová et al. | Unveiling Hidden Connections: Ethnobotanical Insights into Construction Practices in Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal | |
| 17.00 | Maureece J. Levin | Building Pingelap with Plants: Archaeobotany and Traditional Ecological Knowledge on a Micronesian Atoll | |
| 17.15 | Imran Shabir | Integration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Archaeobotanical Evidence: A Case Study of Plant Use and Conservation Practices in Rural Communities of Balochistan | |
Thursday 24 July
| SESSION 3 – Beyond Research Archaeobotany | Chair: Roisin O’Droma | ||
| 08.30 | Marvin Demicoli | Rooted together. Fostering human connection through archaeobotany | |
| 08.45 | Sabine Karg | Serving suggestions. Three examples of archaeobotanical storytelling | |
| 09.00 | Andrew Fairbairn et al. | Storytelling in a landscape of the mind: Approaches to community engagement, education and the promotion of heritage protection at Boncuklu Höyük, Konya, Türkiye | |
| 09.15 | Anne-Claire Misme et al. | How to reconnect an archaeobotanical project to the local history for the younger generation? The outreach field-based experimentation led in Dadan, Al-ʿUla (Saudi Arabia) | |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| SESSION 10 – Innovations and Legacies in Medieval Agriculture | Chair: John Marston | ||
| 10.30 | Nicolás Losilla et al. | Agro-cultural Transformations in the Western Mediterranean During the Middle Ages | |
| 10.45 | Leonor Peña-Chocarro et al. | Plant remains from the Iberian medieval window-caves: a window to Islamic agriculture | |
| 11.00 | João Pedro Tereso et al. | Farming with wolves: the agriculture of deep rural lands in northern Iberia during Medieval times | |
| 11.15 | Fatima-Ezzahra Badri et al. | Revealing the diversity and uses of Vitis vinifera and Olea europaea in medieval Morocco: archaeobotanical, morphometric and textual cross-approach | |
| 11.30 | Alexandra Slucky et al. | Urban Silk Roads Agro-Economies. A combined archaeobotanical and isotopic approach to exploring agriculture and subsistence in Medieval Central Asia | |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch Break | ||
| 13.30-15.00 | Poster session: sessions 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 | ||
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15.30 | Group Photograph | ||
| 16.00-17.30 | Workshops | ||
Friday 25 July
No parallel programme