Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Time | Event | (+) |
09:00 - 10:00 | Welcome - Welcome | |
10:00 - 10:45 | Introductory speech (Amphithéâtre GGE) | |
10:45 - 12:05 | PALAEOENVIRONMENT, LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS (Amphithéâtre GGE) - Alexa Höhn | (+) |
10:45 - 11:05 | › Anthracological study of samples from Terminal Pleistocene and Holocene high Mountain Settlement site of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia - Alemseged Beldados, Katharina Neumann, Boidin Stephanie, Tefera Tarekegn, Gotz Ossendorf | |
11:05 - 11:25 | › Using wood charcoal, phytoliths and isotopes as a multi-proxy approach to reconstruct past vegetation in the SW Ethiopian highlands - Stéphanie Bodin, Katharina Neumann, Amy Styring | |
11:25 - 11:45 | › Preliminary Anthracological studies in the Ziway region (11,600-9200 cal BC, central Ethiopia) - Friyat Kidane, Aurelie Salavert, Corentin Biets, Lydiane Gantier, Michel Lemoine, Joséphine Lesur, François Bon, Ménard Clément, Caroline Robion-Brunner | |
11:45 - 12:05 | › Age and pollen record of Bat guano from Onualor cave southeastern Nigeria and potentials for paleoenvironmental reconstruction - [online] Kenechukwu Daniel, Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie | |
12:05 - 13:30 | Free Lunch | |
13:30 - 14:10 | PALAEOENVIRONMENT, LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS (Amphithéâtre GGE) - Aline Garnier | (+) |
13:30 - 13:50 | › First archaeobotanical evidence of multiporate Poaceae pollen from early–middle Holocene deposits of the Takarkori rock shelter in the central Sahara - [online] Anna Maria Mercuri, Assunta Florenzano, Eleonora Clò, Rocco Rotunno, Savino di Lernia | |
13:50 - 14:10 | › Shaqadud Archaeology Project – Questions, approaches and preliminary results of an interdisciplinary research project - Adela Pokorna, Kristýna Hošková, Jan Hošek, Lenka Varadzinová, Ladislav Varadzin | |
14:10 - 14:50 | CROP DOMESTICATION AND DISPERSAL (Amphithéâtre GGE) - Louis Champion | (+) |
14:10 - 14:30 | › Domestication of African food trees: genetic perspectives - Jérôme Duminil, Aurore Rimlinger, Franca Meguem, Boniface Yogom, Marie-Louise Avana | |
14:30 - 14:50 | › Domestication and diversification in Ethiopian enset (Ensete ventricosum) - Harriet Hunt | |
14:50 - 15:20 | Coffee break | |
15:20 - 16:50 | CROP DOMESTICATION AND DISPERSAL (Amphithéâtre GGE) - Louis Champion | (+) |
15:20 - 15:50 | › Origin of the cultivated sorghum in Africa - Aude Gilabert, Philippe Cubry, Armel Donkpegan, Angélique Berger, Caroline Calatayud, Louis Champion, Jean-François Rami, David Pot, Yves Vigouroux, Christian Leclerc, Monique Deu | |
15:50 - 16:10 | › New Findings from Jebel Moya: the earliest evidence for domesticated Sorghum and animal husbandry - Anna Den Hollander, Dorian Fuller | |
16:10 - 16:30 | › The use of MicroCT scanning on pottery sherds to investigate the domestication of sorghum in Eastern Sudan and pearl millet in Northern Mali - Chris Stevens, Aleese Barron, Louis Champion, Frank Winchell, Tim Denham, Christian Dupuy, Dorian Fuller | |
16:30 - 16:50 | › Waymarks in the Sudanese Long durée: developments in sorghum agro-pastoral economies from domestication to the Meroitic savannah state and beyond - Dorian Fuller | |
17:00 - 18:00 | Poster | |
18:00 - 20:30 | Cocktail |
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Time | Event | (+) |
09:30 - 09:50 | CROP DOMESTICATION AND DISPERSAL (Amphithéâtre GGE) - Claire Malleson | (+) |
09:30 - 09:50 | › Early evidence of domesticated yam (Dioscorea sp.) management at Tse Dura rock shelter, Middle Benue Valley, Nigeria - Emuobosa Orijemie, Cynthia Larbey, C. A. I French, M. K. Jones | |
09:50 - 10:30 | PLANT USES FOR FOOD AND CRAFT ACTIVITIES (Amphithéâtre GGE) - Claire Malleson | (+) |
09:50 - 10:10 | › DAILY PRACTICES OF FOOD IN LIKPE KUKURANTUMI EARTHWORK SETTLEMENT, GHANA - Patricia Ayipey, Pokorna Adela, Jaromír Beneš | |
10:10 - 10:30 | › From the present to the past, reconstructing foodways in Senegal (West Africa) by the analysis of phytoliths in ceramic pots. - Aline Garnier, Pauline Debels, Julien Vieugué, Léa Drieu, Alex Malergue, Valentine Fichet, Martine Regert, Anne Mayor | |
10:50 - 11:10 | Coffee break | |
11:10 - 12:30 | Prof. Ahmed G. Fahmy Memorial Speaker (Amphithéâtre GGE) | (+) |
11:10 - 11:30 | › Exploring agriculture and terroirs of the medieval Haouz : interdisciplinary approach at Aghmat (Morocco) - Fatima-Ezzahra Badri, Amandine Cartier, Benoit Marie, Ilham Bentaleb, Sandrine CANAL, Leïa Mion, Violaine Heritier-Salama, Chloé Capel, Abdallah Fili, Jérôme Ros | |
11:30 - 11:50 | › The Exploitation of cultivated and wild plants in Post-Medieval Nubia: Archaeobotanical Evidence from Old Dongola (16th-19th Centuries AD) - Mohammed Nasreldein, Simone Riehl, Nicholas J. Conard | |
11:50 - 12:10 | › Human-Environment Interactions During the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Epochs: An Analysis of Archaeological Charcoals from Three Archaeological Sites in Southern Ethiopia - Tefera Tarekegn, Isabelle Théry-Parisot, Lamya Khalidi, Alexa Höhn | |
12:10 - 12:30 | › One man's trash is someone else's treasure: plant remains from the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun - [online] NagmElDeen Hamza, Claudia Moricca, Laura Sadori | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Free Lunch | |
14:00 - 15:20 | PLANT USES FOR FOOD AND CRAFT ACTIVITIES (Amphithéâtre GGE) - Jacob Morales | (+) |
14:00 - 14:20 | › Prehispanic basketry from the Canary Islands: preliminary data on plants used and techniques. - [online] Maria Herrero-Otal, Anna Homs, Raquel Piqué, Paloma Vidal-Matutano | |
14:20 - 14:40 | › Too many large ceramic vessels and grinding stones: decoding the centrality of beers among the Ngoni in Southern Tanzania - [online] Sinyati Robinson Mark, Thomas Biginagwa | |
14:40 - 15:00 | › New development in the archaeobotany of southeast Nigeria - Kingsley Daraojimba | |
15:00 - 15:20 | › Reconsidering early agricultural transmissions in the Middle Nile Valley: New dietary data from Kadruka 1 and Kadruka 21, Sudan - Charles Le Moyne, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland | |
15:20 - 15:50 | Coffee break | |
16:00 - 18:00 | Laboratory session / Herbarium visit - Plant material observation or visit of the Herbarium (ethnobotanical collections, herbarium, xylothec) |
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Time | Event | (+) |
09:00 - 10:20 | PLANT USES FOR FOOD AND CRAFT ACTIVITIES (Amphithéâtre GGE) - Adéla Pokorná | (+) |
09:20 - 09:40 | › New archaeobotanical data from the Mesolithic in the Eastern Sudan - Matteo Delle Donne, Andrea Manzo | |
09:40 - 10:00 | › Evolutionary dynamics of vegetative agriculture in the Ethiopian Highlands: the archaeobotany of Enset - Cristina Castillo, Philippa Ryan, Harriet Hunt, Alemseged Beldados, Ermias Lukelal, James Borrel, Dorian Fuller | |
10:00 - 10:20 | › Ebony or not ebony? The case of the blackwoods discovered by the Western Wadis archaeological mission (NKRF/University of Cambridge) located in Luxor area, Egypt. - Gersande Eschenbrenner Diemer | |
10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee break | |
10:50 - 11:30 | PLANT USES FOR FOOD AND CRAFT ACTIVITIES (Amphithéâtre GGE) - Jérôme Ros | (+) |
10:50 - 11:10 | › Botanical Grave Goods from a Late Antique Child Burial from the so-called Temple of Ceres, Mustis (N. Tunisia) - Wiktoria Zgórzak, Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw | |
11:10 - 11:30 | › Discussing the archaeobotanical evidence of the Nok culture in central Nigeria, 1500-1 BCE - Alexa Höhn, Katharina Neumann, Louis Champion, Julie Dunne | |
11:30 - 12:30 | AGROPASTORAL AND HOUSEHOLD PRACTICES (Amphithéâtre GGE) - Jérôme Ros | (+) |
11:30 - 11:50 | › Archaeobotany of the Egyptian Delta: State of Research - Mennat-Allah El Dorry, Charlène Bouchaud, Aline Emery Barbier, Claire Malleson, Claire Newton, Clémence Pagnoux | |
11:50 - 12:10 | › Identifying patterns of plant “waste accumulation” in House 169, Elephantine Island, Egypt (1773–1650 BCE) using Machine Learning. - Claire Malleson, F. Jordan Srour | |
12:10 - 12:30 | › Agriculture and Diet in Cameroon During the Early Iron Age (ca. 500–200 BC) - Louis Champion, Clarissa Cagnato, Pascal Nlend, François NGOUOH, Geoffroy De Saulieu | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Free Lunch | |
14:00 - 15:20 | AGROPASTORAL AND HOUSEHOLD PRACTICES (Amphithéâtre GGE) | (+) |
14:00 - 14:20 | › An integrated approach to the study of phytoliths and thin sections from ground stone tools at elephantine, Aswan, Egypt - Elshafaey Attia, Claire Malleson, Dagmar Fritzsch, Johanna Sigl | |
14:20 - 14:40 | › Multiproxy archaeobotanical research in medieval Fardowsa, Somaliland: evaluation of the first results. - Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert, Andrés Currás Domínguez, Leonor Peña-Chocarro, Jorge de Torres Rodriguez | |
14:40 - 15:00 | › What about Fruit tree cultivation on the semi-arid slopes of the Anti-Atlas during the Middle Ages? Archaeobotanical data from the almohad period at Îgîlîz (southern Morocco) - Marie-Pierre Ruas, Jérome Ros, Amandine Cartier | |
15:00 - 15:20 | › Food globalisation and indigenous agricultural resilience in the 15th-17th centuries AD: a case study from the Canary Islands - Jacob Morales, Pedro Henríquez-Valido, Amelia Rodríguez, María del Cristo González-Marrero | |
15:20 - 15:40 | Coffee break | |
15:40 - 17:00 | COLLECTION, KNOWLEDGE, DISSEMINATION (Amphithéâtre GGE) - Philippa Ryan | (+) |
15:40 - 16:00 | › Storage practices in the Moroccan Atlas: ethnographic data on cliff granaries from Aoujgal - Leonor Peña-Chocarro, Jacob Morales, Guillem Pérez-Jordà, Ismail Ziani, Carlos López de Calle Cámara, Juan Manuel Tudanca | |
16:00 - 16:20 | › The ethnobotanical collections of the French National Museum of Natural History: from their colonial origin to recent scientific projects - Flora Pennec, Didier Geffard-Kuriyama, Maire-Aimée Allard, Etienne Martiné, Simon Juraver | |
16:20 - 16:40 | › Displaced rural communities and their ethnobotanical knowledge: plant species of cultural importance, collection sources and implications for conservation in the Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal - Tereza Majerovičová, Miguel Ballesteros, Idrissa Manka, Jan Novák, Jiří Bumerl, Alioune Deme, Jaromír Beneš | |
16:40 - 17:00 | › Seeds and their Stories: Botanical Heritage, Education, and Public Engagement in Tanzania - Sarah Walshaw, Sinyati Robinson Mark, Cecylia Paul Mgombele | |
17:00 - 17:30 | Concluding remarks (Amphithéâtre GGE) | |
19:00 - 23:55 | Evening event - Evening event |
Friday, June 30, 2023
Time | Event | (+) |
10:00 - 17:30 | Cultural visits - Morning: guided tour of the Herbarium of the National Museum of Natural History Afternnon: guided tour of the African collections of the Musée Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac |