International Workshop for African Archaeobotany

9:00 - 10:00 (1h)

Welcome

10:00 - 10:45 (45min)

Introductory speech

Amphithéâtre GGE

10:45 - 12:05 (1h20)

PALAEOENVIRONMENT, LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS

Amphithéâtre GGE

Alexa Höhn

› 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 10:45-11:05 (20min)

› 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 11:05-11:25 (20min)

› 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 11:25-11:45 (20min)

› Age and pollen record of Bat guano from Onualor cave southeastern Nigeria and potentials for paleoenvironmental reconstruction - [online] Kenechukwu Daniel, Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie 11:45-12:05 (20min)

12:05 - 13:30 (1h25)

Free Lunch

13:30 - 14:10 (40min)

PALAEOENVIRONMENT, LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS

Amphithéâtre GGE

Aline Garnier

› 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 13:30-13:50 (20min)

› Shaqadud Archaeology Project – Questions, approaches and preliminary results of an interdisciplinary research project - Adela Pokorna, Kristýna Hošková, Jan Hošek, Lenka Varadzinová, Ladislav Varadzin 13:50-14:10 (20min)

14:10 - 14:50 (40min)

CROP DOMESTICATION AND DISPERSAL

Amphithéâtre GGE

Louis Champion

› Domestication of African food trees: genetic perspectives - Jérôme Duminil, Aurore Rimlinger, Franca Meguem, Boniface Yogom, Marie-Louise Avana 14:10-14:30 (20min)

› Domestication and diversification in Ethiopian enset (Ensete ventricosum) - Harriet Hunt 14:30-14:50 (20min)

14:50 - 15:20 (30min)

Coffee break

15:20 - 16:50 (1h30)

CROP DOMESTICATION AND DISPERSAL

Amphithéâtre GGE

Louis Champion

› 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 15:20-15:50 (30min)

› New Findings from Jebel Moya: the earliest evidence for domesticated Sorghum and animal husbandry - Anna Den Hollander, Dorian Fuller 15:50-16:10 (20min)

› 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 16:10-16:30 (20min)

› Waymarks in the Sudanese Long durée: developments in sorghum agro-pastoral economies from domestication to the Meroitic savannah state and beyond - Dorian Fuller 16:30-16:50 (20min)

17:00 - 18:00 (1h)

Poster

18:00 - 20:30 (2h30)

Cocktail