International Workshop for African Archaeobotany

9:00 - 10:20 (1h20)

PLANT USES FOR FOOD AND CRAFT ACTIVITIES

Amphithéâtre GGE

Adéla Pokorná

› New archaeobotanical data from the Mesolithic in the Eastern Sudan - Matteo Delle Donne, Andrea Manzo 09:20-09:40 (20min)

› 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 09:40-10:00 (20min)

› 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 10:00-10:20 (20min)

10:20 - 10:50 (30min)

Coffee break

10:50 - 11:30 (40min)

PLANT USES FOR FOOD AND CRAFT ACTIVITIES

Amphithéâtre GGE

Jérôme Ros

› 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 10:50-11:10 (20min)

› Discussing the archaeobotanical evidence of the Nok culture in central Nigeria, 1500-1 BCE - Alexa Höhn, Katharina Neumann, Louis Champion, Julie Dunne 11:10-11:30 (20min)

11:30 - 12:30 (1h)

AGROPASTORAL AND HOUSEHOLD PRACTICES

Amphithéâtre GGE

Jérôme Ros

› Archaeobotany of the Egyptian Delta: State of Research - Mennat-Allah El Dorry, Charlène Bouchaud, Aline Emery Barbier, Claire Malleson, Claire Newton, Clémence Pagnoux 11:30-11:50 (20min)

› Identifying patterns of plant “waste accumulation” in House 169, Elephantine Island, Egypt (1773–1650 BCE) using Machine Learning. - Claire Malleson, F. Jordan Srour 11:50-12:10 (20min)

› 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 12:10-12:30 (20min)

12:30 - 14:00 (1h30)

Free Lunch

14:00 - 15:20 (1h20)

AGROPASTORAL AND HOUSEHOLD PRACTICES

Amphithéâtre GGE

› 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 14:00-14:20 (20min)

› 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 14:20-14:40 (20min)

› 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 14:40-15:00 (20min)

› 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 15:00-15:20 (20min)

15:20 - 15:40 (20min)

Coffee break

15:40 - 17:00 (1h20)

COLLECTION, KNOWLEDGE, DISSEMINATION

Amphithéâtre GGE

Philippa Ryan

› 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 15:40-16:00 (20min)

› 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 16:00-16:20 (20min)

› 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 16:20-16:40 (20min)

› Seeds and their Stories: Botanical Heritage, Education, and Public Engagement in Tanzania - Sarah Walshaw, Sinyati Robinson Mark, Cecylia Paul Mgombele 16:40-17:00 (20min)

17:00 - 17:30 (30min)

Concluding remarks

Amphithéâtre GGE

19:00 - 23:55 (4h55)

Evening event