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9:00 - 10:00 (1h)
Welcome
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
9:30 - 9:50 (20min)
CROP DOMESTICATION AND DISPERSAL
Amphithéâtre GGE
Claire Malleson
› 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
09:30-09:50 (20min)
9:50 - 10:30 (40min)
PLANT USES FOR FOOD AND CRAFT ACTIVITIES
Amphithéâtre GGE
Claire Malleson
› DAILY PRACTICES OF FOOD IN LIKPE KUKURANTUMI EARTHWORK SETTLEMENT, GHANA
- Patricia Ayipey, Pokorna Adela, Jaromír Beneš
09:50-10:10 (20min)
› 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
10:10-10:30 (20min)
10:50 - 11:10 (20min)
Coffee break
11:10 - 12:30 (1h20)
Prof. Ahmed G. Fahmy Memorial Speaker
Amphithéâtre GGE
› 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
11:10-11:30 (20min)
› 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
11:30-11:50 (20min)
› 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
11:50-12:10 (20min)
› 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
12:10-12:30 (20min)
12:30 - 14:00 (1h30)
Free Lunch
14:00 - 15:20 (1h20)
PLANT USES FOR FOOD AND CRAFT ACTIVITIES
Amphithéâtre GGE
Jacob Morales
› Prehispanic basketry from the Canary Islands: preliminary data on plants used and techniques.
- [online] Maria Herrero-Otal, Anna Homs, Raquel Piqué, Paloma Vidal-Matutano
14:00-14:20 (20min)
› 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
14:20-14:40 (20min)
› New development in the archaeobotany of southeast Nigeria
- Kingsley Daraojimba
14:40-15:00 (20min)
› 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
15:00-15:20 (20min)
15:20 - 15:50 (30min)
Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00 (2h)
Laboratory session / Herbarium visit
Plant material observation or visit of the Herbarium (ethnobotanical collections, herbarium, xylothec)
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
Evening event
10:00 - 17:30 (7h30)
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
