European Palaeolithic Conference programme

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21 - 23 February 2013 BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Centre, British Museum

European Palaeolithic Conference 21st - 23rd February 2013 Thank you to all those who have registered for the conference which includes entry into the BM’s major exhibition Ice Age Art http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/ice_age_art.aspx The fee also includes lunches, teas, coffees and wine reception.

If you have not yet registered, please could you return the registration form by Friday 11th January.

Thursday 21st February 10.00-10.20

10.20-10.40 10.40-11.00 11.00-11.20 11.20-11.50 11.50-12.10 12.10-12.30

12.30-12.50

Adrian Evans, Randy Donahue, Andreu Ollé, Josep Maria Vergès, Simon Parfitt & Nick Ashton Hannah Fluck Pierre Antoine, Jean-Luc Locht, Marie-Hélène Moncel et al.

Nena Galanidou, John McNabb, Giorgos Iliopoulos, James Cole Coffee Brigitte Urban, Charles Turner & Thijs van Kolfschoten Thijs van Kolfschoten, Simon Parfitt, Silvia Bello & Jordi Serangeli Nicholas Conard & Jordi Serangeli

12.50-1.10

David Hérisson, Emilie Goval, Sylvie Coutard et al.

1.10-2.00 2.00-2.20

Lunch Laura Basell, Tony Brown, Rob Hosfield & Phil Toms Geoff Smith

2.20-2.40 2.40-3.00 3.00-3.20

Pascal Depaepe & Laurence Bourguignon Kevin de Modica

3.20-3.40

Karen Ruebens

3.40-4.10 4.10-4.30 4.30-4.50

Tea Chris Stringer Philip Nigst

4.50-5.10

Rob Dinnis & Damian Flas

5.10-5.30

Matt Pope, Martin Bates et al.

Microwear analysis and the Palaeolithic - Integrated methods and new findings from Pakefield and Happisburgh Looking for the Clactonian on the Continent. Variability in Middle Pleistocene assemblages The latest research from the Carrière Carpentier (699-680 ka) at Abbeville, one of the high places of prehistory Palaeolithic research where East meets West Rodafnidia on Lesvos, NE Aegean Sea The Schöningen Middle Pleistocene sequence: Palaeoenvironment and dating The Schöningen evidence for Palaeolithic hominin subsistence Results from the ongoing excavations at the late Lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen 2012: the year of Acheulean in Northern France? The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic site at EtricourtManancourt Hominins in South West England: Artefact distribution and niche reconstruction The Mammoth in the Room: Assessing the importance of megafauna in past human diet Large or small excavations and consequences for our knowledge of Middle Palaeolithic sites Lithic resource exploitation variability in the Recent Middle Palaeolithic of Belgium From Keilmesser to Bout Coupé Handaxes: Regional Variability in Western European Late Middle Palaeolithic Bifacial Tools Modern human dispersals into Eurasia The Early Upper Palaeolithic of the Middle Danube region: Modern human dispersal or local evolution?

Lithic industries as chronological data: the example of Grotte du Renne VII New results on the Late Pleistocene occupation of Jersey

Friday 22nd February 9.00-10.00 10.00-10.20

Ice Age Art Exhibition Olaf Jöris & Tim Matthies

10.20-10.40 10.40-11.00

Randy Donahue Ignacio de la Torre

11.00-11.30 11.30-11.50 11.50-12.10 12.10-12.30 12.30-12.50

Coffee Svetlana Demeshchenko Andrei Sinitsyn Becky Farbstein Jiri Svoboda

12.50-1.50 1.50-2.10

Lunch Martin Oliva

2.10-2.30

Kurt Wehrberger

2.30-2.50

Harald Floss

2.50-3.10 3.10-3.40 3.40-4.00

Sibylle Wolf Tea Randall White & Raphaëlle Bourrillon

4.00-4.20 4.20-4.40 4.40-5.00

Carole Fritz & Gilles Tosello Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser & Olaf Jöris Lilian Janik

5.00-6.30

Wine reception

Free entry Strict spatial organization of working mammoth ivory at the Early Upper Palaeolithic open-air site of Breitenbach (Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany) Hunter-Gatherer resource procurement in Late Glacial Italy Magdalenian occupations in the Buendía rockshelter, central Spain Palaeolithic Art collections at the State Hermitage Museum Art of the East European Early Upper Palaeolithic Epigravettian art from the Balkans A contextual approach to sites with Palaeolithic art in Moravia The spirituality of the "Mammoth Hunter" - a view from Central Europe The return of the Lion Man – New aspects on the Palaeolithic figurine from Lone valley, Germany The Aurignacian ivory figurines from the Swabian Jura (Germany) and the origins of ice age art in Europe Personal Ornaments during the Swabian Aurignacian Graphic imagery and otherwise modified rock surfaces in Aurignacian sites of the Vèzère Valley: symbolism, context and technique Chauvet Cave Female Images in Palaeolithic Europe - a diachronic perspective To create, to see, to communicate: a neuroaesthetics approach to Palaeolithic visual art

Saturday 23rd February – Public Day 9.30-10.00 10.00-10.50 10.50-11.20 11.20-12.10

Registration Nicholas Conard Coffee Kurt Wehrberger

12.10-1.00 1.00-2.00 2.00-2.50 2.50-3.40 3.40-4.10 4.10-5.00

Randall White Lunch Jiri Svoboda Carole Fritz Tea Andrew Lawson

The origins of art and music The Lion Man – History and mystery behind the Palaeolithic figurine from Lone valley, Germany Personal adornment in Ice Age Europe The Gravettian art of Central and Eastern Europe Marsoulas Cave: Magdalenian art of the Pyrenees Painted caves

 European Palaeolithic Conference 21st - 23rd February 2013 To register, please return the form by Friday 11th January at the latest. The registration fee includes lunches, coffees, teas, wine reception and entry to the Ice Age Art exhibition __________________________________________________________________________________

Registration Form Name….…………………………............................... email..............................................................

Institutional affiliation or address…..…………………………..……………………………………………………………………

I would like to attend the full conference for £80 I would like to attend on February 21st and 22nd for £60 I would like to attend on February 23rd only for £22

I enclose a cheque for £……... made payable to “The British Museum”

I would like to display a poster entitled………………….……………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Please send by email a short abstract to: nashton@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Please return the form with cheque to: Nick Ashton (European Palaeolithic Conference), British Museum, Department of Prehistory & Europe, Franks House, 56 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ