_______________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday 19 September Tuesday 16.00-18.00, Main Hall, Room: 6 Workshop Title: The Future of Archaeology in the Universities. Organizer: John Collis

Thursday 21 September Thursday morning, Main Hall Room: 5 Round Table Title: How Should We Conduct Ourselves? Dilemmas in Archaeological Ethics and Professional Conduct: A Roundtable Sponsored by the Register of Professional Archaeologists Organizer: Jeffrey H. Altschul Thursday morning, Main Hall Room: 7 Session Title: New advances in Central European Neolithic research Organizers: Dani Hofmann, Penny Bickle Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction With or without a trace? A bio-archaeological view of the first farmers at Vedrovice Alena Lukes (speaker), Paul Pettitt, Marek Zvelebil A European-wide exchange of adze blades in Bandkeramik times? Britta Ramminger Not so different? Cemetery and settlement burials in the Lower Bavarian LBK Dani Hofmann Diverging trajectories? Forager-farmer interaction in two adjacent regions Luc Amkreutz (speaker), Bart Vanmontfort

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Frontier Settlements of the LBK in Central Belgium Marc Lodewijckx Reflections on the functions of pits and the spatial distribution of finds in the early Neolithic of northern France and Belgium Lévana Boiron Scene by the Brook: Early Neolithic landscape perspectives in the Paris Basin Penny Bickle The exploitation of animals in Villeneuve-Saint-Germain society at the end of the early Neolithic in the Paris basin Lisandre Bedault

12.30-14.00 Lunch

Thursday morning, Main Hall Room: 10 Session Title: Prehistoric Pedagogies? Approaches to teaching European prehistoric archaeology Organizers: Karina Croucher, Hannah Cobb Papers 9.00-9.10 Setting the scene: Introduction to the session Karina Croucher Why study the art of Prehistoric Europe? Thomas A Dowson Telling a story: teaching the European Iron Age John Collis Sites in their setting, bones on a plate and learning to knap: theory and fieldwork the Palaeolithic way Anthony Sinclair Teaching European Prehistoric Archaeology in Belgium Marc Lodewijckx

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Linking practice, fieldwork, and theory in the teaching of European prehistory Timothy Darvill Transition/Transformation: Exploring alternative excavation practices to transform student learning and development in the field Hannah Cobb, Phil Richardson The Virtual Walkabout approach to understanding prehistoric monuments and landscapes Nick Thorpe

Articulating the bridge between theory and practice: a consideration of posters as genres of successful assessment in European Prehistory Fay Stevens

12.30-14.00 Lunch

Thursday morning, Main Hall Room: 11 Session Title: ‘Salt of the Earth’, Salt Production and Beyond Organizers: Sarah-Jane Hathaway, Mark Maltby Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Sun, Sea and Salt: An overview of Iron Age and Romano-British Coastal Salt Production (700BC-450AD) in England, UK Sarah-Jane Hathaway A saltern landscape: Romano-British salt production in the Somerset Levels Richard Brunning Salt and Bronze in the Transylvanian Late Bronze Age Mihai Wittenberger

10.30-11.00 Coffee

The Environmental Impact of Iron Age Salt Production on the Landscape of the Seille Valley, Northeast France Naomi Riddiford Kill and Cure: Zooarchaeological Evidence for the Salting of Meat Mark Maltby Salt in the prehistoric diet and the possible misinterpretation of anomalous clay fragments excavated from a salt working site Jacqui Wood

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Thursday morning, Main Hall Room: 12 Session Title: The Materialities of Home Organizers: Per Cornell, Tove Hjørungdal

Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction

HOMEMAKING - Exploring the Materiality and Sociability of Home in Archaeology Tove Hjørungdal Home, Trauma and Conflict Per Cornell The Romans at Home Troels Myrup Kristensen There’s no place like Home: Memory and identity at Home in late prehistoric southern Scotland Olivia Lelong

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Home: blackhouses and landscapes of Ness, Lewis Tessa Poller Archaeology, poems and the Viking Age Annika Larsson Once upon a time and very far away … On home and home-making in the writings of Hanna Rydh Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh The Materialities of Gumuz Home (Benishangul-Gumuz, West Ethiopia): an ethnoarchaeological approach Alfredo González Ruibal, Xurxo M. Ayán Vila, Álvaro Falquina Aparicio Per Cornell & Tove Hjørungdal (closing words)

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Thursday morning, Restaurant Room: A Session Title: The Death of Archaeological Theory? Organizers: John Bintliff, Mark Pearce Discussant: Anthony Harding Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Why Archaeological ‘Theory’ Has Failed the Discipline John Bintliff The death of theory: the death of an abstraction John Barrett

Why the death of theoretical archaeology is not a loss Alexander Verpoorte

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Autopsy or biopsy? Meditations upon a theoretical culture Geoff Carver Theory in Central European Archaeology: Dead or Alive? Alexander Gramsch Have rumours of the ‘Death of Theory’ been exaggerated? Mark Pearce

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Thursday morning, Restaurant Room: B Round Table Title: Connecting Archaeological Knowledge: The Build up of a Bibliography of European Prehistory

Organizer: Gerald Rühl Thursday morning, Sports Hall Room: D Round Table Title: Political Conflicts and Contemporary Archaeology Organizer: Bożena Werbart Thursday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 5 Session Title: Experimental Archaeology – goals & (im)possibilities Organizers: Marianne Rasmussen (Chairman), M. Schmidt, R. P. Paardekooper Papers 14.00-14.10 Introduction Practicabilities of experiments in archaeology Roeland Paardekooper Proposed presentation: “Baking bread and grinding corn - publishing old experiments before making new” Martin Schmidt The science challenge of experimental archaeology Elizabeth E. Peacock

Experimental reproduction of Solutrean technology based on refitting and technological analysis of Les Maîtreaux Presented by Bruce Bradley Thierry Aubry, Bruce Bradley, Miguel Almeida, Bertrand Walter, Maria João Neves, Jaques Pelegrin, Michel Lenoir, Marc Tiffagom, Michael Miller

15.30-16.00 Coffee

The Value of Experimental Archaeology for Reconstructing Ancient Seafaring Timm Weski Building Houses and Building Theories Marianne Rasmussen Principles for Experimental Textile Archaeology –Problems and Possibilities Eva Andersson, Linda Mårtensson Experiments in manufacturing decorated objects of the Maglemose period Th. Terberger, P. Toft Thursday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 7 Session Title: Archaeology in Europe: Global or Parochial? Organizers: Claire Smith, Arkadiusz Marciniak Papers 14.00-14.10 Introduction Archaeology – Anthropology – History. Unconscious foundations and conscious expressions of social life Stanisław Tabaczyński Archaeologists. Who we are? From the Spanish ambiguity to the European convergence Inés Domingo Archaeology in Central Europe. Parochial or European? Arkadiusz Marciniak

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Converging trends in Archaeological Resource Management in Europe Willem Willems Digging it up down under Claire Smith, Heather Burke Impact of Globalization on the Heritage Management in Northwestern Thailand Rasmi Shoocongdej

Thursday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 10 Round Table Title: The European Lanscape Convention: Starting Action Organizers: Nora Andrikopoulou-Strack, Felipe Criado, Graham Fairclough, Zbigniew Kobyliński, Karsten Paludan-Müller, Tom Bloemers

Thursday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 11 Session Title: Rescue excavations in motorways, pipelines and other large infrastructure development projects Organizer: Sławomir Kadrow Papers 14.00-14.10 Introduction Rescue archaeology in Romania - an overview (1991 - 2006) Paul Damian, Corina Borş Protection of archaeological monuments in the light of legislation past and present days Lech Czerniak, Marek Gierlach The national program of the protection of archaeological monuments within the investment of the construction of motorways guidelines, the range of the investment, organization, standards Lech Czerniak, Rafał Maciszewski Garden Archaeology Brian Dix

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Early Neolithic Settlement Structures in the Light of Rescue Surveys of the A4 Motorway near Cracow Sławomir Kadrow Yamal – Europe Gas Pipeline organizational and research experiences Michał Kobusiewicz Importance of archaeology in restoration of historic parks and gardens based on research in Poland Tadeusz Morysiński Selected Aspects of Analyses of Settlements in the Light of Rescue Surveys of the A4 Motorway near Cracow Ryszard Naglik Roads, Rescue and Research: Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven? Dáire O’Rourke Life at the Nexus of the Wetlands and Coastal Prairie, Los Angeles, California Richard Ciolek-Torrello, H. Altschul

Thursday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 12 Session Title: Knowledge, Belief and the Body Organizers: Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Katharina Rebay, Jessica Hughes Papers 14.00-14.10 Introduction A stable body: long-term traditions of self-knowledge in prehistoric Europe John Robb Changing beliefs in the Maltese Body 5000-1000 BC Simon Stoddart, Caroline Malone 'Know Thyself' The inside story of the classical body Jessica Hughes Practices of burial in Pitten Katharina Rebay

15.40-16.10 Coffee

Burials, funerary rites and beliefs in the Bronze Age of the NW Iberian Peninsula Ana M. S. Bettencourt Materialization and technological knowledge Sheila Kohring The language of craftsmanship Harald B. Høgseth Embodying Belief: Practice as a Form of Knowledge Lise Bender Jørgensen Bronze Age Potters, Potting and Performance Sandy Budden, Joanna Sofaer Concluding discussion Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Katharina Rebay, Jessica Hughes Thursday afternoon, Restaurant Room: A Round Table Title: Cold War heritage Organizer: John Schofield

Thursday afternoon, Restaurant Room: B Session Title: Living mobility - Crossing-border Archaeology in the modern world Organizers: Serena Sabatini, Anita Synnestvedt

Papers 14.00-14.10 Introduction The cultural heritage site as a meeting point for multicultural interactions Anita Synnestvedt To be a world citizen in a local environment Annika Bünz, Fanny Steen Gendered travels in the Bronze Age and the present Sophie Bergerbrant

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Local communities, spheres of mobility and the makings of archaeology Per Cornell Sailing along the edge of the world. Rock carving ships with sails and the question of long distance expeditions and crossing of cultural borders Li Winter Mobility, cultural diversity and archaeology Serena Sabatini Final Discussion: Stephani Koerner Thursday afternoon, Sports Hall Room: D

Session Title: The "Closed Context" in Context III Organizer: Constanze Witt

Papers 14.00-14.10 Introduction Fossils, Time Capsules and Matrices Reconsidered: what we have asked, what role the closed context plays, and why it matters Constanze Witt Graves as Closed Contexts: Theory, Method and Beyond… Philippe Della Casa

The Ghosts of Memory: How dead things continue to act through Time Laurent Olivier

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Close your eyes and think of… Geoff Carver "Closed Context" and the Archaeological Record in Burials: The Evidence of Two Cases Distant in Time Angel Fuentes, Antonel Jepur Surfaces, "closed contexts" and the Harris Matrix David Bibby Thursday all day, Main Hall Room: 1 Session Title: Regional Analyses of Spatial and Social Dynamics Organizers: Tina Thurston, Roderick Salisbury Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Putting Place on the Map Matthew Fiztjohn Two scales of sociality: The spread of rectangular dwellings in the forager Neolithic of Northern Europe Andre Costopoulos, Samuel Vaneeckhout Spatial Analysis of Neolithic Circular Enclosures Peter Biehl

10.30-11.00 Coffee

A Multi-Scalar Approach to Settlement Pattern Analysis: The Neolithic-Copper Age Transition on the Great Hungarian Plain Attila Gyucha, William Parkinson Transition and Tradition: Social Practice in the Hungarian Early Copper Age Roderick Salisbury, Margaret Morris Settlement and environment in the Late Copper Age along the southern shore of Lake Balaton Szilvia Fábián, Gábor Serlegi

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Socio-political dynamics in later prehistoric Ireland: insights from the pollen record Gill Plunkett

Land Tenure and Social Practices in later Prehistoric Oxfordshire Patrick Daly Imagining Danish prehistory through 50 years: methodological and paradigmatic transformations in regional and interregional archaeology Tina Thurston, Mette Roesgaard Hansen, Joergen Westphal

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Reconstructing Shared Memory: Problems in Archaeological Analysis Ezra Zubrow Mapping Waves of Human Impact in New England: A Multidisciplinary Approach Kimberly Kasper Space in Archaeological Thought and the Nature of Theoretical Change Benjamin Kamphaus Thursday all day, Main Hall Room: 2 Session Title: Small World: A New Look at Figurines and Objects Organizer: Dragos Gheorghiu Discussant: Peter Biehl Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction The surprising powers of miniaturisation: figurines, bonsai trees and Walt Disney Douglass W Bailey The clay people: proposal for an alternative interpretation Marie Chantal Frere-Sautot Figuring out Identity: Figurines and the Body in the Ancient Near East Karina Croucher On large and ambiguous Neolithic figurines from Northern Greece Christina Marangou

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Size Matters: Contemplating “Performative” Aspects among Prehistoric Figurines of the Mediterranean Lauren Talalay Looking for Maleness in prehistoric figurines in SE Europe Robin Hardie On the side: Neolithic T-shaped and stalk-like figurines from the so-called ‘Zagros Group’ Aurelie Daems

Some views about the figurines of the Hamangia culture George Neagu

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

The assemblage of figurines from Isaiia, Cucuteni culture Romeo Dumitrescu The Figurines of the Serezliivka type of in the Late Eneolithic: A phenomenon of the Pontic steppe Yuri Rassamakin An alternative approach to Scandinavian Iron Age humanoid figures: investigating the theme of masking Ing-Marie Back Danielsson Early Olmec Figurines, 3000 B.P. Ann Cyphers

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Prehistoric Ladies Irena Kolistroska Nasteva “The god from pouch”? (The anthropomorphic figurine from the Gnezdovo site) Veronika Murasheva Posters The gestures of the Gumelnitza figurines Valentina Mihaela Voinea

Changing the scale - playing with figurines Gloria Grati

Thursday all day, Main Hall Room: 3 Session Title: Making a medieval town – continuity or new quality. Different patterns of early medieval European urbanization. Organizer: Andrzej Buko, Maciej Trzeciecki, Aleksandra Rzeszotarska-Nowakiewicz Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Cracow in archeological researches Kazimierz Radwański, Anna Tyniec-Kępińska

Changes in development of the Main Market Square in Kraków Cezary Buśko Urban Archaeology – a new approach Andrzej Gołembnik

10.30-11.00 Coffee

The Northern Limit of Medieval Urbanism Reidar Bertelsen Early Urbanization in Norway Petter B. Molaug Carlisle, a town on the Anglo-Scottish frontier Mike McCarthy The urban question in Iberia during Visigothic Period Lauro Enciso Olmo

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

The City in al-Andalus and its Historical and Cultural Value Antonio Malpica Cuello The creation and extension of towns in the duchy of Normandy in the XI-XIIth centuries, town planning and hierarchy of towns Bernard Gauthiez Towns in Early Medieval Italy: new archaeological perspectives Sauro Gelichi The problems of beginning of mediaeval towns in the Northern Caucasus Irina Arzhantseva, Svetlana Rusanova

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Changes in palaeodemography of Riga inhabitants in process of urbanization (14th - 18th centuries) Gunita Zarina From stronghold to town – the Polish case Przemysław Urbańczyk Viking Age emporia around the Baltic Sea – a cul de sac of the European urbanization? Mateusz Bogucki Kalisz as an example of development of the medieval centre in Poland Tadeusz Baranowski

Thursday all day Main Hall, Room: 4 Session Title: Human impact on Lowland, Upland and Mountain Geosystems –Similiraties and Differences Organisers: Tomasz Kalicki, Bartłomiej Sz. Szmoniewski Papers: 9.00-9.10 Introduction Dry feet: reported obstruction and sedimentation on a UK flood plain modelled as the effect of prehistoric riparian and cross-river activities Brian Durham

Human impact on slope processes in NE Poland Ewa Smolska, Piotr Szwarczewski

The Early Medieval hillforts and landscape in the basin of Neman (Belarus) H. Siemanchuk, A. Siemanchuk

Palaeogeographical records of anthropogenic influence on lowland fluvial geosystems of western part of Belorussian Polesye: case studies from Tsna and Yasiolda river valleys G. Calderoni, T. Kalicki, S. Savchik, G. Simakova Influence of human activity and environmental changes on the Eneolithic geosystems of Black Sea coast: key study from Ostrov site (Romania) Valentina Voinea

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Similarities and Differences of Geomorphic Features of Location of two prehistoric settlements in Lowland in Central Poland (Poster) Piotr Kittel Natural conditions of settlement in the valleys of rivers in central Poland against the background of the climatic changes in the Roman period and Early Middle Ages Ewa Stupnicka, Tadeusz Baranowski, Witold Bender Environmental determinants of the development of settlement in the Trzciniec cultural circle Jacek Górski, Przemysław Makarowicz From the Baltic coast to the Carpathian Foreland: differences of settlement patterns between the northern and southern peripheries of the Pomeranian culture in the Early Iron Age Karol Dzięgielewski

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Diachronic Settlement Analyses in the Eastern Swabian Alb, South Germany, from the Neolithic until the La Tène Period Claudia Pankau

Man and environment on the example of the Strzemieszyce Losien region S-Poland (Poster) Tomasz Kalicki, Dariusz Rozmus, Bartłomiej Sz. Szmoniewski Anthropogenic changes of valley geosystems: case studies from the Vistula river valley eastward of Cracow (southern Poland) (Poster) Tomasz Kalicki, Joanna Plit Reaction of eastern Forecarpathian geosystems on climatic and anthropogenic changes: case studies of Raba valley Tomasz Kalicki, Anna Budek Record of human settlement and agriculture in mountain river alluvium (the case of the Upper San River alluvium in the Bieszczady Wysokie) (Poster) Józef Kukulak

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Similarities and Differences in Exploiting Central and Outland Landscapes in Eastern Norway Kathrine Stene Revealing a Landscape “in between” the Archaeological study of a culturally Insular Region in Southeastern Germany Matthew L. Murray Coastal or mountainous environments: how prehistoric man selected his living sites. A case study from Greece Maria Gkioni The exploitation of wild reindeer in the South Norwegian mountains during the Iron Age and Medieval times Svein Indrelid, Anne Karin Hufthammer Charcoal Analysis from Neolithic Site of Moravany (Slovakia) (Poster) M. Moskal, M. Lityńska-Zając, E. Badal Thursday all day, Main Hall Room: 6 Session Title: Archaeological Information Systems in Europe and their impact on the management of the heritage Organizers: Paul Gilman, Marie-Jeanne Ghenne Papers

9.00-9.10 Introduction The Never-ending Story: archaeological archives and the race against technology Katarzyna Bronk-Zaborowska “Seek And You Will Find (Luke 11,9)” Archaeological Inventories in the canton of Bern and other parts of Switzerland Renate Ebersbach

The Central Archaeological Inventory of Flanders Erwin Meylemans

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Where the needs meet - the archaeological heritage management and community planning in Finland Vesa Laulumaa Preparing for new heritage legislation in England: current work by national and local government to develop heritage information systems Stewart Bryant Digital Heritage Monument Records – from planning to science and back Markus Steffen, Sascha Schmidt La Carte archéologique and heritage protection Philippe Hannois

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

The archaeological map: the principle taken the other way round Gertrude Blancquaert Archaeological Information Systems: from the bottom up Geoff Carver Inter-linking Archaeological Archipelagos? Experiences from conceptual modelling of archaeological data and processes Keith May

15.30-16.00 Coffee

The Dutch Knowledge Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage (two papers) Hans de Haan Ronald Wiemer Dutch National Service for the Archaeological Heritage Ronald Wiemer, Hans de Haan “Datascape”: The Historic Landscape and the character of information and knowledge Graham Fairclough The Planarch 2 Project and SMRs Paul Gilman, Marie-Jeanne Ghenne, Casper Johnson

Thursday all day, Main Hall Room: 8 Session Title: Quantitative Archaeology and Advanced Archaeological Computing Organizer: Benjamin Ducke

Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Classification of Archaeological Material Culture Using Fuzzy Logic Sorin Hermon Modelling the Effects and Testing the Potential Significance of Post-Depositional Transformations of Artifact Assemblages Geoff Carver Anatomy of a Semi-Digital Excavation Paulina Suchowska, Benjamin Ducke

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Landscape Archaeology and Intra-Site Analysis in a 3D GIS Undine Lieberwirth Old Excavations and and New Technology in Romania Alexandru Morintz Standards for Archaeological Documentation Franco Niccolucci, Andrea D'Andrea, Sorin Hermon, Achille Felicetti, Tomaso Zoppi, Giulia Marchese W3C Standard Languages and Open Source Tools for Archaeological Data Management Achille Felicetti, Franco Niccolucci, Andrea D'Andrea, Sorin Hermon

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Agent-Based Modelling for Archaeology Mark Lake, James Conolly Digging Your Own Grave: generic skills from an archaeological simulation Clive Orton QuickBird Imagery and Surface Visibility in Intensive Surveys: an example from Antikythera James Conolly

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Adaptive Sampling in Field Survey: a new approach and some preliminary results Kris Lockyear, Clive Orton Exploiting Scale and Spatial Dependence in Landscape Survey Datasets Andrew Bevan Archaeology as a Development Risk: how can statistics help to draw the line? Philip Verhagen, René Isarin

Thursday all day, Main Hall Room: 9 Session Title: Animals and Alimentation: The Material Culture of Animals in Diet and Cuisine Organizers: Krish Seetah, Aleksander Pluskowski, Sara Robinson Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Animals and the creation of monuments: new roles for cattle in the southern Neolithic of India Stephanie Meece Conquering gluttony: Dietary piety in the construction of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman identity Naomi Sykes From village to state: a dynamic modelling of food and culture at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka Ruth Young, Robin Coningham

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Icons for wealth, bird fibulae and falconry in Scandinavia Kristina Jennbert Animals as food; animals as the history of food in northern Apulia from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages: the zooarchaeological evidence Antonietta Buglione Molluscan fauna from the archaeological site of “Tell Jenin” in the West Bank – Palestine Ademar Ezzughayyar The dietary contribution of cattle at the Eneolithic site of Vučedol (Croatia) Tajana Trbojević Vukičević, Snježana Kužir, Krešimir Babić

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Everyday and ritual food of Eurasian Steppe Bronze Age nomads (3000 BC) Natalia Shishlina Animals, alimentation and the cultural identities of the living and the dead in Roman Britain Natalie C. C. White An experimental butchering process of four specimens of wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus): methods, results and applications Manuel Pérez Ripoll, Paula Jardón, Juan Vicente Morales Pérez

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Tools of the trade: technology and food preparation Ryan Rabett, Krish Seetah Meat and diet: historic, archaeological and iconographic sources Marta Caroscio Tall and wealthy - social aspects of stature, food, food preparation and animals in the Early Iron Age in Östergötland, Sweden Maria Petersson Thursday all day, Restaurant Room: C Session Title: ‘From microprobe to spatial analysis – Enclosed and buried surfaces as key sources in Archaeology and Pedology’ Organizers: Jörg Völkel, Matthias Leopold, Kai Fechner, Yannick Devos Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction FIRST SECTION: Multi-proxy methods for enclosed spaces, from Chalcolithic to Modern times Methods and results of soil science applied to (proto)historical enclosed areas Matthias Leopold, Jörg Völkel Characterising archaeological occupation surfaces, boundaries and enclosed spaces through soil micromorphology Helen Lewis Interest of the archaeological study of «akkerbergs» for recognizing Early Medieval rural settlements in Lorraine (France, VIIIe-XXe centuries) Jean-Marie Blaising, Franck Gérard The application of phosphate cartography to the investigation of intra-site settlement space: the development of a research protocol Devos Yannick, Kai Fechner, Jari Hinsch Mikkelsen, Jean-Louis Slachmuylder

10.30-11.00 Coffee

SECOND SECTION: Results for Bronze Age to Roman enclosures and houses Synthetical results of a multi-proxy approach to protohistoric enclosures and houses between Rhine and Seine Kai Fechner, Yannick Devos, Jari Hinsch Mikkelsen, Joseph Hus, Christian David Ribemont-sur-Ancre. The specialisation of inner spaces in an enclosure with cultual character Gerard Fercoq du Leslay Confrontation of the archaeological and pedological approaches: an Ist-IVth century AD enclosure with agricultural vocation at the Chapelle Saint-Nicolas in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt (Val-d’Oise, France) Vanessa Rouppert, Jean-Yves Dufour, Kai Fechner

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

THIRD SECTION: Results and methods specific to Celtic enclosures A qualitative and quantitative approach to the archaeological documentation of big scale excavations in Northern France. The contribution of spatial analysis and another view on the role and the characterisation of the protohistorical ‘Atrebati’ habitats Gilles Prilaux, Alain Jacques Past Landuse and Pedogenesis on eroded Landscapes in the Vicinity of the Celtic Square Enclosures of Sallach (Lower Bavaria, Germany) Anja Hoffmann, Sabine Müller, Jörg Völkel Methods of excavation and of analysis of La Tène farmsteads (the so-called «fermes Picardes»). François Malrain Peat, soils and sediments in the surroundings of the celtic square enclosure of Poign (Bavaria, Germany) – geoarchives for the reconstruction of human impact on the landscape Alexandra Raab, Matthias Leopold, Jörg Völkel

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Posters Buried anthropic soils in the center of Brussels (Belgium): looking for fields in a proto-urban context Yannick Devos, Luc Vrydaghs, Kai Fechner, Christine Laurent Ann Degraeve Man-made «dark earth» and paleosurface horizons: an improved archaeological exploitation based on geophysical mapping and other soil approaches Christian David, Kai Fechner Phosphate mapping, magnetic susceptibility and other approaches to Neolithic to Roman (long)houses Kai Fechner, Jozef Hus, Yannick Devos, Jari Hinsch Mikkelsen, Luc Vrydaghs, Jean-Louis Slachmuylder Phosphorus-analyses in ancient settlements, sacred and funerary sites. Methods and combinations for the future Kai Fechner, Yannick Devos, Jari Hinsch Mikkelsen, Christian David

Friday 22 September Friday morning, Main Hall Room: 5 Session Title: Opening doors for Archaeologists: Making Malta Work

Organizers: Kenneth Aitchison, Mark Spanjer Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction

The Work of Making Malta Willem Willems The heroic myth of rescue archaeology and the realities of European archaeology today Kenneth Aitchison Archaeological Research and Commercial Archaeology David Jennings

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Towards a wider ownership of the archaeological process John Barrett Bibracte: a Centre for European Archaeology and its ambitions Vincent Guichard The Application of the Malta Convention in Belgium Marc Lodewijckx Archaeological heritage in competition with economic and political interests: how can Valletta be made to work? Anthony Harding

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Friday morning, Main Hall Room: 6 Round Table Title: Eco-Archaeology. A New Perspective to explore the technological changes of garbage Organizers: Dimitriadis George, Gheorghiu Dragos Friday morning, Main Hall Room: 10 Session Title: Crusade, Colonisation and Conversion: Material Traces at the Frontiers of Medieval Christendom Organizer: Aleks Pluskowski Moderator: Krish Seetah Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction The Impact of the Swedish Crusades on Finnish Society in the 12th and 13th centuries AD Esa Mikkola

Who lived where? On the inhabitants of post-conquest town and castle of Viljandi, South Estonia, and of the surrounding territories (13th century) Arvi Haak The Archaeological Traces of the Teutonic Order’s Conquest of Prussia. The Example of the Tribal Land of Barthia Tomasz Nowakiewicz Teutonic Knights and Animal Exploitation: preliminary work from Malbork Castle, Poland Mark Maltby

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Montfort Castle Project Adrian Boas Teutonic Castles in the Kingdom of Jerusalem Rabia Khamese Astronomical Orientations of Romanesque Churches in Slovenia Saša Čaval “Ecological Imperialism?” Investigating the Environmental Impact of Crusading and Colonisation at the Frontiers of Medieval Europe Aleks Pluskowski

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Friday morning, Main Hall Room: 11 Session Title: ‘Going Underground: The Public Wants the Public Gents’

Organisers: Sarah McCarthy, Kalliopi Vacharopoulou Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Getting to the Hart of the Mater: How and what do People really feel about Archaeology? Sarah McCarthy Conflicts in Public Archaeology: Then, Now, Why & How Helene McNeill ‘But I Want Nothing This Society’s Got.’ Who Buys the Past at Tintagel Hilary Orange ‘Exploring Archaeology’: Commemorating the Dead Through Public Archaeology Howard Williams, Sean Hawken, Elizabeth Williams

10.30-11.00 Coffee

The Public Wants What the Public Gets but What Happens When the Public Actually Gets What It Wants? Caroline Sandes The Public Perception of Preservation and Presentation of Ancient Monuments in the Mediterranean – Is There such a Thing? Kalliopi Vacharopoulou Conflicts in the Contemporary use of Archaeological Sites: Examples from Greece Georgios Alexopoulos Seeing Archaeology from a Different Angle: an Editor’s Perspective on Understanding Audiences Diane Scherzler

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Friday morning, Main Hall Room: 12

Session Title: Large burial mounds and the emerging of social power Organizers: Leszek Słupecki, Ladislav Smejda Chair: Henrik Thrane Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction The kurgan mound as a sign of memory, identity and power in the Iron Age Siberian societies Natalia Berseneva Early medieval magnificent burials in Pomerania – context and interpretation Felix Biermann The Big Princely Mounds in Russia: History and Archaeology Vladimir Ja. Petrukhin The Great Barrows from Pidhirci in western Ukraine Radosław Liwoch

10.30-11.00 Coffee

The emergence and purpose of large burial mounds from the 6th to 11th century middle Sweden John Ljungkvist “Royal” mounds and boat graves: the notion of stirps regia in Migration and Merovingian Period Scandinavia Svante Norr Cosmic symbolism at pre-Christian Scandinavian cult sites – with particular references to Uppsala Olof Sundqvist

Great mounds in Medieval Scandinavian Literature Rudolf Simek Tradition of earthen mounds in the Kraków region Jacek Górski, Ewa Kubica-Kabacińska

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Friday morning, Restaurant Room: C Session Title: Histories of Archaeology: who, what, why, and how have we excavated, written and divulged? Organizers: Ana Cristina Martins, Koji Mizoguchi Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Archaeology and the building of national Identity: the origins of French archaeology between historical and anthropological discourses Laurent Olivier Were pictures needed? The Battle to stratify and re-structure the pre-Roman Britons 1800-1900 Stephen Briggs The prehistoric «lieux de mémoire» in the context of the affirmation of Portuguese identity in the early 20th century Ana Cristina Martins Modern motives: Japanese archaeology and fin-de-siecle European imaginings Simon Kaner

10.30-11.00 Coffee

A brief history of Japanese prehistoric studies from 1970s: history of the acceptance of theory from abroad Takeshi Ishikawa Reflexions: towards an archaeology of the history of archaeology Geoff Carver Theorising the history of contemporary archaeological theory Koji Mizoguchi

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Friday morning, Sports Hall Room: D Session Title: Forest architecture: Traditions of timber building in Europe Organizers: Kenneth Brophy, Gordon Noble Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Holocene Woodlands, Phenomenology and Plausibility Nicki J. Whitehouse, David N. Smith The house that Jack built: archaeological discourse, timber halls and the construction of Neolithic narratives in south-west Scotland Phil Richardson From big houses to cult houses: early Neolithic timber halls in Scotland Kenneth Brophy

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Turf- the missing component Roy Loveday Barrow building and forest exploitation in the Earlier Neolithic of Denmark 4000-3500 BC Gordon Noble Forest, Fire, Farm Gavin MacGregor

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Friday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 5 Session Title: The North Atlantic as an archaeological region Organizers: Przemysław Urbańczyk, Orri Vésteinsson Papers 14.00-14.10 Introduction Exploring Isle Saint-Jean: The First European Settlements on Prince Edward Island, Canada Rob Ferguson The topography of Iron age burials in Iceland Adolf Friðriksson

Kings and townspeople in early Bergen, Norway Gitte Hansen A Viking age shieling in highland E-Iceland Karen Milek, Garðar Guðmundsson, Gavin Lucas

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Placing a medieval seasonal trading site into a regional and international context Howell M. Roberts, Ramona Harrison Contrasting Lives: An analysis of the combs and pins from Bornais, Scotland Niall Sharples The church in the North Atlantic Orri Vésteinsson “Leif Eriksson Slept Here:” Situating L’Anse aux Meadows in the Vinland Sagas Birgitta Wallace Posters Norse subsistence on the island of Sandoy, Faroe Islands Seth D. Brewington The Bishop’s cows George Hambrecht Coastal Finds: The analysis of faunal remains from NW Iceland Yekaterina Krivogorskaya Fresh fish & monks: A high status inland monastery in Late Medieval Iceland Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir Friday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 6 Session Title: Beyond gender – on the importance of a ‘gay’ rather than a ‘grey’ past Organizers: Tove Stjärna, Lotta Fernstål Papers 14.00-14.10 Introduction Technological transformations and embodied engagements: A queer approach to the interpretation of prehistoric personal identity Hannah Cobb Queering bodies, boundaries and surfaces: art, animals and the Neolithic Oliver Harris, Michał Pawleta Queer perspectives? Karina Croucher

Taming bodies and transforming being in the Formative period of northwestern Argentina Benjamin Alberti

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Queer Vikings? Live Norderval Waldersloev Searching for Camp and missing the evidence? Promises and pitfalls of Queer Viking Age archaeology Bo Jensen Beyond shamans and transvestites? The elusive materiality of queer archaeology Alexander Andreeff Ancient DNA and Postmodern Kinship: Keeping Sight of the Forest amidst the Family Trees William J. Meyer Products of our own imagination: queering the (pseudo)science of human origins Thomas A Dowson Friday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 10 Session Title: Processing and analysis of larger amounts of pottery from closed contexts. The use and limits of different statistic methods Organizers: Barbara Horejs, Reinhard Jung, Peter Pavúk Papers 14.00-14.10 Introduction Possibilities and Limitations in Analysing Ceramic wares Barbara Horejs Cooking pottery in the Aegean – an attempt of methodological approach Bartłomiej Lis Post-medieval pottery as an indicator of function and wealth Marianna Niukkanen The origin of the Early Bronze Age ceramic of the Volga-Ural region Oleg D. Mochalov

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Classification, Counting and Publication of Aegean Painted Pottery around the Mediterranean Reinhard Jung Processing and analysis of ceramic finds at the Egyptian site of Tell el-Daba Bettina Bader

The quantification of amphorae from Roman Sagalassos, Turkey Markku Corremans Standardizing variability: approaches to quantities of pottery from Roman sites Robin P. Symonds Pottery processing at Troy. Typology, Stratigraphy and Correspondence Analysis: how they work together Peter Pavúk Cognitive Theory of Prototypes and Categorization in Pottery Studies. The Analysis based on Cypriot Lagynoi Samples Sebastian Borowicz Friday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 11 Session Title: Departure from the homeland: Indo-Europeans and archaeology Organizers: Marc Vander Linden, Karlene Jones-Bley Papers 14.00-14.10 Introduction Indo-European Archaeology – What it is, and why it is important Karlene Jones-Bley Indo-European without Indo-Europeans: Prehistoric Europe as a Culture Area John Robb The dutch group - IE *tewtā. The evolution of ethnic groups in north-western Europe Raimund Karl Word and figure: a lucky combination on the Valcamonica rocks for the study of Pre-Christian symbolism and religion Adolfo Zavaroni

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Language and institutions: the role of the Divine Twins, and the journey of the sun Kristian Kristiansen Bodily attributes and semantic expressions: knees in rock art and Indo-European symbolism Åsa Fredell, Marco V. García Quintela Reconstructing and recognizing a prehistoric thunder god David Steel Drinking from the horn of plenty: on the use of historical data for prehistoric analogical reasoning Marc Vander Linden The Costume of Iranian Peoples of Classical Antiquity and the Homeland of Indo-Iranians Sergey Yatsenko

Friday afternoon, Main Hall Room: 12 Session Title: Decoding deposition. Intra-site spatial analyses Organizers: Petr Kvétina, Imogen Wood Papers 14.00-14.10 Introduction The complex intra-site analysis of Upperpalaeolithic site Kamennaya Balka II Ekaterina Vinogradova Decoding deposition, multi-level analysis of deposition trends within prehistoric ceramic assemblages Imogen Wood ‘Ritual’ and ‘domestic’: interpreting the social importance of complex pit deposition using GIS and spatial modelling techniques Ben Edwards Neolithic Settlement and Refuse Management Petr Květina

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Where did they fire pottery? Spatial analysis of the Late Bronze Age settlement in Turnov-Maskovy zahrady site, Czech Republic. Richard Ther

The Archaeobotany of the Late Bronze Age Settlement at Prague-Hostivar, Czech Republic. Petr Kocar, Ladislav Smejda Some remarks on intra-site analyses in SW Poland Justyna Baron Cultural interactions in the Iron Age Trans-Urals Sofya Panteleyeva Early Medieval castle of Libice on digital map (Czech Republic) Jan Marik Decoding a palimsest: the bandceramic settlement of Hanau Klein Auheim Ulrike Sommer Friday afternoon, Restaurant Room: A Session Title: Object Re-Fitting Studies - Beyond Châines Opératoires To Social Interpretations Organizers: John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarska

Papers 14.00-14.10 Introduction: what can re-fitting studies tell us J. Chapman, B. Gaydarska Changing land-use signatures in Middle Pleistocene Europe: some results from refitting at Boxgrove M. Pope Refitting: micro-space, micro-time and micro-history of the Solutrean occupations of Les Maîtreaux M. Almeida, T. Aubry, M.J. Neves, B. Walter From reconstructed lithic production sequences to the social group in a Late Magdalenian settlement F. Audouze Megalithic technology in western France. The mental refitting of the core-outcrop E. Mens

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Re-fitting pits and the dynamics of Neolithic occupation in Eastern England D. Garrow, M. Knight, E. Beadsmoore Pottery fragmentation at two Neolithic sites in northern Italy: Fimon and Rivoli M. Dalla Riva, L. Barfield ‘Off with their head!’ Figurine re-fitting in the Balkan Chalcolithic B. Gaydarska ‘The show goes on!’: enchainment and the persistence of materiality in marine shells in Neolithic Greece J. Chapman Refitting repasts: a spatial exploration of food processing, sharing, cooking and disposal at the Dunefield Midden campsite, South Africa Brian A. Stewart Friday afternoon, Restaurant Room: B Round Table Title: Ceramic Production Centres in Europe Organizers: Derek Hall, Marta Caroscio, Maciej Trzeciecki Friday afternoon, Restaurant Room: C Round Table Title: Transnational Archaeology Organizers: Kenneth Aitchison, Gerhard Ermischer

Friday afternoon, Sports Hall Room: D Session Title: Future Climate Change and its Implications for Archaeological Landscapes and Cultural Resource Management Organizers: Andy J. Howard, Keith Challis, Mark Kincey, David G. Passmore Papers 14.00-14.10 Introduction Evaluating current models of climate change Stefan Harrison Fluvial archives, Holocene climate change and archaeological resource management in Northern England David Passmore, Clive Waddington, Tim Van der Schriek, Andy Moores Modelling the archaeological implications of future climate change using a Geographic Information System: a case study from midland Britain Mark Kincey, Keith Challis, Andy Howard

15.30-16.00 Coffee

World Heritage Sites and Climate Change – Developing Indicators for Change Rob Woodside Water-Household, Future Climate Change and the Physical Preservation of the Archaeological Sites Martine van den Berg, Henk Kars, Hans Huisman, Robert van Heeringen

Accelerated Late-Holocene alluviation of a small river valley; geoarchaeological investigation of the Frome catchment, UK A. G. Brown, C. J. Carey Translating the correlation of climate-human relationship in Southern Balkan Peninsula. Can past foresee the future? Maria Gkioni, Maria Geraga, George Ferentinos Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 1 Session Title: The Materiality of Death – Bodies, Burials, Beliefs Organizers: Fredrik Fahlander, Terje Oestigaard Discussant: Per Cornell Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Flesh and bone: material strategies during the 4th to 2nd millennia BC in Scotland Gavin MacGregor, Paul Duffy

Religious Symbolism And The Use Of Gold In Burial Contexts In The Late Middle Helladic And Early Mycenaean Period Helène Whittaker von Hofsten You only die twice. The social life of dead bodies Fredrik Fahlander

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Excavating the kings’ bones: the materiality of death in practice and ethics today Terje Oestigaard, Anders Kaliff Ritual and remembrance at Archaic Crustumerium – the excavations of Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy) Ulla Rajala From Corpse to Ancestor: The Role of Tombside Dining in the Transformation of the Body in Ancient Rome Regina Gee

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Aesthetics and Performance: the uses of objects and bodies in graves of the Egyptian Predynastic period (4th Millennium BC) Alice Stevenson Death and the body in the Ancient Near East Karina Croucher Cremation cemeteries under level ground - monuments over the ancestors and the collective memory Anna M. A. Wickholm Stones and bones. The myth of Ymer and mortuary practises Christina Lindgren

15.30-16.00 Coffee

The usage of the ochre in the East Baltic Stone Age burials Ilga Zagorska Live and death in the Bronze Age of the NW of Iberian Peninsula Ana M. S. Bettencourt A road to the other side/The road for the Viking´s soul Åke Johansson, Camilla Grön Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 2 Session Title: The Baden Culture and the Outside World Organizers: Martin Furholt, Marzena Szmyt, Albert Zastawny

Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Problems in the Archaeological Legacy: The TRB/Lengyel-Baden Conundrum Maximilian O. Baldia Phenomena of Religious Life of the Baden Culture and their Social Background at the Central Danube Region Anna Endrődi The Boleráz - Style in the Context of supra-regional interaction in Late Neolithic time Martin Furholt

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Late Copper Age settlement of Ecser (County Pest, Hungary): Archaeological and enviromental archaeological investigation Katalin Herbich, Pál Sümegi, Róbert Patay Balatonőszöd - an irregular Baden settlement in Hungary Tünde Horváth Anthropological analysis of the Baden Culture Kitti Köhler Mapping of the late neolithic Cultural Groups in Austria Christian Mayer

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

The most Badenian flint. The Jurassic flint of variant G and its role in the late Neolithic of central Europe (3100 - 2300 BC) Andrzej Pelisiak Settlement and economy of Funnel Beaker-Baden society in Kujavia and Gostynin Lake District Małgorzata Rybicka Baden Cultural Identities? Late Copper Age Funerals reviewed Claudia Sachße The Baden and the Globular Amphora cultures: interactions and more? Marzena Szmyt

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Isolated grave of the Baden culture from the Polish Beskidy Mts. Paweł Valde-Nowak Jevišovice Culture in Slovakia Jana Šuteková

Baden culture influences east of the Carpathian Mts. M. Yu. Videiko The Funnel Beaker/Baden settlement in Little Poland Albert Zastawny Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 4 Session Title: Skull Collection, Modification, and Decoration Organizer: Michelle Bonogofsky Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Europe Talking Heads: Evidence for Temporary versus Permanent Head Deposition in Prehistoric Cave Sites of Northern England. Stephany Leach Ancestors or Enemies? Bronze Age Skull Manipulation and Funerary Effigies from Southeastern Europe Petya Hristova Headhunting and Social Power in the European Iron Age Ian Armit Getting A-Head in Early Medieval Europe Howard Williams

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Kings, Saints and Criminals: The Removal and Display of Heads in Later Anglo-Saxon England Jo Buckberry Skull Relics and Skull Symbolism in Late Medieval and Post-Medieval Central Europe Estella Weiss-Krejci Eurasia Skull Deformation in the Context of Visual Symbolism Svetlana Sharapova Human Skulls in the Ritual Practice of the Okunev Culture Elena Miklashevich

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Middle East The “Skull Cult” and the Hoarding, Decoration and Deposition of Animal and Human Skulls at Neolithic Çatalhöyük Stephanie Meece Oceania The Dental Aging of an Overmodeled Skull from the Sepik River Valley Jeremy Graham Melanesian Modeled Skulls and Mortuary Ritual Michelle Bonogofsky What Lies Beneath: Unmasking a “Trophy” Skull Without Removing the Mask Monica Faraldo, Linda Taylor 15.30-16.00 Coffee New World Bone Modifications Related to Decapitation Sacrifice in Mesoamerica: Burial 4 of the Moon Pyramid at Teotihuacan, Mexico Grégory Pereira, Michael Spence, Saburo Sugiyama Investigating the Origins of Nasca Trophy Heads Using Ancient DNA Analysis Kathleen Forgey Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 7 Session Title: Defence Structures from Central Europe to the Aegean in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC Organizers: Josef Batora, Janusz Czebreszuk, Sławomir Kadrow, Johannes Müller, Knut Rassmann Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Defensive Architecture in Crete in Late/Final Neolithic and Bronze Age Tomas Alusik The early Bronze Age settlement of Rybnik near Levice (Southwest Slovakia) Jozef Bátora, Knut Rassmann From the village to the fortified urban settlement: the case of Poliochni on Lemnos (Greece) in the 3rd Millennium BC Massimo Cultraro Pudliszki - the verification of an old hypothesis Janusz Czebreszuk, Mateusz Jaeger, Johannes Müller

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Fortified settlement in Bruszczewo. Current stage of interpretation Janusz Czebreszuk, Johannes Müller Middle Bronze Age fortified settlements in North-Western part of Romania G. Fazecas Early Bronze Age Fortified Settlements at Trzcinica (District of Jasło), site 1 Jan Gancarski

The Late Bronze age fortified settlement from Suncuius Calin Ghemis

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Fortified Bronze Age Tell Settlements within the Carpathian Basin Florin Gogâltan, Emese Apai "It is not the walls that make the city": fortified and unfortified settlements in the 3rd mill. BC eastern Balkans Mariya Ivanova The Middle Eneolithic fortified settlements in Bohemia Jan John Bruszczewo: The Fortification next to the lake Jutta Kneisel

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Bronze Age hillforts in the Alps Rüdiger Krause Perspectives of the Defence Structures in Austria in the 3rd and 2nd Millennia BC Alexandra Krenn-Leeb Remarks on probable defence structure at Radłowice in Silesia Irena Lasak, Mirosław Furmanek

Defence settlements from the Early Bronze Age in the area of Central Europe Szymon Nowacki Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 8 Session Title: Beyond Types, Composition and Production Techniques: what insights can studying metal provide into the social dynamics of prehistoric communities in Europe? Organizers: Tobias Kienlin, Bénédicte Quilliec, Ben Roberts

Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Metal sources, metal trade, weight units, workshops, religion: which system of political and economic structures existed behind the phenomena accessible to archaeologists? Jan Bouzek Forging the Axes: Implications of Metallography for the Organization of Early Bronze Age Metalworking Tobias L. Kienlin The Bronze-maker and his networks Peter Northover

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Metals and the Late Bronze Age exchange network of Aegean-type products Andrea Vianello To decorate or not to decorate? That is the question Shaun Moyler Thinking through technology: an experimental approach to the cognition of prehistoric copper working Julia Wiecken

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Fields and funerals. Cultivation and Iron Making on Gotland during the Early Iron Age Anna Arnberg Iron production in southeast Norway Status and potentials for obtaining knowledge from a mass material Bernt Rundberget To show or to hide metallic weapons? Bénédicte Quilliec

15.30-16.00 Coffee

“Doing agency” in Early Bronze Age British archaeometallurgy. A brief exploration of the practicalities of combining archaeometric datasets with social theory Peter Bray Cultural Transmission and Material Transformation: analysing the ‘spread’ of metal in Western Europe Ben Roberts Tracing the Tools: Transmission of Metallurgical Knowledge in Migration Period Scandinavia Nancy L. Wicker

Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 9

Session Title: Sacralia Ruthenica - Archaeology about the Christianisation of Eastern Europe (10th - 13th Century) Organizers: Mirosław P. Kruk, Aleksandra Sulikowska-Gąska, Marcin Wołoszyn Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Byzantine and Russian Devotional Articles in the Collections of the National Museum in Kraków and the National Museum in Warsaw Mirosław P. Kruk, Aleksandra Sulikowska-Gąska, Marcin Wołoszyn Between religion and politics - tradition of "cross kissing" in the Kievan Rus – selected problems (10th - 12th century) Grzegorz Rostkowski Historical Truth Versus Archaeological Reality. Two Perspectives on the Monza Reliquary Jörn Staecker Change in Faith or Shift in Culture? Christianity and Christianisation in the Archaeology of Europe Alexander Musin Arms and Christianisation. The Motif of the Cross on the Early Medieval Weapons – Selected Problems (Poster) Tomasz Kurasiński

10.30-11.00 Coffee

On the Dating of Some Types of Pectoral Crosses During the Middle Ages in Bulgaria Lyudmila Doncheva-Petkova Cross Encolpia from Odessos-Varna as Proof for the Byzantium-Kiev Rus’ Relations in the 11th-12th c. Anna Haralambieva Byzantine-type Reliquary Pectoral Crosses in South-East Hungary Imre Szatmári Pectoral Crosses in Bohemia in their Context and the question of the Opočnice hoard Kateřina Horníčková Old – Russian Encolpia with the Image of Enthroned Theotokos and Their Byzantine Prototypes Svetlana V. Gnutova

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Medieval Devotional Articles from Belarus in the Context of European Pilgrimages Aleksander Baškow Sacral Byzantine Objects from the Territory of Belarus Kristina Lavysh

The Image of Sacred Cross in the Sign System of the Grand Duke's Costume in the Territory of Belarus between the 10th and 15th Centuries (Poster) Hanna Barvenava Early Medieval Devotional Articles from Zvenigorod (Ukraine) Viera Hupalo Devotional Articles from the 17th and 18th Century Noblemen’s Graves from a Post-Bernadine Church in Dubno (Ukraine) (Poster) Viera Hupalo

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Crosses from the Great Barrows in Podhorce in western Ukraine (Poster) Radosław Liwoch Encolpia from the “Horodyszcze” Stronghold in Trepcza, Nearby Sanok Jerzy Ginalski Religious symbols or jewels – cross finds at the early medieval cemeteries in Daniłowo Małe, district Białystok (Poster) Dariusz Krasnodębski Russian Devotional Objects from North-East Poland Discovered in Graves (11th -13th Centuries) Arkadiusz Koperkiewicz “Boris and Gleb” Type Encolpion from Czułczyce, Sawin gmina, Lublin Voivodship (Poster) Tomasz Dzieńkowski, Marcin Wołoszyn Gem from Przemyśl – Antique Influences and Christian motifs Grażyna Bąkowska Archaeology About Personal Piety on Polish Lands at the End of the Middle Ages Barbara Chudzińska

Saturday 23 September Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 1 Session Title: Neolithisation as if history mattered Organizer: Håkon Glørstad Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Becoming Neolithic in Southern Britain Nick Thorpe

Tasks, Transformations, and Transitions: The transition from hunting and gathering to farming in the northern Irish Sea basin Hannah Cobb Neolithic ≠ Neolithisation – Complex strategy and trade as the indicators of Neolithisation process in Mesolithic England and Jomon Japan Junzo Uchiyama, Kati Lindström

10.30-11.00 Coffee

The Neolitisation in SW-Norway – a result of local ecological conditions as well as social and cultural influences Lisbeth Prøsch-Danielsen, Mari Høgestøl History in prehistory – the latter Neolithic/Early metal Age period as history Christopher Prescott The Northern Province? – The Neolithisation of Eastern Norway Håkon Glørstad

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Late hunter-gatherer and early farmer contacts on the southern Baltic – a critical review J. Kabacinski, Th. Terberger Neolithisation as if history mattered – or vice versa: The Younger Stone Age in northern Fennoscandia Marianne Skandfer Stone Age Transitions- Social memory in cultural reproduction and change Helena Knutsson, Kjel Knutsson The concept of Neolithisation - Processual remains in a Postmodern World? Håkan Petersson Discussion and Closing Comments Christopher Prescott Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 2 Session Title: Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe: Interpreting the Archaeological Records Organizers: Pierre Allard, Françoise Bostyn, François Giligny, Jacek Lech Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Ideology and Context with The European Flint Mining Tradition Paul Wheeler

“ Hidden in Heaps By Their Kennels ” : Do We Really Know Why Was Flint Extracted From The Neolithic ‘Flint Mines’ of Central Southern Britain? Miles Russell The Early Neolithic Flint Mine of ‘Casa Montero’ (Madrid, Spain) Marta Capote, Nuria Castañeda, Susana Consuegra, Cristina Criado, Pedro Díaz-Del-Río

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Flint Extraction and Processing in the North-East of Scotland in the Later Neolithic Period Alan Saville Open-Cast Flint Mining, Very Long Blade Production and Long-Distance Exchange : An Example from Bulgaria Laurence Manolakakis Flint Mining off the Danubian Communities in The Ojców Jura near Cracow Jacek Lech

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Remarks On The Prehistoric Flint Mine Site At Spiennes (Belgium) on the Occasion of its Discovery 140 Years ago Hélène Collet, Anne Hauzeur, Jacek Lech Surplus Production in the Belgian Linearbandkeramik : the Flint Workshops of Verlaine Pierre Allard, Laurence Burnez-Lanotte L'extraction Intensive Des Minéraux Non Métalliques À La Protohistoire Ancienne Dans La Moitié Nord de L'europe Yoann Gauvry A New Flint Mine in the Paris Basin: Flins-Sur-Seine/Aubergenville and the Mauldre River Complex Françoise Bostyn, François Giligny Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 3 Session Title: European Perishables: Exploring the Potential of an Invisible Material Culture

Organizers: Mary Ann Owoc, Linda Hurcombe Discussant: Lise Bender Jorgenson Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction European Perishables: Techniques, Interpretations and Results Mary Ann Owoc, Linda Hurcombe

Centre for Textile Research in Copenhagen: Archaeology of Textiles and Textiles in Archaeology Margarita Gleba Tips and Tricks for Perishable Impression Casting, Perishable Analysis, and Perishable Conservation Jeff Illingworth Looking for organic material culture via the evidence from inorganic remains Linda Hurcombe, Linda Lemieux

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Experimenting with Baskets: A Series of Nut Storage Experiments Exploring a Potential Use of Baskets in Prehistory Penny Cunningham Experimental and Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Perishables: Case Studies of Hide Drums and Shoe Hay Lynda Aiano Social Stories in Clay: Perishable Impressions from the Isles of Scilly, UK Mary Ann Owoc, Kelly Manske Discovering Textile Finds and Textile Tools North of the Middle Danube Area Tereza Belanová

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Baskets and Ropes on a Greek Ship (6th Century, B.C.E.) Found in the Bay of Pollensa (Malloca, Spain) Carmen Alfaro Early Medieval Silk Textiles from Kałdus and Gruczno, Northern Poland: Implications for Trade and Community Interaction Małgorzata Grupa Materiality at the edge: Perishables from marginal living in early medieval Europe c. 400-1100 AD Helene McNeill Pre-Hispanic Caribbean Cotton Joanna Ostapkowicz Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 4 Session Title: ‘Building Bridges With The Past: The Significance of Memory and Tradition In The Genesis And Transmission Of Culture’ Organizers: Chrysanthi Gallou, Mercourios Georgiadis Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction

Material Identity – Archaeology and the Creation of Cultural Identity Charlotta Hillerdal With Hitler in Valhalla. Modern Swedish Right-Wing Extremism and the Use of the Past Felicia Markus “Embalmed Hearts-Safeguarded Bones: Individual Death, National Resurrection And Social Remembrance Expressed Through The Greek Maritime Past” Eleni Stefanou "Rock Art, Landscape And Social Memory" Melanie Wrigglesworth

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Biography And Material Tradition: Building Cairns In The Kilmartin Glen Philip Richardson

The Hill of Senhora Da Graça (Mondim De Basto, Norte De Portugal) as a Site of Memory throughout the Centuries Antonio Pereira Dinis Living In The Mountains: Arkadian Identity In The Classical Period James Roy Athletics and the Formation of Female Identity in Ancient Sparta Pantelis Konstantinakos, Metaxia Papapostolou

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Landscapes of Death and Memory in Mycenaean Greece Chrysanthi Gallou The Role of Tradition in Burials in Late Bronze Age Eastern Anatolia Mercourios Georgiadis Being an Immigrant: Memories, Practice and Identity. A Case Study Magdalena Naum Cremation Cemeteries under Level Ground - Monuments over the Ancestors and the Collective Memory Anna Wickholm Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 5 Session Title: Continuity or Change? Working through Neolithic landscapes Organizers: Nicki J. Whitehouse, Rick Schulting

Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Chair: Rick Schulting Of cattle, mice and men: tracing the first domesticates and commensals along the Neolithic danubian routes Adrian Balasescu, Thomas Cucchi, Lenka Kovacikova, René Kysely, Valentin Radu, Anne Tresset Two peas in a pod? A social perspective on identity, daily life and material culture of the early LBK Alena Lukes Working Neolithic Landscapes in the Polish Lowlands Peter Bogucki

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Settlement and eco-dynamics in Neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland Nicki Whitehouse, John O’Neill, Gill Plunkett Alternative continuities? Challenging change in the Early Neolithic of Dorset Oliver Harris Neolithic landscapes in the Humberhead Levels: assessing relationships between domestic, ritual and environmental change Henry Chapman, Ben Gearey

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Chair: Nicki Whitehouse Food-ways in the Neolithic of Britain Rick Schulting The role of animal fodder in the subsistence economy of Neolithic lake shore settlements in the Alpine range and its palaeoecological implications Marlu Kühn, Stefanie Jacomet, Lucia Wick

Animals, architectures, and changing human-animal relationships in Neolithic Cotswold-Severn long barrow sites Lesley McFadyen, Richard Thomas Continuity or Change in the Neolithic Landscape of the Nene Valley, Central England? Tony Brown, Phil Allen, Ian Meadows, Karen Deighton Working stone, linking arenas and actions of Neolithic life Gabriel Cooney

Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 6 Session Title: Current Research and Education in Underwater and Maritime Archaeology Organizers: Andrzej Pydyn, Joe Flatman Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Partnerships in Nautical Archaeology: Case Studies from North Carolina and Alaska Timothy J. Runyan Maritime Archaeology: Education, Advocacy and International Development Colin Breen Maritime Archaeology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Marek Jasiński Broadening the Picture: New Challenges and Perspectives in Underwater and Maritime Archaeology in Poland Andrzej Pydyn Advances in Maritime Archaeology and the University of Southern Denmark Thijs Maarleveld

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Looking Back to a Decade of Teaching Ship Archaeology in Germany Timm Weski Education in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology at the University of Kiel Sunhild Kleingärtner Maritime Archaeology in Estonia Kristin Ilves Education and Training Programmes in Underwater Archaeology at National Taras Sevchenko University of Kiev Yana Morozova Collaboration is the Key: Developing Field and Work Skills in Collaboration with Government, Museum and Commercial Underwater Cultural Heritage Organisations Mark Staniforth

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Maritime Archaeology and Bournemouth University David Parham Dig! Places: Blending Creative Writing and Archaeology Joe Flatman

Preserves, Programs, and the Public Archaeology Network: Promoting and Protecting Submerged Cultural Resources in Florida Della Scott-Ireton Port Meadow, Oxford, UK: Investigation and Reburial of an Eroding River-Boat in the Context of the Geoarchaeology and Social History of a Major Navigable Waterway Brian Durham The NAS and International Collaboration in Maritime Archaeology Mark Beattie-Edwards Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 7 Session Title: Geographies of Power: Administrative, Political and Royal landscapes in the early medieval world Organisers: Alex Sanmark, Sarah Semple Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction The archaeology of frontiers and boundaries Mike McCarthy Political landscapes in late Iron Age Iceland Adolf Friðriksson Political landscapes and power centres in early medieval England and Europe Sarah Semple Reconstructing regions through digitally modelled landscapes Daniel Löwenborg

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Assembly sites and royal routes in Viking and early medieval Sweden Alex Sanmark Consilium and convento: political practice in early medieval Scandinavia Svante Norr Gold figurines and glass beakers. Lunda – a central place of religious significance Eva Skyllberg Lunda - the tenant farm, the watermill and the townyard Lena Beronius Jörpeland

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Between the strongholds in Poznań and Giecz. Noble estate in Krzyżowniki, Poland Monika Kwiatkowska From Princely Graves to Wooden Tower Houses - symbols of power in the landscape of Western Poland Adriana Ciesielska The women at Valsgärde: their life and burials Anne-Sofie Gräslund Power in the shadow of power: The chieftain’s farm of Valsgärde, Gamla Uppsala parish, Sweden Anneli Sundkvist Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 8 Session Title: European Egyptologists Gaze The Future Organizers: Amanda-Alice Maravelia, Galina A. Belova Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Small Objects from the Temple Deposits at Tell Ibrahim Awad, Egypt Tatjana A. Sherkova A Stelophorous Statuette of an Adorer with a Hymn to the Solar God Re Amanda-Alice Maravelia Naos of the Decades Anne-Sophie Goddio-von Bomhard

10.30-11.00 Coffee

The Enigma of the Cities of Heracleion and Thonis Revealed Franck Goddio Archaeological Researches at Kom Tuman (Memphis) in 2005-2006 Galina A. Belova Column Bases from Kom Tuman (Memphis) Alexi A. Krol Studies of Ancient Egyptian Footwear: Technological Aspects Part III: Leather-Reinforced Fibre Sandals from Qasr Ibrim André J. Veldmeijer

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Leather-Work in Egypt at c. 1000 BCE Edward Loring

A Bronze Figurine of a Priestess from the Mit-Rahina Bronze Hoard Sergej V. Ivanov Studies of the Seaworthiness and Maneuverability of the Egyptian Sea-going Vessels of the New Kingdom Alexander Belov A Child’s Woolen Tunic from Byzantine Egypt Sophia Tsourinaki Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 9 Session Title: Bronze and Iron Age strongholds in Central and Southeast Europe, new results Organizers: Louis D. Nebelsick, Carola Metzner-Nebelsick Speaker: Wiesław Zajączkowski Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Strongholds in the second and first millennium BC Once upon a ‘Heidenschanze’ – Writing a History of Early Silesian Hillfort Archaeology Karin Reichenbach Jívová – Tepenec, Moravian hillfort from the Late Bronze Age Vendula Vránová Social transition and spacial organisation: the problem of the end of the strongholts in Northeast Hungary at the beginning of the Early Iron Age Carola Metzner-Nebelsick “Research on the Margins, approaching the Peripheries of fortified Sites in Western Bohemia” Libor Janíček, Ricky Kubicek

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Elites and the Landscape: Hallstatt Strongholds in Central Europe Early Iron Age strongholds in Great Poland: recent research on their date and internal organisation Anthony F. Harding “Milejowice site 19, Wrocław district – a recently discovered settlement partly fenced with palisade-like constructions and its importance for the study of Hallstatt period society in the south-west region of Poland” Ewa Bugaj “The Polish-German Stronghold Project, new perspectives on Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Strongholds East and West of The Odra-Nysa Corridor” Zbigniew Kobyliński, Louis D. Nebelsick

The Power and the Glory: Hillforts, Monumentality and Early Iron Age Elites in Central Slowenia Phil Mason “Recent excavations and research on the Mont Lassois near Vix in Burgundy, results of the Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Kiel” Angela Mötsch

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

On the Brink of History: Strongholds of the Late Hallstattt and Latène Periods Iron Age Strongholds and their Environs. The South-Bohemian Perspective Dagmar Dreslerová, Alžběta Danielisová La Tène Culture hilltop settlement on the Oberleiserberg in Lower Austria. Recent excavations Maciej Karwowski “Iron Age Hillforts in Transdanubia (Western Hungary) new results on an old topic” Erzsébet Jerem Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 10 Session Title: The Unquiet Past: Cultural Heritage and the Uncertain Social Geography of Risks of Exposure to Ecological Hazards and Political Violence Organizers: John Carman, Stephanie Koerner Discussant: Tim Darvill Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Reflective approaches to Field Research and Problems generated by the ‘Expert – Public’ Divide in Archaeologies of Cultural Heritage John Barrett Coming full circle: public archaeology as liberal social programme, then and now John Carman Doku-porn: visualising stratigraphy. Geoff Carver The terms “risk” and “uncertainty” as component of social reality construction based on the archaeological paradigm Ulf F. Ickerodt

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Geographies of value Gail Higginbottom, Philip Tonner Let’s not go to the dogs tonight. Rhetoric as a strategy of accountability in archaeological outreach Bo Jensen

The Unquiet Past and Spaces where Reasons Matter. Biological Hazard, Sustainable Development and Archaeology in Northwestern England Stephanie Koerner, Lorna Singleton

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Doing Archaeology in the Risk Environment: Beyond "Epistemic-Ontological Precaution" Koji Mizoguchi The Shifting Place of the ‘War of All-Against-All’ and Other Paradoxes of Major Paradigms for ‘World Heritage’ Laurent Olivier Nostalgic Futurism, Conflicting Temporalities and Archaeological Epistemic Conflict Ian Russell Anthropomorphic Pictural Conventions and Cultural Heritage in Precolumbian Central Andean Tiahuanaco Mathieu Viau-Courville Archaeology on the Western Front: A European Perspective Ross J. Wilson Saturday all day, Main Hall Room: 12 Session Title: The Site and the Community Organizer: Andrzej Pelisiak Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Settlement differentiation of Magdalenian culture in central Europe Marta Połtowicz Symbolic and “supposed” graves in the settlements of the Linearbandkeramic culture in south eastern Poland Aleksander Dzbyński, Maciej Dębiec Central Europian and Balkan Culture Contacts in the Volhyn and Upper Dniester Territory in IV-III Millenniums B.C. as Dialogue of Cultures Taras Tkachuk

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Funnel Beakers Culture economy and natural environment in The Western Carpathians Mountains Renata Zych The spatial organization of the Funnel Beaker settlement in the Gostynin Lake District Małgorzata Rybicka

The Structures with Traditions of Corded Ware Culture on the Territory of Southern Belarus: the Results and New Aspects of the Research Mikolaj Kryvaltsevich

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Good Neighbours? Houses, fences and spatial organization on early iron age sites in eastern middle Sweden Susanna Eklund, Anna Onsten-Molander What has been left? Traces of social organisation in the Roman Period archaeological material from the area of central Poland Justyn Skowron Settlement and Society of Funnel Beaker Culture in Central Poland Andrzej Pelisiak Settlement-, environmental- and landscape archaeology in Eastern Central Europe between anglo-american influence and communist ideology Grietje Suhr Saturday all day, Restaurant Room: B Session Title: The history of archaeological practice – reflections on technology and social organisation in field work Organizers: Åsa Gillberg, Ola W. Jensen Discussant: Jarl Nordbladh Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Archaeological Practices in the Early Modern Period Dietrich Hakelberg “To ransack the wall would give trouble and would waste time” - Hillfort Archaeology in Saxony in the 19th century Susanne Grunwald Amazing Graves. Why practices differed in German 19th century digging Gisela Eberhardt

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Title not available Frauke Kreienbrink Processes of professionalisation and marginalisation: a constructivist study of archaeological field practices in Sweden 1870-1910, part I Ola W. Jensen

Processes of professionalisation and marginalisation: a constructivist study of archaeological field practices in Sweden 1870-1910, part II Åsa Gillberg Excavating an Identity: British fieldwork in the first half of the twentieth century Julia Roberts

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

The history of archeology in Champagne (France): goals, methodology, techniques and means Jan Vermoerkerke The international context of fieldwork: information from the archive Margarita Díaz-Andreu Working at archaeology: manual labour and archaeological knowledge Nathan Schlanger Feminism in post-colonial practice? Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh Saturday all day, Restaurant Room: C Session Title: European Anthropological Spaces. Archaeology vs. Anthropology? Organizers: G. Dimitriadis, D. Gheorghiu Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Nature’s chaos and cultural order: The Mandala Tells and the Lower Danube landscape D. Gheorghiu From the “Natural” Forest to the Forest of Signs. The Production of Rock Art and the Management of Space by EBA Societies G. Dimitriadis Between Anthropology, History and Prehistory A. Guerci

10.30-11.00 Coffee

La Liguria occidentale et la circulation du métaux dans le Bronze Final des Alpes de l' ouest; l'intérêt des métallurgistes pour le territoire de la montagne G. Dimitriadis, D. Delfino Light at the end of the passage: The way Megalithic art was viewed and experienced G. Nash

The Connection Between the Terrestrial and Celestial Landscape during the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin (Orientation of Houses) E. Pàzstor

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Remote Sensing as a tool for palaeo-geographic reconstractions: the Sarcidano – Barbagia di Seulo area, Province of Cagliari, central Sardinia M. G. Gradoli, M. T. Melis The Cultural Nature of Natural Places in the Alps F. Nicolis Saturday all day, Sports Hall Room: D Session Title: The Archaeology and Archaeoprospection of Large Rivers and River Confluences Organizer: A. G. Brown Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction The Bova Marina Archaeological Project: the geoarchaeological investigation of the San Pasquale River Valley, Calabria, Italy G. Ayala, E. Reinhardt, J. Robb, L. Foxhall Predictive modelling of multi-period geoarchaeological resources at a river confluence: The geoprospection of geoarchaeological resources A. G. Brown, A. Howard, K. C. Challis, C. J. Carey, M. Kincey, L. Cooper Holocene relict alluvium and colluvium in Belgium, Luxembourg and Northern France. The current state of research. K. Fechner, R. Baes, G. Louwagie in collaboration with : L. Deschodt, R. Langohr, A. Gebhardt, B. Bécu,

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Settlement history and changes of the natural processes in the main valleys of Carpathian Foreland: case studies from the Targowisko site in Raba valley (southern Poland) Tomasz Kalicki, Beata Grabowska, Jacek Górski, Elwira Izdebska, Bartłomiej Konieczny, Siarhei Sauchyk, Galina Simakova, Jarosław Wilczyński, Michał Wojenka, Valentina Zernitskaya Processes of archaeological site formation in alluvial settings of the Midwestern region, USA: a geoarchaeological framework William G. Monaghan Late Quaternary river environments and archaeological prospection in the Till-Tweed basin, northern England David G. Passmore, Clive Waddington, Tim van der Schriek

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

An assessment of the effectiveness of Geophysical Techniques in the East Midlands Region, England Alastair Macintosh, David Knight, Mark Pearce The Valleys of the Large Rivers as a Centre of Settlement in the Late Bronze Age Pontic Steppe Landscape Magda Pieniążek-Sikora A geoarchaeological approach to managing Neolithic archaeology in a river valley setting: A case study from northern England Clive Waddington, David G. Passmore Large palaeorivers and floodplains as archaeological landscapes A. G. Brown, L. Basell General sessions Friday morning, Restaurant Room: A Session Title: General Session: Stone Age Chair: Peter Biehl Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Remarks on the chronological position of the Szeletian in the Bükk Mountains György Lengyel, Zsolt Mester Lost on Ignition: Identifying Hunter-Gatherer Domestic Fire Technology in the Southern British Mesolithic Paul N. Backhouse Reading the past through the Levantine Rock Art scenes: relevant thematic and stylistic changes as a reflex of cultural dynamics in the Spanish Mediterranean region Esther López-Montalvo Mid-Atlantic Super-Long Distance Obsidian Exchange: Provenance and Provenience Carolyn D. Dillian, Charles A. Bello, M. Steven Shackley

10.30-11.00 Coffee

The Battle Axe Culture Pottery of South Sweden Ole Stilborg A Neolithic, Bronze Age and Post Roman settlement site at Milfield, Northumberland (UK), in its Landscape Context Clive Waddington

Dating a multi-period settlement site at Milfield, Northumberland (UK) (Poster) Ben Jonson Special foods, special places and ordinary people: A glimpse into the life of Bronze Age hunter-gatherers on Lake Baikal, Siberia Andrzej Weber

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Saturday all day, Restaurant Room: A Session Title: General Session: Bronze & Iron Age Chair: Diana Gergova Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Beyond Stonehendge: Seeking The Start of the Bluestone Trail Timothy Darvill

The Disappearing Children: Burial and Childhood in South Scandinavia During 2300-500 BC Sophie Bergerbrant Lusatian Pottery: Workshop Features in SEM/EDS and Statistical Analysis Adam Walanus, Joanna Trąbska, Urszula Kobylińska Pots in Action: Pottery in Central Sweden During the Transition Between the Bronze and the Iron Age Thomas Eriksson

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Continuity and Change at Sommarange Skod – a Bronze Age Ritual Site Helena Victor Archaeology and Material Culture: Interpreting the Archaeological Record Neculai Bolohan Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age Relationships Across The Carpathians Attila László

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Gender, Agency and Status in the Early Iron Age in Latium Vetus. Investigating Past Identities Though The Analysis of Burial Evidence Francesca Fulminante Golden Mascs in Thracian Burials Diana Gergova

Sacred Dacian Enclosures And Their Landscape Valeriu Sîrbu, Dan Ştefan, Duţescu Magdalena Ritual and Inventory in a Dacian Enclosure in the Carpathian Mountains Valeriu Sîrbu, Sebastian Matei

15.30-16.00 Coffee

Saturday all day Main Hall Room 11 Session Title: Roman Empire and Beyond Chairs: Halina Dobrzańska, Eric De Sena Papers 9.00-9.10. Introduction Roman Pottery in Coastal Etruria: an Archaeological and Archaeometric Approach Marinella Pasquinucci, Simonetta Menchelli Roman Maritime Villas in Dalmatia and Istria Vlasta Begović Dvoržak, Ivana Dvoržak Schrunk Routes of the Main Roman Roads in Dardania: Comparative Analysis with the Paths of Modern Highways Vladimir Petrovič

Workshops of Luxurious Funerary Monuments from Viminacium (Moesia Superior) Sanja Pilipovič Attempt at Anthropological Reconstruction of a Roman Time Man from Macedonia (Poster) Fanica Veljanovska

10.30-11.00 Coffee

The Cult of Venus at Tomis Zaharia Covaçef The Porolissum Forum Project (2004-2006). Archaeology on the fringes of the Roman Empire Eric C. De Sena, Alexandru V. Matei Paradigm of liberty in the Byzantine Empire 4th –7th centuries Adriana Claudia Cîteia

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Early Christian Roman Imports in the Territory of the Central Balkan Between the 4th and 6th Centuries Olivera Ilić Western Germanic Tribes and Romanisation of the Barbaricum Artur Błażejewski Graves of “Princes” on the Przeworsk Culture Cemetery at Szarbia (Southern Poland) Ryszard Naglik The Carpathian Borrows Culture (III-IV centuries A.D.) Liana Vakulenko Pottery Production Centres in European Barbaricum: Interdisciplinary Research Project Zofipole (Southern Poland) Halina Dobrzańska, Andrzej Kielski, Krystyna Wodnicka Weapons of the Barbarous Population of Central and South-Western Crimea of the Sarmatian Period (Poster) Kirill Firsov Friday all day, Main Hall Room: 3 Session Title: General Session: Medieval & Historical Archaeology Chair: Hanna Kóčka-Krenz Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction Byelorussian territory in the Migration Period Vadim Shadyra The beginnings of the development of the Prague culture on the territory of Belarus Valiantsina Viarhei Weaving technologies in migration: evidence of entwined cultures from female inhumations in northern and central Europe of the mid first millennium AD Sue Harrington

10.30-11.00 Coffee

The historical and cultural contacts between Polatsk Land and Scandinavian countries during the Viking Age (according to the archeological data) Siarhei Dziarnovich

No Man is an Island – on causes and effects in the creation of ethnicities and archaeological identities of the past Nanouschka Myrberg The Old-Russian costume: reconstruction on the basis of an archaeological data in the Upper Volga area Yulia Stepanova Village settlements of Polatsk region in 10 - middle 16th centuries Marat Vasiljevich Klimau

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Materialschlacht: An ethnographic study of the Western Front Ross J. Wilson Private and rural houses of the French Atlantic Coast (near Nantes and Saint-Nazaire) from the end of the Celtic period until the Middle Ages: the contribution of the rescue archaeology Christophe Devals The hunting of moose in pitfall trap systems during the Medieval period in Gråfjell, South-east Norway Tina Amundsen The castle of Hlusk in the 16th c.: interpretation of the archaeological data in the light of written sources Iryna Hanetskaya

15.30-16.00 Coffee

The Castle in Tykocin at the Polish-Lithuanian Border Magdalena Bis Life and Death in the Post-Medieval Parish of St Benet Sherehog Lynne Cowal Recording and Analysis of the Russian Orthodox (Native Aleut) and Public Cemetery, Unalaska Island, Alaska Charles A. Bello Friday morning, Restaurant Room: B Session Title: General Session: Culture Heritage and Modern Information Technology Chair: Włodzimierz Rączkowski Papers 9.00-9.10 Introduction

The branding of Minoan archaeology Anna Simandiraki Values in the Historic Landscape and of the Cultural Heritage Karin Beckman-Thoor Post-Excavation Management and Interpretation: the Augustinian Priory at Kells Miriam Clyne

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Applications of web-technologies in archaeology: perspectives and problems Nikolas Papadimitriou, David Kenny Spreading the W.O.R.D Jelena Bekvalac How to tell the story. Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in the Age of Internet Ingvild Solberg Andreassen Teaching archaeology and the Internet: methods and services developed at Humbul to facilitate a difficult relationship Andrea Vianello

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

Poster session Thursday all day, Sports Hall Landscape setting and orientation symbolism of earlier Neolithic linear domestic and funerary constructions in central and northwest Europe Willy Adam Settlement of Communities of the Linear Band Pottery Culture on the Upper Vistula River Basin Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny Linear Pottery Settlement Structure in North-West Bohemia, Czech Republic (study of socio-economic dynamics in microregions) Ales Kacerik The Neolithic Hoards from Poland Marta Kaflińska Mineralogical Examination of Neolithic Pottery (Linear Band Pottery Culture) from Southern Poland Anna Rauba-Bukowska Neolithic Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Plastics From Zakrzowiec, Site 6, Niepołomice Commune, Małopolskie Voivodship Paweł Jarosz Geoarchaeological Studies on the Neolithic Megalith at Newgrange, Ireland Ian G. Meighan, Barrie N. Hartwell, Anthony E. Fallick1 and Derek D. A. Simpson Method for studying multilayered sites An example: Ároktő-Dongóhalom Bronze Age site Pusztainé Fischl Klára ‘ Animal Husbandry and Organised Grazing. Animals, people and landscape in western Östergötland during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Maria Petersson Funerary discoveries form the Alburnus Maior site (Roşia Montană, Alba county, Romania) Mihaela Simion, Cătălina Neagu

Beyond the Tribal Hidage - early state formation in post Roman Britain Sue Harrington GIS and the archaeological sites in different landscapes of medieval Caucasus V. Kovalevskaya, Z. Tsarikaeva Chersones Taurica - one of the most important center of maritime trade of the Pontis Euxine in the Ancient and Medieval periods Julia A. Pronina Ancient and Medieval anchors from the underwater archaeological investigations in the water area of Sebastopol Victor V. Lebedinski

Stoneware vessels Grażyna Nawrolska Archeologycal Research of Medieval Market Town-Mohi Reconstruction of Mohi medieval market town with GIS methods Pusztai Tamás Aerial Archaeology in Flanders (Belgium) Marc Lodewijckx, Jean Bourgeois, Marc Meganck, Rene Pelegrin, Jacques Semey Usage of Lumınescence in Dating in Archaeological Material Niyazi Meriç, Mehmet Koşal, M. Altay Atlıhan Phenomenon of clay Lena Angelkoska Zooarchaeology in Serbia: Considerations on the Recent Scientific Researches Galja Zokić Zooarchaeology and taphonomy. A example: in one pampean fortlet (Fortlet Otamendi (1858-1869). Argentine. Aurora Oliva, Aurora Benito The adventure of interpretation Anita Synnestvedt

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Site Tölö - the first remains of an Early Medieval wooden stave church on the Western coast of Sweden Petra Nordin