DAY 1: 29.11.2018
12:00: registration
Keynote lectures │ presented by Marcello A. Mannino (AU, DK) & Peter Hambro Mikkelsen (MOMU, DK)
13:00: Catherine Jessen (The National Museum of Denmark, DK) │ tba
14:00: Bent Odgaard (Aarhus University, DK) │ Landscape openness and land-use in Danish prehistory: pollen and erosion evidence
15:00: Søren Sindbæk (UrbNet, DK) │ Putting context first: resource networks, urban evolutions, and high-definition data
16:00: Peter Rowley-Conwy (Durham University, UK) │ Where it all began: shell middens, archaeological science, and the setting of archaeological agendas
WELCOME RECEPTION
DAY 2: 30.11.2018
8:00: registration
9:00-10:30: SESSION 1 Humans & the Sea
10:30-11:00 coffee
11:00-12:30: SESSION 2 Diet & Health
12:30-13:30 lunch
13:30-15:00: SESSION 3 Past Agriculture
15:00-15:30 coffee
15:30-17:00: SESSION 4 People & Environments I: Individuals & Contexts
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
DAY 3: 01.12.2018
9:00-10:30: SESSION 5 People & Environments II: Landscapes
10:30-11:00 coffee
11:00-12:30: SESSION 6 Mini-presentations [5 minutes] for each poster
12:30-13:30 lunch
13:30-15:00: SESSION 7 Poster session
15:00-15:30 coffee
15:30-17:00: SESSION 8 Advances in Archaeological Science
17:30: Visits of the AU and MOMU laboratories
CONFERENCE DINNER
30th November 2018
9:00-10:30 │ SESSION 1: Humans & the Sea
Sea-level Changes in Mesolithic Southern Scandinavia: Long- and Short-term Effects on Society and the Environment
Peter Moe Astrup │ Moesgaard Museum (Denmark)
Facing the sea, relying on the land? - investigating the Tintagel middens
Gill Campbell et al. │ Historic England (United Kingdom)
Reconstructing the internal architecture of giant medieval shell middens with the Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
Elsa Cariou et al. │ Université de Nantes (France)
Woodlands under the waves: Orcadian landscape change from the Mesolithic to Bronze Age
Michelle Farrell et al. │ Coventry University (United Kingdom)
Intra- and inter- tooth variation in strontium isotope ratios from prehistoric seals by laser
ablation (LA)-MC-ICP-MS
Aikaterini Glukou et al. │ Stockholm University (Sweden)
11:00-12:30 │ SESSION 2: Diet & Health
Recreating past effects of seaweed-fertilisation on the isotopic and chemical composition of barley to further palaeodietary reconstructions
Magdalena Blanz et al. │ Orkney College (United Kingdom)
Life and death in a civitas capital: Deciphering the link between environmental constraints and health hazards at Aventicum, Roman Switzerland (1st-3rd c. AD)
Chryssa Bourbou │ University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
Sulphur isotope and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Southern Scandinavia
Kurt J. Gron & Harry K. Robson │ Durham University & University of York (United Kingdom)
Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: joining forces to break new ground
Mark McKerracher │ University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Diet, mobility and radiocarbon dating of Tollund Man – New investigations of a Danish Iron Age bog body
Nina Helt Nielsen et al. │ Museum Silkeborg (Denmark)
Life in the Stone Age at Riņņukalns, Latvia: a Neolithic freshwater shellmidden in the eastern Baltic region
Kenneth Ritchie et al. │ Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (Germany)
13:30:00-15:00 │ SESSION 3: Past Agriculture
Small seeds – Big Data
Marianne Høyem Adreasen et al. │ Moesgaard Museum (Denmark)
Resilience and Breakpoints Resilience and breakpoints – exploring linkages between societal, agricultural and climatic changes in Iron Age Denmark
Mads Dengsø Jessen │ The National Museum of Denmark (Denmark)
Arable farming in Viking Age Iceland: archaeobotanical evidence from Lækjargata 10-12, Reykjavík
Dawn Elise Mooney & Lísabet Guðmundsdóttir │ University of Stavanger (Norway) & The Institute of Archaeology (Iceland)
North-south patterning of millet agriculture on the Loess Plateau: Late Neolithic adaptations to water stress, NW China
Pengfei Sheng et al. │ Fudan University (China)
People, Land-Use & Time: Linking Multi-Proxy Palaeoenvironmental & Archaeological Data
Daisy Spencer │ National University of Ireland (Ireland)
Can geometric morphometrics reveal the origins of Scotland’s island-adapted barley, bere?
Michael Wallace et al. │ The University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)
15:30-17:00 │ SESSION 4: People & Environments (1: Individuals & Contexts)
Reacquainting bog bodies with their landscape and environmental contexts
Henry Chapman et al. │ University of Birmigham (United Kingdom)
How to identify cesspits as latrines? A study of macrofossils and non-pollen
palynomorphs in Danish medieval cesspits
Renée Enevold et al. │ Aarhus University (Denmark)
The archaeological potential of anthropogenic soils on Jæren, South-West Norway
Jutta Lechterbeck │ University of Stavanger (Norway)
Charcoal analysis of neolithic Frydenlund, Fyn, Denmark
Welmoed Out et al. │ Moesgaard Museum (Denmark)
Fregerslev II at the microscale: Soil micromorphology and XRF analyses of a Viking grave
Federica Sulas et al. │ Centre for Urban Network Evolution, Aarhus University (Denmark)
The Medieval geoarchaeology of lowland rivers: riverine place-names, environments and alluviation over the last Millennium in Central England.
Ben Pears et al. │ University of Southampton (United Kingdom)
1st December 2018
9:00-10:30 │ SESSION 5: People & Environments (2: Landscapes)
Twin Peaks in the Early Mesolithic. New results from ancient Lake Duvensee
Daniel Groß et al. │ Centre for Baltiv and Scandinavian Archaeology (Germany)
New advances in archaeological phytolith analysis: a peat deposit at Rue des Boîteux
(Brussels)
Rosalie Hermans │ Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Assessing vegetation change at the regional scale in western Sjælland: 7000 years of fluctuation in anthropogenic fire, deforestation, grazing and settlement
Anthony Ruter │ Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark (Denmark)
Project Wildscape: Reconstructing Hidden Landscapes through a Case Study in the
Humberhead Levels
Nika Shilobod et al. │ Plymouth University (United Kingdom)
European landuse at 6000BP: from on-site data to the large-scale view
Nicki Whitehouse et al. │ Plymouth University (United Kingdom)
11:00-12:30 │ SESSION 6: Mini-presentations for each poster
13:30-15:00 │ SESSION 7: POSTER SESSION
Reynard at Randall – cementum annuli analysis of a red fox from Randall Manor, Kent
Nora M. Battermann │ University of Leicester (United Kingdom)
Waves of colonization and the Sea of Moyle: Linking population history, resilience and landscape change of island communities. A new AHRC Project Starting October 2018
Tony Brown et al. │ Tromsø Museum, UiT (Norway)
Approaching Dynna: the burial mound as an assemblage
Cannell et al. │ University of Oslo (Norway)
Oyster shell deposits : a good place to establish lead environmental backgrounds and monitor ancient anthropogenic contaminations
Elsa Cariou et al. │ Université de Nantes (France)
Using Zooarchaeology to Explore Early Medieval (8th- to 10th-century) Economy and Environment in Antwerp, Belgium: Evidence from the Burcht and Gorterstraat Sites
Pam J. Crabtree & Douglas V. Campana │ New York University & US National Park Service (USA)
Agricultural practices at Middle Neolithic Oldenburg LA77, northern Germany
Dragana Filipović et al. │ University of Kiel (Germany)
Archaeological Palaeoenvironmental Archiving - Thinking outside of the box
Paul Flintoft │ University of Reading (United Kingdom)
Palaeoenvironmental proxies from palaeochannel sediments adjacent to a long-lived Mesolithic site in the environs of Stonehenge World Heritage site
Thierry Fonville et al. │ University of Southampton (United Kingdom)
Optimization of efficient ancient DNA extraction from lake sediment
Peter D. Heintzman et al. │ The Arctic University of Norway (Norway)
Prehistoric Ibérico pigs? Wild boar teeth analysis of prehistoric foraging Japan
Junzo Uchiyama │ University of East Anglia (United Kingdom)
Neolithic plant economy in the SW Baltic area – a long-term perspective
Wiebke Kirleis et al. │ University of Kiel (Germany)
Detecting agricultural changes in the Middle Ages using a pollen modelling approach
Wilmer Koster │ Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
In search for the Bølling-Oscillation – new palynological data on old questions at lake Bølling, Denmark
Sascha Krüger & Martin Damrath │ Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (Germany)
Environmental studies in urban archaeology
Johan S. Larsen │ Centre for Urban Network Evolution, Aarhus University (Denmark)
An estuarine tide-scape of production: terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) of fixed fishing structures and a tidal mill in the Léguer Estuary, Brittany, France
Mike Lobb et al.│ Trent and Peak Archaeology (United Kingdom)
A late Mesolithic and early Neolithic isotopic baseline for southern Scandinavia
Rikke Maring et al. │ Aarhus University (Denmark)
Plant processing in Mesolithic Ireland
Meriel McClatchie │ University College Dublin (Ireland)
From onboard to the kitchen: ‘the sea’ and colonial foodways in Quebec City (Canada)
Julie-Anne Bouchard Perron │ Historic England (United Kingdom)
Investigation of cereal remains at the defensive city site of Shichengzi (~40 BC-AD 75) on the Silk Road, Xinjiang, NW China
Pengfei Sheng et al. │ Fudan University (China)
Multi-scalar geoarchaeology and Viking landscapes: A bottom-up approach to Borgring
F. Sulas et al. │ Centre for Urban Network Evolution, Aarhus University (Denmark)
Method Development in Urban Geoarchaeology: the High-definition Study of
Viking-age Ribe, Denmark
Pernille L.K. Trant & Barbora Wouters │Aarhus University & Centre for Urban Network Evolution, Aarhus University (Denmark)
The Isotopic Analysis of Animal Individuals
Kathryn O. Weber │ Cornell University (USA)
15:30-17:00 │ SESSION 8: New Methodological Developments in Archaeological Science
Ancient DNA reveal Holocene environmental change with and without human impact
Inger Greve Alsos et al. │ The Arctic University of Norway (Norway)
Using sedaDNA and lipid biomarkers alongside palaeoenvironmental proxies for understanding wetland and lakeside archaeological site
Tony Brown et al. │ Tromsø Museum, UiT (Norway)
Ancient DNA reveals vegetation history near the archeological site in Varanger, northern Norway
Dilli P. Rijal et al. │ The Arctic University of Norway (Norway)
“Palaeoshellomics”: biomolecular identification of prehistoric pearl shell ornaments
Jorune Sakalauskaite et al. │ University of Turin (Italy)
Ancient Shell DNA, A New Proxy for Environmental Archeology Research
Clio Der Sarkissian & Ludovic Orlando │ Université de Toulouse (France)
Migration, exploitation and innovation: when and how did various Indo-European linguistic groups establish themselves in prehistoric Europe (8000-2000 BCE)?
Y.F. van Amerongen & G.J. Kroonen │ Leiden University (The Netherlands) & Copenhagen University (Denmark)
Email: AEA2018AARHUS@cas.au.dk
