Monday, December 12: Informal get-together

On Monday evening, we'll meet at the brewery and restaurant Bryggeriet Sct. Clemens in downtown Aarhus for an informal get-together. We have booked it from 7pm. You are welcome to have your dinner there, or just a beer or snacks. The address is Kannikegade 10-12, next to the cathedral and theatre.

Programme and book of abstracts

Please click on the image below to download the programme, and here for the book of abstracts!

Oral Presentations

Teija Alenius: Neolithic land-use in the Northern Boreal Zone: High-resolution multiproxy analyses from Lake Huhdasjärvi, south-eastern Finland
Malou Blank, Emma Svensson: Migration and mobility in western Sweden during the Late Neolithic
Thomas Birch: A multifaceted approach to standardised artefacts: combining traditional archaeological, geometric morphometric (GMM) and material analyses of the Havor lance type
Renée Enevold, Bent Vad Odgaard: Promising method advancement in palynology: a supplement to pollen analysis
Ricardo Fernandes: Proposal of an integrated approach to the reconstruction of past human lifeways
Maiken Hemme Bro-Jørgensen: Ancient DNA analysis of Scandinavian medieval drinking horns and the horn of the last aurochs bull
Rowan Jackson: Perspectives from the past: archaeology’s contribution to contemporary climate change adaptation theory
Jane Jansen, Karin Lund: NN
Mathias Jensen, Tõnno Jonuks, Peter Bye-Jensen, Mikael Manninen, Kristiina Johanson, Felix Riede: A Knife's Tale: A multi-methodological analysis of a Mesolithic slotted bone dagger
Catherine Jessen: The changing landscapes of a transgressive coastline: sea level rise and cultural activity east of Rødbyhavn, southern Denmark
Leif Jonsson, Emma Maltin: Traces of preserved fish in Nya Lödöse, Sweden (1473-1624). An example of an interdisciplinary approach to zooarchaeological research
Arne Jouttijärvi: More than numbers. Integrating analytical data in the archaeological interpretation
Eberhard H. Lehmann, David Mannes: New approaches for the study of cultural heritage objects by means of neutron imaging methods
P.E. Lindelof, A. Fedrigo, A.R. Williams, L. Jørgensen, Peter Pentz, D. Bausenwein, B. Schillinger, F. Grazzi, and K. Lefmann: Viking Age swords studied with neutrons
Markku Oinonen, Teija Alenius, Laura Arppe, Heli Etu-Sihvola, Kristiina Mannermaa, Päivi Onkamo, Jukka Palo, Antti Sajantila, Tarja Sundell, Santeri Vanhanen and Anna Wessman: Levänluhta water burial through radiocarbon and isotopic data
Ester Oras, Thomas F.G. Higham, Lucy J.E. Cramp & Ian D. Bull: Revealing object biography with archaeological sciences: a study of Roman bronze lamp from Kavastu (Estonia)
Welmoed A. Out, Kirsti Hänninen, Jannie H. Larsen, Caroline Vermeeren: The potential of waterlogged wood to reconstruct woodland management
Bente Philippsen, Per Åke Persson: The cuisine of the Pitted Ware Culture. Stable isotope analysis and radiocarbon dating in the context of a multidisciplinary project
Thomas Rose, Sabine Klein & Heidi E. Höfer: Lead isotope signatures of ores corrupted by gangue minerals: a plea for more geochemistry in archaeometallurgy
Federica Sulas, Innocent Pikirayi and Elton M. Sagiya: Geoarchaeology of water management at Great Zimbabwe
Marc Vander Linden: Beyond aDNA: multi-proxy approach of (Late) Neolithic demography
Susanne Østergaard, Marie Kanstrup, Eva Karina Enggaard Jørgensen, Sahra Talamo, Stig Bergmann Møller, Bente Springborg, Jesper Olsen, Marcello A. Mannino: Friend or foe? An isotopic investigation of a Late Medieval mass grave from Aalborg

Poster presentations

Miki Bopp-Ito, Sabine Deschler-Erb, Werner Vach, Jörg Schibler: Osteometric data reveal different size evolution of cattle between Central Plateau and Alpine regions in Bronze Age Switzerland
Otto Brinkkemper, Bertil van Os, Annelies van Hoesel, Tony van Brussel, Ricardo Fernandes: Are pre-treatments necessary to recover pre-burial isotopic values of charred plant samples?
Heli Etu-Sihvola, Hervé Bocherens, Aleksis Karme, Kristiina Mannermaa, Yuichi I. Naito, Elina Sahlstedt, Kati Salo, Heikki Suhonen, Jussi-Pekka Taavitsainen, Laura Arppe: What bones may tell? A multidisciplinary research on Late Iron Age Luistari cemetery in Finland
Ricardo Fernandes, Alexander Dreves, Vera Klontza-Jaklova, Gordon Cook: Addressing the controversy of the chronology of the Thera eruption through radiocarbon measurements of modern plants
Anna Fotakis, Beautrice Triozzi, Christian D. Kelstrup, Jesper V. Olsen, Rosa Boano, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Enrico Cappellini: Case Study: Proteomics on a Pre-Hispanic Mummy Head
Chiara G. M. Girotto: 'Neolithisation' – Tracing Neolithic economy in Northern Europe
Erlend Kirkeng Jørgensen: Interdisciplinary collaboration across the “two cultures” chasm: Managing epistemological challenges in archaeological science
Ioannis Kontopoulos, K. Penkman and M. J. Collins: Sample Preparation of Archaeological Bone for FTIR-ATR Analysis
Maria Lahtinen, Markku Oinonen, Miikka Tallavaara, James Walker and Peter Rowley-Conwy: Advance of farming in Finland – evidence from summarising pollen evidence
Rikke Maring, Felix Riede: Possible wild boar husbandry preceding the introduction of the domesticated pig. A carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of late Mesolithic wild boar from Denmark
M. Oinonen, L. Arppe, H. Bocherens, J. Kantanen, M. Lavento, K. Majander, A. Mittnik, P. Onkamo, V. Palonen, J. Uusitalo, A. Vasks, G. Zarina, S. Översti: Kivutkalns bronze-working centre in light of natural sciences and archaeology
Charlotte Primeau, Preben Homøe and Niels Lynnerup: Visualising evidence of infectious middle ear disease from CT scans of crania
Zufar Shakirov, Dilyara N. Shyamuratova: The use of fish remains as a marker of urban social status: Issues and results (based on material from Medieval Bilyar)
Zufar Shakirov: Anthropogenic impacts on the forest resources of the Volga and Kama rivers region in the Middle Ages (historical and archaeological aspects)
Krista Vajanto, Sanna Lipkin, Janne Ruokolainen: Blue textiles almost two millennia old from Northern Finland
Stephanie Wynne-Jones, Federica Sulas: Activity markers and household space in Swahili urban contexts: an integrated geoarchaeological approach
Theis Zetner Trolle Jensen: Species identification of Mesolithic bone revealed by ancient proteins
Luise Ørsted Brandt: Paleoproteomics and Polychromy: The identification of peptides from paint binders from the Palace of Apries, Egypt