IWAA 8 Programme
Tuesday, 23
rd
June
Modena – Law Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via San Geminiano 3
13.30 – 14.30 Registration
14.30 – 15.00 Opening ceremony and welcome greetings
15.00 – 16.30 Session 1:
Prof. Ahmed G. Fahmy Memorial Speaker
15.00 – 15.15
Katharina Neumann - Memorial of Ahmed G. Fahmy
15.15 – 15.30 Introduction to the Memorial Award to Winners
15.30 – 15.50
Grapes, raisins and wine? Archaeobotanical finds from the Monastery of St John the Little in Wadi El Natrun
El Dorry M.
15.50 – 16.10
Predynastic plant economy in the Nile Delta: archaeobotanical evidence from Tell el-Iswid
Attia E.S.A.E., Marinova E., Midant-Reyne B.
16.10 – 16.30
Archaeobotanical study of late Stone Age rock shelter AH1, Abeokuta, southwestern Nigeria
Orijemie E.A.
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 – 18.30 Session 2:
The Mediterranean Africa
17.00 – 17.15
The archaeobotanical remains of KV63, Luxor
Hamdy R.S., Fahmy A.
17.15 – 17.30
The role of crop-weeds in ancient Egyptian agriculture: a study of 3rd century BC remains from Giza
Malleson C.
17.30 – 17.45
Archaeobotanical study of plant diversity at Early Dynastic Helwan
(3100-2600 BC - Egypt)
Ahmed A.M.,
Fahmy A., Hamdy R.S.
17.45 – 18.00
The archaeobotanical analysis at Amheida (
Dakhleh Oasis -
Egypt), preliminary results
Caracuta V., Fiorentino G., Davoli P., Bagnall R.
18.00 – 18.15
Plant economy during the Islamic period: seed and wood remains from the sites of Rirha and Îgîlîz (Morocco)
Ruas M.P., Ivorra S.
18.15 – 18.30
Plant resource exploitation at the Gueldaman GLD1 cave (Algeria): archaeobotanical data from the Late Glacial to the Middle Holocene
Carrión Marco Y., Kherbouche F., Pérez Jordà G., Peña-Chocarro L., Hachi S.
Wednesday, 24th June
Modena – Law Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via San Geminiano 3
09.00 – 12.00 Session 3:
Archaeology and Palaecology: integrated methods
9.00 – 9.15
Palaeoenvironments at Sibudu Cave, South Africa: preliminary results from phytoliths
Murungi M.L., Bamford M.K.
9.15 – 9.30
Wood and bark phytoliths of West African woody plants
Collura L.V., Neumann K.
9.30 – 9.45
Towards the identification of millet crop by-products
Out W., Madella M.
9.45 – 10.00
The enigma of Iron Age plant subsistence in the Inner Congo Basin
Eichhorn B., Neumann K.
10.00 – 10.15
The potential of crop isotopes to identify past manuring practices in arid regions
Styring A., Hmimsa Y., Ater M., Bogaard A.
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 11.00
A study of archaeological charcoal from Chigaramboni archaeo-metallurgical site
Chikumbirike J., Bamford M., Esterhuysen A.
11.00 – 11.15
Species responses to environmental gradients in semi-desert zone of Sudan: calibrating recent vegetation data for further archaeobotanical reconstructions
Pokorná A., Kuncová K.
11.15 – 11.30
The translocation of useful trees in African prehistory
Blench R.
11.30 – 11.45
“An Enchanted Garden”: repeat photography and the flora of Great Zimbabwe
Sievers C., Wintjes J.
11.45 – 12.00
A multi-proxy microbotanical record from Mtwapa Creek, Kenya: critically approaching issues of data discord and equifinality
Szymanski R.M.
Modena – Cultural complex of ex convent San Paolo, via Selmi 81
12.00 – 12.30 Poster session
12.30 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 16.30 Practical session and visit to the exhibition ‘Plants and Africa. The Herbarium Chiovenda of the Botanical Garden of Modena’
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break
17:00 – 20:00 Facultative program
(visit to the Musei Civici and to the historical centre of Modena)
20:30 – Beneficence Dinner at the Botanical Garden of Modena
Thursday, 25th June
8.15 – Meeting to move to Reggio Emilia (bus transfer)
Reggio Emilia – Aula D2 Ex Caserma Zucchi, via Allegri
09.30 – 12.30 Session 4:
Archaeo and Ethnobotany: food, fuel and fields
9.30 – 9.45
Agriculture & wild plant use in the Middle Senegal river valley, ca. 800 BCE - 1000 CE
Gallagher D., McIntosh S., Murray S.
9.45 – 10.00
Archaeobotany in the Limpopo province: the Siege of Historic Cave, AD 1854
Hardwick S.
10.00 – 10.15
The Archaeobotany of agricultural resilience at Engaruka, northern Tanzania
Thornton-Barnett S.
10.15 – 10.30
Mapping the history of African agricultural systems
Widgren M.
10.30 – 10.45
Cooking and crafting at Songo Mnara, Tanzania (14th-15th century): evidence from macrobotanical remains
Walshaw S.
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.15
Toward an Archaeobotany of food security in Africa
Logan A.
11.15– 11.30
New perspectives on the origins of Coffea arabica in Southwest Ethiopia
Hildebrand E., Brandt S., Bekele E.
11.30 – 11.45
Cottoning on to cotton (Gossypium spp.) in Arabia and Africa during Antiquity
Bouchaud C., Clapham A., Newton C., Tallet G., Thanheiser U.
11.45 – 12.00
Sorghum
domestication revisited
Stevens C. J., Fuller D. Q.
12.00 – 12.15
Cereals and agricultural practices in northern Sudan, past and present
Ryan P., Homewood K.
12.15 – 12.30
The processing of hulled barley in Kerma (Sudan)
Cappers R.T.J.
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.00 visit to the historical center of Reggio Emilia (Musei Civici, Sala del Tricolore, Archivio Reggio Emilia-Africa)
16.30 – 19.00
Fieldtrip (Archaeological Park "Terramara of Montale")
Friday, 26
th
June
Modena – Law Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via San Geminiano 3
09.30 – 13.00 Session 5:
Climate and Agrarian-Cultural Landscapes
9.30 – 9.45 Memorial of Lydia Zapata by Leonor Pena-Chocarro
9.45 – 10.00
Epipalaeolithic plant use in North-Western Africa: macrobotanical evidences of food and basketry at Iberomaurusian and Capsian sites in Morocco and Tunisia
Morales J., Zapata L., Peña-Chocarro L., Mulazzani S., Barton N., Humphrey L., Bouzouggar A. , Linstädter J. , Belhouchet L.
10.00 – 10.15
The Landscape shaping of pre-Saharan Tunisia during the Holocene: climate changes and anthropogenic impact during the last 7kyr
Jaouadi S., Lebreton V., Combourieu-Nebout N., Mannai-Tayech B.
10.15 – 10.30
Filling the gap: new archaeobotanical evidence for 3rd-1st millennium BCE agricultural economy in Sudan and Ethiopia
Beldados A., D’Andrea A. C., Manzo A.
10.30 – 10.45
Ancient agricultural economy in the Horn of Africa: new evidence from grinding-stones and stable isotopes
D’Andrea A. C., Fahmy A.G., Perry L., Richards M. P., Darcus L., Toffolo M., Attia E.S.A.E.
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 11.30
From heyday to demise – Tracing human impact of the Nok Culture in central Nigeria in the 1st millennium BCE
Höhn A., Neumann K.
11.30 – 11.45
A palynological study of an archaeological deposit in Motako, southwestern Nigeria
Daraojimba K. C., Oyelaran P. A., Pinto Da Luz C. F., De Barros A. M., Cordeiro J.
11.45 – 12.00
Combined culture-vegetation-climate dynamics in the African Tropics: palaeoenvironmental assessment of Late Iron Age vegetation change in the Ngotto Forest, Central African Republic
Kiahtipes C. A.
12.00 – 12.15
Cereal farming and early urbanism in Northern Benin: archaeobotanical results from 12 sites
Champion L., Fuller D.Q.
12.15 – 12.30
Gatherers with grasses: why is grass seed consumption overlooked in southern African hunter-gatherer archaeology?
Nic Eoin L.
12.30 – 13.00 Final discussion and conclusions
