The conference will be held at the
University of Nice Côte d’Azur
Saint Jean d’Angely Campus,
24 avenue des Diables bleues | Nice, France
PROGRAM
May 29thMay 30thMay 31stPosters | Th. 1Posters | Th. 2&3Posters | Th. 4&5
08:00 – 09:00 | Welcoming
08:00 – 09:00 | Registration & Coffee
| 09:00 – 09:20 | Opening |
| Knutsson H. & Knutsson K. |
Forty years of Technological and functional analyses of lithic assemblages from Scandinavian Holocene hunter-gatherers societies |
Theme 1: Methodology
| 09:20 – 10:40 | Presentations | Reference Collection |
| Chondrou D., Bofill M., Palomo A., Procopiou H., Ninou I. & Valamoti S.-M. | Grinding plant foods in prehistory: an integration of experimental and archaeological evidence on use-wear analysis | Oral presentation |
| Cristiani E., Caricola I., Zupancich A., Mutri G., Nunziante Cesaro S., Radini A. & Borić D. |
Palaeodiet and Hidden Foods: exploring the role of ground stone technology in the Mesolithic of South-East Europe through use-wear and residue analysis | Oral presentation |
| Caricola I., Hamon C., Breglia F., Larocca F. & Lemorini C. |
Prehistoric copper and iron ore mining strategies and the use-wear analysis of experimental macrolithics implements | Pecha Kucha |
| Li W. | Tracking traces on grinding tools from Jiahu site, China (7000-5500BC) | Pecha Kucha |
| Liu J., Yang X. & Chen H. | An Experimental Study of Use-wear on Hornfel Artifacts | Pecha Kucha |
| Wijnen J., Verbaas A. & Van Gijn A. |
Mimicking the Neolithic: long-term experiments with polished stone axes and adzes | Pecha Kucha |
10:40 – 11:00 | Coffee Break
| 11:00 – 12:40 |
Presentations | Reference Collection |
| Costamagno S., Philibert S., Chesnaux L. & Lacarrière J. |
Attempt to characterize the projectiles functioning and their projecting mode by the analysis of impact marks on the bones | Oral presentation |
| Gauvrit Roux E., Beyries S., Cattin M.-I. & Yahemdi Y. | Reflection around diagnostic impact scars based on experiments and analysis of backed bladelets from the Middle Magdalenian Period (La Marche, Vienne and La Grotte Blanchard, Indre) | Pecha Kucha |
| La Porta A. | Testing Middle Palaeolithic stone-tipped spears: throwing vs. thrusting experiments | Pecha Kucha |
| Tomasso S., Cnuts D. & Rots V. |
Around the fire: understanding the effect of heat exposure on hafting adhesive | Pecha Kucha |
| van Gijn A., Verbaas A., Groat N. & Jacobs L. | The life history of Early Celtic vessels: an experimental approach towards exploring the inferential limits of inferring pottery function | Oral presentation |
| Debels, P. | What’s on the menu? An experimental approach to the functional study of Neolithic potteries | Pecha Kucha |
| Fernández-Marchena J.-L., Pedergnana A. & Ollé A. | Talking to quartz. A use-wear approach through sequential experiments | Pecha Kucha |
| Gurova M. & Bonsall C. | Use-wear on pitchstone: fiction or challenge | Pecha Kucha |
| Díaz-Pérez S., Borel A. & Baena Preysler J. |
Rolling in the deep: rounding and preservation of use wear | Pecha Kucha |
| López-Tascón C., Mazo Perez C., González-Pumariega Solís M. & de la Rasilla Vives M. |
La Viña rock shelter: Engravings, experimentation and use-wear analysis | Pecha Kucha |
12:40 – 14:00 | Lunch
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Presentations | Reference Collection |
| Guzzo Falci C., Van Gijn A. & Hofman C. | Adorning the body in lowland South America: insights from the microscope | Pecha Kucha |
| Hoareau L., Binder D. & Beyries S. | Ornamental traditions during Epigravettian: techno-functional study of shell ornaments from Martin rockshelter (Alpes-Maritimes, France) | Pecha Kucha |
| Léglise S. | Tracelogical signatures on bird bones. Methodological questions | Pecha Kucha |
| Pfleging J., Iovita R. & Buchli J. | Influence of force and duration on stone tool wear: results form experiments with a force controlled robot | Pecha Kucha |
| Rogriguez A., Pfleging J., Kumar Behera R. & Iovita R. |
Abrasive wear formation in different lithic raw materials: a controlled tribological experiment | Pecha Kucha |
| Presentations | Instrumentation |
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| Macdonald D., Xie L. & Gallo T. |
Here’s the Dirt (II of II): Exploring the Applications of Quantitative Microscopy for Ground Stone Digging Tools | Oral presentation |
| Atkinson N. & Evans A. | Using free-form metrology to quantify edge damage of lithic material: Results and Method Development | Oral presentation |
| Ibáñez J. J., González Urquijo J. & Lazuén T. | Discriminating worked materials in use-wear analysis through confocal microscopy | Oral presentation |
| Stemp J. W. & Macdonald D. A. |
Making the Cut? Testing White-light Confocal Microscopy/Interferometry and Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy for Microscale Measurement of Stone Tool Edge | Pecha Kucha |
| Gosselin R. | An attempt to better distinguish the microwear polishes using Visible spectroscopy | Pecha Kucha |
| Bernard H. N., Melgar E., Manrique M. & Ruvalcaba J. L. |
El señor de las Limas: Traceology of the manufacturing techniques and mineralogical composition | Pecha Kucha |
| Martisius N. L., Sidera I., Steel T. E., McPherron S. P. & Schulz-Kornas E. |
A new methodology for understanding how bone wears using 3D surface texture analysis | Pecha Kucha |
16:00 – 16:40 | Coffee Break | Poster Session Theme 1
| 16:40 – 17:00 |
Posters | Plenary session: questions on Poster Session |
| 17:00 – 19:00 |
Presentations | Residues |
| Cnuts D., Peresani M., Purdue L., Porraz G., Soressi M., Tomasso A., Val A. & Rots V. |
Assessing residue preservation and identification on stone tool assemblages from four different Late Pleistocene sites | Oral presentation |
| Drieu L., Rageot M., Peche-Quilichini K., Lachenal T. & Regert M. |
Functional study of organic residues related to pottery vessels to explore exploitation of natural products during the Early Iron Age in Corsica | Oral presentation |
| Rageot M., van Gijn A., Verbaas A, Jacobs L. , Schorer B., Mötsch A., Stockhammer P. & Debono-Spiteri C. |
Beehive products and their role in craft and subsistence in central Europe during the Early Iron Age: experimental archaeology, biomolecular and use‐wear approaches | Oral presentation |
| Stefenson B. | Is that Roo on the Barbeque? Using Use-Wear, Residue Analysis and Biochemical Staining to identify varied Aboriginal subsistence practices across two Australian open context sites | Oral presentation |
| Chevalier A., Ivanova M., Bánnfy E. & Vukovic J. |
First balkan farmers foodways: what plant residues on grinding stone tools can tell us, and what they cannot tell! | Pecha Kucha |
| Presentations | Combined Analysis |
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| Rots V. | Integrating use-wear, residue analysis and chemical approaches in addressing questions of hafting in the Palaeolithic | Oral presentation |
| Chesnaux L., Fernande P., Rué M., Taylor A. & Bodu P. |
Post-depositional processing and flint traceology. Example of the hidding place of Magdaleninan blades from “Les Brie, Appoigny” (Yonne, France) | Oral presentation |
| Monnier G. | FTIR microspectroscopy as a tool for the documentation of degraded residues on stone artifacts | Pecha Kucha |
08:00 – 09:00 | Resgistration & Coffee
Theme 2: From the tool to function
| 09:00 – 10:40 | Presentations | From the tool to function |
| Mansur M E., Christensen M. & Legoupil D. |
Use and signification of a shell knife. A case study from a burial context in western Patagonian archipelagos | Oral Presentation |
| Fanti L., Drieu L., Lugliè C. & Regert M. |
Linking all the traces to understand use-behaviours. A multidisciplinary functional analysis of Neolithic pottery from Sardinia (Italy) | Oral Presentation |
| Iaia C. & Dolfini A. | Exploring early metal technology: a wear analysis approach | Oral Presentation |
| Igreja M. | Tracking the dynamics of cultural and behavioral changes of the MSA in South Africa : insights from use-wear analysis of Still Bay bifacial points from Diepkloof Rock Shelter (South Africa) | Oral Presentation |
| Ruta G., Rots V., Romandini M., Duches R. & Peresani M. |
Projectile points vs tools for dental treatment? From the impact fracture analysis to a new perspective of research: the case of Riparo Villabruna (Belluno – Italy) | Pecha Kucha |
| Calvo Gomez J., Marchand G. & Cuenca Solana D. |
Mesolithic transversal arrowheads from the Atlantic coast of France and northern Spain: functional approach through the use-wear methodology | Pecha Kucha |
| Iwaze A. | Osseous material processing in the earliest microblade industry in the Japanese Archipelago | Pecha Kucha |
| Hull J. | Use-wear analysis and the chaîne opératoire of osseous projectiles in southern Vietnam | Pecha Kucha |
| Malyutina A. | Technological and functional features of the tools made from boar’s tusks from peat-bog settlements of the Northwest of Russia and the Northern Belarus (IV-II mil. BC) | Pecha Kucha |
10:40 – 11:00 | Coffee Break
| 11:00 – 12:40 | Presentations | From the tool to function |
| Sorensen A. & Claud E. | A tradition of Middle Palaeolithic fire making inferred from microwear analysis | Oral Presentation |
| Chen H. , Hou A.-M. & Lian H. |
Determination of use-wear evidence on quartzite tools: Experimental and archaeological studies in North China | Pecha Kucha |
| Márquez, B., Baquedano, E., Arsuaga, J. L. & Pérez-González, A. |
Insight into the use of the quartz small mousterian tools at the camp site of Navalmaíllo rock shelter (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid, Spain) | Pecha Kucha |
| Mutri G. | Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer’s wide spectrum economy. A view from Cyrenaiaca | Pecha Kucha |
| Tomasso A. & Rots V. | Why? Functional or technical motivations for the production of twisted blades during the Upper Palaeolithic | Pecha Kucha |
| A. Vinet | Activities at the Çatalhöyük West Mound. Preliminary results of the functional study of the obsidian assemblage | Pecha Kucha |
| Dietrich L., Dietrich O., Höhler-Brockmann H., Heeb J. & Schäkel N. |
Plant food management as a prerequisite for monumental building at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe | Oral Presentation |
| Wallis L., Huntley J. Stephenson B. & Davis A. |
Grindstones, residues, rock art and pigments in the Central Pilbara of Western Australia | Oral Presentation |
| Breukel, T.W.,Van Gijn A.L. & Hofman C.L. |
Greenstone axes from the site of Pearls, Grenada: a field-based microwear approach | Pecha Kucha |
| Roy A. | More than one way to skin a cat’: A preliminary assessment of British perforated stone implements | Pecha Kucha |
| Metzger M. | Functional Analysis of Polished-edge Discoidal Knives of the British Isles | Pecha Kucha |
12:40 – 14:00 | Lunch
Theme 3: Toward Technical Behaviours
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Presentations | Toward Technical Behaviours |
| Lemorini C., Cristiani E., Nunziante Cesaro S., Venditti F., Zupancich A., Barkai R. & Gophe A. |
The role of fire in Middle Pleistocene hominin groups: evidence from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Qesem Cave (Israel) | Oral Presentation |
| Fullagar R. & Hayes E. | Proof of function: evidence for bone breaking tools at the 130,000-year-old Cerutti Mastodon site, California | Oral Presentation |
| Płonka T., Kufel-Diakowska B. & Diakowski M. |
Technology and rite in the Late Palaeolithic: what do technological and usewear traces tell us about symbolic behaviour of hunter-gatherers? | Oral Presentation |
| Volkov P. & Lbova, L. |
Upper Paleolithic stone tools in the mobile art objects production from the North Asia (Mal’ta-site) | Oral Presentation |
| Bravo G., Troncoso A. & Santander B. |
Bone technology among the late Holocene coastal hunter-gatherers on the South American Pacific coast. The case of Punta Teatinos (30 ° South Lat.), Semiarid North of Chile | Pecha Kucha |
| Alarashi H. & Pichon F. | Stone bead crafts in the Neolithic Near East: technological Known-how and specialization | Oral Presentation |
| Hamon C. , Fromont N., Gaume E., Charraud F. & Germain C. |
From the quarry to the village: the manufacture of schist bracelets in the early Neolithic of north-western France | Oral Presentation |
| Gaal E. G. & De Angelis H. | Lithic artifacts and the production of metallic goods. A case of study in northwestern Argentin | Pecha Kucha |
| Rodríguez-Santos F. J., Cuenca Solana D., Nonza-Micaelli A., Martín-Socas D., Camalich Massieu M. D., lop García X. & Salanova L. |
Use of bone and shell tools in pottery production of the El Toro cave (Andalusia, Spain) | Pecha Kucha |
| Tarifa Mateo N., Clop García X. Rosell Melé A., Gassiot Ballbé E. & Clemente Conte I. |
Organic Residue Analysis of Prehistoric Pottery from a Pyrenean Settlement: Coro Trasito (5300-1200 cal BC) (Huesca, Spain) | Pecha Kucha |
16:00 – 16:40 | Coffee Break | Poster Session Themes 2 & 3
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Posters | Plenary session: questions on Poster Session |
| 17:00 – 19:00 |
Presentations | Toward Technical Behaviours |
| Yamaoka T. | Diversified Analyses of Trapezoids in the Initial Early Upper Paleolithic on the Japanese Islands | Oral Presentation |
| Coppe J., Taipale N., Touzé O., Bodu P., Chiotti L. & Rots V. |
New light on the variability of hunting equipment in the Gravettian | Oral Presentation |
| Smallwood A. M., Pevny C. D., & Jennings T. A. |
Explaining shifts in Dalton Paleoindian adaptations at the end of the Pleistocene through usewear and technological organization analyses | Pecha Kucha |
| Taipale N., Tomasso S., Coppe J., Touzé O., & Veerle Rots V. |
Untangling tangs: Implications of tanged stone tool morphologies for hafting and raw material use in the Palaeolithic | Oral Presentation |
| Zupancich A., Bourguignon L., Lemorini C., Texier P-J., Baena X., Barkai R. & Gopher A. |
Quina Scrapers’ Edge Delineation as Evidence of Adaptation and Specialisation in the Levantine Acheulo Yabrudian and European Middle Palaeolithic | Oral Presentation |
| Mazzucco, N., Gibaja, J.F., & Ibáñez, J.J. |
A Long-term Perspective on Agricultural Technologies: design, evolution and diffusion of Neolithic harvesting tools in the central west Mediterranean (7th-3rd mill. cal BC) | Oral Presentation |
| Gibaja J, Masclans A., Marreiros J, Ortega D., Soler J & Soler N. |
Lithic technology, use-wear analysis and raw material sourcing from the Gravettian occupation of Arbreda Cave (Serinyà, Catalunya, Spain), and its contribution to understanding the lithic variability during the Gravettian in Iberian Peninsula | Oral Presentation |
| Guibert-Cardin J., Capellari F., Lhomme V., Connet N., Beyries S. & Nicoud E. |
Lower Palaeolithic stone tools: a techno-functional original study lead on Soucy 3P serie (Yonne, France) | Pecha Kucha |
| Messineo P. G. & Pal N. | Analysis of production sequences and use practices in two lithic assemblages of the middle Holocene: laguna de Los Pampas and Cabeza de Buey 2 archaeological sites (Central pampean dunefields, Argentina) | Pecha Kucha |
| Nærøy A. J. | Use-wear analysis on quartz tools – a Norwegian Middle Neolithic site study | Pecha Kucha |
19:00 | AWRANA Social Meeting
20:00 | Social Diner
08:00 – 09:00 | Resgistration & Coffee
Theme 4: Settlement Pattern Organization
| 9:00 – 11:40 | Presentations | Settlement Pattern Organization |
| Asryan L., Olle A. & Moloney N. | Stone tools in action: Functional study results from Middle to early Upper Pleistocene Azokh 1 Cave site (Southern Caucasus) | Pecha Kucha |
| Belousova, N. E. & Fedorchenka A. Y. |
Modeling of Initial Upper Paleolithic spatial organization in the Kara-Bom site | Oral Presentation |
| Kabaciński J., Mugaj J., & Winiarska-Kabacińska M. |
Toward a comprehensive reconstruction of activities pattern and seasonality. A case study of Hamburgian occupation at Mirkowice, Western Poland | Oral Presentation |
| Little A., Conneller C. & Milner N. |
Making Space at Star Carr | Oral Presentation |
| Halbrucker E., Messiaen L., Teetaert D. & Crombé Ph. |
Integrated research of Final Mesolithic sites in Northern Belgium | Oral Presentation |
| Vinsentin D., Fontana L. , Philibert S. & Valdeyron N |
Site functional variability and settlement systems in the Sauveterrian (Southern France and Northern Italy) | Oral Presentation |
| Tributes to Keeley | |
10:40 – 11:00 | Coffee Break
| 11:00 – 12:40 | Presentations | Settlement Pattern Organization |
| Tsoraki C., Lemorini C. & D’Errico F. |
Unravelling depositional biographies at Neolithic Çatalhöyük: the contribution of use-wear analysis to the understanding of ritual practice |
| Clemente Conte I., Rojo Guerra M. A., Mozota Helgueras M., Tejedor Rodríguez C., Gassiot Ballbè E., García Martínez de Lagrán I., Rey Lanaspa J., Arcusa Magallón H., Royo Guillén J. I. & Garrido Pena R. |
Use of bone tools in the ancient Neolithic of central Pyrenees: the case of Trocs and Coro Trasito | Oral Presentation |
| Cayol N., Maigrot Y. | Tracking the function of monumental enclosure from the Middle Neolithic in France: The case of Passel “le Vivier” (Oise) | Oral Presentation |
| Chan B. | Life in the heart of Neolithic Orkney: the choreography of daily practice at the settlement of Barnhouse | Oral Presentation |
| Mallia-Gues S. | One too few, one too many: flint use practices in the Irish Neolithic (3750-3400 cal BC) | Pecha Kucha |
| Zagorodnia O. | Functional analysis of metalproduction tools from the Late Bronze Age of Eastern Ukraine | Oral Presentation |
| Alvarez A., Pal N. & Briz Godino I. |
Technological strategies and spatial organization the uttermost part of South America during Late Holocene: a use-wear approach | Oral Presentation |
| Longo L. & Skakun N. |
Multi-scalar approach to the study of EUP grinding stones | Oral Presentation | Theme 1 |
12:40 – 14:00 | Lunch
Theme 5: Building Socio-Economic System
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Presentations | Building Socio-Economic System |
| Jacquier J. | Plant and wood processing at the end of the Lateglacial through use-wear analysis of flint artifacts | Oral Presentation |
| Gueret C., Gassin B., Dachy T., Perrin Th., Gibaja J. F. & Lubell D. |
Understanding the emergence of the Upper Capsian in the 7th millennium: functional perspective on a major moment in the prehistory of Maghreb | Oral Presentation |
| Grosman-Yaroslavski I. | Natufian ‘agriculture’ and cereal domestication rates revealed through large-scale use-wear analysis of sickle blades from el-Wad terrace (Mount Carmel, northern Israel) and Salibiya I (southern Jordan Valley, southern Israel) | Oral Presentation |
| Christidou R. | Hare tibiae utilization at Güvercinkayası, Cappadocia | Oral Presentation |
| Kufel-Diakowska B. & Wilk S. | Lithic microliths in graves of the younger Danubian cultures in Poland – grave goods or signs of violence | Oral Presentation |
| Masclans Latorre A., Gibaja Bao J. F. & Mozota M. |
Interpreting Neolithic sexual division of labour through lithic and bone use-wear analysis | Oral Presentation |
| López Rodríguez M.C., Martín Lerma I., Gutiérrez Sáez C., Muñoz Moro P., Gibaja Bao, J.F., Herrero Corral A.M., Flores Fernández, R. & Garrido Pena, R. |
Functional study of the Copper Age lithic and metallic grave goods of the Humanejos cemetery (Parla, Madrid) | Oral Presentation |
| Forte V. | Craft Identities in Copper Age Communities: results from a multidisciplinary approach to the pottery production of Central Italy | Oral Presentation |
| Kaňáková L. | Crystallization of warrior elites on the threshold of the Bronze Age. Multifocal analysis of lithic, bone and antler industry in its social roles, life cycles, use wear and symbolic depositions | Oral Presentation |
16:00 – 16:40 | Coffee Break | Poster Session Themes 2 & 3
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Poster Session | Plenary session: questions on Poster Session |
| Fuentes R., Ono R., Nakajima N., Nishizawa H., Siswanto J, Carlos J. & Pawlik A. |
Prehistoric Technology and Island Adaptation in Leang Sarru Rockshelter, Talaud Island, Northern Sulawesi | Oral Presentation |
| Silvestre R. & Buc N. | Beyond Use Wear Patterns: Technological responses to social and environmental stress in the Paraná Basin during the late Holocene, Argentina | Oral Presentation |
| Girya E. Yu. | Palaeolithic site Kostyonki 1 (the upper layer) as a reference site and source for development of experimental and traceological methods in Russian archaeology | Oral Presentation |
17:00 | Conclusions
May 29th, 2018 | Poster Session Theme 1
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Theme 1 | Methodology |
| Parmigiani V., Franch A., Alvarez Soncini, M., De Angelis H. & Mansur M.-E. |
Stones, bones and reeds. Operating chains in manufacture and use of artifacts for the production of basketry in the societies of Tierra del Fuego |
| De Stefanis C. & Beyries S. | Use-wear analysis of plant processing in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of south-east of France: The contribution of ethnography |
| De Nascimentos Rodrigues F. |
Many rocks, many functions? Functional studies of different rock types in South Brazilian Prehistory |
| Bello-Alonso P., J Ríos-Garaizar J., Santonja M., Panera J., Rubio-Jara S., Rojas R. & Pérez-González A. |
First experimental study with basalt for the use-wear analysis of Acheulean lithic industry of Thiongo Korongo site (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania). |
| Gneisinger W., Calandre I. & Marreiros J. |
Experimental design and method validation: rethinking the contribution of experimental replication in use-wear studies. |
| Xie L., Gallo T. & Macdonald D. |
Here’s the Dirt (I of II): Advancing Methods for Use-wear Analysis on Earth-Working Tools Crafted from Heterogeneous Raw Materials. |
| Miller M. | Post-Depositional Ridge Rounding Due to Movement Through Soil on Banded Ironstone: Implications for site formation processes at the Fauresmith site of Bestwood, South Africa. |
| Orłowska J. | The same or different? Experimenting with the influence of peat environment on use-wear traces on antler tools. |
| Beyries S. , De Stefanis C. & Gauvrit Roux E. |
Hide working experimentation based on ethnographic process. |
| Doyle S. & Vinet A. | How to butcher a goat: An experimental and use-wear study using obsidian replicas. |
| Gentile V. | Disposable after use? Assessing the use of bronze weaponry from ‘ritual depositions’ contexts. |
| Tochtrop E. & Macdonald D. | In the Prehistoric Kitchen with Stone Tools: Identification of multifunctional tools through use-wear analysis. |
| Oudouche H., Vaquero Rodriguez M. & Peretto C. | Exploring the function of Kombewa flakes in Middle Palaeolithic: Contribution of the Experimentation |
| Taller A. | Towards establishing a reference collection for the non-projectile related use of Upper Palaeolithic backed artefacts – an experimental protocol for Magdalenian backed pieces. |
| Puddu V. & Lugliè C. | Neolithic shell bracelets from Cuccuru is Arrius (Sardinia, Italy): an experimental approach to manufacture and use-wear traces. |
| Stelmasiak M. | Verification of the use-wear traces on bone awls and stiluses – an experimental study. |
| Viallet C. | An experimental repository of macro-wear to contribute to the apprehension of the gesture in the Middle Pleistocene. |
| Shaodong Z. | The application of use wear analysis in the study of the ground stone tools. |
| Djellal Y. & Bouzouggar A. | Experimental approach for functional anlaysis of quartzite lithic tools |
| Böhm S., Elburg R., Hein W. & Probst-Böhm A. |
Ergersheim Experiments 2011 – 2018 |
| Probst-Böhm A. | Determining function and significance of bone tools through use wear analysis. |
| Marreiros J., Gneisinger W. & Calandra I. |
The laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments (TraCEr), MONREPOS-RGZM: rethinking experimental design, variable control and use-wear quantification. |
| Federova D. N. | Application of modern methods in the study of petroglyphs in North-West Russia. |
| Halbrucker E., Fiers G., de Kock T., Cnudde V. & Crombé Ph. |
Recent developments in quantitative microwear analysis using non-conventional 3D techniques. |
| Calandra I., Gneisinger W. & Marreiros J. |
Beyond qualitative use-wear: how to move traceology toward a standardized and reproducible science? |
| Hamon C. , Reguer S. , Pailler Y., Brisotto V. & Bellot-Gurlet L. |
Looking for the earliest bronze metallurgists in Western Europe (end of the 3rd – beginning of the 2nd millenium BC): use-wear and XRF application on a macrolithic toolkit from Kersulec at Ploneour-Lanvern (Brittany, France). |
| Longo L. | Experimental processing of Typharhizomes. |
| Sirvent Cañada L. M., Jardón Giner P., Bencomo Viala M. & Hortelano Piqueras L. |
Graphic representation of use-wear analysis on flint tools. |
| Shibutani A. | Beyond Archaeological Methods: Microscopic Approaches to Japanese Historical Documents Ayako Shibutani (National Museum of Japanese history, Japan) |
| Bordes L., Prinsloo L., Fullagar R., Hayes E., Sutikna T. & Roberts B. |
Determining micro-residue origins on stone tools with Raman microscopy: Use related and contamination micro-residues on Liang Bua artefacts. |
| Stefenson B. | Linking People and Landscapes. |
| Cristiani E., Caricola I., Mutri G., Zupancich A. & Nunziante Cesaro S. |
Towards a comprehensive cultural and functional biography of forager ground stone tools. |
| Rueff B. | Function of objects, function of spaces? Carbon deposits as burning processes and light indicators in minoan lamps |
| Coşkunsu G., Iovino M. R. & Healey E. |
Purpose Unknown: A Study of Reflective Mirror-like Objects of Obsidian Found in Anatolia and the Near East |
May 30th, 2018 | Poster Session Theme 2
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Theme 2 | From the tool to function |
| Wojtczak D. | Functional studies of stone tools from the Mousterian site of La Roche-Cotard in Langeais (Indre-et-Loire, France). |
| Marinelli F., Lemorini C., Zampetti D. & Parenti F. |
Small tools within Mode 2 technology in the Lower Palaeolithic of Italy: use-wear analysis of the chipped stone tools assemblage of the Latium site of Fontana Ranuccio (Italy). |
| Clemente Conte I., Barrena Tocino A, Fernández Ropero C., Ramos Muñoz J., & Domínguez-Bella S. |
Use-wear analysis of ‘scrapers and points’ from the Abrigo de Benzu (Ceuta). |
| Fedorchenko A. Y., & Kozlikin M. B. |
Upper Paleolithic bone tools and personal ornaments of Denisova cave: technological and traceological aspects. |
| Mesa M., Claud E., Brenet M., Guégan S.,Pasque V., & Prodéo F. |
Interaction flint tools / passive macrotools in dolerite at solutrean open-air site of Landry (Boulazac, Dordogne, France). |
| Bradfield J. & Antonites A. | Bone hoes from the Middle Iron Age, Limpopo Province, South Africa. |
| Mineo, M., Mazzucco, N., Gibaja, J.F.& Mozota, M. |
‘Sabres’ from the Neolithic. The Sickles from La Marmotta. |
| Skakun N., Plisson H., Zhilin M.G. & Terekhina V.V. |
Knives for harvesting grass from Mesolithic site Ivanovskoye 7, Upper Volga. |
| Melosu B. | Use-Wear Analysis of final Neolithic flint blades in Sardinia, Italy. |
| Tetruahvili A. | Sickles from Grakliani Hill. |
| Hilbert Y. H. & Clemente-Conte I. | Functional and technological analysis of Late Paleolithic ‘burins’ from the Early Holocene of Dhofar, Oman. |
| Huidobro Marin C. | The role of bifacial reduction in the Englefield cultural complex, a maritime hunter-gatherer society from Southernmost Patagonia (ca. 6.500-5.200 BP). Contribution of the use wear analysis of the stone tools from Bahia Colorada, Englefield Island |
| Levato C., Vaxavanopoulos M. Hamon C., Koukouli-Chrysanthaki C., & Stöllner T. |
Mining macro-lithic tools from Tzines Mines (Thasos Island – Greece). Preliminary observations on use-wear traces. |
| Muñoz Moro P., Gutiérrez Sáez C., López Rodríguez M.C., Martín Lerma I., Gibaja Bao J.F., Herrero Corral A.M., Flores Fernández R. & Garrido Pena R. |
Functional study of the metallic grave goods from the Bell Beaker tombs of the Humanejos site (Parla, Madrid). |
| Osipowicz G. & Bosiak M. | Function of the Mesolithic bâtons percés: problem solved? |
| Pedergnana, A. | A multi-differential approach to lithic studies: the combination of techno-functional and use-wear analyses. |
| Smidovčinová N. | Use-wear Analysis of Bone Ice Skates. |
| Cheval C. | Phantom productions – Use-wear analyses of tools to infer on disappeared production: the case of the fibers used during Prehistory. |
| Stellacci S. M. | Ochre and hard animal material tools: practical use and symbolic value. A case study from the Neolithic site Masseria Fragella in Tavoliere (Puglia, Italy). |
| Saurel M. | Beyond use-wear traces on vessels and utensils : aspects of Iron Age society in Champagne (France). |
| Taranto S. | A first assessment of the technological and functional traces on the pottery surface of the husking trays. |
| Presnyakova D., Porraz G. & Archer W. |
Context, recovery and preliminary analyses of bifacial tools from the 2015-2017 excavations of the Acheulean deposits at Montagu Cave, Western Cape, South Africa |
May 30th, 2018 | Poster Session Theme 3
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Theme 3 | Toward Technical Behaviours |
| Alarashi A. | Technological management of Neolithic cowrie shell beads: experiments and microwear analyses. |
| Zen C., Fontana F., De Stefanis C., Hoareau L. & Beyries S. |
Specialized tools from a multi-functional area: the Late Epigravettian perforators of Riparo Tagliente (Verona, Italy). |
| Raisen T. | Axes in action : investigating Variations in Production, Hafting and Geographical Distribution of Nøstvet Axe-heads from the Mesolithic of South-Western Norway through Use-wear Analysis, Reproduction and Experimentation. |
| Verbaas A. | Site use and daily life in the late-Mesolithic site of Sumar in the North of the Netherlands. |
| Venditti F., Barkai R. & Gopher A. |
A Ready-to-use small cutlery toolkit: Planned and integrated subsistence behaviour at Qesem Cave (Israel). |
| Vučković V. | The Neolithic tools with abrasive wear traces from the Central Balkans. |
| Papagiannaki L., Perlès C. & Beyries S. |
Use-wear analysis of a greek neolithic assemblage: first results and conclusions. |
| Montagne M.P. | Fish processing evidences at Early Bronze age Mitrou (Greece) thyrough use-wear analysis of obsidian tools |
| Xhauflair H.& Horne D. | Exploring the function of exceptionally preserved wooden tools at the Late Bronze Age site of Must Farm, Cambridgeshire, UK |
May 31st, 2018 | Poster Session Theme 4
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Theme 4 | Settlement Pattern Organization |
| Solodenko N., Barkai R. Gopher A. & Lemorini C. |
Late Lower Paleolithic tools in action: Preliminary results of Amudian assemblage from Qesem cave, Israel. |
| Clemente-Conte I. & Ángel Fano M. |
Use-wear analysis of Magdalenian lithic tools from El Horno Cave (Cantabria, North Iberia). |
| Hernández H. H., Gibaja J. F. & Alday A. |
Economic processes in Late Pleistocene rock shelters. Preliminary results of a functional analysis of an Epipalaeolithic lithic assemblage from Atxoste site (Upper Ebro Valley, Iberia). |
| Osipowicz G. | ”Large houses” in the Mesolithic of the Polish Lands? A case of the Ludowice 6 site. The significance of the use-wear analysis for the settlement studies. |
| Pal N., Messineo P. & Alvarez M. |
Stone tools and ritual uses: analysis of the lithic assemblage of Calera site (northwest of Tandilia hills, Pampa grassland, Argentina). |
| Pérez-Martìnez P. & Acosta Ochoa G. |
Subsistence in hunters and gatherers groups during the Holocene in the central depression of Chiapas (Mexico) from the analysis of the use of lithics artifacts. |
| Petrović A. | Curious case of house 54 from Lepenski Vir (Serbia): chipped stone perspective. |
| De Angelis A. | Interpreting the use of living space in an early Bronze age village in eastern Anatolia: use-wear and spatial analyses of macro-lithic tools of level VI B2 of Arslantepe (Malatya, Turkey). |
May 31st, 2018 | Poster Session Theme 4
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Theme 5 | Building Socio-Economic System |
| Márquez B., Martín-Lerma I., Gutiérrez C., Muñoz F. J., Marín de Espinosa J., & Sintes J. |
Solutrean points: flat retouch vs abrupt retouch. Cultural and technological innovations during the last glacial maximum. The use-wear contribution. |
| Pyżewicz K. & Grużdź W. | The strategies of using Mesolithic flint artifacts – based on the studies of materials from Poland. |
