| ◊ Programme |  |
| Tuesday, April 14th | |
| 12:00–14:00 | Registration |
| 14:00 | Wellcoming addresses by Dr. Predrag Novaković, Head of the Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana and Dr. Christine Neugebauer-Maresch, President of the Hugo Obermaier Society. |
| 14:20 – 17:20 | Reports on Lower and Middle Palaeolithic |
| 14:20 – 14:45 | Jordi Serangeli, Utz Böhner, Hartmuth Thieme ( Hannover): The digging of the DB pillar in the opencast lignite mine in Schöningen – The Schöningen 12 II site |
| 14:45 – 15:20 | Clemens Pasda (Jena): |
| 15:20 – 15:35 | Dieter Schäfer (Innsbruck) & Thomas Weber (Halle/Saale): Westeregeln – an old site with new perspectives |
| 15:35 – 16:00 | Yamandu H. Hilbert, Nicholas J. Conard & Anthony E. Marks: Ground stone tool taxonomy: An analysis of the MSA material from Mumba Cave, Tanzania |
| 15:35 – 16:00 | Andreas Pastoors (Mettmann): Bladelet production in late Middle Palaeolithic sites Balver Höhle and Salzgitter-Lebenstedt (Germany) |
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| 16:55 – 17:20 | Yvonne Tafelmaier (Köln): News from the Hönnetal – The case of the Middle Palaeolithic site Volkring-hauser Höhle (Germany) |
| 17:20 – 17:50 | Poster Session (3 minutes introduction on each poster by the authors) Discussion |
| 19:30 | Official Reception in the xxx (University of Ljubljana) |
| Wednesday, April 15th | |
| 8:30 – 13:00 | Session on “Speleology and Prehistory” |
| 8:30 – 8:55 | Boštjan Odar (Maribor, Slovenia): Perceptions of the Landscape: The cases of Potočka zijalka and Divje babe I |
| 8:55 – 9:20 | Matija Turk (Ljubljana): Neandterthals in Divje babe I (Slovenia): effect of climate on visiting the cave |
| 9:20 – 9:45 | Jörg Orschiedt (Hamburg/ Hagen): The Krapina case – new results on the question of cannibalism of Neanderthals |
| 9:45 – 10:10 | Marco Peresani, Rossella Duches, Ivana Fiore, Fabio Gurioli, Simona Muratori, Matteo Romandini, Antonio Tagliacozzo, Sara Ziggiotti (Ferrara/Roma): The end of the Neandertal age at Grotta di Fumane, Northern Italy: first re-sults of the last three years field campaigns |
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| 10:40 – 11:15 | Andrej Mihevc (Postojna, Slovenia): 1. Cryoturbation of the sediments at the cave entrances – case studies from Skednena jama, Potočka zijalka and Bestažovca cave 2. Claw marks and footprints of the cave bear from three caves in Slovenia |
| 11:15 – 11:40 | M. Fiebig, D. Sahy, P. Häuselmann, W. Koerner, A. Mihevc, B. Schenk, & B. Grase-mann (Vienna/La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland/Postojna, Slovenia): Burial Age Dating in Caves |
| 11:40 – 12:05 | Jörg Orschiedt (Hamburg/ Hagen): The Blätterhöhle in Hagen (Westphalia): Preliminary report on the first archaeological investigations |
| 12:05 – 12:30 | Susanne C. Münzel, Christopher E. Miller, Susanne C. Feine, Petra Kieselbach, Maria Malina, Nicholas J. Conard, Paul Goldberg (Tübingen/British Columbia, Canada): Living floors or Dumping Areas, Paleolithic Burnt Bone Layers and other Fea-tures from Hohle Fels Cave, SW Germany |
| 12:30 – 12:55 | Ljiljana Pavičić, Marta Mileusnić, Dinko Radić, Ljerka Marijanac (Zagreb/Vela Luka): Sedimentological profile through Pleistocene-Holocene deposits of Vela spila cave, Croatia |
| Discussion | |
| 14:00 – 18:00 | Excursion I: Betalov spodmol, Trhlovca Cave, open air presentation of the film 'The Day of the Firts Flute" |
| from 20:00 | Common dinner in the restaurant “Šestica” Slovenska cesta 40 (centre of Ljublj.), http://www.sestica.si/gostilna-sestica/ |
Thursday, April 16th |
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| 8:30 – 12:00 | Reports on Middle and Upper Palaeolithic |
| 8:30 – 8:55 | Andrew W. Kandel and Nicholas J. Conard (Tübingen): Making sense of space in the Geelbek Dunes of Western Cape Province, South Africa |
| 8:55 – 9:20 | Nicholas J. Conard, Knut Bretzke, Philipp Drechsler, Andrew W. Kandel, Mohammad Masri & Mareike Stahlschmidt (Tübingen/Damascus): Paleolithic settlement dynamics in the Damascus Province of Syria |
| 9:20 – 10:05 | Saman Heydari-Guran, Elham Ghasidian & Nicholas J. Conard ( Tübingen): A geoarchaeological study of Paleolithic settlement systems and landuse in the Southern Zagros Mountains of Iran Elham Ghasidian, Saman Heydari-Guran & Nicholas J. Conard ( Tübingen): Ghar-e Boof: A new early Upper Paleolithic industry in southwestern Iran |
| 10:05 – 10:30 | Christopher E. Miller, Paul Goldberg, Solveig Schiegl, Bertrand Ligouis, Francesco Berna, Nicholas J. Conard, Lyn Wadley (Tübingen/Boston/Witwatersrand, RSA): A micromorphological study of Middle Stone Age bedding, hearths and site maintenance at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
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| 11:00 – 11:25 | Zdeňka Nerudová & Petr Neruda (Brno): Moravský Krumlov IV – A New Multilayer Palaeolithic Site in Moravia (Czech Republic) |
| 11:25 – 11:50 | Gerd-Christian Weniger (Mettmann): New investigations in Cueva Morín, Cantabria Astrid Slizewski (Mettmann): Regional differences in the late Middle Palaeolithic of the Iberian Peninsula - Data sampling and uploading into NESPOS |
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| 14:00 – 18:15 | Reports on Upper Palaeolithic – Neolithic |
| 14:00 – 14:25 | Vida Pohar (Ljubljana): Palaeolithic of Slovenia |
| 14:25 – 14:50 | Joanna Trabska (Rzeszow, Poland): Red iron oxides in a perspective of Palaeolithic Societies: Potential sources in central Europe |
| 14:50 – 15:15 | Ulrich Hambach (Bayreuth), Christine Neugebauer-Maresch (Vienna) & Leif Steguweit (Erlangen): New insight in old profiles: Rock magnetism, Palaeomagnetism and new Radiocarbon data from the Upper Palaeolithic sites of Krems- Hundssteig, Willendorf III – VI and Stratzing (Lower Austria). |
| 15:15 – 15:40 | Florian A. Fladerer & Tina Salcher-Jedrasiak (Vienna): Permanent Gravettian encampments? Insights from the Krems-Wachtberg faunal remains. |
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| 16:10 – 16:35 | Mara-Julia Weber (Schleswig/Tübingen), Ingo Clausen (Neumünster), Rupert Hou-sley (London), Christopher Miller (Tübingen), Felix Riede (Aarhus/London) & Hartmut Usinger (Kiel): Preliminary results of the 2008 field work at the Hamburgian site Ahrenshöft LA 58 D |
| 16:35 – 17:00 | Mihael Budja (Ljubljana): Who are the Europeans? From the 'dinarization' to the 'neolithization' of Europe |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Mitgliederversammlung der HOG (HO Society members meeting) |
| 20:00 | Public lecture by Dr. Simona Petru (Ljubljana): “Palaeolithic art in Slovenia” |
| Friday, April 17th | |
| ca 8:30 am – 6:00 pm | Excursion II: Divje babe and Križna jama
Presentation Divje babe: guided by V. Pohar, I. Debeljak, |
| Saturday, April 18th | |
| ca 8:30 am – 6:00 pm | Excursion III: Krapina and Vindija (Croatia)
Presentation Krapina, cave and museum: guided by I. Karavanic |