9.00 - 12.30
Introduction to the Seminar
Institute of archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
New discovery of two microlithic sites in Hulunbeier Great Grassland
1Laboratory of Scientific Archaeology & Cultural Relics, Department of Archaeology, Peking University, China; 2Nan Jing Museum, Nanjing, China
The Elemental Evidence of Pottery Production in situ -- Comparison between Dawenkou and Liangzhu Potteries at Huating Neolithic Site in Jiangsu Province, China
1Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich, UK; 2Department of Environmental Changes, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan
Reassessing the 'Neolithic' in the Jomon of the western Japanese archipelago
Discussion & coffee/tea
Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of Peoples of Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia
Neolithic Jomon pottery: new research perspective
1Pacific Institute of Geography, Vladivostok, Russia; 2Irkutsk State Pedagogical University, Irkutsk, Russia
The earliest Neolithic complex in Siberia: The Ust-Karenga 12 site and its significance for the neolithisation of Eurasia
1School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; 2School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; 3 IHMC, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
Dual sources of the Neolithic in Europe: Mathematical modelling constrained by radiocarbon dates
Discussion & lunch 14.00 - 19.00
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, Serbia
Social aspects of transition to farming in the central Balkans
Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, The Nederlands
Bridging the gap. The Meso-Neo transition in a frontier zone
Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Middle and late Holocene foragers in Central Europe: paradigms and culture change
University of Utah and International Institute of Anthropology, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Differences in the human decision making during the Neolithic in the central Eurasian regions: Opportunities for descriptive and simulation models of the theory of accumulation and treasuring of wealth in prehistory
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, UK
Assessing rank, warfare-strategy and stress in hunter/gatherer/herder societies: a case for warrior figures on rock-art from the Levant, south-eastern Spain
Discussion & coffee/tea
Department of Archaeology University of Sheffield, UK
Unravelling ground stone life histories: The distribution of stone artefacts and the organization of human activities at LN Makriyalos, Greece
Department Of Archaeology and Museology, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia
The Lengyel culture settlement in Bučany, Slovakia
The Institute for the protection of the Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, RU Novo mesto, Slovenia
Neolithic and Eneolithic settlement patterns in Bela krajina in the light of recent fieldwork
Institute of archaeology at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Why were Neolithic landscapes of Bela krajina and Ljubljansko barje regions of Slovenia so dissimilar?
Institute of Geography RAS, Moscow, Russia
Soil scientist’s work at the Neolitic archaeological sites
Discussion & diner
9.00 - 12.30
Archaeological Institute, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia
Organization and stratigraphy of the Lepenski Vir culture settlements and geomorphology of the Upper Iron Gates Gorge: ecological predispositions for formation and evolution of the culture
Cantemir Consultancy, The Old School, Merton, Oxo, UK
The Djerdap re-visited. A retrospective on Lepenski Vir and the FTN
Discussion & coffee/tea
1Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK; 2Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, Serbia
When did the ‘Neolithic package’ arrive to Lepenski Vir? Radiometric and faunal evidence
Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, UK
Economic and cultural transformations in the Iron Gates from 12,000–5,500 cal BC
Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Iran
On the question of shamanism among the rock art of Azarbaijan (Iran)
Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Signs and Symbols in Siberian rock art
Discussion & lunch 14.00 - 19.00
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Symbols and markers: Hunter-gatherer's and farmers' ritual practices in western Eurasia
Laboratorio di Paletnologia e Archeologia sperimentale, Università degli Studi di Lecce, Italy
The Neolithic farmers and their symbolic universe. The “Grotta dei Cervi” cave in Porto Badisco
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK
Changing bodily practices in the Meso-Neolithic Balkans
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sheep are your mother: The ideology of west Balkan "cult vessels"
Discussion & coffee/tea
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Letters, University of Anatolia, Eskişehir, Turkey
The role of Catalhoyuk animal seals on early Neolithic symbolism
Universität des Saarlandes Saarbrücken, Germany
Early and middle Neolithic Figurines – Migration of religious Belief
Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory of the University of Vienna, Austria
Mesolithic heritage in early Neolithic burial rituals and personal ornaments
Archaelogical Institute at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Nitra, Slovakia
Some questions about the oldest cremation burials in Carpathian basin and neighbouring regions
Discussion & diner
Field excursion for the speakers.
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