International Conference: Migrations in Prehistory and Early History
Stable Isotopes and Population Genetics – New Answers to Old Questions?


Location

Freie Universität Berlin
Henry-Ford-Bau
Hörsaal D
Garystr. 35
D-14195 Berlin (Dahlem)

Metro U 3: Thielplatz

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March 24, 2010

9:30 Welcome: Director of the Excellence Cluster TOPOI, Dean of the Department Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften

9:50 Introduction by the organizers: W. Schier

Overviews
10:00 D.T. Price (Madison, USA): Isotopes and Mobility: Case Studies with Large Samples
10:40 Coffee break
11:10 J. Burger (Mainz), R. Bollongino (Mainz), M. Thomas (London), B. Bramanti (Mainz): Migration of LBK farmers and their domestic animals into Central and Northern Europe.
11:50 M. Thomas (London): Of Models and Myths: Historical Inference Using Computer Simulation

12:30 Lunch

Meso- and Neolithic
14:00 P. Bickle (Cardiff), A. Whittle (Cardiff), L. Fibiger (Cardiff), A. Bentley (Durham), G. Pearson (Durham), R. Hedges (Oxford), D. Hofmann (Oxford), L. Reynard (Oxford): Recognizing population mobility from strontium isotopes
14:30 R. Turck (Heidelberg): “Widely traveled people" in Herxheim? First data collected by isotopic research
15:00 I. Potekhina (Kiev), M. Lillie (Hull), Ch. Budd (Hull): Population migration, DNA and stable isotope studies of Mesolithic and Neolithic populations in Ukraine

15:30 Coffee break

Palaeogenetics
16:00 M. Raghavan (Copenhagen), Th. P. Gilbert (Copenhagen), E. Willerslev (Copenhagen): Prehistoric migrations into the New World high-Arctic: A Genetic Perspective
16:30 L. Fehren-Schmitz (Göttingen): Population Dynamics, Cultural Evolution and Climate Change in pre-Columbian western South America: An example for the integration of ancient DNA studies into the transdiciplinary investigation of prehistoric Men-Environment-Systems

Theory and overviews
17:00 Y. Itan (London), A. Powell (London), M. A. Beaumont (London), J. Burger (Mainz), M. Thomas (London): The origins of Lactase Persistence in Europe
17:30 O. Craig (York): Migrating farmers in Southern Scandinavia and Northern Germany and their 'new' cuisine?
19:30 Dinner


March 25, 2010

Late Neolithic/Bronze Age

09:00 C. Gerling (Berlin), E. Kaiser (Berlin), W. Schier (Berlin), H. Parzinger (Berlin): Identifying mobility patterns in the Eurasian Steppe using isotopic analysis (3rd and 1st Mill. B.C.)
9:30 V. Heyd (Bristol), A. Pike (Bristol): The 3rd Mill. B.C.: Mobility and isotopes
10:00 N. Shishlina (Moscow), V. Sevastyanov (Moscow), R. Hedges (Oxford): Isotope Ratio Study of Bronze Age samples from the Eurasian Steppes.
10:30 V.I. Molodin (Novosibirsk), A.S. Pilipenko (Novosibirsk), A.G. Romashenko (Novosibirsk), A.A. Jhuravlev (Novosibirsk), R.O. Trapezov (Novosibirsk), T.A. Chikisheva (Novosibirsk), D.V. Pozdnyakov (Novosibirsk): Migrations in the south of West Siberian Plain during the Bronze Age (IV-II millenium BC): archaeological, paleogenetic and anthropological data

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 J. Irrgeher (Vienna), D. Kern (Vienna), Late Neolithic Graves from the Traisen Valley, Lower Austria: archaeology and 87Sr/86Sr Isotope Analysis using MC-ICP-MS
12:00 J. Koch (Leipzig): Object transfer and individual mobility in the Early Bronze Age. Perspectives of an archaeological analysis
12:30 V. M. Oelze (Leipzig), M. Richards (Leipzig): Early Bronze Age couch potatoes – Is there evidence for mobility at the Bronze Age site of Singen?
13:00 Lunch

Theory and overviews
14:30 A. Powell (London), M. Thomas (London): Demography and the origins of modern human behaviour
15:00 M. Currat (Geneva): Consequences of population expansions on European genetic diversity

Bronze Age and Iron Age
15:30 A. Nafplioti (Athens): Late Minoan IB (LMIB) destructions and cultural discontinuity on Crete: Integrated biodistance and 87Sr/86Sr analyses
16:00 H. Hornig (Berlin): Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Human Remains from a Cemetery in East-Syria (achaemenidian & parthian/roman period)
16:30 Coffee break

Iron Age
17:00 M. Vohberger (Munich): Migration in the La Tène period - stable strontium and oxygen isotopes keep track of celtic movement
17:30 K. W. Alt (Mainz), M. Hauschild (Mainz), M. Scheeres (Mainz): Mobility and Migration in the Early La Tène Cemetery of Gäufelden-Nebringen (Baden-Württemberg). Archaeological and Biogeochemical Analyses
Theory and overview
18:10 O. Nehlich (Leipzig), M.P. Richards (Leipzig): Sulphur isotope ratios in human bone collagen as a measure of past mobility and migration

Evening lecture
19:00 H. Parzinger: Migrations and Mobility – Case Studies of the Scythian Period from the Eurasian Steppes


March 26, 2010

Middle Age
9:00 D. Peters (Mainz), A.-F. Maurer (Mainz), Corina Knipper (Mainz), U. von Freeden (Frankfurt/M.), B. Schöne (Mainz), K. W. Alt (Mainz.): The interdisciplinary BMBF-Langobards project: archaeology, geology, isotope research
9:40 G. Grupe (Munich), S. Eickhoff (Zossen), A.Grothe (Zossen), B. Jungklaus (Berlin), A. Lutz (Munich): Missing in action during the 30 years' war: Provenance of soldiers from the Wittstock battlefield, October 4, 1636. An investigation of stable strontium and oxygen isotopes
10:10 Coffee break

Animals
10:45 Keynote lecture G. Larson (Durham): Pig domestication, migration, replacement, and hybridization: Narratives from across the Old World
11:15 A. Scheu (Mainz), Ch. Rütze (Mainz), J. Burger (Mainz), N. Benecke (Berlin): The arrival of domestic animals in South-Eastern Europe
11:45 E. Stephan (Konstanz): Strontium isotopes in faunal remains. Evidence of the strategies for land use at Iron Age sites in west and southwest Germany
12:15 J. Mulville (Cardiff), R. Madgwick (Cardiff), J. Evans (Keyworth): Where did you get that pig? Experimental work on strontium isotopes in porcine enamel; tracking pork supplies in prehistory

12:45 Lunch

14:30 B. Krause-Kyora (Kiel): The flying pig, migration or transfer of ideas in prehistory. Molecular genetic and archaeological investigations of Mesolithic and Neolithic pigs (Sus scrofa)
15:00 M. Leonardi (Mainz), Ch. Weber (Mainz), N. Benecke (Berlin), M. Thomas (London), J. Burger (Mainz): Ancient DNA and Horse Domestication
15:30 P. Gerbault (London), M. Thomas (London): Goat domestication process inferred from mtDNA sequences

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Postersession
I. Wiechmann (Munich), J. Peters (Munich), G. Grupe (Munich), H.-P. Uerpmann (Tübingen): Molecular genetic investigation of skeletal remains excavated at Goebekli Tepe (Southeast Turkey)
Ch. Sofeso (Munich), M. Harbeck (Munich): Investigations on origin and genealogical lineages of a privileged society in Upper Bavaria from Imperial Roman times - a founder population?
J. Irrgeher (Vienna), P. Galler (Vienna), C. Huemer (Vienna), M. Teschler-Nicola (Vienna), T. Prohaska (Vienna): '87Sr/86Sr Isotope Ratio Measurements by MC-ICP-MS: A case study on tooth enamel of individuals of the Austrian excavation site Thunau/Kamp (~900-1000 AD)'
Ch. Budd (Hull): Social diversity and isotopic analysis at Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand - using strontium isotope analysis to track social migration during the Early Mesolithic and Neolithic Periods
M. Renneberg (Kiel), M. Röpke (Kiel): Families and Diversity in the Neolithcs

17:30–18:30 Closing discussion