Thursday 3rd September
15.00-18.00 Registration
16.00-18.00 Visit to 'BioArCh' labs.
18.00-19.00 Wine Reception and Book Launch (Land and People) (if you have ordered a copy you will be able to pick it up here or buy it de novo at the discounted price)
19.00-20.00 Dinner
20.15 The AEA: 30 years on (Professor Terry O'Connor)
Friday 4th September
8.25-8.55 Registration
8.55-9.10 Welcome and notices
Session 1 (Chair: Sabine Karg)
9.10-9.35 Peter Murphy (Portsmouth) Climate change: adapting the coastal historic environment
9.35-10.00 Jörg Schibler and Thomas Doppler (Basel) Climatic deterioration and food supply - detailed insights into socio-economic strategies in the Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland
10.00-10.25 João Pedro Tereso (Porto) Social adaptive responses to environmental changes: what’s the use of palaeoethnobotanical investigation?
10.25-10.45 Coffee/Tea
Session 2 (Chair: Roel Lauwerier)
10.45-11.10 Marijke van der Veen (Leicester) Archaeobotany and the identification of foodways
11.10-11.35 James Rackham (Sleaford) Regional diets, a relatively straightforward archaeological approach for assessing differences between the diet of regions and rural versus urban populations
11.35-12.00 Alan K. Outram (Exeter), Natalie A. Stear (Bristol), Robin Bendrey (Paris and Winchester), Sandra Olsen (Pittsburgh), Alexei Kasparov (St Petersburg), Victor Zaibert (Kokshetau), Nick Thorpe (Winchester) and Richard P. Evershed (Bristol) New light on horse domestication: direct evidence for Eneolithic horse milking and harnessing
12.00-12.25 Stephanie Vann (Leicester) Recording animal palaeopathology: a new methodology
12.25-13.30 Lunch
Session 3 (Chair: Andy Howard)
13.30-13.55 Andy Hammon (York), Rachel Ballantyne (Cambridge), Helen Chappell (Cambridge), Jen Heathcote (Cambridge), Jacqui Huntley (Durham), Lisa Moffett (Liverpool), Dominique de Moulins (London), Sue Stallibrass (Liverpool), Vanessa Straker (Bristol) and Jim Williams (Northampton) Developer-funded research and environmental archaeology: The experiences of the English Heritage Regional Science Advisors
13.55-14.20 James Morris (London) Profiling commercial zooarchaeology in the UK
14.20-14.45 Roel Lauwerier (Amersfoort) Quality and specialist work in the Netherlands
14.45-15.10 Jørn Zeiler (ArchaeoBone) & Laura Kooistra (BIAX) (Netherlands) Companies and specialists - a happy marriage?
15.10-15.30 Coffee/Tea
Session 4 (Chair: Lisa Moffett)
15.30-15.55 Jane Bunting (Hull) Open landscape, wooded landscape? Reconstructing tree cover proportions from pollen records
15.55-16.20 Michael J. Allen (Bournemouth) Re-evaluation of the early post-glacial woodland history of the chalk and its archaeological implications
16.20-16.45 Matt Canti (Portsmouth) Geoarchaeological studies of the old ground surface beneath Silbury Hill, Wiltshire
16.45-17.25 Ashley Coutou (York) The 19th century East African ivory trade: a bioarchaeological study
Matthias Heckmann and Daryl Stump (York) Examining soil erosion and deforestation narratives in pre-colonial Pare, Tanzania
18.00-19.15 Association for Environmental Archaeology Annual General Meeting
19.30 Conference Dinner
Saturday 5th September
8.55-9.10 Welcome and notices
Session 5 (Chair: Andy Hammon)
9.10-9.35 Rebecca Nicholson (Oxford) It’s the little things that matter: fishy tales from English commercial archaeology
9.35-10.00 Scott Timpany (Edinburgh) Environmental Archaeology - the commercial factor
10.00-10.25 Jane Wheeler, Tim Mighall and Scott Timpany (Aberdeen and Edinburgh) Cross-site palaeoenvironmental investigations along the A4/A5 corridor between Dungannon and Ballygawley, County Down, Northern Ireland: A case study for positive developer-funded environmental archaeology
10.25-10.45 Coffee/Tea
Session 6 (Chair: David Smith)
10.45-11.10 Andy Howard (Birmingham) Maximizing the potential for environmental research using developer funding
11.10-11.35 Kari Hjelle (Bergen) Development of agriculture in western Norway – constraints and opportunities in the developer-funded research
11.35-12.00 Patricia Wiltshire (Aberdeen, Gloucestershire and Bournemouth)In the light of evidence derived from large numbers of small-scale, modern taphonomic studies in Britain, should we reconsider some of our approaches and interpretations of palynology in archaeology?
12.00-12.25 Mark Maltby (Bournemouth) Environmental Archaeology in Novgorod: towards an integrated approach
12.25-13.30 Lunch
Session 7 (Chair: Ol Craig)
13.30-13.55 Sabine Karg and Robert Frei (Copenhagen) Stable isotopes in ancient plant finds from Denmark – a new method stimulating the discussion and interpretation of archaeological treasures
13.55-14.20 Joseph Warham (Bradford), Janet Montgomery (Bradford), Jane Evans (Keyworth), Louise Ander (Keyworth), David Cotton (Bradford) Mapping Sr-Isotope ratios for archaeological applications
14.20-14.45 Wright, D. (Bradford), Lee-Thorp, J.A. (Bradford), Stevens, R.E. (Cambridge) and Donahue, R.E. (Bradford) Building an independent terrestrial palaeoclimate sequence for Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 in Britain and northern Europe
14.45-15.10 Julie Hamilton, Robert E. M. Hedges and Mark Robinson (Oxford) Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in animal ecology
15.10-15.30 Tea/Coffee
Session 8 (Chair: Terry O'Connor)
15.30-15.55 Rachel Ballantyne (Cambridge) Human lives and small artefactual debris: a new approach to the interpretation of lifestyles and economy from charred plant remains
15.55-16.20 Michael Wallace and Mike Charles (Sheffield) Dung, a potent ingredient of the archaeobotanical record: an experimental contribution
16.20-16.45 David Smith (Birmingham) and Harry Kenward (York) Are analogues a useful tool for the environmental archaeologist or the conservation biologist?
16.45-17.10 Gill Campbell (Portsmouth) What next? The English Heritage regional reviews of Environmental Archaeology as a means of establishing research priorities
Posters (these should be available to view in the 'JCR' next to registration during all the breaks)
Heather Adams, Ralph Fyfe and Dan Charman (Plymouth) Sustainable management of the historic environment resource in Exmoor’s upland mires
Megan Brickley (Birmingham) Peri-mortem fractures: information obtained on a scapula fracture
M Jane Bunting and R. Middleton (Hull) Poster/Demonstration: CoPol: software for teaching microscope skills
Mike Cressey (Edinburgh) The Carpow Logboat: environmental analysis of waterlogged remains
Stephen Davis (Dublin) Environmental remains from the Drogheda Boat
Danielle de Carle & Hugues Pessin (Sheffield) Seeing the fields for the trees: preliminary analysis of charcoal samples from the South Cadbury Environs Project
Anne-Marie Faucher (Durham) Evolution of agriculture and wood procurement: a Middle Iron Age to Late Norse case study, Everley Broch, Caithness
Emily Forster, David Earle Robinson and Zoë Hazell (Portsmouth) Origins of the Cornish Heath: landscape studies in south-west Cornwall
Louisa Gidney (Durham) Salving, smitting and smorring
Matilda Holmes and Kate Parks (Leicester) Seeds and bones: how does developer funded data compare?
Naomi Holmes, Steve Davis and Graeme Warren (Dublin) Climate change and the adoption of agriculture in Ireland
Matthew Law Mapping bioarchaeology results from grey literature
Richard Madgwick and Jacqui Mulville (Cardiff) When animals get under your feet: histological analysis of animal burials from beneath Hebridean roundhouses
Anette Overland (Galway) Late Holocene woodland dynamics, landscape evolution and farming in Barrees, Beara peninsula, SW Ireland
Melanie Rousseau (York) Similarity of replicates and increase in the number of insect taxa recovered with the increase of sediment weight treated
Hayley Saul (York) The potential of starches and phytoliths to the study of cuisine at the transition to agriculture: evidence from charred ceramic deposits
Bettina Stefanini (Dublin), Rob Marchant (York) and Fraser Mitchell (Dublin) The Irish Pollen Database
Bettina Stefanini and Dr E. Reilly (Dublin) Announcement of IPEAN, the Irish Palaecology and Environmental Archaeology Network
Ingelise Stuijts and Lorna O’Donnell (Dublin) WODAN: Developing databases, developing standards
“Interred with their bones” - linking micromorphology (by M. Raimonda Usai) and chemistry (by Brendan Keely and Clare Wilson) to unlock the hidden archive of archaeological human burial (by Don Brothwell). [Acronym: InterArChive]. ( Funded by the European Research Council, advanced investigator grant.)
Kim Vickers (Edinburgh) The mystery of the missing beetle – a palaeoecological whodunit?: the role of climate change and human impact in the disappearance of Coleopteran species from the North Atlantic islands
Isabella von Holstein, Allan Hall, Oliver Craig and Matthew Collins (York) Assaying white gold: Isotopic analysis of medieval wool
Michael Wallace, Glynis Jones and Mike Charles (Sheffield) Assessing the potential of stable carbon isotopes to ascertain the water status and irrigation of ancient crops
An Oxbow bookstall will be available through the meeting.
Details of the site visit to the Hungate Excavations on Sunday 6th September will be posted in due course; we are likely to meet at the York Archaeological Trust's 'Dig' Centre (about 30 minutes' walk from the University campus) at 10.30 and walk to the excavation (2 minutes).