UK Archaeological Sciences Conference

Wed 3

09:15 - 10:30

People and lifeways

09:15

Archaeometabolomic identification of tobacco use and its relationship to disease in Early Modern Britain

Sarah Inskip, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester

09:30

Combining new genome-wide analysis with legacy isotope data: gender and kinship in the first Neolithic societies in central Europe

Penny Bickle, University of York

09:45

Investigating Yersinia pestis in Late Neolithic Human and Canine Remains

Magdalena Haller-Caskie, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University

10:00

Paget´s Disease of Bone: Insights from the study of Medieval Skeletons in the UK

Silvia Gonzalez, Liverpool John Moores University, et al.

10:15

Learning lessons from lesions: a ONE palaeopathological approach to understanding entheseal change in elite horses from post-medieval England

Richard Thomas, University of Leicester

11:00 - 11:30

People and lifeways

11:00

A Bioarchaeological Study of Infant Feeding Practices in Newfoundland, Canada, ca. 1750-1850 CE

Alison Harris, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology | Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador

11:15

Reconstructing early medieval life histories through multi-isotope and ancient DNA analyses at Lochhead Quarry (Angus, Scotland)

Lucy Koster, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, et al.

11:30 - 12:30

Advances in chronology and dating

11:30

Old fossils, new information: testing the chronology of Zambian cave site sequences using enamel amino acid geochronology

Chloe Baldreki, Department of Chemistry, University of York

11:45

Challenges and lessons from a large-scale application of CSRA on absorbed lipid residues.

Isabel Wiltshire, Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

12:00

Amino acid specific approaches to radiocarbon freshwater reservoir corrections

Corrie Hyland, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK

12:15

Dating dung: Radiocarbon dating ovicaprid fecal pellets

Daniel Fuks, University of Cambridge

13:30 - 14:45

Human, plant and animal interactions

13:30

Ancient genomics to explore cattle and human interactions on the Western Atlantic Edge

Victoria E Mullin, TCD

13:45

All about those cattle: Multi-proxy analysis of cattle mobility and management in Middle Neolithic Cova de les Pixarelles (NE Iberia).

Roger Alcàntara Fors, School of History Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University | Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

14:00

Isotopic Perspectives on Cattle Management During the Early and Mid-Neolithic of Mongolia

Moses Akogun, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto

14:15

Feeding the Roman Army in Britain: new insights from a multi-isotope approach

Leia Mion, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University

14:30

Birds, people and “multi-species” networks

Beatrice Demarchi, ArchaeoBiomics, Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino

15:30 - 17:00

Human, plant and animal interactions

15:30

Identification of Asian rice varieties combining traditional morphometrics and geometric morphometrics

Mizanur Rahman, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford | Department of Archaeology, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

15:45

Continuity in Cetamura: Insights into grapevine cultivation and the history of wine

Oya Inanli, BioArch, Department of Archaeology, University of York, UK | Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

16:00

Investigating insular pastoralism using foetal and neonatal bone collagen Carbon, Nitrogen and Sulphur stable isotope analysis of Hebridean herbivores

Jennifer Rose Jones, Centre for Field Archaeology and Forensic Taphonomy University of Central Lancashire

16:15

Lipid biomarker evidence for Terminal Pleistocene sheep and goat penning at Abu Hureyra, Syria, from 12,800 calBP

Karen Milek, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UK

16:30

New insights about camelid herding in the Atacama Desert: A diet characterisation using stable isotope analysis

Emilio Andrade, Escuela de Antropología. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile., et al.

Thu 4

09:15 - 10:30

Food, diet and cuisine 1

09:15

An isotopic perspective on the last 10,000 years of European dietary and farming practices

Carlo Cocozza, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745, Jena, Germany | MAReA Centre, Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Via Vivaldi 43, 81100, Caserta, Italy

09:30

Trendy isotopes: estimating past rates of change in big datasets

Rowan McLaughlin, Maynooth University

09:45

Stronti-YUM: Exploring diet using radiogenic and stable strontium isotope ratios and concentrations

Hannah F. James, Archaeology, Environmental changes & Geo-Chemistry research group, Vrije Universtiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium

10:00

Interpreting ancient cereal practices through the compound-specific stable isotope analyses of absorbed lipid residues

Mengyao Zhang, Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol

10:15

Parallel worlds, mixed economies: multi-proxy biomolecular analysis for decoding the complexities of early farming in the NE Baltic

Ester Oras, Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Ravila 14 a, 50411 Tartu, Estonia | Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Jakobi 2, 51005 Tartu, Estonia | Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Linneanum, Thunbergsvägen 2, 752 38 Uppsala, Sweden

11:00 - 12:30

Scientific approaches to materials

11:00

Biomolecular perspectives on the uses of birch bark tar in prehistoric Europe

Anna White, Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark | Department of Archaeology, University of York, UK

11:15

Multi-Analytical Assessment of Archaeological Wood Preservation: A Case Study from La Draga, Spain

Deborah Roversi, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK | CEPAM (UMR7264)Cultures, Environnements : Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age, Université Côte d’Azur - CNRS, Nice, FR

11:30

Production of arsenical bronze using speiss on the Elephantine Island (Aswan, Egypt) during the Middle Kingdom (Middle Bronze Age)

Jiri Kmosek, Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic | Institute of Science and Technology in Art, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

11:45

Carving methods of Roman-era magical intaglios

Jordan Poole, University of Liverpool Scientific Archaeology PhD Candidate

12:00

LIBS and LA-ICP-MS analysis of coloured slips and decorations on Hellenistic tableware

Maja Mise, UCL, Institute of Archaeology

12:15

Provenancing Islamic plant-ash glass from the eastern Silk Roads: an isotopic approach

Qin-Qin Lü, University of Cambridge

14:15 - 15:15

Methodological advances

14:15

Quantifying Timescales of Dietary Change using Isotopic Measurements on Bones with Different Turnover Rates.

Alistair Pike, Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton

14:30

Developing temporally relevant and spatially robust sulfur (δ³⁴S) isotope baselines for archaeological studies of residence and mobility

Derek Hamilton, SUERC, University of Glasgow

14:45

Coal and Iron in Northern Roman Britain

Elizabeth La Duc, University of Cambridge

15:00

Pyrolysis-GC-MS as a Rapid Means of Distinguishing Coprolites

Helen Whelton, Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS

15:45 - 17:00

Methodological advances

15:45

Cortisol in the cusps: investigating dental cortisol methods for assessing stress in living and archaeological populations

Leslie Quade, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences | Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University

16:00

Mummy nose best: VOCs as a rapid means of assessing the source of Egyptian embalming materials

Wanyue Zhao, University of Bristol

16:15

Improving taxonomic identification of lipids in archaeological ceramics using high resolution mass spectrometry

Jasmine Lundy, University of York Department of Archaeology

16:30

δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N values of modern plants as baselines for palaeodietary and palaeoecological studies

Doris Vidas, University of Oxford

16:45

Stable isotope analysis of archaeobotanical remains: a perspective

Amy Styring, University of Oxford

Fri 5

09:15 - 10:30

Food, diet and cuisine 2

09:15

Neanderthal cannibalism and subsistence at Abri Moula (France): integrating palaeoproteomics, zooarchaeology and taphonomy.

Pauline Raymond, Paleoanthropology Chair, Collège de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75231 Paris, FRANCE

09:30

Integrating biomolecular methods to understand the ecology, subsistence and diet of early Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany.

Geoff Smith, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom, et al.

09:45

Optimised seasonal shellfish exploitation strategies by Neanderthals during the Middle Palaeolithic in southern Europe from δ18O ratios of Phorcus turbinatus

Asier García-Escárzaga, Department of Prehistory and Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.

10:00

Lighting up the blindspots: SEM, lipid and protein analysis of Mesolithic-Neolithic foodcrusts.

Joannes Dekker, BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK. | Section for GeoBiology, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

10:15

Foodways to Complexity: Isotopes and the metabolism of society in Late Bronze Age Greece.

Efrossini Vika, The Wiener Lab, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 54 Souidias street, Athens 106 76, Greece

11:00 - 12:30

Food, diet and cuisine 2

11:00

Feasting at the Ness of Brodgar? Tracing subsistence patterns during the Late Neolithic, Britain using organic residue analysis.

Julia Becher, University of York, BioArCh | Université Côte d‘Azur, CNRS, CEPAM | Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Archaeometry Working Group, et al.

11:15

Lifting the Lid on the Hebridean Neolithic: Using Organic Residue Analysis to Reconstruct Foodways in the Hebridean Landscape.

Daniel Brown, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol

11:30

Pottery spilled the beans: patterns in the processing of foodstuffs in Central Germany from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.

Adrià Breu, Department of Prehistory, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain | Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, et al.

11:45

Eating on the Edge of the Empire: Proteomic evidence for ingredients and cuisine in Roman Britain

Miranda Evans, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge | BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York

12:00

The effect of a change in food availability during the 14th century

Rachèl Spros, AMGC-Vrije Universiteit Brussel | SHOC-Vrije Universiteit Brussel

12:15

Catching up with the Past: Applying Zooarchaeology to Understand Pre-Contact Indigenous Fisheries

Kristin Oliver, Simon Fraser University

13:30 - 15:00

Environments, climate and landscapes

13:30

Unveiling the diversity of cetacean exploitation through ZooMS on prehistoric archaeological bone assemblages in southeastern coastal Brazil.

Krista McGrath, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and Dept. of Prehistory, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

13:45

Fuelling the northern frontier? New research on Roman activity and landscape impacts in the Hadrian’s Wall region

Lisa-Marie Shillito, Newcastle University

14:00

Seasonality in the Scottish Islands: Birds as windows of time

Julia Best, Cardiff University

14:15

Multidisciplinary perspectives on the marine historical ecology of fishes in the eastern Mediterranean

Rachel Winter, CNRS- Laboratoire écologie fonctionnelle et environnement, Universite Toulouse Paul Sabatier III, Toulouse, France | Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

14:30

Four thousand years of marine subsistence, food web dynamics and mercury concentrations in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Marjolein Admiraal, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Water and Environmental Research Center, Stable Isotope Facility, et al.

15:30 - 17:00

Environments, climate and landscapes

15:30

Exploring early agro-pastoral strategies in the Carpathian Basin through stable isotope data and multiproxy land-use models

Margaux L. C. Depaermentier, Vilnius University, Faculty of History, Department of Archaeology, Lithuania

15:45

Investigating temporal and geographical variation in the dietary behaviour of wolves with dental microwear texture analysis

Amanda Burtt, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK

16:00

Detecting climate-mediated site occupation patterns at Palaeolithic sites – a multiproxy stable isotope and lipid biomarker approach

Sarah Pederzani, Archaeological Micromorphology and Biomarkers Laboratory (AMBI Lab), Instituto Universitario de Bio-Orgánica “Antonio González”, University of La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain | Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany | Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

16:15

A long-term and seasonally resolved climatic record of Franchthi's stone age

Danai Theodoraki, 1. Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie, Mainz, Germany | 2. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

16:30

Reindeer distribution in Late Palaeolithic to Early Mesolithic Sweden: Climatic shifts, human interaction, and environmental dynamics

Markus Fjellström, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund Univeristy, Sweden | Archaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm Univeristy, Sweden. | Silvermuseet/INSARC, Arjeplog, Sweden