International Conference

Migrations in Prehistory and Early History

Stable Isotopes and Population Genetics – New Answers to Old Questions?

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Mi., 24.03.2010

9:30

Welcome: Speaker of the Excellence Cluster TOPOI, Dean of the Department Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften

9:50

Introduction by the Organizers: W. Schier

Overviews

10:00

T. Douglas Price (Madison, USA): Isotopes and Mobility: Case Studies with Large Samples

 

10:40 Coffee break

 

11:10

J. Burger (Mainz), R. Bollongino (Mainz), M. G. Thomas (London), B. Bramanti (Mainz): Migration of LBK farmers and their domestic animals into Central and Northern Europe.

11:50

M. G. 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): The First Farmers in Central Europe: Recognizing Population Mobility from Stable isotopes

14:30

R. Turck (Heidelberg), J. Fillauer (Heidelberg), J. Kontny (Heidelberg), B. Kober (Heidelberg), A. Zeeb-Lanz (Speyer): “Widely travelled people" in Herxheim? First data collected by isotopic research

15:00

 I. Potekhina (Kiev), M. Lillie (Hull), Ch. Budd (Hull): Population Migration, Stable Isotope and DNA Studies of Mesolithic and Neolithic Populations in Ukraine

 

15:30 Coffee break

 

Palaeogenetics

16:00

 M. Raghavan (Copenhagen), M. 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. G. 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

 

Do., 25.03.2010

Late Neolithic/Bronze Age

09:00

C. Gerling (Berlin), E. Kaiser (Berlin), H. Parzinger (Berlin), W. Schier (Berlin),: Identifying Mobility Patterns in the Eurasian Steppe Using Isotope Analysis (3rd and 1st Mill. B.C.)

9:30

V. Heyd (Bristol), A. Pike (Bristol): The 4th and 3rd Millennia BC in Europe: 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. Romaschenko (Novosibirsk), A.A. Jhuravlev (Novosibirsk), R.O. Trapezov (Novosibirsk), T.A.Chikisheva (Novosibirsk), D.V. Pozdnyakov (Novosibirsk): Migrations in the South of the West Siberian Plain during the Bronze Age (4th-2nd 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. K. 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): 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 (Achaemenian & 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

 

Fr., 26.03.2010

Middle Age

9:00

D. Peters (Mainz), A.-F. Maurer (Mainz), C. 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

R. Madgwick (Cardiff), J. Mulville (Cardiff), J. Evans (Keyworth): Investigating Diagenesis and the Suitability of Porcine Enamel for Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) Isotope Analysis

 

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. G. 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 Neolithics

 

17:30–18:30 Closing discussion

 

Anmeldung

Wir bitten um eine formlose Anmeldung mit Ihrem Namen und Heimatinstitution an die angegebene Kontaktadresse, möglichst bis zum 01. März 2010.

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Die Tagungsgebühr zahlen Sie bitte direkt am Empfangstisch vor dem Tagungssaal im Henry-Ford-Bau. Dort erhalten Sie, wenn Sie sich vorher angemeldet haben, auch eine Tagungsmappe mit den Vortragszusammenfassungen. Die Registrierung ist an jedem Tag ab 8:30 möglich.

Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger, Hermann Parzinger, Wolfram Schier

 

Kontakt / Anmeldung

Dr. Elke Kaiser

Exzellenzcluster TOPOI / Freie Universität

Tel.: +49 30 8385 1792

Fax: +49 30 8385 3370

elke.kaiser@topoi.org

 

Venue

Henry-Ford-Bar Hörsaal D

Garystr. 35

D-14195 Berlin (Dahlem)

Metro U 3: Thielplatz