ESHE - 4th Annual Meeting

Florence, Italy, September 18-20, 2014

Final Program

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Thursday, 18 September

University of Florence • Via Laura 48, 50121 Florence (Map)

8:00-8:30

Registration

8:30

Opening Speech: Jean-Jacques Hublin

Session 1                                Chairperson: Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi

8:50

Brain size in Mio-Pliocene hominoids: the result of selection or pleiotropy?

Gabriele Macho

9:10

Hominin ecology and behavior based on 1.5-million-year-old footprint assemblages from Ileret, Kenya

Brian Richmond et al.

9:30

Age-at-Death and Dental Developmental Pattern of the Australopithecus sediba Juvenile MH1 Determined from Synchrotron Virtual Paleohistology

Adeline Le Cabec et al.

9:50

The significance of Australopithecus sediba for understanding Paranthropus robustus

Jeffrey Schwartz

10:10

Middle Pleistocene narratives and the Sima de los Huesos evidence

Juan Luis Arsuaga

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

Thursday, 18 September

University of Florence • Via Laura 48, 50121 Florence (Map)

Session 2                                  Chairperson: Gerhard Weber

11:00

Binning a bone of contention from the Homo erectus type locality Trinil

Josephine Joordens et al.

11:20

A winter wonderland? Mid-latitude seasonality strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic

Robert Hosfield

11:40

Mounting evidence for multiple hunting episodes in the Schöningen 13II-4 “Spear Horizon”

Jarod Hutson et al.

12:00

Spruce and pine – new investigations on the wooden weapons of Schöningen, Lower Saxony (Germany)

Thomas Terberger et al.

12:20

The Ceprano calvarium, twenty years after. A new generation of (digital) studies

Fabio Di Vincenzo et al.

12:40

The hominin frontal bone recently discovered in the Po Valley, Northern Italy

Giorgio Manzi et al.

13:00-14:30

Lunch Break

Session 3                                    Chairperson: Chris Stringer

14:30

New Neandertal remains from Sirogne cave, Rocamadour (Lot, France)

Priscilla Bayle et al.

14:50

Facial Growth Remodeling in Middle-Pleistocene Homo

Rodrigo Lacruz et al.

15:10

All you wanted to know about growth of African pygmies but no one could tell... until now

Fernando Ramirez Rozzi et al.

15:30

Exploring taurodontism in Neandertals

Stefano Benazzi et al.

15:50

Small bones, big differences - A comparison of modern human and Neandertal ear ossicles

Alexander Stoessel et al.

16:10

TOSPEAK, a primate long non-coding gene with human-specific promoter regulates development of the capacity to speak

Zhiming Fang et al. (Presented by Raymond Clarke)

16:30-17:30

Coffee Break

17:30-19:00

Keynote Speech

University Main Hall • Piazza di San Marco, 4, 50121 Florence (Map)

Comparing genes across linguistic families

Professor Guido Barbujani

Dept. of Life Sciences and Biotechnologies, University of Ferrara

Parallel analysis of genetic and linguistic diversity may cast light on both biological history and cultural transmission. Significant associations were observed in the past, resulting in coherent phylogenies of languages and populations. However, most classical studies were hampered by the impossibility to compare the vocabularies of distantly-related languages. A novel method, the Parametric Comparison Method (PCM), has been proposed for inferring language diversity from supposedly universal syntactic and grammatical (rather than lexical) features, thus enabling comparison across established families.


Friday, 19 September

University of Florence • Via Laura 48, 50121 Florence (Map)

 

8:30-9:30

Session 4: PECHA KUCHA
Chairperson: Philipp Gunz

 

1

The cave, the skull and the women: female representation in Palaeolithic research

Rebecca Wragg Sykes et al.

 

2

The Châtelperronian: an updated review

Morgan Roussel and Marie Soressi

 

3

A reappraisal of the early Upper Paleolithic assemblages from Maibulak, Kazakhstan

Radu Iovita et al.

 

4

Endocranial shape asymmetry in humans and apes

Simon Neubauer et al.

 

5

[MOVED to the end of the morning session] The Higher Cognitive Functions of the Recently Expanded Parietal Lobes in Homo sapiens

Frederick Coolidge

 

6

Exploring hominin and animal interactions in the Swabian Jura: Cave use and subsistence patterns during the late Middle and early Upper Paleolithic

Keiko Kitagawa et al.

 

7

The Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi – New studies on the Ice Age cave art on Sicily

Gianpiero di Maida et al.

 

9:30-10:00

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 5
Chairperson: Marie Soressi

 

10:00

The Middle Palaeolithic living floor of Unit 15 (55 kyrs BP) from the Oscurusciuto Shelter, Ginosa, Taranto, Southern Italy

Annamaria Ronchitelli et al.

 

10:20

Neanderthal occupation of the East European Plain: New data from the Middle Dniestr valley (Ukraine)

Philip R. Nigst et al.

 

10:40

Cranial diversification in Neandertals and modern humans compared to common chimpanzees

Timothy D. Weaver et al.

 

11:00

Testing modern human out-of-Africa models: population genetic and craniometric approaches

Katerina Harvati and Hugo Reyes-Centeno

 

11:20

Khoe-San retain a gracilized version of the ancestral modern human phenotype

Philipp Gunz et al.

 

11:40

The Higher Cognitive Functions of the Recently Expanded Parietal Lobes in Homo sapiens [Pecha Kucha format]

Frederick Coolidge

 

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

 

 

Session 6
Chairperson: Fred Spoor

Session 7
Chairperson: Thomas Terberger

 

13:30

Can distal fibular morphology be used to infer Au. afarensis locomotor behavior?

Damiano Marchi

Early Palaeolithic fire at a late Early Pleistocene hominin site: Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar, Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia, Spain

Michael John Walker et al.

 

13:50

The Appositional Articular Morphology of the Talo-crural Joint Reflects Substrate Use Within Species: An Examination of Three Closely Related Hominoid Species

Kevin Turley and Stephen Frost

Behavioural Implications of Large Flake Acheulian technology

Sheila Mishra

 

14:10

Did a longer “functional” lumbar spine in early hominids facilitate the evolution of the lumbar lordosis?

Nakita Frater et al.

The Middle Palaeolithic sites at Neumark-Nord 2 (Germany): Optically and thermally stimulated luminescence dating

Daniel Richter et al.

 

14:30

Spinal stenosis in Homo erectus

Marc Meyer and Martin Haeusler

Neanderthal spatial behaviour during the Late Interglacial within a lake shore environment: the case of Neumark-Nord 2 (Germany)

Alejandro García-Moreno et al.

 

14:50

Spino-pelvic alignment: An evolutionary perspective

Ella Been et al.

What Role for Mediterranean Europe in the MP/EUP shift

Laura Longo and Silvana Condemi

 

15:10

Ancestral Aches? Vertebral morphology, locomotion, and human spinal health

Kimberly Plomp et al.

Size Matters - Patterns of choice and constraint in Lower and Middle Palaeolithic microlithic assemblages in central Europe

Iris Newton

 

15:30-17:30

Poster Session 1

 

17:30-18:30

ESHE General Assembly

 



POSTER SESSION 1

FRIDAY, 19 September 15:30-17:30

Authors of odd-numbered posters are expected to be present during the first hour (15:30-16:30). Authors of even-numbered posters should be present in the second hour (16:30-17:30)

1

Size and sex variance in Paranthropus robustus: Taxonomic and Palaeobiological implications

Andrew Gallagher et al.

2

A specimen of Paranthropus robustus from Bolt’s Farm Caves system, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa?

Sandrine Prat et al.

3

Mid-Pliocene Primates (Cercopithecoidea) from Brad Pit B, Klinkerts (Bolt’s Farm Cave System, South Africa)

Dominique Gommery et al.

4

Ancient human DNA, finally a research field where data sharing is common practice

Paolo Anagnostou et al.

5

Hominin Footprints from Early Pleistocene Deposits at Happisburgh, UK

Nick Ashton et al.

6

X-ray microtomographic-based structural analysis of the dental remains from the Mousterian and Aurignacian levels of the Fossellone cave, Latium, Italy

Claudio Tuniz et al.

7

The Gravettian mandibles from Grotta Paglicci (Apulia, Italy): a geometric morphometrics study

Aurélien Mounier et al.

8

The "forgotten" Palaeolithic human remains from the site of Roc-en-Pail (France). Reassessment of the archaeological context and taxonomical diagnosis: a new Neandertal humerus

Christine Verna et al.

9

Preliminary study of the head-neck complex of Neanderthal ribs from the El Sidrón site (Asturias, Spain)

Daniel García-Martínez et al.

10

Thorax kinematics and the reconstruction of body models in hominin evolution

Markus Bastir et al.

11

Muscle cross-sectional area estimation for Neanderthals and Paleolithic modern humans

Astrid Slizewski et al.

12

Examining the influence of habitual loading along the long bone diaphyses of varsity athletes; skeletal plasticity and constraint

Jason Nadell and Colin Shaw

13

Re-evaluation of the Pleistocene and Holocene long bone robusticity trends with regards to age-at-death estimates and size standardization procedures

Lukáš Friedl et al.

14

A study of three-dimensional quadric surface fitting to model variability in femoral curvature

Tara Chapman et al.

15

Breakage patterns of hominin long bones from Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca, Spain)

Nohemi Sala et al.

16

The stout navicular bones from the the Middle Pleistocene site of Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)

Adrián Pablos et al.

17

Dorsal canting in human pedal and manual proximal phalanges does not covary: an alternative explanation for high dorsal canting in manual phalanges

Anneke H. van Heteren et al.

18

Evolution of the ulnar and radial sides of the human hand

Tea Jashashvili et al.

19

Morphometric maps of the developing human humerus

Thomas O’Mahoney et al.

20

Revisiting the hominoid humerus – A 3D GMM assessment of locomotor and shape correlates

Margherita Sbanchi and Martin Friess

21

Cortical bone topography and cross-sectional geometric properties of Paglicci 12 and Paglicci 25 Gravettian human femora

Laurent Puymerail et al.

22

The Gona pelvis and sexual dimorphism in Homo erectus compared with living hominoids

Zachary Cofran

23

A new partial pelvis (Pelvis 2) from the Sima de los Huesos site (Atapuerca, Spain)

Alejandro Bonmatí-Lasso et al.

24

Shape, size and maturity trajectories of the human ilium and interpopulation differences in the ontogeny of sexual dimorphism

Laura Wilson et al.

25

Variation in the shape of the birth canal in modern humans is significant and geographically structured

Lia Betti

26

Quadrupedal subjects in a family (Adana, Turkey): new insights into the biomechanical influences on skeletal development

Noémie Bonneau et al.

27

Rodent biochronology at Klinkert’s (Sterkfontein Valley, South Africa)

Frank Senegas

28

Organization Of Lithic Technology At Lalitpur: A Large Flake Acheulean Site In India

Neetu Agarwal and Sheila Mishra

29

Towards luminescence dating of the Lower Paleolithic

Christina Ankjærgaard et al.

30

Contribution of the ESR dating method to the chronological framework of the oldest hominid occupations in southwestern Europe

Mathieu Duval

31

Further elements on the chronology of the Roc de Marsal (SW France) Middle Paleolithic sequence: insights from quartz Single Grain OSL and various K-feldspar IRSL signals

Guillaume Guérin et al.

32

Rediscovering and reinterpreting old data from the archaeological collections of the Portuguese Scientific Missions in Southwestern Angola

Daniela Matos et al.

33

Evaluating archaeology – using network analysis to visualise research behaviour

Trine Kellberg Nielsen

34

Techno-typological analysis of bifacial component at Gombe site (Kinshasa, DRC). An assessment of the Lupemban in Western Central Africa

Sylvie Numuhire

35

Middle Stone Age ochre processing tools from Porc-Epic cave (Dire Dawa, Ethiopia)

Daniela Eugenia Rosso et al.

36

Varsche Rivier 003: A Middle Stone Age site with Still Bay and Howiesons Poort assemblages in southern Namaqualand, South Africa

Teresa Steele et al.

37

The invisible frontier: East African MSA/LSA transition in Goda Buticha (Dire Dawa, Ethiopia)

David Pleurdeau et al.

38

Multidisciplinary studies of a 31,000 year old canid skull from Aghitu-3 Cave, Armenia

Andrew W. Kandel et al.

39

When Did the Upper Paleolithic Begin on the Russian Plain? (In the Context of Pollen and IRSL/OSL Dates on Kostenki-12 Site and Their Correlations with Pollen and O16/O18 and C13/C14 “Calendars”)

Galina Levkovskaya et al.

40

Upper Paleolithic Funeral Ceremony: Bioarchaeology Of The Person From Kostenki Xiv (Markina Gora)

Alexandra Buzhilova

41

East European models for the Middle–to–Upper Palaeolithic transition in Eastern Europe

Andrey A. Sinitsyn

42

Iberomaurusian Funerary Rituals: Cultural And Social Aspects Of The Taforalt Population

Valentina Mariotti et al.

43

Siberian zoomorphs: A search for meaning and implications for the Upper Paleolithic evidence

Sandra Sázelová

44

Engraved human bone from the Magdalenian site of Gough’s Cave, Somerset (UK)

Silvia M. Bello and Rosalind Wallduck

45

Lower Magdalenian Lithic Raw Material Conservation in Cantabrian Spain

Lisa M. Fontes

46

New insights into the multiple Mesolithic burial of Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany

Bettina  Jungklaus et al.

 

 

Saturday, 20 September

University of Florence • Via Laura 48, 50121 Florence (Map)

 

Session 8                             Chairperson: Jiří Svoboda

9:30

Dating the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic Transition in the South Levant:  Where to From Here?

Elisabetta Boaretto and Omry Barzilai

9:50

The Early Upper Palaeolithic at Manot Cave, Western Galilee, Israel

Omry Barzilai et al.

10:10

Explicit similarities and expected variability: the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Northeast Asia

Nicolas Zwyns et al.

10:30

A local Mousterian origin for the Châtelperronian?

Karen Ruebens et al.

10:50-11:10

Coffee Break

 

Session 9                      Chairperson: Shannon McPherron

11:10

A high-resolution chronostratigraphic framework for the Upper Paleolithic of southeastern Iberia

João Zilhão et al.

11:30

The early Gravettian. New excavations at Dolní Věstonice-Pavlov

Jiří Svoboda et al.

11:50

The Use of Non-Flint Lithic Raw Material in the Final Gravettian. Abri Pataud (level 2), Laugerie-Haute Est (levels F, 36 and 38), Les Peyrugues (level 18)

Laurent Chiotti et al.

12:10

New insights from old artefacts: A quantitative reassessment of the LSA technology of the Central Kenyan Rift

Alex Wilshaw and Marta Mirazon Lahr

12:30-14:00

Lunch Break

 

Session 10      
Chairperson: Josephine Joordens

Session 11         
Chairperson: Wil Roebroeks

14:00

Time-related changes in fossil cercopithecoid inner craniodental structures and chronological seriation of South African hominin-bearing sites

Amélie Beaudet et al.

How well is plant consumption recorded in Ovatwe dental calculus?: Implications for ancient dental calculus studies

Chelsea Leonard et al.

14:20

A morphometric analysis of the hominin deciduous lower second molar (I/12a) from Qesem Cave

Cinzia Fornai et al.

Starch taphonomy on stone tools: considering anthropogenic alterations, climate, and soil chemistry

Cynthianne Debono Spiteri et al.

14:40

Taxonomic interpretation of the Salé (Morocco) hominin endocasts

Dominique Grimaud-Herve

Tooth cusp sharpness as a dietary correlate in great apes

Michael Berthaume

15:00

Biological constraints and evolution of language: a hypothesis on the exaptation of human vocal structures

Alessandra Falzone et al.

Sequence analysis of tool prehension and manipulation: a new method to analyze hand dexterity

Antony Borel et al.

15:20

Vascular system development of small tubular bones of Neanderthals from Altai caves

Maria Mednikova and Maria Dobrovolskaya

The Evidence for Time Keeping Among Pre-Neolithic Hunter-Gatherers

Marnie Dunsmore

15:40

Mitochondrial genome variation in late Pleistocene Europe

Cosimo Posth et al.

Modelling the tool use and diet of Paranthropus and Homo habilis

Adam Newton

16:00-18:00

Poster Session 2

19:00-23:00

ESHE Closing Party



POSTER SESSION 2

Saturday 20 September 16:00-18:00

Authors of odd-numbered posters are expected to be present during the first hour (16:00-17:00). Authors of even-numbered posters should be present in the second hour (17:00-18:00).

47

Bidirectional gene flow between Central and Eastern Africa in the Early Holocene and low genetic input of East African mtDNA lineages into Bantu populations before their expansion South

Silva Marina et al.

48

Human and Caprine remains from Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia): Southern Africa before and after the introduction of pastoralist practices

Florent Détroit et al.

49

Impact of geographic, chronological, climatic and linguistic factors on human cranial variation: new insights on the peopling of the New World

Manon Galland et al.

50

Modeling Population Dynamics of the Late Neanderthal Subgroups

Anna Degioanni et al.

51

The postnatal ontogeny of neurovascular versus musculoskeletal landmarks on the cranial base of modern humans and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Sandra A. Martelli and M. Christopher Dean

52

Exploring the relationship between spheno-occipital synchondrosis closure and cranio-facial growth in hominoids

Almudena Alcázar de Velasco et al.

53

"Grandmother, what big browridge you have!" - The mechanical relevance of the browridge in Kabwe 1 (Homo heidelbergensis)

Ricardo Miguel Godinho and Paul O’Higgins

54

Maxillary sinuses, craniofacial morphology, and adaptation in Pleistocene hominins

Laura Buck et al.

55

New Evidence Suggesting a Dissociated Aetiology for Cribra Orbitalia and Porotic Hyperostosis

Frances Rivera and Marta Mirazon-Lahr

56

Another Measure of Man: comparison of point-cloud based analysis of photogrammetric 3d models and landmark-based geometric morphometric shape analysis in hominid mandibles

Brenna Hassett and Timothy Lewis-Bale

57

Smoothing procedures in Geometric Morphometrics: a critical assessment

Antonio Profico et al.

58

Heritability and Plasticity in Teeth: A Papionin Model for Testing Environmental and Phylogenetic Hypotheses in Primate Evolution

Nicole D.S. Grunstra and Robert A. Foley

59

ELOVL2, FHL2 and PENK DNA hypermethylation as an age-predictor in modern human teeth samples

Christina Giuliani

60

Variation of 3D outer and inner crown morphology of lower premolars in modern humans

Viktoria A. Krenn et al.

61

Jaws: Morphological Evidence from the South African Australopiths on the Evolution the Hominin Mouth

Julie Lawrence

62

Comparative endostructural characterization of the Middle Pleistocene human dental remains from Fontana Ranuccio and Visogliano, Italy

Clément Zanolli et al.

63

Predicting jaw shape based on models of maxillomandibular integration

Stefanie Stelzer et al.

64

Dental Microwear Texture Analysis and the Diet of the Scladina Child

Sireen El Zaatari et al.

65

Stress distribution and molar macrowear in Pongo pygmaeus: a new approach through Finite Element and Occlusal Fingerprint Analyses

Luca Fiorenza and Stefano Benazzi

66

Functional Equivalence within the Developing Masticatory System

Olivia A.M. Smith et al.

67

Elucidating Differences in the Feeding Ecology of Extant Apes Using Finite Element Analysis

Laura C. Fitton and Phil J.R. Morris

68

Investigating the link between past adaptations and modern diseases: a nutrition-related perspective

Marco Sazzini

69

Variation of the Enamel-Dentin-Junction morphology of upper premolars in modern human populations

Lisa Buchegger et al.

70

The distribution of authigenic minerals in the Middle Stone Age deposits of Sibudu (South Africa), and implications for the preservation of archaeological features

Susan M. Mentzer et al.

71

Insights into site formation processes of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic layers in Sector West of La Ferrassie (Dordogne)

Vera Aldeias et al.

72

Late glacial landscapes and cave sites formation processes: an innovative approach from the Ach and Lone valleys of the Swabian Jura (SW Germany)

Alvise Barbieri et al.

73

Residuals of short time occupations or structured landscape using- new aspects to the find layers from the Middle Paleolithic of Weimar-Ehringsdorf

Tim Schüler

74

Projet NéMo: The Chronology and Cultural Context of Neandertal Skeletal Material in Southwestern France

Jean-Philippe Faivre et al.

75

Neanderthal local raw material utilization and transport: A view from southwestern France

Sam Lin et al.

76

The importance of limestone in the subsistence activities during the Middle Paleolithic: the levels J, M and O assemblages of the Abric Romaní site (Barcelona, Spain)

María Gema Chacón et al.

77

Neanderthal land-use inferred from the Discoid lithic industry at Grotta di Fumane, unit A9

Davide Delpiano and Marco Peresani

78

Plant foods in Middle Palaeolithic subsistence in Italian and Southern European Neanderthal populations

Robert Power et al.

79

Trace Element Distributions in Early and Late Forming Tooth Enamel

Louise Humphrey et al.

80

The antler and bone points from the Early Upper Palaeolithic layers of Fumane Cave (Verona, Italy): technological reconstruction and implications for the cultural attribution

Camille Jéquier et al.

81

Exploring Palaeolithic weapon delivery systems using a controlled and realistic experimental setup: preliminary results

Nina Schloesser and Radu Iovita

82

Evaluating performance effects of ochre and beeswax in Middle Stone Age resin based compound adhesives by lap shear testing

Paul Kozowyk

83

A poisoned chalice: investigating the presence of poisons on Paleolithic arrows

Valentina Borgia et al.

84

Techno-functional features of the Protoaurignacian (backed) bladelets from four French lithic assemblages

Amaranta Pasquini

85

Searching for the origins of food storage in the European Gravettian

Alexander J.E. Pryor et al.

86

Kill Locality and Settlement: a comparison of two Magdalenian site types

Elaine Turner and Martin Street

87

Mesolithic animal exploitation and palaeoeconomy: Discussion of a new methodological approach

Elisabeth Noack

 

Sunday, 21 September

Excursion: Grotta di Equi

The Grotte di Equi consists of a series of caves, set within a beautiful northern Italian landscape. The focus of the visit will be the “Tecchia di Equi”, a small cave where the excavation was carried out. In addition, we will have the chance to see the “Grotte di Equi”, a tourist cave; a nature path to see the “Solco di Equi”, panoramic site and a small lab with educational facilities (Geolab). The excursion includes a fully catered lunch of local Italian specialties.

7:30

Meeting Point: Via Giorgio la Pira 4 (Map)

7:30-10:00

Drive from Florence to Equi Cave

10:00-13:00

Site Visits

13:00-14:30

Lunch (Included in the price of the excursion)

14:30-17:30

Site visits

17:30-20:00

Drive back to Florence