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January 8 ROOM 1 Neolithic Zagros -‐. Chair: Roger Matthews 9-‐9.30 R Matthews. Early Neolithic Ecosystems in the Central Zagros of Iran and Iraq 9.30-‐10 W. Matthews Continuity and transformation in social roles and relations: Representations early built environments 10-‐ 10.30 Bendrey The times they were a changin': human-‐animal relationships at the origins of farming in the Central Zagros 10.30-‐ 11 Richardson Networks of material interaction: pXRF and other approaches ROOM 2 Cyprus and the Mediterranean Chair: ?? Jacobsson What do the Cypro-‐ PPN sites tell us about the nature of the M-‐/L-‐ PPNB transition? Bolger Fragmented identities: social and material transformations in 3rd millennium BC Cyprus Chelazzi Living by the rivers: social networks and settlement patterns in southwestern Cyprus during the second millennium BC Coffee break ROOM 3 Anatolia and North Syria in the LBA and IA -‐ Chair J.D. Hawkins Zaina et alii Changing patterns. 2000 years of transformation and continuity in area C at Karkemish James Frontiers of Conflict in Early Iron Age Western Syria: Assessing the Militaristic Capabilities of the Kingdom of Carchemish, c.1000-‐717 BC Brown Frontiers and Empires in the Middle Euphrates Valley: Results from the Land of Carchemish (Syria) Project. ROOM 4 Museums and Cultural Heritage Chair ??? Coffee Break Coffee Break Yuvazhenyem Mesopotamian art in Russian museums Munawar Cultural Heritage Syria Zagros 11-‐ 11.30 Whitlam Transitions in plant use in the Neolithic of the eastern Fertile Crescent 11.30-‐ 12 12-‐ 12.30 12.30-‐1 1-‐2 Syria varia Chair??? Schörner Looking at the Abila Hinterland: First results of the Survey Campaign 2014 Iversen Peltenberg Snails on a Neolithic The Early to Middle mound: the molluscs of Bronze Age transition Bestansur in North Syria: implications from mortuary practices Mudd Barrantes Stone at Bestansur: Mass pottery Continuity and Change, production and Innovation and Tradition feasting in early Mesopotamia: the case of Tell Brak Elliot Bülbül Identification and use of Aramaean Culture in animal dung in the early Southeastern Anatolia Neolithic: Sites in the Central Zagros LUNCH LUNCH Anatolia cont., J.D. Hawkins Theory and method Chair??? Rutishauser Natural and political frontiers in Cilicia Sharp Discard patterns: discussions on sherd methodology Minunno Rattenborg An Iron Age I sacred area at Configuring Mesopotamia: regional Tell Afis (Syria) signifiers and the many locations of the ‘land between the rivers’ Montesanto Pottery Catal Huyuk Pincé Exploring the possibilities of geochemical analyses on painted pottery of pre-‐Islamic Iran Maner Late Bronze and Iron Age Settlements and Sanctuaries of the South-‐ Eastern Konya Region BANEA STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING LUNCH 8/1/15 2-‐2.30 2.30-‐3 3-‐3.30 3.30-‐4 4-‐4.30 Combining Ethnoarchaeology session Emma Jenkins Shahack-‐Gross Understanding site formation processes by combining ethnoarchaeology with geoscience methods Vos Studying Phytolith and Geochemical Soil Signatures in Bedouin Campsites at Wadi Faynan, Jordan International Connections Chair: Brass At the frontier of early States: Zones of interaction in Sudanic North-‐East Africa Di Pietro Patterns of change within Egyptian Predynastic settlement ceramics. The stratigraphic sondage at Nekhen 10N5W, Hierakonpolis Allcock Lorenzon Phytolith Analysis from Geo-‐archaeological the Ethnoarchaeological analysis of mudbrick site of Al Ma’tan, Jordan architecture: a case study in the Egyptian Delta. Coffee Break Coffee Break Ethnoarchaeology cont. Grattan Himmelman Ancient metal mining Halaf pottery and smelting and the production at Tepe modern world: Marani: Embedded MBA Anatolia. chair: xxx Decapolis Ricetti The contribution of Assyrian cylinder seals to the elaboration of a local style in Anatolia at the beginning of the II millennium BC Heffron Stone Stelae and Religious Space in Kültepe-‐Kaneš Lucke Soil fertility in the Decapolis region: a victim of desertification? Palmisano The Long and Winding Road: Pathways of Communication in the Old Assyrian Trade Network Zerbini Landscapes of production in the Jordanian Decapolis: the wine and oil industry and its infrastructure Coffee Break East Anatolia chair xxx Pulkan North of the Tur Abdin But Not Out of Touch: Excavations at Gre Amer, Coffee Break Texts and seals Schmidhuber Lingusitic Variation and Compositional Strategies in Old Babylonian Sumerian Royal Boyer Evidence of spring-‐fed irrigation in the hinterland of the Decapolis city of Gerasa (Jordan) 4.30-‐5 5-‐5.30 5.40 6.00 ethnoarchaeological insights into the ancient world Palmer Rural Settlement, House Forms and Oral Histories in Southern Jordan Smith The Barqa Epipalaeolithic project: New evidence for Late Pleistocene environments and Epipalaeolithic activity in the Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan BANEA AGM traditions or superficial decorations? Collins Connections in the 3rd Millennium BC: a view from Kish Rosińska-‐Balik The tale of two tells. Distant but connected? Nature of relations between Egypt and the Levant during Early Bronze Age. Garzan Inscriptions Bonzano Urartu in its first years: lowland and highlands in the developing of Urartian Socio-‐political landscape. Edmonds Mila Mergi revisited Sadoon Neo-‐Sumerian Letter-‐Orders from Umma site Kept in the Iraqi Museum BANEA AGM BANEA AGM BANEA AGM Hicks Seal bearers in the Seleukid world FRIENDS OF THE PETRIE MUSEUM RECEPTION IN THE ROBERTS BUILDING FOYER. TIMED VISITS TO THE PETRIE MUSEUM January 9 ROOM 1 Seasonality and Society in the Early Middle East Wengrow and Asouti 9-‐9.30 Roe/Martin Open season: modelling prehistoric wildlife dynamics in Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic Jordan 9.30-‐10 Henton/Martin Animal tracking in prehistoric Jordan: wildlife mobility and seasonality 10-‐ 10.30 Bode et al. Running dry? A multi-‐ proxy approach to understanding seasonality at the Epipalaeolithic hunter-‐ gather site of Kharaneh IV, Azraq Basin, Jordan ROOM 2 Bronze Age Connections and Networks. Papers in honour of Peggy Drower Chair ?? Tucci Bronze Age Connections / Social networks and craft mobility in the East Mediterranean in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC ROOM 3 Late Antique Frontiers of Iran, the Caucasus, Anatolia and Iraq Wilkinson Comfort Late Antique Frontiers of Iran, the Caucasus, Anatolia and Iraq ROOM 4 Neolithic to EBA Ksiezak Evolution of fabric use in Tell el-‐Yahudiyeh ware – a case of specialization in pottery production at the site of Tell el-‐Maskhuta during the Hyksos period Massafra Tell el-‐Ajjul Lawrence Canals, Connections and Control: Investigating the Landscapes of the Sasanian Frontier in the Southern Caucasus Sauer Enhancing natural barriers from the Dariali Gorge in Georgia to northern Iran, presented jointly with K. Pitskhealuri, J. Nokandeh and H. Omrani Rekavandi Shirai Adaptation of a Neolithic farming community to a challenging environment in Egypt Croucher Continuing bonds, past and present: A reinterpretation of plastered skulls in light of contemporary theories of bereavement Robinson PPNA Social Organisation at Wadi Faynan 16, Southern Jordan 10.30-‐11 Coffee Break 11-‐ 11.30 11.30-‐ 12 12-‐ 12.30 Seasonality Marsh/Altaweel The Search for Hidden Landscapes in the Shahrizor, Suleimaniyah province, Iraqi Kurdistan Wilkinson Abroad in all weathers? The seasonality of ‘interdependence routes' Asouti ..... 12.30-‐1 Wengrow Gobekli Tepe and its Palaeolithic background: thoughts on seasonality and inequality among prehistoric hunter-‐ gatherers Coffee Break Bronze Age Connections Lubetski Influence of Egyptian Glyptic Symbols on Israelite Aniconic Artifacts Coffee Break Sassanian cont. Hartnell Agriculture in Sasanian Persia: Ideology and Practice Coffee Break Late Neolithic-‐Chalcolithic Flohr Did rapid climate change episodes affect early farming societies in the Near East? Pitkänen Migration and Colonial Encounters in Late Second Millennium BCE Levant T.J. Wilkinson The Western Edge of the Sassanian Empire in Iraq Nieuwenhuyse After the First Pot. The Integration of Ceramic Containers in the Upper Mesopotamian Late Neolithic Safadi an evaluation of the maritime accessibility and protection of bronze age and iron age levantine harbours Cancellara Amid crisis and restructuring: The transition from the late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the Southern Levant Hopper Local and regional networks on the Sasanian frontier in NE Iran Lawecka Newcomers and autochthons. Late Chalcolithic 3-‐5 settlement in the Upper Greater Zab area (Kurdistan Autonomous Region, Iraq). Rayne Imperial water supply and irrigation in the Balikh Valley, Syria Ilkhani Plant exploitation patterns from the 8th to the 4th millennium B.C. in Northern Fars, Iran Change or continuity? 1-‐2 2-‐2.30 LUNCH Kurdish area, northern Iraq Skuldbøl Low-‐density urbanism and urban sprawl in the Zagros foothills, northeastern Iraq 2.30-‐3 Shepperson Fortifying Erbil: first excavations on Erbil citadel 3-‐3.30 Marf Deified and sacred mountains of the Zagros In the highland and lowland records 3.30-‐4 Coffee Break Neolithic to EBA Jordan, Kurdistan, Israel Finlayson New excavations at Beidha 4-‐4.30 LUNCH The Levant after the LBA collapse Quick literary influence and linguistic reality: adaptation, transformation, and continuity beyond the late bronze age collapse Asscher A Slow Social Integration of the Philistines in the Southern Levant is Supported by a New Radiocarbon Based Chronology Moriconi Like the wolf on the fold': some aspects of the Neo-‐ Assyrian imperial impact and strategies in Southern Levant during the VIIth century B.C. LUNCH Islamic Archaeology and lamps Berghuijs From Camel to Truck: Islamic Occupation and Punctuation in the Black Desert, Jordan LUNCH Neolithic to EBA Gutfeld: Ramla Excavations North of the White Mosque Richter: From hunter-‐gatherers to farmers in the south-‐eastern foothills of the Jebel Druze: The Natufian-‐PPNA transition in the Qa' Shubayqa Stork Metal commodities and perceptions of value in the Euphrates Valley from the Late Chalcolithic to the Early Bronze Age Coffee Break International varia Phillip First (artificial) light: lamps, fuels and economic activity in early complex societies. Coffee Break Late antique Stampolidis Eleutherna on Crete and the Near East Franglé Hellenistic economy in Phoenicia Arntz Re-‐figuring categories. Interpreting the figurines at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria (6400-‐5800 BC) Wright Craft production, food preparation and household differentiation Catalhoyuk East and other Neolithic sites in the Near East Coffee Break Neolithic to EBA Northern Syria 4.30-‐5. Yekutieli The renewed excavations at Tel Erani Hinson: Bells in Ancient Egypt 5-‐5.30 Abi Cheya the traditional iron working industry in Abuja area, Nigeria: external influences from North Africa and the Mediterranean world Greenfield Urban animal exploitation and bone taphonomy in the Early Bronze Age III neighbourhood at Tell es-‐Safi/Gath, Israel Ames Roma versus YAHWEH: The conflict and comradery between two of the Mediterranean’s most influential cultures Plug Keepsakes: Grave Goods as the materialization of Relationships at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria (6400-‐ 5800 BC) Badreshany The Dissemination of Early Pottery Technology during the Neolithic of the Upper Orontes Valley: A Petrographic Perspective