Schedule

22nd May        Conference Day 1 "Pfleghofsaal," Schulberg 2

7:30-8:00        Registration

8:00-8:15        Welcome Address

8:15-8:30        Different Pleistocene loess environments and domains in Europe and their significance for archeological occupation

   Frank Lehmkuhl, Philipp Schulte, Christian Zeeden, Andreas Maier

8:30-8.45        Of Landscape Biographies and Sediment Archives: Interdisciplinary Geoarchaeological Approaches and First Results of the Life of a Landscape Project

   Doris Jetzinger, Tim Kinnaird, Michaela Schauer, Wolfgang Wanek, Jakob Gallistl, Tabea Truntschnig, Samuel Kasemann, Armin Schwaiger

8:45-9:00        As good as it gets – Geoarchaeological investigations of early Neolithic sites along a large motorway construction project in Saxony

   Christian Tinapp, Birgit Fischer, Harald Stäuble

9:00-9:15        Beyond Boreholes: Application of Innovative Geoarchaeological Approaches in UK Commercial Archaeology

   Raphael Kahlenberg

9:15-9:30        Geoarchaeological Data Mining from Archaeological Excavation Data: The Case of Manching

   Philipp Hagdorn

9:30-9:45        Prehistoric settlement dynamics in Germany: A supra-regional synthesis based on structured data

   Jan Miera, Hans von Suchodoletz, Karsten Schmidt

9:45-10:00      Land use legacy landforms and soils in forest areas of eastern Bavaria

                          Anna Schneider, Thomas Raab, Alexandra Raab, Alexander Bonhage

10:00-10:15   BREAK

10:15-10:30   Lipid biomarker and ancient sedimentary DNA analysis from marine sediments to decipher medieval land use around Rungholt (North Frisia).

   Sascha Scherer, Sabine Fiedler, Ben Krause-Kyora, Andreas Vött, Hanna Hadler

10:30-10:45   Ancient DNA from Bluefish Cave III sediments provides paleoenvironmental context for terminal Pleistocene human activity

   Caroline Kisielinski, Justin Tackney, Lauren Norman, Rolfe Mandel, Dennis O‘ROurke

10:45-11:00   A Multi-Proxy Analysis of Urban Decline and Transformation in Pompeiopolis (Northern Turkey): Integrating Archaeobotany, Archaeological Micromorphology, and XRF Analyses

Melis Uzdurum, Mustafa N. Tatbul, Susan M. Mentzer, Massimi Brizzi

11:00-12:00   Round Table Discussion: Teaching in Geoarchaeology

                          Lucy Wilson, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Susan Mentzer

12:00-13:00   LUNCH

13:00-13:15   Geoarchaeological approaches to understanding urban changes in deltaic environments: a case study from Istros (Danube delta, Romania)

                          Alexandra Bivolaru

13:15-13:30   Finding Suitable Grounds: Early Neolithic cultivation potential of Dutch wetland landscapes

   Elena Familetto, Hans Huisman, Kim Cohen, Wim Hoek

13:30-13:45   Overexploitation of a medieval coastal landscape - peat extraction sites around Hallig Hooge, Wadden Sea of North Frisia (Germany)

   Hanna Hadler, Antonia Reiß, Bente Majchczack, Dennis Wilken, Ruth Blankenfeldt, Soetkin Vervust, Sarah Bäumler, Dirk Bienen-Scholt, Ulf Ickerodt, Stefanie Klooß, Timo Willershäuser, Andreas Vött

13:45-14:00   A Monastery in a Flood Plain - The River Weschnitz Fluvioscape and its interaction with the Lorsch Abbey

   Roland Prien, Felix Henselowsky, Nicolai Hillmus, Barbara Jäger, Elena Appel, Thomas Becker, Olaf Bubenzer, Bertil Mächtle, Gerrit J. Schenk, Andreas Vött, Udo Recker

14:00-14:15   Ecohydrological changes and potential Salmon habitat suitability since pre-industrial times at the Mulde River (Germany)

   Martin Offermann, Michael Hein, Ronja Hegemann, Kay Gödecke, Lucas Hegner, Yamuna Henke, Nele Schäfer, Hanna Shelukhina, Erik Liebscher, Severin Opel, Johannes Rabiger-Völlmer, Lukas Werther, Christoph Zielhofer

14:15-14:30   Foodways among the Lacandon Maya: A Dive into Late Postclassic Subsistence through Lipid and Stable isotope Analyses of Ceramics

                          Eystein Hestholm Listhaug

14:30-14:45   BREAK

14:45-15:00   Bringing light in the darkness: recent geoarchaeological research on the Dark Earth from the historical center of Ghent (Belgium).

   Yannick Devos, Jari Hinsch Mikkelsen, Monica Alonso-Eguiluz, Tomas Bradt, Geert Vermeiren, Maarten Berkers, Gunter Stoops

15:00-15:15   Hydro-climatic evolution, resource management and soils around the Al Khashbah archaeological complex, Central Oman, from the Early Holocene to the Bronze Age

   Tara Beuzen-Waller, Dana Pietsch, Katharina Schmitt, Lucas Proctor, Conrad Schmidt

15:15-15:30   Human influence on Central German Chernozems/Phaeozems since the Early Bronze Age

Hans von Suchodoletz, Birgit Schneider, Anna Skokan, Bruno Glaser, Steven Polivka, Katja Weidner, Frank Schlütz, Torsten Schunke, Peter Kühn

15:30-15:45   Geoarchaeological identification of the oldest man-made canal in central Europe – The Roman Landgraben (Hessische Ried, Germany)

   Elena Appel, Thomas Becker, Markus Scholz, Dennis Wilken, Sarah Bäumler, Henrik Schäfer, Astrid Stobbe, Peter Fischer, Timo Willershäuser, Andreas Vött

15:45-16:00   Germanic Rampart or Roman Encampment? –  New Geoarchaeological Evidence at the Roman Conflict Site at Kalkriese (NW-Germany)

   Joachim Härtling, Andreas Stele, Salvatore Ortis, Andre Jepsen, Marc Rappe, Jens Bussmann, Alexander Fülling

16:00-17:30   Poster Session I (list of posters at end of program)

17:30-18:30   Key Note Talk-- A Geoarchaeological Approach to Finding Evidence of the First People in the Americas

   Rolfe Mandel

19:30-21:00   Conference Dinner—“1821 Tübingen,” Wilhelmstrasse 3

23rd May       Conference Day 2 “Pfleghofsaal," Schulberg 2

8:15-8:30        A “stratigraphic remnant”: geoarchaeological insights into Holocene environmental and cultural dynamics at Riparo Gaban (Trento, Italy)

   Maurizio Zambaldi, Diego Angelucci, Daniela Anesis, Michael B. Toffolo, Fabio Santaniello, Annaluisa Pedrotti

8:30-8:45        Upper Pleistocene cave sediments and Neanderthal occupation at Madonna dell’Arma (NW coastal Italy)

                          Stefano Costanzo, Vera Aldeias, Marta Pappalardo, Elisabetta Starnini, Anna Galli, Laura Panzeri, Andrea Zerboni

8:45-9:00        The sedimentary sequence of Cotencher Cave (Neuchâtel, Switzerland): interdisciplinary approach to unravel chronology, Middle and Upper Pleistocene climatic changes and Middle Palaeolithic site formation processes.

Judit Deák, François-Xavier Chauvière, Frank Preusser, Christophe Falguères, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Hervé Richard, Emilie Gauthier

9:00-9:15        Site formation or Neanderthal behaviour? Testing hypotheses on the rich organic record from Sesselfelsgrotte

   Alvise Barbieri, Sara Rhodes, Flora Schilt, Christoph Mayr, Thomas Higham, Andreas Pfemeter, Andreas Pastoors, Thorsten Uthmeier

9:15-9:30        Do mobile groups have local resources?

                          Peter Mears and Lucy Wilson

9:30-9:45        The Curious Case of the Raw Material That Wasn’t Used

    Lucy Wilson and Peter Mears

9:45-10:00      Time Is on Our Side: Micromorphology of Palaeolithic Simple Open Hearths from El Salt (Spain) in a Time-Resolved Context Spanning Decades to Centuries

                          Carolina Mallol

10:00-10:15   Simulating the effects of repetitive freeze-thaw on combustion materials

                          William Chase Murphree, Godefroy Devevey, Vera Aldeias

10:15-10:30   BREAK

10:30-10:45   Fire is a tool. It is to shape landscapes.

   Erhard Schulz, Ludger Herrmann, Peter Bencsik, Horea Cacovean, Bohdan Prots, Mathias Brigitte

10:45-11:00   Exploring fire history and human impact with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons over the past 15 ka at Moossee, Switzerland

                          Maximilian Prochnow

11:00-11:15   Light the fire: autofluorescent phytoliths, a new proxy for fire

   Luc Vrydaghs, Enrique Fernández-Palacios, Aline Garnier, Alvaro Castilla-Beltrán, Alicia Van Ham-Meert, Yannick Devos

11:15-11:30   Reconstruction of Site Formation processes via Micromorphology and Luminescence Profiling: A case study from the North Cemetery at Ayios                                   Vasilios, Greece

  Daniel Fallu, Sofia Voutsaki

11:30-11:45   Sedimentary and post-sedimentary processes in a Lateglacial archaeological context: first data from Landro Cave (pre-Alps, Northeastern Italy)

   Corrado Esposito, Michele Bassetti, Cristiano Nicosia, Alessandro Potí, Marco Peresani, Davide Visentin

11:45-12:00   Sedimentological Study of the Infilling of the Sedimentary Depression at Rakhat al Madrh (Oman): a Peripheral Oasis Site.

   Aleksandre Prosperini, Max Engel, Laurence Le Callonnec, Tara Beuzen-Waller, Claude Cosandey, Stephane Desruelles, Abigail Buffington, Sebastien Huot,    Jennifer Swerida, Eli N. Dollarhide, Eric Fouache

12:00-13:00   LUNCH

13:00-13:15   Evidence of spring activity along the margins of the Kalahari, at the Kathu Pan site, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

   Selina Amaral, Michael Chazan

13:15-13:30   Preliminary results of microcontextual geoarchaeological analysis of anthropogenic deposits at Border Cave, South Africa

                          Peter Morrissey, Dominic Stratford

13:30-13:45   Micromorphology of mortuary practices at Hora 1

   Flora Schilt, Jessica Thompson, Jessica Cerezo-Román, Elizabeth Sawchuk, Alex Bertacchi, Susan Mentzer, Potiphar Kaliba

13:45-14:00   Micromorphology of the Pleistocene and Holocene sediments from Leba Cave (Angola)

    Daniela Filipa Mirote de Matos

14:00-14:15   BREAK

14:15-14:30   Housing the Land: A micromorphological and geochemical investigation of ‘shifting sedentism’ in Marakwet, northwest Kenya

   David Kay

14:30-14:45   Cave to shelter to castle: Site formation and paleoenvironmental change at the site of Ilsenhöhle (Ranis), Germany

   Mareike Stahlschmidt, Michael Hein, André Kirchner, Tobias Lauer, Helen Fewlass, Robert Busser, Shannon McPherron, Tim Schüler, Marcel Weiss

14:45-15:00   Rock carving depth reflects glacial weakening and carvers’ geological insight

   Carina Liebl, Mark Peternell, Christian Horn, Johan Ling, Julian Moyano Di Carlo, Ashley Green, Rich Potter

15:00-15:15   Planetary Geoarchaeology: Investigating Site Formation Processes Beyond Earth

                          Justin Holcomb and Rolfe Mandel

15:15-16:45   Poster Session II (list of posters at end of program)

16:45-17:45   Key Note Talk—Bridging Disciplines: Geoarchaeology’s role on Excavation Strategies and Biomolecular Analysis

               Vera Aldeias

17:45-18:30   AK Business Meeting/Wrap-up

18:30-20:00   Museum Tour (Groups assemble at ca. 18:30 in front of Alte Aula and walk up together to the Castle Museum)

Posters

Poster Session I (May 22nd, 16:00)

About Donuts and Ditches: Geoarchaeological Investigations at Qurayyah NW Arabia    

Isabella Prackwieser, Susanna Cereda, Marta Luciani  

Geoarchaeological deposit modeling on the island of Ireland: An untapped resource?

Jason Stewart

Buried by breccia: Site formation processes at the Middle Paleolithic Companheira cave (Southern Portugal)

Guillermo Alzate-Casallas, Alvise Barbieri, Lucia Cobo-Sánchez, Milena Carvalho, İnci Nurgül Özdoğru, Javier Sánchez-Martinez, Nolan Ferar, Miguel Costa, Jovan Galfi, Nompumelelo Maringa, Célia Gonçalves, Lino André, João Cascalheira

Human-environmental relationships from the Early Iron Age to Middle Ages recorded in buried soils and slope deposits from Ostrowite Archaeological Complex (Northern Poland)

Margarita Zalinian, Piotr Kittel, Karolina Leszczynska, Sascha Scherer, Sabine Fiedler, Jerzy Sikora, Renata Stachowicz-Rybka, Alexandra Golyeva, Mirosław Makohonienko, Daniel Okupny

Early Holocene wetland and floodplain environments and their influence on settlement dynamics in the Pannonian Plains – a geoarchaeological case study

Jonna Bügenburg, Christopher Miller, Raiko Krauß

Tracing the Legacy of Lake Lorsch – The Lake Lorsch in written sources 

Nicolai Hillmus

Human modification of the fire regime in the Southern European Alps since the Bronze Age

Lisa Danius, Hans von Suchodoletz, Paul Strobel, Maximilian Prochnow, Roland Zech, Franziska Lechleitner, Sönke Szidat, Marcel Bliedtner

Tracing the Legacy of Lake Lorsch - a geographical approach

Barbara Jaeger

Y-shaped pits revisited. Different approaches to a never-ending story

Harald Stäuble, Saskia Kretschmer, Tobias Lauer, Christian Tinapp

Exploring landscape setting: First results of geomorphological and  sedimentological investigations of the mammoth bone site Dolní Věstonice I  (Czech Republic)

Svenja Ohler, Frank Lehmkuhl, Philipp Schulte, Martin Novák, Jarosław Wilczyński, Marc Händel

How to build a home. Preliminary Results on Variability in Daub from the Outer Settlement of Toboliu, Romania 

Eva Drunagel, Frederic Ebel, Astrid Röpke, Alexandra Găvan, Marian Lie, Jana Anvari, Tobias L. Kienlin

Targeted sampling of sedaDNA from microcontexts at the Upper Palaeolithic site, Satsurblia Cave, Georgia.  

Thomas Beard, Susanna Sawyer, Omaima Zaki, Susan Mentzer, Ron Pinhasi, Mareike Stahlschmidt

The origin of the Swiss Maiensäss - an unexpected journey back to Roman times in Ramosch (Lower Engadine)  

Katja Kothieringer, Angelika Abderhalden-Raba, Philippe Della Casa, Karsten Lambers, Bertil Mächtle, Mario Ranzinger, Thomas Reitmaier, Astrid Röpke

On the natural foundations of a medieval and early modern farmstead using the example of the “Lufthof” heritage site in southern Spessart

Christian Büdel, Angela Suntrup gen. Tintrup, Sabrina Bachmann, Harald Rosmanitz

Phosphorus in cave sediments 

Jens Grammer, Christopher Miller, Harald Neidhardt, Yvonne Oelmann

Ditch infill as a source of environmental information and settlement history on multi-cultural site, a case study from Plotiště nad Labem (Czech Republic)         

Katarína Adameková, Michaela Kosová, Eva Schimerová , Petr Kočár, Jarmila Bíšková, Vít Vokolek, René Kyselý

Calcrete identification at the Paleolithic site of La Griera (Calafell, Tarragona, Spain)  

Miguel Soares Remiseiro, Vera Aldeias, Diego Lombao, Josep Vallverdú Juan Ignacio Morales

Early to Middle Pleistocene chronostratigraphy of the site of Mülheim-Kärlich (German Central Rhineland) and its contribution for understanding the earliest hominin occupation of Central Europe 

Peter Fischer, Olaf Jöris, Aileen Klinger, Felix Henselowsky, Tina Georg, Andreas Vött

Diving into central European Neolithics’ subsistence - 25 years of Neolithic slash and burn experiment Forchtenberg, SW-Germany - results and future perspectives 

Stefan Dreibrodt, Oliver Nelle, Elena Marinova, Natalie Pickartz, Otto Ehrmann, Frank Schlütz, Hannes Knapp, Eileen Eckmeier, Renate Gerlach, Manfred Rösch, Ulrich Vinnai, Erhard Schulz

The Leibniz ScienceCampus „Geogenomic Archaeology Campus Tübingen“ (GACT)

Gerlinde Bigga, Christopher Miller, Susan Mentzer, Nicholas J. Conard, Cosimo Posth and the GACT consortium

Neolithic Formation of Chernozem in Southeast Germany

Anna Holmer, Ildikó Bősze, Günther Moosbauer, Susanne Lindauer, Jörg Völkel

Poster Session II (May 23rd, 15:15)

Micro-stratigraphic and multi-method approach to tackling biogenic deposits: The case study of Biśnik Cave (Poland).       

Greta Brancaleoni, Susan Mentzer, Adrian Marciszak, Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk, Krzysztof Cyrek, Magdalena Krajcarz, Maciej T. Krajcarz

Fumiers Reconsidered: Are We Forcing the Past into a One-Size-Fits-All Model? A case study from two cave sites: Velika Vranovica (Serbia) and Areni-1 (Armenia)

Ani Hristonova, Susan Mentzer, Christopher Miller, Dusan Mihailovic, Boris Gasparyan, Samvel Nahapetysan 

Investigating Heat Distribution in South African Archaeological sites with clumped isotope thermometry

Jakub Senesi, Christopher Miller, Ellie J Pryor, Carin Andersson, Anna Nele Meckler

GIS-Analysis of peat-loss in the Greater Donaumoos Region – consequences from human interventions    

Marie Kaniecki, Anne Köhler, Arnela Rollo, Vera Seeburg, Laura Bergmann, Stefanie Berg, Ulrike Werban, Anja Linstädter, Natascha Mehler, Christoph Zielhofer

Tracing Glacial Periods in Lebanon: Paleoclimate Insights from Speleothem Records         

Scott D. McLin, Fadi Henri Nader, Carole Nehme, Susan M. Mentzer, Christopher E. Miller, Hai Cheng, Kira Rehfeld, Valdir F. Novello, Sireen El Zaatari 

Historical clay exploitation from palaeo-channel deposits of the Lateglacial Bergstraßenneckar in the Upper Rhine Graben, southern Germany

Max Engel, Felix Henselowsky, Annette Kadereit, Manuel Herzog, Barbara Tuczek, Heinrich Thiemeyer, Olaf Bubenzer

Interpreting the Urban Stratification Processes: An Integrated Soil Micromorphological Study of Late Medieval Dark Earth at Broodstraat, Oudenaarde (Belgium)  

Meihui Li, Mónica Alonso-Eguiluz, Christine Pümpin, David Brönnimann, Sarah Lo Russo, Simon Kübler, Wouter De Maeyer, Kristin Ismail-Meyer, Yannick Devos

Geoarchaeological Evidence of a Previously Unknown Structure in Olympia: A Possible Ancient Harbor         

Lena Slabon, Sarah Bäumler, Elena Appel, Sabine Fiedler, Peter Fischer, Lea Obrocki, Georg Pantelidis, Sascha Scherer, Benedict Thein, Timo Willershäuser, Birgitta Eder, Hans-Joachim Gehrke, Franziska Lang, Erofili-Iris Kolia, Oliver Pilz, Dennis Wilken, Andreas Vött

The Lake Constance sediment archive

Matthias Heckmann, S. Mirbach, H. Hetzenauer, M. Wessels

The RETS Project: Revealing the Senne. A hidden landmark in the historical center of Brussels, Belgium

Dries Vergouwen, Ann Degraeve, Marc Meganck, Ralf Vandam, Yannick Devos

Into the Dark: Exploring Urban Dark Earth Deposits through Geoarchaeology/Micromorphology.

Christine Pümpin, Yannick Devos, Mónica Alonso-Eguiluz, Astrid Röpke, Sarah Lo Russo, David Brönnimann, Simon Kübler, Meihui Li, Luc Vrydaghs, Eckhard Deschler-Erb, Philippe Rentzel, Kristin Ismail-Meyer

Historic Agricultural Terraces in the Mediterranean – A human-soil perspective through archaeological methods

Axel Cerón González, Soetkin Vervust, Matthias Vanmaercke, Ralf Vandam, and Yannick Devos

Geoarchaeological investigations on the sediment-infill of an Early Mediaeval well from Moravia (Czech Republic)

Katarína Adameková, Michaela Prišťáková, Petr Dresler, Jiří Macháček, Michal Kurka, Lukáš Kučera, Petr Kočár, Hedvika Synková, Nela Doláková, Slavomír Nehyba

New micromorphological insight from the Middle Palaeolithic at Hohle Fels (SW Germany): layer GH 14a - AH XIa

Diana Marcazzan, Christopher Miller, Nicholas Conard

Buried and recent Chermozems document Holocene ecological changes and fire activity in the lowlands of Central Germany

Hans von Suchodoletz, Maximilian Prochnow, Lisa Danius, Bruno Glaser, Lyudmila Shumilovskikh, Torsten Schunke, Katja Wiedner, Roland Zech

Charcoals in colluvial geoarchaeology: A vegetation proxy from within – Insights from southwestern Germany

Katleen Deckers, Sascha Scherer, Peter Kühn, Jessica Henkner-Sennock, Benjamin Höpfer 

Mid-to-Late Pleistocene landscape change and human occupation at the Jojosi Dongas, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Christian Sommer, Svenja Riedesel, Greg A. Botha, Manuel Will

30 years of geoarchaeology at Hohle Fels

Nicholas J. Conard, Paul Goldberg, Diana Marcazzan, Cosimo Posth, Christopher Miller, Svenja Schray

Identifying dung plaster construction techniques and composition using an experimental approach

Shira Gur-Arieh, Susan Mentzer

Micro-CT scanning of waxberry (Morella sp.) seeds: Developing methods to identify plant remains in micromorphological samples from the Middle Stone Age layers at Klasies River Main Site

Eirini Skaroglou, Susan Marie Mentzer, Gabriel Ferreira, Sarah Wurz, Christine Sievers, Christopher Miller

The field trip will take participates to the Ach Valley in the Swabian Jura, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where we can observe the spectacular karstic landscapes and visit several of the Paleolithic caves that have been the focus of intensive archaeological excavations for over a century.  Additionally, we will also get a guided tour of the URMU, the Prehistory Museum of Blaubeuren, which was recently expanded and rennovated, and houses a number of significant examples of figurative art and music from the Aurignancian.

Departure: 9:00 AM--Tübingen Bus Station, Europaplatz, Platform R

We have reserved a large tour bus from "Hartmann Reisen" that will be waiting for us at the main bus terminal of Tübingen, directly across from the main train station.

Return: 5:45 PM--Tübingen Bus Station

We estimate a return at around 17:45 PM to Tübingen.  For those traveling to Tübingen via train, we will be departing Blaubeuren around 4:30PM.  It is possible to catch a train from the Blaubeuren train station rather than travel back to Tübingen.  Just inform us of your plans!

What to bring:

Comfortable shoes--although we will do minimal walking, some of the surfaces in the caves can be slippery

Jacket or sweater--the inside of the caves can be cold and damp, even if it is a warm and sunny day outside!

Rain gear--although part of the trip will be inside a museum and cave, there is some walking outside.  Weather here can be nice in May, but rain is always a possibility!

Lunch and drinks will be provided!  We will provide a light, packed lunch. 

Here we will show participants thin sections of deposits from a number of Paleolithic caves in the Swabian Jura, including Hohle Fels and Geißenklösterle, which will be visited the day before on the field trip.

The session will start at 9:00AM, meeting at the entrance to the Lothar-Meyer-Bau, and will wrap up around noon, so that participants can grab lunch and make their way back home.