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Program 2002 Annual Meeting Denver, Colorado March 19 - 20, 2002 PDF version for printing (requires Adobe plug-in viewer)
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
9:00 - 9:15	Introduction
9:15	Blackwell, B., A. Condiles, J. Blickstein and A. Skinner ESR dating using dentine: triumphs and tribulations [abstract]
9:30	Pobiner, B., J. Ferraro and R. Blumenschine The effect of bone size on the likelihood of modification by hominids and hyaenids, and its implication for interassemblage zooarcheological comparisons [abstract]
9:45	Wiedemann, F., C. Hadidiacos and M. Fogel How should we sample teeth for stable isotope analyses? Clues derived from microprobe analysis and histology [abstract]
10:00	Reinhard, K. Parasites: an evolutionary pressure in hominid evolution [abstract]
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30	Collard, M. and N. Silverman Hominid species diversity: an assessment using Bayesian statistical methods [abstract]
10:45	Weaver, A. Relative cerebellar and cerebral hemisphere volume in Pliocene and Pleistocene Homo: a complex trajectory [abstract]
11:00	Heller, J and J. Froehlich Gas-liquid chromatography applied to the study of dietary lipids, tool use and evolution of the human brain [abstract]
11:15	Lee, S-H and M. Wolpoff Pattern of brain size increase in Pleistocene Homo [abstract]
11:30	Coolidge, F and T. Wynn Executive functions of the frontal lobes and the evolutionary ascendancy of Homo sapiens [abstract]
11:45	Amayze, A., M. Behrend, S. Brandt, G. Senishaw, H. Clift, J. Ellison and K. Weedman Toward an understanding of artifact variability in the stone age: an ethnoarchaeological and archaeological perspective from Konso, Ethiopia [abstract]
12:00	Mercader, J., M. Panger and C. Boesch Chimpanzee-produced stone assemblages from the tropical forests of Tai, Cote d'Ivoire [abstract]
12:15	Toth, N., K. Schick and S. Semaw A technological comparison of the stone tool-making capabilities of Australopithecus/early Homo, Pan paniscus and Homo sapiens, and possible evolutionary implications [abstract]

Lunch break
2:00	O'Connell, J., K. Hawkes, K. Lupo and N. Blurton Jones Male strategies and Plio-Pleistocene archaeology [abstract]
2:15	Semaw, S., K. Schick, N. Toth, S. Simpson, J. Quade, M. Rogers, P. Renne, D. Stout and M. Dominguez-Rodrigo Recent discoveries from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia [abstract]
2:30	Hovers, E., K. Schollmeyer, T. Goldman, G. Eck, K. Reed, D. Johanson and W. Kimbel Late Pliocene archaeological sites in Hadar, Ethiopia [abstract]
2:45	Musimba, C., M. Vogt and S. Branting Laetoli Pliocene landscape reconsidered: a reanalysis via functional morphology and taphonomic data [abstract]
3:00	Harris, J., D. Braun, J. McCoy, B. Pobiner and M. Rogers New directions and preliminary results from a landscape approach to the study of archaeological traces for the behavior of Plio-Pleistocene hominids at Koobi Fora [abstract]
3:15	Sahnouni, M., D. Hadjouis, S. Abdesselam, A. Olle, J. Verges, A. Derradji, H. Belahrech and M. Medig El-Kherba: a Lower Pleistocene butchery site in Northeastern Algeria [abstract]
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee Break
3:45	Chazan, M., L. Horwitz and H. Monchot A veil of stones and bones: spatial distribution analysis and site function at the Lower Paleolithic site of Holon, Israel [abstract]
4:00	Noll, M. Interpreting Acheulean stone tool variability at Olorgesailie, Kenya [abstract]
4:15	Huffman, O., Y. Zaim, J. Kappelman, F. Aziz, P. Shipman, C. Hertler and J. de Vos Relocating the 1936 Perning/Mojokerto hominid site, East Java [abstract]
4:30	Tappen, M., R. Ferring and D. Lordkipanidze Site formation and taphonomy of the Lower Pleistocene site of Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia [abstract]
4:45	Lordkipanidze, D. and A. Vekua A new hominid mandible from Dmanisi (Georgia) [abstract]
5:00	Mallol, C. and P. Goldberg Exploring the geo-archaeological context of early hominid sites through soil micromorphology [abstract]
5:15	Rook, L., Y. Libsekal, A. Kibreab, R. Russom, T. Tecle and E. Abbate The Buia project: a collaborative geo-paleontological and paleoanthropological research project in Eritrea [abstract]
5:30	Villa, P. and F. Bon Fire and fireplaces in the Lower, Middle and early Upper Paleolithic of Western Europe [abstract]
5:45	Meignen, L., O. Bar Yosef and P. Goldberg Fireplaces in the Middle Palaeolithic: case studies of Kebara and Hayonim Caves [abstract]

Wednesday, March 20, 2001
8:30	Kent, S., N. Scholt and J. Loock The geology of a Middle Stone Age landscape in the Eastern Free State, South Africa [abstract]
8:45	Marean, C., P. Nilssen, A. Jerardino and D. Stynder Pinnacle Point at Mossel bay, South Africa: recent field investigations at a new hominid and Middle Stone Age locality [abstract]
9:00	Tryon, C. and S. McBrearty The Middle Stone Age of the southern Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya [abstract]
9:15	Ambrose, S., A. Deino, M. Kyule, I. Steele and M. Williams The emergence of modern human behavior during the Late Middle Stone Age in the Kenya Rift Valley [abstract]
9:30	Shea, J., J. Fleagle, F. Brown and Z. Assefa Archaeological reconnaissance of the Omo Kibish Formation, Ethiopia [abstract]
9:45	Brooks, A., D. Helgren, M. Tappen and J. Yellen The Middle Stone Age archaeology of Aduma, Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia [abstract]
10:00	Paunovic, M. and F. Smith Delicacy on Neandertal table or animal prey? [abstract]
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30	Mann, A., B. Vandermeersch, A. Delanges, J.-F. Tournepiche Human fossil remains from the Mousterian levels of Artenac (Charente, southwest France) [abstract]
10:45	Schmitz, R., G. Bonani and F. Smith New research at the Neandertal type site in the Neander Valley of Germany [abstract]
11:00	Beauval, C., L. Bourguignon, S. Costamagno, I. Couchoud, J.-Cl. Marquet, B. Maureille, L. Meignen, A. Mann, J.-P. Texier and B. Vandermeersch Recent discoveries of Neandertal remains from Les Pradelles (Marillac-le-Franc, Charente France) [abstract]
11:15	Morin, E. Mousterian mobility and the significance of raw material transfers: A view from Artenac [abstract]
11:30	Solecki, R. and R. Solecki Bifaces and the Acheulian Industries of Yabroud Shelter I, Syria. [abstract]
11:45	Adler, D., N. Tushabramishvili and G. Bar-Oz The latest Neandertals of the Southern Caucasus: new dates and new data from Ortvale Klde, the Georgian Republic [abstract]
12:00	Bar-Yosef, O., A. Belfer-Cohen, T. Meshveliani, D. Adler, N. Tushabramishvili, E. Boaretto, N. Mercier and S. Weiner The Middle-Upper Paleolithic boundary in the Western Caucasus [abstract]

12:15	d'Errico, F. and M. Soressi Systematic use of manganese pigment by Pech-d-l'Aze Neandertals: implications for the Origin of behavioral modernity [abstract]
Lunch break
2:00	Saca, I. and J. Phillips Recent excavations at the site of Erq-el-Ahmar, Judean Desert, West Bank [abstract]
2:15	Bietti, A. Different lithic raw material procurement strategies at the transition between Neandertals and anatomically modern humans in Italy [abstract]
2:30	Bordes, J. Chatelperronian/Aurigncian intensification at Roc de Combe and Le Piage:lithic taphonomy and archaeological implications [abstract]
2:45	Riel-Salvatore, J., M. Bae, G. Clark., J. Lindly, P. McCartney and A. Razdan The past meets the future: 3D modeling technology and lithic analysis at Wadi al-Hasa locality 623X [abstract]
3:00	Hoffecker, J., M. Anikovich, A. Sinitsyn, V. Holliday and S. Forman Initial Upper Paleolithic in Eastern Europe: new research at Kostenki [abstract]

3:15 – 3:30 Coffee Break

3:30
Conard, N.
The Early Upper Paleolithic in Swabia [abstract]

3:45
Otte, M., I. Yalcinkaya, J.-M. Leotard, I. Lopez Bayon, J. Kozlowski, M. Kartal and A. Marshack
Evolution du paleolithique final a Okuzini (Turquie) [abstract]

4:00
Bicho, N., J. Haws and B. Hockett
Complex settlement dynamics during the Upper Paleolithic of Central Portugal: the case of Picareiro cave [abstract]

4:15
Enloe, J.
Too many young'uns? Methodological problems in age determinations and construction of prey mortality profiles [abstract]

4:30
Straus, L., M. Gonzalez Morales, M. Garcia-Gelabert and M. Fano Martinez
A Southwest European late glacial settlement system: the Magdalenian and Azilian of the Rio Ascon Valley (Cantabria, Spain) [abstract]

4:45
Conkey, M., W. Dietrich and S. Lacombe
Digital terrain models and open air Paleolithic survey in the French Midi-Pyrenees [abstract]

5:00
Stutz, A., and G. Estabrook
A computationally intensive statistical technique for analyzing interassemblage variability in lithic type frequency distributions, with an application to the Epipaleolithic of the Levant [abstract]

5:15 - 6:15 Business Meeting