2004 Preliminary Program


Preliminary Program 2004 Annual Meeting Montreal, Canada March 30-31, 2004 (program as PDF file)
Tuesday, March 30 4:30-6:30 Poster Session
	Bamford, M. and T. Harrison Pliocene vegetation and paleoenvironment of Laetoli, Tanzania; evidence from fossil woods
	Blackwell, B., P. Bain, M. Seronie-Vivien, M. Tillier, J. Blickstein, A. Skinner ESR dating at Pradayrol, Lot, France: preliminary dates for a new Middle Pleistocene hominid incisor and Middle Paleolithic artifacts
	Brooks, A, J. Feathers, G. Hartman, C. Trueman, N. Tuross, F. d’Errico and J. Yellen Middle Stone Age barbed bone points from Katanda (DR Congo): new perspectives on age and association
	Camps i Calbet, M. The 40,000 BP crisis in Iberia
	Chambers, J. Extracting spatial information from Paleolithic secondary context assemblages
	Couchoud, I, J.-P. Texier, C. Beauval, S. Costamagno, A. Mann, B. Vandermeersch, J.-G. Bordes, L. Bourguignon, Fr. Lacrampe-Cuyaubere, V. Laroulandie, L. Meignen, J.-Cl. Marquet, B. Maureille Geological formation processes and faunal accumulations at Les Pradelles (Charente, France): preliminary results

	Friess, M. The articular surface in the distal hominid humerus: 3D shape analysis using Elliptic Fourier descriptors
	Harmand, S. Raw materials and economic behaviors of the Plio-Pleistocene hominids in West Turkana (Kenya)
	Holliday, T., V. Hutchinson, M. Banitt and G. Livesay Taxonomic assignment of Plio-Pleistocene hominin femora via morphometric analyses
	Hosfield, R. Technological diversity and stability? Long-term evidence from the British Lower Paleolithic
	Hudgell, G., A. Sinclair and J. McNabb. A hominid’s eye view of time averaging
	Kovarovic, K., L. Aiello and P. Andrews Bovid ecomorphology: refining techniques for paleoenvironmental reconstruction
	Latham, A., A. Herries, J. Marshall, P. Hopley, J. McKee, J. Kuykendall and P. Tobias Provenancing, stratigraphy and related studies of the hominid remains at Limeworks, Makapansgat, South Africa
	Lepre, C. Paleoclimate during the extinction of Homo habilis from Koobi Fora, Kenya: the alluvial stratigraphic evidence
	Mollel, G. and L. McHenry Temporal evolution of the Ngorongoro Volcanic Highland (NVH) in relation to Bed I of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: a progress report
	Niewoehner, W, A. Bergstrom, D. Eichele and J. Clark Computer simulations of Neandertal hands
	Njau, J. and R. Blumenschine A diagnosis of crocodile damage to larger vertebrate bones, with fossil examples from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
	Parent, A. Phylogenetic analysis of human evolution
	Patnaik, R. and P. Chauhan The Narmada hominin locality revisited: implications of fresh geological, paleolithic and paleontological observations
	Pinto Llona, A. Cave bear taphonomy and its application to the fossil hominid remains in Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca, Spain)
	Rabb, J. Detecting age at weaning in human dental enamel through incremental isotopic analysis
	Riel-Salvatore, J. Understanding behavioral variability in the Uluzzian: new insights from the lithic assemblages of Grotta del Cavallo, Italy
	Sampson, C. A very early Middle Stone Age occurrence at Haaskraal Pan in the upper Karoo region of South Africa
	Schroeder, B. Applying a landscape approach to the Paleolithic of the desert interior of Syria
	Skinner, A., J. Lloyd, C. Brain and F. Thackeray Electron spin resonance and the first use of fire
	Straus, L., M. Gonzalez Morales, D. Marcos Garcia and J Rissetto The Altamiran culture: new evidence on the Early Magdalenian of Cantabrian Spain from El Miron Cave
	Weaver, T. and C. Roseman Ancient DNA, late Neandertal survival, and modern human and Neandertal admixture
Oral Presentations Tuesday, March 30, 2004
9:00 - 9:15	Introduction
9:15	Carlson, K, D. Doran, K. Hunt, T. Nishida, A. Yamanaka, C. Boesch Cross-sectional geometry and locomotor behavior of habituated chimpanzees from the Tai and Mahale National Parks
9:30	Gruss, L. The influence of lower limb length and proportions on locomotor style in humans: implications for reconstructing locomotion in extinct hominins
9:45	Steudel, K. and M. Tilkens The energetic costs of the relatively short legs characteristic of Australopithecus and Neanderthals
10:00	Hopley, P, J. Marshall and A. Latham Stable isotopes and the savannah hypothesis in South Africa – orbital-forcing of vegetation change and the latitudinal spread of savannah grasses
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30	Harrison, T. and D. Su Laetoli paleoecology reconsidered: implications for early hominin habitats
10:45	Bobe,, R. J. Ferraro, L. Bishop, T. Plummer and Z. Alemseged Late Pliocene hominin paleoenvironments of the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia: new data from bovid ecomorphic studies
11:00	Campisano, C., K. Behrensmeyer, R. Bobe and N. Levin High resolution paleoenvironmental comparisons between Hadar and Koobi Fora: preliminary results of a combined geological and paleontological approach
11:15	Delezene, L. A comparison of P3 morphology in Early Pliocene hominins
11:30	Kuykendall, K. Australopithecine craniodental growth and development: a life history synthesis
11:45	Roche, H. and A. Delganes New perspectives on Late Pliocene hominids’ technical skills: the Lokalalei 2c record
12:00	Texier, P-J, H. Roche, J-P Brugal and S. Harmand KS5, a transitional site between the Oldowan (KS1) and the Early Acheulean (KS4) from the Kokiselei site complex (West Turkana, Kenya)?
12:15	Le Baron, J. A landscape of Stone Age archaeology: a primary investigation near Hackthorne 1, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Lunch break
2:00	McCall, G. Examining early hominid site use patterns on the Kalahari Rim using lithics operations analysis
Symposium in Honor of Desmond Clark
2:15	Schick, K. and T. White Desmond Clark: a remembrance
2:35	Ambrose, S. J. Desmond Clark, Glynn Isaac, and the troop-to-tribe transition in the evolution of modern human behavior
2:50	Pobiner, B., D. Braun, J. Harris, M. Rogers, R. Quinn, N. Levin, J. McCoy, M. Greene and M. Kibunjia Archaeological details, environmental context and the broad view: Desmond Clark’s influence on Koobi Fora archaeology
3:05	Blumenschine, R., C. Peters, F. Masao, J. Njau, I. Stanistreet, M. Bamford, R. Albert, J. Ebert and P. Andrews The puzzling character of the first dense Oldowan hominid traces in the Olduvai Basin following the ca. 1.8 MA catastrophic eruption of Mt. Olmoti
3:20	Minichillo, T. The Still Bay in context
3:35	Wadley, L., P. Villa, A. Delagnes, B. Williamson and M. Lombard Sibudu, a Late Middle Stone Age rock shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: understanding the transition to the Late Stone Age
3:50	Brandt, S., J. Kinahan, A. Asfaw, A. Desse, E. Fisher, T. Hagos, A. Negash and H. Said The Pleistocene archaeology of Southwestern Ethiopia: a dam approximation
4:05	Gifford-Gonzalez, D. The fauna from Adrar Bous: subsistence and cultural activity
Poster Session - 4:05 - 6:15 - location to be announced
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
8:30	Hounsell, S. Oldowan to Acheulean: quantifying the reasons for change
8:45	Gowlett, J. and S. Hounsell Clustering approaches to unraveling horizontal variation on an Acheulean site
9:00	Hallos, J, J. Gowlett, V. Brant and S. Hounsell Missing links: refitting studies at Beeches Pit as an approach to understanding tool production in the Middle Pleistocene
9:15	Stiner, M., R. Barkai and A. Gopher The Acheulo-Yabrudian faunas from Qesem Cave (Israel): preliminary results
9:30	Mishra, S., N. Agrawal, S. Deo, R. Abbas, C. Gaillard and N. Sonali Early Acheulian in India: a re-consideration of the role of bifacial flaking/shaping in early Mode 2 industries
9:45	Todd, L., J. Kappelman and M. Glantz Glimpses into the Paleolithic archaeology of Northwestern Ethiopia
10:00	Shea, J., J. Fleagle, F. Brown, Z. Assefa, C. Feibel, I. McDougall, L. Bender and A. Jagich Archaeology of the Kibish Formation, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30	Thompson, J., J. Bower, E. Fisher, A. Mabulla, C. Marean, K. Stewart, C. Vondra Loiyangalani: behavioral and taphonomic aspects of a Middle Stone Age site in the Serengeti Plain, Tanzania
10:45	Soressi, M. and C. Henshilwood Blombos Cave, South Africa: stone artifacts from the Middle Stone Age levels
11:00	Steele, T., R. Klein, T. Volman, D. Halkett, R. Yates, G. Avery and J. Parkington The Ysterfontein 1 Middle Stone Age site, South Africa, and early human exploitation of coastal resources
11:15	Petraglia, M. Out of Africa: assessing southern latitude records for hominin adaptations and dispersals
11:30	Chauhan, P. Understanding the Soanian industrial complex: preliminary excavation results and geoarchaeological perspectives from the Siwalik Hills, Northern India
11:45	Chang, M. Missing data in human fossil taxa and implications for reconstruction of phylogeny
12:00	Mellars, P. Stage 3 climate and the Upper Paleolithic ‘revolution’ in Europe: did the Neanderthals invent Upper Paleolithic culture?
12:15	Maureille, B. The rediscovery of the Neandertal neonatal skeleton of Le Moustier 2 (Dordogne France)
Lunch break
2:00	Morin, E., T. Tsanova, N. Sirakov, W. Rendu, J-B Mallye and F. Leveque Exploring occupation mixing at Saint-Césaire using bone refits
2:15	Zilhao, J. The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe: an overview of recent developments
2:30	Adler, D., G. Bar-Oz, A. Belfer-Cohen, O. Bar-Yosef The seasonal exploitation of Capra caucasica during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of the Southern Caucasus
2:45	Wrinn, P., A. Krivoshapkin, A. Derevianko, U. Islamov, A. Anoikin, J. Wagner and P. Patchett The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in Central Asia: preliminary results from Obi-Rakhmat Grotto, Northeastern Uzbekistan
3:00	Glantz, M., T. Chikisheva, B. Viola, A. Krivoshapkin, A. Derevianko, U. Islamov, P. Wrinn and T. Ritzman Move over Teshik-Tash: new hominid remains from Uzbekistan
3:15 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30	Teyssandier, N. The Early Aurignacian and the introduction of modern humans in Europe. A Central-European and Balkanic perspective
3:45	Conard, N. New data on the Aurignacian of the Upper Danube Valley
4:00	Trinkaus, E., S. Milota, M. Gerhase, L. Sarcina, A. Bilgar, O. Moldovan, R. Rodrigo, S. Bailey, R. Franciscus, M. Ponce de Leon and C. Zollikofer Bones, bodies and bears in the Pestera cu Oase, Romania
4:15	Vanhaeren, M. and F. d’Errico Speaking with beads: the ethnolinguistic geography of Early Upper Paleolithic Europeans
4:30	Lee, S-H. and D. Continuous changes in lower limb lengths of Upper Paleolithic Mesolithic Europeans
4:45	Enloe, J. Taphonomy, site structure and social organization: Late Paleolithic open-air sites
5:00	Dubreuil, L., A. Belfer-Cohen and O. Bar-Yosef The development of grindstone technology and the transition from hunter-gatherer to farmers in the Levant: new data from a functional analysis of Natufian implements of Hayonim Cave
5:15 - 6:15	Business Meeting