Style and Function: Cultural Identities in Stone
Saturday 29th June 2013, Shulman Auditorium, The Queen's College, Oxford
Organisers: Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark and Dr Seren Griffiths
Conference Program
| 10:00 - | Coffee |
| 10:30 - | Welcome |
| 10:35 - | Skill in Society: understanding the impact of learning on lithic assemblages - Nada Khreisheh, University of Exeter |
| 10:55 - | Producing and Reproducing the Creswellian: an analysis of the knapping gestures employed in the reduction of cores from three Late Upper Palaeolithic campsites - Katie Davenport-Mackey, University of Leicester |
| 11:15 - | Lithic Technology and Human Behaviour at the Haua Fteah Cave, Libya - Kate Connell, University of Cambridge |
| 11:35 - | Early Microlithic Technologies and Behavioural Variability in Southern Africa and South Asia: preliminary results of lithic attribute analyses - Laura Lewis, University of Oxford |
| 11:55 - | Lithics in the Landscape: the effect of mobility on chaîne opératoires in the Mesolithic - Dr Paul R Preston, Lithoscapes Archaeological Research Foundation |
| 12:15 - | Artefact Close-ups and Activity Snapshots of the Irish Early Neolithic: A first view from the flint assemblages of rectangular timber houses in south Leinster - Sol Mallia-Guest, University College Dublin |
| 12:35 - | Discussion |
| 13:00 - | Lunch (conference lunch or make your own arrangements) |
| 14:15 - | 'Time which Antiquates Antiquities': the perception and use of antiquated lithics in the past societies - Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, University of Liverpool/Freelance Lithics Consultant |
| 14:35 - | Recognition and Return? The afterlife of lithic scatters - Dr Olaf Bayer, University of Oxford |
| 14:55 - | Beaker Flint Daggers Revisited - Alan Saville, National Museums Scotland |
| 15:15 - | Tea |
| 15:45 - | Men at War: exploring lithic variation in Maya weaponry - Prof Elizabeth Graham, University College London and Prof Kazuo Aoyama, Ibaraki University |
| 16:05 - | Crossing the Boundaries of Tool Ascription - Elizabeth Cory-Lopez, University of Edinburgh |
| 16:25 - | Discussion |
| 16:45 - | Close |