Conference programme
Dates are accurate but the content and exact times may change.
- 0800 Conference registration
- 0900 Welcome address
- Palæontology & Prehistory
- 0920 Jean-Jacques Hublin “Homo sapiens origins: the fossil evidence” abstract
- 1000 Francesco d’Errico “Middle Stone Age symbolic material culture and its significance” abstract
- 1040 Coffee break
- 1110 Philip van Peer “Early modern human dispersals out of Africa: a critical evaluation of the archaeological record of Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia” abstract
- 1150 Katja Douze & Eric Huysecom “Towards an understanding of West-African peopling dynamics : material culture and environment” abstract
- 1230 Lunch & Poster viewing
- Ancient DNA & Genetic structure
- 1400 Pontus Skoglund “Ancient genomics and early modern human population lineages in Africa” abstract
- 1440 Carina Schlebusch “Southern African population diversity and the evolution of modern humans” abstract
- 1520 Francesco Montinaro “Patterns of migration and admixture in sub-Saharan Africa and their contribution to populations of the Americas” abstract
- 1600 Coffee break
- 1630 David Comas “Genetic landscape of North Africa” abstract
- 1710 Johannes Krause “Late Pleistocene North African genomes present deep genetic relationship with Near East and sub-Saharan Africa” abstract
- 1930 Gala dinner at Café Papon
- Cultural diffusion & Genetic adaptations
- 0900 Andrew Smith “Tracking Pastoralism through Africa” abstract
- 0940 Alexa Höhn “Emergence and expansion of pearl millet cultivation in West and Central Africa - the archaeobotanical evidence” abstract
- 1020 Coffee break
- 1050 Audrey Sabbagh & Alicia Sanchez-Mazas “Genetic adaptations to infectious diseases in Africa” abstract
- 1130 Viktor Cerny & Estella Poloni “Herders and farmers in the African Sahel: genetic imprints of adaptations linked to lifestyles” abstract
- 1210 Alessia Ranciaro “Human Adaptation in Africa” abstract
- 1250 Lunch & Poster viewing
- Challenges of the multidisciplinary approach
- 1350 Koen Bostoen “The first Bantu speakers south of the Equatorial Rainforest: preliminary new evidence from historical linguistics and archaeology” abstract
- 1430 Anne Mayor, Nonhlanhla Dlamini & Hiba Babiker “Genetics, bioarchaeology and archaeology tell a story of mobility, modes of subsistence and interactions in the Dogon Country (Mali)” abstract
- 1510 Coffee break
- 1540 Mary Prendergast “From sampling to interpretation to communication: challenges of ancient DNA research in Africa” abstract
- 1620 Scott MacEachern “Social and spatial scales in historical reconstructions: archaeology and genetics” abstract
- 1700 General discussion : summary, perspectives & publications
- 1730 Conference closure
