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2007 Conference, York: Provisional Programme
Thursday 6th September
| 12.00 |
Registration Opens |
King's Manor |
| 14.30 |
Welcome |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| Session One |
Chair: Vin Davis & Mark Edmonds |
| 15.00 |
R. Bradley |
Raw Materials. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 16.00 |
Y. Pailler |
The Production, distribution and significance of all-over Polished flint axes in Britain. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 16.30 |
Zhuang Lina |
The Xuejiagang stone tool industry, PR China. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 17.00 |
S. Burrow |
Mynydd Rhiw: A Neolithic stone extraction site in Northwest Wales. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 17.30 |
T. Darvill |
Everybody must get stones. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 18.00 to 19.30 |
Civic Reception |
Huntington Room, King's Manor. |
Friday 7th September
| Session Two |
Chair: Gabriel Cooney |
| 9.00 |
T. Ballin |
The Felsite industrial complex of North Roe, Shetland - A Neolithic axe and knife factory. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 9.30 |
J. Jaime-Riveron,
T Calligaro &
D Tenorio |
Landscape and archaeometry of Olmec Greenstone artefacts in Early Mesoamerica: Quarrying, production and consumption. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 10.00 |
O. Ozbek |
Primary & Secondary Raw material use in the Neolithic of Northwest Turkey in the production of polished stone tools. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 10.30 |
P. Topping |
Ritualised Extraction. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 11.00 to 11.30 |
Coffee |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 11.30 |
F. Roe & A. Woodward |
Bits & Pieces: Early Bronze Age stone bracers from Ireland. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 12.00 |
A. Van Gijn |
The social significance of flint for Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in the Lower Rhine Basin. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 12.30 |
P. Storemyr et al |
Stone procurement and Rock Art at the West bank of Aswan, Egypt. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 13.00 to 14.00 |
Lunch |
Various |
| Session Three |
Chair: Alison Sheridan |
| 14.00 |
P. Potts, P. Webb & J. Watson |
Portable XRF in the provenancing of lithic artefacts. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 14.30 |
R. Risch, D. Gomez Gras, N. Bolvian, A. Brumm & M. Petraglia |
The prehistoric axe factory at Sanganakallu-Kupgal, Southern India. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 15.00 |
P. LaPorta, M. Brewer & S. Minchak |
The life cycle of hammer stones and the organic nature of quarry activity. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 15.30 |
T. Insoll, R. MacLean, & B. Kankpeyeng |
'Ancestral Geology': Lithic power and shrine franchising in Northern Ghana. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 16.00 to 16.30 |
Tea |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 16.30 |
P.Petrequin, S. Cassen, M Errera, E Gauthier, L Klassen, A-M Petrequin,
A Sheridan & M Rossy. |
Dark and Pale: the two colours of the Alpine axe trade system in Western Europe. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 17.00 |
F. Giligny |
The exchange and circulation of axes in the Seine Valley above Paris during the Neolithic. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 17.30 |
G.Robin & S. Cassen |
The role of stone in Neolithic steles and passage tomb art: case studies and methods of representation in Ireland and Brittany. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 18.30 |
Reception, handling display and presentation in York Museum |
York Museum |
Saturday 8th September
| Session Four |
Chair: Tim Darvill |
| 9.00 |
G. McLaren |
Veneration and spiritual pleading through stone. Observations and musings on current practice in rural Turkmenistan. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 9.30 |
R.Risch |
Social and economic organisation of stone axe production and distribution in the Western Mediterranean. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 10.00 |
D. Field |
Ground axes in Wessex. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 10.30 |
S. Briggs |
Erratics and re-cycled stone in Prehistoric Britain and beyond : scholarly irrelevancies or fundamental utilities. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 11.00 to 11.30 |
Coffee |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 11.30 |
M. Markham |
The Devil's in the detail - Group I and Ia axes under the microscope |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 12.00 |
A. Burke |
Reconciling the symbolic and economic dimensions of lithic raw material use: Examples from prehistoric Northeastern North America. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 12.30 |
D. Mullin |
The Bronze Age use of Dolerite on the Welsh border. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 13.00 to 14.00 |
Lunch |
Various |
| Session Five |
Chair: Dave Field |
| 14.00 |
Zhai Shaodong |
A study of the pattern of exploitation at the quarry on Mount Dagudui, Shanxi Province, PR China. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 14.30 |
C. Hamon |
The functional and symbolic value of grinding stone tools from the Late Bandkeramik in Northwest Europe. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 15.00 |
T. Emerson, R Hughes & S Wisseman |
Reinterpreting North American Native exchange patterns through mineralogical analysis. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 15.30 |
J. Kenny & J. Llewelyn Williams |
Graig Lwyd (Group VII) lithics from Parc Bryn Cegin, Llandygai and their ritual and chronological implications. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 16.00 to 18.00 |
Workshops, tool making, posters, powerpoints and films |
King's Manor |
| 20.00 |
Conference Dinner (booked in advance) |
King's Manor |
Sunday 9th September
| Session Six |
Chair: Mark Edmonds |
| 9.00 |
T.Clare |
Drawing Short Straws. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 9.30 |
R. Ixer |
Waiting by the river: Stonehenge and the Severn Estuary. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 10.00 |
Y. Maigrot |
Neolithic polished stone axes and hafting: technical use and social function (5th-3rd millennium Jura). [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 10.30 |
T. Manby |
The 'Ancient Stone Implements' of Yorkshire: Recovery and context in the landscape. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 11.00 to 11.30 |
Coffee |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 11.30 |
Y. Perdaen |
The cultural significance of quartzite in the Mesolithic of the Low Countries. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 12.00 |
K. Driscoll |
They wrought almost any material that came in their way": Mesolithic flint alternatives in the west of Ireland. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 12.30 |
K. Wentink |
Ceci n'est pas une hache: Neolithic depositions in the northern Netherlands. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 13.00 to 14.00 |
Lunch |
Various |
| Session Seven |
Chair: Vin Davis |
| 14.00 |
D. Bukach, J. Hunter, A. Woodward & R. Ixer |
Reconsidering the function of stone grave goods in Early Bronze Age Britain. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 14.30 |
C. Delage |
The local exploitation of flint/chert sources: A case study from the Early Prehistory of Northern Israel (800,000-6,000BP). [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 15.00 |
M. Saso |
Archaeology and the Gate of Hell. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 15.30 |
Gabriel Cooney, S Mandal and E O'Keeffe |
Iaxe - The Irish Stone Axe Database. [abstract] |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
| 16.00 |
Conference ends (Tea) |
Tempest Anderson Hall |
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