Prehistory of Northeastern Africa new ideas and discoveries
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Basic information Participants
Programme Abstracts
Organizers * Poznan Archaeological Museum Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology PAN Partners * Poznan Prehistoric Society Patrimonium Foundation Sponsors *

Preliminary Programme of the Symposium

Day/session	hours	Author/Authors	Title of paper
Monday 02/07	9.00-10.00	Opening of the Symposium
Session 1 10.00-12.00	10.00-10.20	Penelope Wilson	Prehistoric Sais:Results from Western Nile Delta Floodplain
	10.20-10.40	Joanne Mary Rowland, Mohamed Hamdan	The Holocene evolution of the Quesna turtle back: geological evolution and archaeological ralationships within the Nile Delta
	10.40-11.00	Randi Haaland	Food systems, food symbolism and sociability, Africa and the Near East. From 10 000 years ago to the present.
	11.00-11.20	Stine Rossel	Early pastoral production in the Nile Valley: adaptation and competition
	11.20-11.40	G.J. Tassie, Joris van Wetering	The Neolithic of Lower Egypt, A Review.
	11.40-12.00	Discussion
	12.00-12.20	coffee break
Session 2 12.20-14.20	12.20-12.40	Krzysztof Ciałowicz, Marek Chłodnicki	Recent discoveries at Tell el-Farkha (Nile Delta)
	12.40-13.00	Maciej Pawlikowski, Michał Wasilewski	Geology of the Tell el Farkha site, the Eastern Nile Delta, Egypt
	13.00-13.20	Mariusz Jucha	Tell el-Farkha 2004-2007. The pottery from the graves.
	13.20-13.40	Maria Kaczmarek, Magdalena Skrzypczak	Variation in the dental metric traits of human skeletal remains from the site at Tell el-Farkha, Eastern Nile Delta, Egypt (preliminary report)
	13.40-14.00	Agnieszka Mączyńska	Were spinning bowls used in the Predynastic period? Finds from Tell el-Farkha
	14.0-14.20	Discussion
	14.20-16.00	lunch break
Session 3 16.00-18.00	16.00-16.20	Willeke Wendrich	Revisiting the Fayum Neolithic: the UCLA/RUG Fayum Project
	16.20-16.40	Noriyuki Shirai	The Fayum Epipalaeolithic in the light of new discoveries
	16.40-17.00	Maria Gatto, Tonny de Wit	Neolithic pottery from the Fayum: intra - and interregional perspectives
	17.00-17.20	Rebecca Phillipps	Sedentism and Mobility in the Fayum Neolithic: Stone artefact use and occupation intensity
	17.20-17.40	Veerle Linseele, Vim Van Neer	New archaeozoological data on the Neolithic of the Fayum
	poster	Artur Buszek, Tomasz Herbich, Willeke Wendrich	The magnetic method in surveying Neolithic sites in Fayum, Egypt
	17.40-18.00	Discussion
	18.00	Opening of the Exhibition
Tuesday 03/07
Session 4 9.00-11.00	9.00-9.20	Klaus Schmidt	Copper for Egypt. Excavations in Prehistoric Aqaba, Jordan.
	9.20-9.40	Ashraf Abo-Elyazied	Pottery sarcophagus
	9.40-10.00	Fekri A. Hassan, Joris van Wetering	Relocating De Morgan's Royal Tomb at Naqada. A preliminary report.
	10.00-10.20	Pierre Vermeersch	The Egyptian Nile Valley and the environmental conditions for the Tardiglacial human population
	10.20-10.40	Barbara Barich, Marina Gallinaro, Giulio Lucarini	Oasis dwellers facing aridity. Late Holocene nomadic routes in the Farafra depression
	10.40-11.00	Discussion
	11.00-11.20	coffee break
Session 5 11.20-13.20	11.20-11.40	Kristin Heller, Peter Schonfeld, Gregor Wagner	Chufu 01/01- a Pharaonic Desert Outpost and its Surroundings
	11.40-12.00	Heiko Riemer	Herders go hunting: Sheikh Muftah people at El Kharafish
	12.00-12.20	Karin Kindermann	Living without permanent water – paleoenvironmental reconstruction and settlement patterns at Djara
	12.20-12.40	Friedrich Berger	Rock art west of Dakhla: "Water Mountain" symbols.
	12.40-13.00	Mary M.A. McDonald	New discoveries on the Escarpment above Kharga Oasis, Egypt: the Holocene Prehistory
	poster	Ewa Kuciewicz, Eliza Jaroni, Michał Kobusiewicz	Painted Wadi - Rock Art Research in Dakhla Oasis
	13.00-13.20	Discussion
	13.20-15.00	lunch break
Session 6 15.00-17.20	15.00-15.20	Romuald Schild, Fred Wendorf	The New Age Reuse of the Nabta Playa Sanctuary
	15.20-15.40	Przemysław Bobrowski, Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny, Romuald Schild	Site E-06-4 sackred mountain. Early neolithic offering tumuli (tumulus 2 and its satellites)
	15.40-16.00	Maciej Jórdeczka, Halina Królik, Mirosław Masojć, Romuald Schild	Site E-06-1. The Early Neolithic of El Adam Type at Nabta Playa.
	16.00-16.20	Andras Zboray	Recent results of Jebel Uweinat rock art survey
	16.20-16.40	Gavin K. Smith	Kinship Structure and the incipient predynastic ancient Egyptian state in Upper Egypt
	16.40-17.00	Christopher Ehret	Nilo-Saharans and pre-dynastic Egypt
	17.00-17.20	Discussion
	17.20-17.40	coffee break
	17.40-18.40	Meeting of the International Commission of the Later Prehistory of Northeastern Africa
Session 7 18.40-20.00		Workshop on Ancient Nubian Pottery
	18.40-19.00	Hans A. Nordström	Tools of the trade. The databases of the Scandinavian Joint Expedition
	19.00-19.20	Elena Garcea	Pottery manufactures at Sai Island, Sudan
	19.20-19.40	Abdelrahim Khabir	Physico-chemical analyses of "Khartoum Neolithic" ceramics from the Central Sudan
	19.40-20.00	Discussion
Wednesday 04/07
Session 8 9.00-11.00	9.00-9.20	Cinzia Zegretti	Children Burials in Nubian A-Group
	9.20-9.40	Uffe Steffensen	The Ritual Use of Mortuary Pottery among the Ancient Nubian C-Group
	9.40-10.00	Pernille Bangsgaard	Aritual deposit or just another sheep
	10.00-10.20	Henriette Hafsaas	Expressions of Identity during the Neolithic of Northern Sudan
	10.20-10.40	Mathias Lange	HUNE 2006: Palaeolithic sites on Mograt Island
	10.40-11.00	Discussion
	11.00-11.20	coffee break
Session 9 11.20-13.00	11.20-11.40	Louis Chaix, Jerome Dubosson, M. Honegger	The bucrania from the Eastern Cemetery of Kerma (Sudan): note on a technical deformation of horns
	11.40-12.00	Azhari Mustafa Sadig Ali	As Sour. A late Neolithic Site near Meroe. The New Discoveries
	12.00-12.20	Friederike Jesse	North of Lower Wadi Howar - a first reconnaissance in the area between Jebel Abyad and the Nile Valley
	12.20-12.40	Naddja Pőllath	Abu Tabari S 02/1 - Subsistence activities and environmental response
	12.40-13.00	Yahia Fadl Tahir	Nature and Function of Walls of Palaeochannel Wadi Farja, in Third Nile Cataract Region
	13.00-13.40	Meeting of the Commission XXII of UISPP "Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Social Groups in Northeast Africa"
	13.00-15.00	Lunch break
	15.00-20.00	Excursion - Bronze Age Fortified Village at Biskupin
	20.00-23.00	Bonfire at Ostrów Lednicki
Thursday 05/07
Session 10 9.00-11.00	9.00-9.20	Attila Király	Prehistoric sites around Dar el-Arab. Preliminary report on the survey of the Hungarian Mission, Sudan, 2007.
	9.20-9.40	Bettina Petrick	Cologne Fourth Cataract Project - Survey and excavations on Boni Island
	9.40-10.00	Cornelia Kleinitz	Rock art of the Fourth Nile Cataract:symbolic universes imprinted in stone
	10.00-10.20	Piotr Osypiński	Raw materials' palette of the neolithic inventories at 4th Cataract, Sudan
	10.20-10.40	Sandro Salvatori, Donatella Usai	Site formation and the Mesolithic in the El Salha region, White Nile
	10.40-11.00	Discussion
	11.00-11.20	coffee break
Session 11 11.20-13.40	11.20-11.40	Christopher L. Hill	Quaternary Environments in North Africa and Global Climate Change
	11.40-12.00	Daniela Zampetti	Recent data on the rock art of the Tadrart Acacus (Libyan Sahara): the southern and northern wadis
	12.00-12.20	Savino di Lernia,Mary Anne Tafuri	Rethinking Holocene funerary practices in the Acacus Mts. (central Sahara, Libya)
	12.20-12.40	Alicia Meza	First Phoenician colonies in North Africa
	12.40-13.00	Fenna Godhoff	First results of the archaeological research in the Ennedi mountains, Northeastern Chad
	13.00-13.20	Tilman Lenssen-Erz	A first appraisal of rock art in the central Ennedi highlands, Chad
	13.20-13.40	Discussion
	13.40-15.00	lunch break
Session 12 15.00-17.20	15.00-15.20	Franziska Bartz	Living in front of a gallery - The Iron Age-Site TO5/501 in the Ennedi-Mountains, NE-Chad
	15.20-15.40	John R.F. Bower, Audax Z.P. Mabulla, Michał Kobusiewicz	Loiyangalani: A Cultural Isolate in the Middle Stone Age of Northern Tanzania
	15.40-16.00	Maciej Pawlikowski	Sedimentary structures and mineralogy of Tell el Farha archaeological site (Nile in Delta) .
	16.00-16.20	Benoît Poisblaud	A new discovery of Recent Prehistory in Djibouti: the Asgoumhatian Culture.
	16.20-16.40	Sonia Zakrzewski	Dental Morphology, Dental Health and their Social Implications
	16.40-17.00	Marie Balasse, Bethan Upex	Caprine enamel as a marker of animal stress conditions and herding practices in archaeological assemblages. First data set from mdern Kenyan Maasai caprine herds.
	17.00-17.20	Discussion
	17.20-17.40	coffee break
	17.40-19.00	Final Discussion
	19.00	Closing of the Symposium and Cocktail