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12 th I nter nationa l C ongr ess on the
A rch a eology of the A ncient Nea r E ast

                                   Bologna
                             April 6-9, 2021

                            P rogram
Program april 6-9, 2021 - Bologna
12th International Congress on the
Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

Bologna
April 6-9, 2021

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Program april 6-9, 2021 - Bologna
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12th ICAANE Organizing Committee                                       12th ICAANE Unibo Executive Team
                    Pierfrancesco Callieri                                                   Michael Campeggi
                       Maurizio Cattani                                                     Francesca Cavaliere
                         Enrico Cirelli                                            Claudia D’Orazio (Scientific Secretary)
                         Antonio Curci                                                      Valentina Gallerani
                    Anna Chiara Fariselli                                                     Gabriele Giacosa
                     Henning Franzmeier                                                          Elena Maini
                        Elisabetta Govi                                                       Eleonora Mariani
                        Mattia Guidetti                                                       Chiara Mattioli
                       Francesco Iacono                                                      Jacopo Monastero
                      Simone Mantellini                                                        Valentina Orrù
                       Gianni Marchesi                                                         Giulia Roberto
                   Nicolò Marchetti (Chair)                                                     Marco Valeri
                        Palmiro Notizia                                                        Federico Zaina
                       Adriano V. Rossi
                         Marco Zecchi                                        ICAANE International Committee
                                                                          Pascal Butterlin – University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
  12th ICAANE Scientific Advisory Board                                               Bleda Düring – University of Leiden
                                                                                  Marian Feldman – Johns Hopkins University
   Pascal Butterlin – University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne              Karin Kopetzky – OREA, Austrian Academy of Sciences
            Peter Fischer – University of Gothenburg                               Wendy Matthews – University of Reading
              Tim Harrison – University of Toronto                             Adelheid Otto – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Nicolò Marchetti – Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna       Frances Pinnock – Sapienza University of Rome (Secretary General)
            Wendy Matthews – University of Reading                            Ingolf Thuesen – University of Copenhagen (Chair)
    Adelheid Otto – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich                     Cristina Tonghini – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
           Glenn Schwartz – Johns Hopkins University                                          Honorary Members:
           Ingolf Thuesen – University of Copenhagen                           Manfred Bietak – Austrian Academy of Sciences
                                                                                   Hartmut Kühne – Free University of Berlin
                                                                         Jean-Claude Margueron – École Pratique des Hautes Études
                                                                                Paolo Matthiae – Sapienza University of Rome
                                                                                     Diederik Meijer – University of Leiden
                                                                                  Alan Walmsley – University of Copenhagen
                                                                                       Irene Winter – Harvard University

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April 6th, 2021 (9:30-12:30)
                                                    Plenary session
                                                                           6th April (9:30-12:30)
                                       9:30-10:30                             Opening addresses and artistic performances
                                                                   Francesco Ubertini
                                                          Rector of the Alma Mater Studiorum –                                 Welcome greeting
                                                                  University of Bologna

                                                                     Ingolf Thuesen
                                                         University of Copenhagen, President of the                            Inaugural greeting
                                                        ICAANE International Scientific Committee
                                                                     Paolo Capuzzo
      Congress Themes                                 Head of the Department of History and Cultures,
                                                      Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
                                                                                                                              Institutional greeting
                                                                     Adriano Rossi
        1. Field reports                             President of ISMEO - International Association for
                                                             Mediterranean and Oriental Studies
                                                                    Nicolò Marchetti
                                                                                                                  Introduction and opening of the Congress
 2. Environmental Archaeology                         Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna

                                                       Giulia Piraccini, Margherita Robecchi,                 Poetry reading: Hymn of the Rain (Unshūdat al-
                                                         Roberto Santoro, Alice Zamarchi
3. Hammering the material world                               (coord. Ahmad Addous)
                                                                                                                    Matar) , by Badr Shākir Al-Sayyāb
                                                                                                               with its readings in Arabic, Turkish, Farsi and English

                                                                                                                            Musical interlude:
   4. Cognitive archaeology                                             Réda Zine                             Reviewing the MENA musical heritage. Gwana
                                                                                                                   music from Guembri to electric guitar

      5. Modeling the past                                                             Keynote lectures
                                                                                      Chair: Roger Matthews
   6. Networked archaeology
                                                                                                        1. Field reports

 7. Endangered cultural heritage                                     Adelheid Otto                             A new response to old questions. How did Ur
                                       10:30-11:00
                                                         Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich                   slowly recover in the Isin-Larsa period?

     8. Islamic archaeology                                                                  2. Environmental Archaeology

                                                                                                                The climate-humans-climate nexus: Modelling
                                       11:00-11:30                  Sandy Harrison
                                                                                                               the impact of climate on agricultural production
                                                                   University of Reading
                                                                                                                 and agricultural expansion on global climate

                                                                                            3. Hammering the material world

                                                                                                                 From pottery manufacture and use to social
                                                              Francesca Balossi Restelli                            relations at the beginning of full-time
                                       11:30-12:00
                                                               Sapienza University of Rome                    craftsmanship. The case of Late Chalcolithic 3-4
                                                                                                               Arslantepe (3900-3400 BCE), Eastern Turkey

                                                                                             7. Endangered cultural heritage

                                                                   Nour A. Munawar                            Competing heritage: Curating the future heritage
                                       12:00-12.30
                                                                 University of Amsterdam                                  of post-conflict Syria

                                       12.30-14.00                                                        Lunch Break

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April 6th (14:00-18:00)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   6th April (14:00-18:00)
                                                         Room A                                                                                           Room B                                                                                 Room C                                                                         Room D                                                                    Room E                                                                          Room F                                                                                        Room G

        Theme                                         1. Field reports                                                                               1. Field reports                                                               2. Environmental archaeology                                                  3. Hammering the material world                                              3. Hammering the material world                                                     4. Cognitive archaeology                                                                       5. Modeling the past
                Author(s)                                   Title                                               Author(s)                                  Title                                             Author(s)                              Title                                        Author(s)                    Title                                        Author(s)                  Title                                                Author(s)                      Title                                           Author(s)                                          Title

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Handedness and language in palaeolithic
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Microfossil insights to plant-use at         Guilarian Raei                                                                                                                                                                           Pollution or Practical Solution? On the
                                                                                                                Nino Pataridze, Davit                      Paravani Archaeological Project, Excavation                                                                                                                        human populations. Stone tools obtained                                 A Decorated Bronze Knife from Early Iron                                                                                                                                               Arzawa = Watered Land. A new hypothesis
14:00-14:30     Javad Jafari, Judith Thomalsky              Tappe Rivi at the Dawn of the Persian Empire                                                                                                     Kate Dudgeon                           Neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria, 8800-6000      Roodbardeh, Rahmat                                                        Alla Rabinovich                                                                 Lidewijde De Jong              spatial setting and reuse of tombs in the       Fabrizio Giovannetti
                                                                                                                Darejanashvili                             Results (2018-2020)                                                                                                                                                from 14 Middle Paleolithic sites along the                              Age Beth-Shemesh and Its Entangled Origins                                                                                                                                             on the meaning of the Luwian toponym
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    cal. BC                                      Abbass Nejad Serasti                                                                                                                                                                     Northern Levant (1st c. - 3rd c. CE)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Holeylan River, central Zagros

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Konstantinos
                                                            Intercultural relations in the Bronze Age: New                                                 Kurgans, Churches and Karvasla: The first                                                Agriculture and the emergence of settled                                  The Late Neolithic Bone Tool Industry at                                                                                                                    Changing Death throughout Assyria:                                                                 Temples through time: a radiocarbon analysis
                Elise Luneau, Yuri Kutimov, Tatjana                                                             Kristen Hopper, Elena Rova, Davit                                                            Charlotte Diffey, Roger                                                                                                                                       Kopanias, Vemou            3D Model Analysis of the LBA and EIA
14:30-15:00                                                 Data from the upper Surkhan-Darya Valley                                                       two seasons of the Lagodekhi Archaeological                                              society: New evidence from the Zagros        Stephen Rhodes               Gadachrili Gora and Shulaveris Gora:                                                                                         Petra M. Creamer               Provincial versus Heartland Mortuary            Lyndelle Webster, Stephen Bourke                   of the Bronze to Iron Age temple sequence at
                Germanovna Filimonova                                                                           Kvavadze                                                                                     Matthews, Wendy Matthews                                                                                                                                      Erato, Sidiropoulou        Swords from the Eastern Mediterranean
                                                            (Tajikistan)                                                                                   Survey, Georgia                                                                          region                                                                    New data from recent excavations                                                                                                                            Practices in the Longue Durée                                                                      Pella (Jordan)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Aikaterini

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Emmanuelle Vila, M. Mashkour, L. Orlando, F.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Practicing sustainability under climate                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Pompanon, P. Abrahami, C. Michel, J. Chahoud,
                                                                                                                                                           Two Seasons of Excavations at the                 Mahyar Khademi Bami, Reza                                                                                        Southern Mesopotamia after Uruk:                                                                                                                            Funerary practices and the role of pottery                                                         The development of sheep breeds in Southwest
                Takhmina Bostanova, Natalia Skakun,         Features of the Gissar Neolithic Culture (South                                                                                                                                         change, with attention to archaeological                                                                                                          Morphological Variability in Early Bronze                                                                                           T. Cucchi, C. Breniquet, D. Bradley, R. Berthon,
15:00-15:30                                                                                                     Elena Rova, Kvavadze Davit                 Chalcolithic site of Tsiteli Gorebi 5             Rahnama, Leyla Khademi Bami,                                                        Hugo Naccaro                 changes and innovations within material      Ashley Cercone                                                                  Maha Masri                     deposits in the Iron Age. Recent discoveries,                                                      Asian societies (6th-1rst millennia B.C.):
                Dmitriy Shulga                              Tajikistan)                                                                                                                                                                             and ethnographic studies in the coastlines                                                                                                        Age Anatolian Potting Technologies                                                                                                  B. De Cupere, M. Albesso, H. Davoudi, O.
                                                                                                                                                           (Lagodekhi municipality, Georgia)                 Pejman Pazouki                                                                                                   cultures                                                                                                                                                    Dekerman 55, Sidon                              Estrada, M. Vuillien, C. Bader, L. Gourichon,      EvoSheep project–multidisciplinary approaches
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    of Southeastern Iran
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          M. Azadeh, J. Studer.

                                                                                                                                                           From catastrophe to catastrophe; changes,         Lorenzo Castellano, Pam                A diachronic view on the Anatolia                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith, M. Guirguis, R.
                                                            Some Recently Found from Median Period (Iron                                                                                                                                            landscape: environment, economies, and                                                                                 Yarden Pagelson,           Iron Production Technology in the Neo-                                                                                                                                                 Following the Phoenicians – patterns and
                Mehrdad Malekzadeh, Somaye                                                                                                                 destructions and other factors. The research of   Crabtree, Ali Gürel, Catherine                                                      Setareh                      Tepe Sadegh, An orbital site of Shahr-i                                                                                                                                                                     Pla Orquín, B. Costa, A. Niveau de
15:30-16:00                                                 Age III) Archaeology, and Landscape of Future       Krzysztof Jakubiak                                                                                                                  polities from the Bronze Age to the                                                                                    Yuval Golan, Eliezer       Assyrian Sphere: The Iron Workshop at                Tara Ingman                    Container Burials at Tell Atchana (Alalakh)                                                        processes emerging from aDNA across the
                Boroomandara, Mohammad Jamali                                                                                                              a small Iron Age town Metasmor in the Aras        Kuzucuoğlu, Alvise Matessi,                                                         Ebrahimiabareghi             Sokhta                                                                                                                                                                                                      Villedary y Mariñas, M. Macías López, L.
                                                            Research                                                                                                                                                                                Ottoman Period in the Northern Tyanitis                                                                                Oren, Yuval Goren          Tel Sera', Western Negev, Israel                                                                                                                                                       Mediterranean
                                                                                                                                                           Valley (Armenia)                                  Lorenzo d’Alfonso                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Nigro, A. Gosling, J. Beattie, C. Collins
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    (Southern Cappadocia, Turkey)

16:00-16:30                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Coffee Break

                                                                                                                Giulio Palumbi, B. Jalilov, F. Guliyev,    Report on 2018-2020 excavations and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Tell el-Burak and the Phoenician
                                                                                                                M. Huseynov, M. Poulmarc’h, L. Astruc,     research at Kiçik Tepe and Qaraçinar                                                                                                                               His eyes shall be red with wine…' (Gen.                                 Manufacturing technology of stone                                                                                                   Carmel Liran, Lily Agranat-Tamir, David
                                                            From Alexander to Eucratides: new research of                                                                                                    Shyama Vermeersch, Jens                Heartland during the Iron Age: a             Vladimir Wolff                                                            Natalia Skakun, Vera                                                                                                                                                                                              The Genomic History of the Bronze Age
16:30-17:00     Ladislav Stančo, Jan Kysela                                                                     E. Baudouin, R. Berthon, M. B. D’Anna,     (Azerbaijan). New data on the Neolithic and                                                                                                                        49:12). One Thousand Years of Wine                                      miniature columns from Gonur-Depe Bronze             Pinar Durgun                   Memories in and of Anatolian cemeteries         Reich, Israel Finkelstein, Shai Carmi, Ron
                                                            the Hellenistic Central Asia                                                                                                                     Kamlah, Britt M. Starkovich            Zooarchaeological Case-Study placed          Avrutis                                                                   Terehina                                                                                                                                                                                                          Southern Levant
                                                                                                                A. Decaix, B. Gratuze, C. Hamon, A.        Kura-Araxes periods between the Kura River                                                                                                                         Production at Nesher-Ramla Quarry                                       Age site (Southern Turkmenistan)                                                                                                    Pinhasi
                                                                                                                Mazuy, M. Regert, A. Ricci                                                                                                          within a Regional Framework
                                                                                                                                                           valley and the Lesser Caucasus Mountains

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Alissa Mittnik, P. P. Petrone, A. S.
                                                                                                                Stefano Valentini, Erdal Yilmaz,                                                             Antonio Curci, Elena Maini,            A giraffe bone from the Neo-Assyrian                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Tendler, V. Eshed, R. Bianco, M. Lari, A.
                                                            Margiana in the Bronze Age. The BMAC                Valentina D'Amico, Guido                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Robert Sataev, Sataeva                                                                                         The human burials from Şinduxa (Kurdistan
                                                                                                                                                           A preliminary report on a mid-late fourth         Marzia Cavriani, Lucio                 palace compound at Karkemish?                                             Multi-Ethnicity Craftsmen in the                                        Constructive technologies at Gonur-Depe              Alessandro Canci, Hasan                                                        Modi, E. Pilli, S. Vai, V. Amoretti, A.            Ancient DNA reveals Near Eastern ancestry in
17:00-17:30     Barbara Cerasetti                           phenomenon through the latest data from             Guarducci, Lorenzo Crescioli,                                                                                                                                                    Zohreh Zehbari                                                            Liliia, Dubova                                                                                                 Region, Iraq). A bioarchaeological and
                                                                                                                                                           millenniun BC kurgan in western Azerbaijan        Calcagnile, Beatrice Demarchi,         Influences and connections between                                        Achaemenid Period                                                       Bronze Age site (Turkmenistan)                       Ahmed Qasim                                                                    Martellone, M. Osanna, F. Sirano, J.               the victims of the 79 A.D. Vesuvius eruption
                                                            Togolok 1 (Southern Turkmenistan)                   Nicola Laneri, Modwene                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Nadezhda                                                                                                       archaeothanatological approach
                                                                                                                                                                                                             Gianluca Quarta, Federico Zaina        Assyria and Egypt during the Iron Age III                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Krause, R. Pinhasi, D. Caramelli, D.
                                                                                                                Poulmarc'h, Bakhtiyar Jalilov
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Reich

                Alexey V. Fribus, Sergey P. Grushin,        New rare seals and first polychrome painting                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Patterns of Continuity and Change in
                                                                                                                                                           The Breadovens and its context at Tell Abu                                               An Early Bronze Age Specialized                                                                                                                   Landscapes of Warfare in the Ancient Near                                                                                                                                              Studying genetic and cultural admixture of
17:30-18:00     Robert M. Sataev, Nadezhda A.               from 2019 excavations at Gonur Depe, Bronze         Noor Mulder-Hymans                                                                           Natalia Handziuk                                                                                                                                              Tiffany Earley-Spadoni                                                          Ádám Bollók                    Providing the Dead with Amuletic Protection     Gronau Ilan, Dalit Regev
                                                                                                                                                           Sarbut, Jordan                                                                           Processing Centre in Northern Jordan                                                                                                              East: A View from Urartu                                                                                                                                                               Phoenicians in Sicily
                Dubova, Muhametnazar Y. Begliev             Age site (Turkmenistan)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       in the Late Antique Near East

Workshop (if                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              22. Memory, Identity, and Death in Mesopotamia and the Levant: exploring
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           17. Ancient DNA of the Near East and the Mediterranean
 present)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            long-term trends in (non-royal) mortuary customs

                                                         Room H                                                                                           Room L                                                                                 Room M                                                                         Room N                                                                    Room O                                                                          Room P                                                                                        Room Q                                                                           Room R

       Theme                                     5. Modeling the past                                                                             5. Modeling the past                                                                        1. Field reports                                                            8. Islamic archaeology                                                  4. Cognitive archaeology                                                         4. Cognitive archaeology                                                                    6. Networked archaeology                                                               1. Field reports
                Author(s)                                   Title                                               Author(s)                                  Title                                             Author(s)                              Title                                        Author(s)                    Title                                        Author(s)                  Title                                                Author(s)                      Title                                           Author(s)                                          Title                                             Author(s)                   Title

                                                            The Israelite-Judaean Military Service in the                                                  Domestication of what? Objectification, meta-                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   The rural settlement at Çatalhöyük in the
                                                                                                                                                           group cohesion, and heterarchy as the                                                    The City of Hartapu: Results of the                                                                                                               People are Strange: Experiencing strangeness                                        Restitution virtuelle en 3D, problèmes,                                                            Teaching the Neo-Hittite world one block at a
                                                            Armies of Assyria and the Army of the                                                                                                                                                                                                Enrico Cirelli, Mattia       Introduction to the Islamic archaeology                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      context of the settlement in Central
14:00-14:30     Haggai Olshanetsky                                                                              Cristina Barcina                           conceptual parameters of a new ontological,       James Osborne, Michele Massa           Türkmen-Karahöyük Intensive Survey                                                                                     Vera Egbers                through the built environment in Assyria and         Béatrice Muller                méthode, limites et ressources: Le Grand        Dominique Langis-Barsetti                          time: Minecraft as an educational tool in         Jędrzej Hordecki
                                                            Kingdom of Israel in the 10th - 8th C BCE:                                                                                                                                                                                           Guidetti                     session                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Anatolia during Iron Age and Hellenistic
                                                                                                                                                           socioeconomic, and political understanding                                               Project in the Konya Plain                                                                                                                        Urartu                                                                              Palais Royal de Mari                                                                               archaeological outreach
                                                            Composition, Strength and Prestige                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             periods
                                                                                                                                                           of the fourth millennium BC

                                                                                                                                                           Urbanization versus urbanism. New insights
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Tracing Late Antiquity in the eastern
                                                            When a Door is Open: Entering the Imperial                                                     on the emergence of the urban phenomenon in                                              2014-2019 Archaeological excavations at                                   Muʿāwiya and the mosque (?) of al-                                      Constructing social hierarchies: palace and                                         Ninni-ZA.ZA et Gishtarat: nouvelle                                                                 Born Digital: The Energetic Calculator for
14:30-15:00     Jia Yan                                                                                         Barbara Chiti                                                                                Miqayel Badalyan                                                                    Tawfiq Da'adli                                                            Simon M. Halama                                                                 Jean-Claude Margueron                                                          Federico Buccellati                                                                                  Gülriz Kozbe                Mediterranean on the basis of a rural
                                                            Space of Assyria through the 'Balawat Gates’                                                   Syria at the turn of the 4th and 3rd millennium                                          Erebuni Fortress, Republic of Armenia                                     Sinnabra                                                                city in the Syro-Hittite states                                                     approche architecturale                                                                            Ancient Buildings
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           occupation at Dede Harabeleri
                                                                                                                                                           BCE

                                                            Modeling the diffusion of the Assyrian culture in                                                                                                                                       Locating Tarhuntassa, the lost capital of                                 Ghazni Sacred Landscape. Ziyārāt,                                       An insight on the politics of royal and elite                                       Ninni-ZAZA et Gishtarat: L’inventaire des                                                          Digitally (re)born: The 3D model of the White                                 A Palatial Complex at Charax Spasinou,
                                                                                                                                                           Rethinking the Emergence of Social                Michele Massa, Christoph                                                            Martina Massullo,
15:00-15:30     Adonice-Ackad Baaklini                      the Iron Age Near East. The case study of the       Bleda Düring                                                                                                                        the Hittite Empire: Türkmen-Karahöyük                                     Shrines and Burials from the Ghaznavid       Martin Makinson            costume in Syria and Anatolia in the Iron            Sophie Cluzan                  temples en regard de la nouvelle approche       Sebastian Hageneuer                                Temple in Uruk and the principles of Virtual      Mary Shepperson             Basra province, Iraq. Identification and
                                                                                                                                                           Inequalities: The Case of Chalcolithic Cyprus     Bachhuber                                                                           Valentina Laviola
                                                            Kingdom of Hamat                                                                                                                                                                        (Konya, Turkey)                                                           Period to the Modern Age                                                Age: A case of conscious affiliation                                                architecturale                                                                                     Reconstructions                                                               initial results.

                                                                                                                                                           Centre and periphery: dynamics of the                                                    The Akkar Plain: material culture and                                                                                                             The reorganization of social elites and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The impact of Mongol rule on urbanism in     Lorenzo D'Alfonso,                                                                                                                                                                                                Digital Tools and the Historical Setting of                                   Living Faith and Community. The Late
                                                            Urban Squares in Bronze Age Syria: A Street                                                    occupation of the north-east region of Syria      Michel Al-Maqdissi, Georges            regional interactions during the Bronze                                                                                                           exclusive rites in post-Hittite Central Anatolia:                                   How to Build Fear? The Multimodality of
15:30-16:00     Alessandra Gilibert                                                                             Suzanne Dibo                                                                                                                                                                     Katie Campbell               the South Caucasus: Urban Change in          Elena Basso, Alessio                                                            Elisabeth Wagner-Durand                                                        Maria Gabriella Micale                             Ancient Architecture: The Case of Syria between   Jürgen K. Zangenberg        Roman-Byzantine Synagogue(s) at Horvat
                                                            View on Ancient City Life                                                                      during the second half of the 3rd millennium      Mouamar                                Age. Prospection 1986-1987 and 2005-                                                                                                              networks and structures beyond the Alishar-                                         Architecture and Emotion
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Barda, Azerbaijan from 1200-1400             Mantovan                                                                                                                                                                                                          Third and Second Millennia BCE                                                Kur (Galilee)
                                                                                                                                                           BC                                                                                       2006                                                                                                                                              IV ware

16:00-16:30                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Coffee Break

                                                            The effects of the Sasanians’ late 5th Century CE                                                                                                                                                                                                                 The sea of the Caliphs: the economic
                                                                                                                                                           Free foragers? A case for transient social
                                                            economic measures and reforms in agriculture        Patrick Nørskov Pedersen, Joe Roe,                                                                                                  Mt Ağrı region during the Chalcolithic                                    relations between the Byzantine, Latin and   Rick Bonnie, Saimi         Religious Responses to Climate Change in the                                        Le Roi d'Assyrie est Apsû: tout baigne dans     Alessandro Di Ludovico, Franco Alberto             Mathematical Investigation of Glyptic                                         The transition from Aceramic to Ceramic
16:30-17:00     Arash Sasany, Meysam Labbaf-Khaniki                                                                                                        inequality at Epipalaeolithic Shubayqa, eastern   Aynur Ozfirat                                                                       Paolo de Vingo                                                                                                                                            Fabrice De Backer                                                                                                                                                                   Andrew McCarthy
                                                            and taxation systems on the reinvigoration of its   Tobias Richter                                                                                                                      and Early Bronze Age                                                      Arabic world on the basis of early           Kautonen                   Southern Levant                                                                     l'huile                                         Cardillo, Umberto Straccia                         Iconographies: A New Synthesis                                                Neolithic at Prastio-Mesorotsos, Cyprus
                                                                                                                                                           Jordan
                                                            kingdom in its last 150 years                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     medieval archaeological sources

                                                                                                                                                           Variation in economic specialization is                                                                                                                            Observations on the manufacturing
                                                            Empire beyond its palaces: New discoveries of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Visualizing ancestral landscapes: a cognitive                                                                                                                                          Three-dimensional visualization and analysis of                               Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus: A Trade
                Hakob Y. Simonyan, Gregory E.                                                                   Linoy Namdar, Jacob Vardi,                 revealed through the study of Pottery                                                    The water system of ancient Syedra in                                     techniques of the Abbasid stuccoes from                                                                                                                     The representation of Childhood in the          Jens Rohde, Florian Janoscha Kreppner,
17:00-17:30                                                 the Urartian period at the necropolis of Karmir-                                                                                                 Dennis Murphy                                                                       Andrea Luigi Corsi                                                        Chiara Pappalardo          approach to Kura-Araxes necropolises in the          Nadia Pezzulla                                                                                                                    stratigraphy and earth deposits in the Peshdar    Peter M. Fischer            Centre's Intercultural Contacts in the
                Areshian                                                                                        Yitzhak Paz, Lidar Sapir- Hen              Neolithic faunal assemblages from the                                                    Southern Turkey                                                           the Friday Mosque of Isfahan (767 –                                                                                                                         Assyrian Cognition                              Andrea Squitieri, Jean-Jacques Herr
                                                            Blur (Armenia)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            southern Caucasus                                                                                                                                                                      Plain Project                                                                 Bronze Age
                                                                                                                                                           Southern Levant                                                                                                                                                    840/41)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Setting Values in Diaspora; Social Spheres                                          The crown-prince at Mount Nipur:                Marco Valeri, Pietro Baldassarri, Silvano          OrientGIS - Networked GIS in Archaeology.
                                                            Representative aspects of horse gear in Lori Berd                                              Setting things apart: Chalcolithic containers                                            The findings proving glass was                                            Wooden Ceilings at Raqqa and Their                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Sasanian Trade in the Shahrizor – the
17:30-18:00     Ruben Davtyan                                                                                   Nolwen Rol                                                                                   Elif Hanar                                                                          Markus Ritter                                                             Sepideh Maziar             and Material Manifestation of Culture and            Riccardo Menis                 reinterpreting an obscure relief of the Cudi    Bertossa, Simone Mantellini, Nicolò                The cases of the Ebla Chora and Floodplains       Alexander Tamm
                                                            (Armenia)                                                                                      on the Iranian Central Plateau                                                           discovered in Mesopotamia                                                 Evolution in Early Islamic Architecture                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Archaeological Record
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Identity                                                                            Dağ monumental complex                          Marchetti, Valentina Orrù                          Projects

Workshop (if
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              18. ‘Born Digital’: How Digital Methods are Changing Archaeological Research
 present)

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April 7th (9:00-13:00)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            7th April (9:00-13:00)
                                                   Room A                                                                                 Room B                                                                                 Room C                                                                               Room D                                                                             Room E                                                                           Room F                                                                      Room G

        Theme                                   1. Field reports                                                                      1. Field reports                                           2. Environmental archaeology and 3. Hammering the material world                                         3. Hammering the material world                                                     3. Hammering the material world                                                     4. Cognitive archaeology                                                       5. Modeling the past
                Author(s)                          Title                                             Author(s)                               Title                                          Author(s)                              Title                                           Author(s)                              Title                                        Author(s)                            Title                                         Author(s)                        Title                                        Author(s)                       Title

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Investigating human-environmental
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Mustafa Kibaroğlu, Julia               Introduction to Scientific Analyses in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   relationships in the Zagros region during
 9:00-9:30                                                                                                                                                                                  Maria Rabbani                                                                          Schönicke, Birgül Öğüt, Philipp        Archaeological Contexts and State of Art
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   the Late Pleniglacial, Late Glacial and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Hoelzmann, Marta Portillo              of Scientific Methods
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Holocene period

                                                                                                     Takahiro Odaka, Osamu Maeda,            Investigating the Late Neolithic in the
                                                   The Archaeological Area of Tūlūl al-Baqarat:      Kazuya Shimogama, Yuichi S.                                                                                                   Human adaptations to faunal shifts in the                                                                                           Reza Nafari, Mohammd Hadi Nejati     Classification and typology of Kaftari Grey
                                                                                                                                             Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan:                                                                                                                                            Let the beauty come out of ashes. Ashy                                                                                                                           Contest scene in EDIII Mesopotamian
 9:30-10:00     Carlo Lippolis                     a Summary Report on 2013-2019 Field               Hayakawa, Yoshihiro Nishiaki,                                                          Lisa Yeomans                           Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene of          Hana Kubelková                                                                      Grani, Mahdieh Rezaei, Maryam        Ware obtained from the Excavation of Tol-     Dorota Ławecka
                                                                                                                                             Excavations at Shakar Tepe, the first                                                                                                                                        layers of Monjukli Depe                                                                                                                                          glyptics
                                                   Seasons                                           Nawshirwan A. Mohammed, Kamal                                                                                                 Eastern Jordan.                                                                                                                     Esmaeili, Elham Hiedari              e Sabz, Marvdasht, Fars
                                                                                                                                             season (2019)
                                                                                                     Rasheed

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The interpretation of grooved stones:
                                                   Larsa and Tell el ‘Uwaili (Iraq), preliminary                                             Exploring the Bronze Age at Pella in                                                                                                                                         Caprine birth seasons at early Aeneolithic
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Human-animal relationships in the Early                                                                                             Asta Salicath Halvorsen, Lisa        Evidence based on a toolkit recovered from                                     Symmetry and Duplication in Hittite
10:00-10:30     Regis Vallet                       results of the XIVth and XVth campaigns           Stephen James Bourke                    Jordan: Highlights from the 2019 Field         Donna de Groene                                                                        Jana Eger                              Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan: Insights                                                                                           Benedetta Bellucci
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent                                                                                           Yeomans                              the Pre- Pottery Neolithic A site of                                           Seals
                                                   (2019)                                                                                    Season                                                                                                                                                                       from stable isotope analysis
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Shubayqa 6 in northeast Jordan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The informative potential of microscale                                           The End of the Ubaid Period in the Upper                                       "…Out of the ivory palaces…":
                                                   Tell Zurghul, ancient Nigin, Iraq: Preliminary                                                                                                                                  Health in the Neolithic transition of the                                                                                                                                                                              Harel Shochat, Guy Bar-Oz,                                                                                    The Archaeology of Iran in the first
                                                                                                                                             Qasr Shemamok: the Late Bronze Age                                                                                                                                           observations of floor deposits: an example                                        Tigris River Valley: A View from Kenan                                         Preliminary results from the Late Bronze
10:30-11:00     Davide Nadali, Andrea Polcaro      Report of the New Results from Recent             Maria Grazia Masetti                                                                   Sam Walsh                              eastern fertile crescent: new evidence from     Susanna Cereda                                                                      Jason R. Kennedy                                                                   Cheryl Makarewicz, Ayelet                                                     Bruno Genito, Lucia Cerullo     Millenniun BCE. New Issues for an
                                                                                                                                             Levels, and Before                                                                                                                                                           from the site of Arslantepe (Malatya,                                             Tepe, Diyarbakir Province, Southeastern                                        and Iron Ages Southern-Levant Ivory
                                                   Excavations                                                                                                                                                                     Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan                                                                                                                                                                                             Gilboa                                                                                                        Old Question
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Turkey)                                                                           Turkey                                                                         Research Project

11:00-11:30                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Coffee Break

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            What happened to the Ubaid?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Trash and City. Analysis, clues and                                                    A Tale of Sandy Silt - Geochemical                                                                                                                               Quantification of Stone Structure
                                                                                                                                             A Look Upstream from Qasr Shemamok.                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Understanding Networks of
                                                   Reassessment of Early Mesopotamian Cities:                                                                                                                                      methodological keynotes about the city                                                 Sediment Analyses from the Early             Khaled Abu Jayyab, Elizabeth                                                                                        Morphologies to Investigate Knowledge        Reuven Yeshurun, Dani
11:30-12:00     Emily Hammer                                                                         Rita Dolce                              Soundings at the Site of Kandara Qal           Maria Amodio                                                                           Julia Schönicke                                                                                                          Communication During the Ubaid/Late           Stefan L. Smith                                                                                               The emergence of the Natufian
                                                   New Surveys at Ur and Lagash                                                                                                                                                    and garbage disposal during the Late                                                   Neolithic Settlement Göbekli Tepe,           Gibbon                                                                                                              Transmissions across the Prehistoric         Nadel
                                                                                                                                             (Iraqi Kurdistan)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Chalcolithic 1 Transition in Northeastern
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Antiquity                                                                              Turkey                                                                                                                                                           Syro-Jordanian Steppes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Mesopotamia
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Between an end and a new beginning:                                            An Embarrassment of Riches:
                Philippe Quenet, Franco                                                                                                      Recent Research in the Qara Dagh Valley                                               As Above, so Below? Dumping and                                                        Archaeobotany of Syro-Anatolian city-                                                                                                                                                                         Hila May, Ariel Pokhojaev,
                                                   New excavation at Eridu by the AMEr team          Antonietta Catanzariti, Terri Tanaka,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Tracking the post-Ubaid Mesopotamian                                           Correlating Burial Wealth with                                               New insights into Natufians’ dailylife
12:00-12:30     D'Agostino, Anne-Caroline                                                                                                    of Iraqi-Kurdistan, a view from the site of    Philip Bes, Tine Rassalle              Phasing in a Cistern at Byzantine Horvat        Doğa Karakaya                          states: current research and future          Johnny Samuele Baldi                                                               Yagmur Heffron                                                                Tatiana Sella-Tunis, Rachel
                                                   (2019-2020)                                       Amy Richardson                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         transition as a horizon of ceramic                                             Historical Narratives of Impoverishment                                      based on their osteobiographies
                Rendu-Loisel                                                                                                                 Ban Qala                                                                              Kur (Galilee, Israel)                                                                  prospects                                                                                                                                                                                                     Sarig
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            innovations                                                                    in Ancient Kanesh

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           The Iron Age II funerary ritual in the
                                                                                                                                             Emergency Excavation in the Area                                                      Judging from trash buckets: clues on the                                               What can phytoliths tell us about empires?                                                                                                                                                                                                    Eighty Years of Research on the
                Licia Romano, Franco               Abu Tbeirah: Preliminary Report on the 2018-      Soraya Afshari, Leila Afshari,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         The proto-urban times in Susiana (Iran):                                       Middle Euphrates area in light of the
12:30-13:00                                                                                                                                  Around the Kabood and Modavar Towers           Anna Lena                              earliest phases of life of the site of          Birgül Öğüt                            Case studies from Syro-Hittite states in     François Bridey                                                                    Giulia Roberto                                                                Natalie Munro                   Zooarchaeology of the Natufian period:
                D'Agostino                         2019 Excavations                                  Mohammad Rahmatpour                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    new studies on ‘Susa I’ ceramics                                               new excavations at the necropolis of
                                                                                                                                             of Maraghe, Northwest of Iran                                                         Magdala/Tarichea (Galilee)                                                             southeast Turkey                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Where are we now?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Yunus

Workshop (if                                                                                                                                                                               8. Tales from the garbage. Excavation, methodology and pottery processing of            7. Scientific Analyses in Archaeological Contexts - Possibilities and Limits in     23. Delineating the End of a World: Chronological Indicators and Material
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     21. The Natufian at 90: Synthesis and Review
 present)                                                                                                                                                                                   the dumping deposits in the Near East from the Roman to the Islamic period                                       Western Asian Archaeology                                  cultural Changes at the end of the Ubaid Period in Greater Mesopotamia

                                                   Room H                                                                                 Room L                                                                                 Room M                                                                               Room N                                                                             Room O                                                                           Room P                                                                      Room Q                                                                     Room R

        Theme                                5. Modeling the past                                                5. Modeling the past and 3. Hammering the material world                                           7. Endangered cultural heritage                                                            8. Islamic archaeology                                                         3. Hammering the material world                                                  3. Hammering the material world                                                6. Networked archaeology                                                3. Hammering the material world
                Author(s)                          Title                                             Author(s)                               Title                                          Author(s)                              Title                                           Author(s)                              Title                                        Author(s)                            Title                                         Author(s)                        Title                                        Author(s)                       Title                                    Author(s)                         Title

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The Lebanon Mountain Trail Cultural
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Toward a Linguistic Archeology of the
                Virginia R. Herrmann, David                                                                                                  Creation of the Social Boundary: A Test                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Morphology, function and technology in                                         The Role of the Arm Shaped Vessels in                                        Heritage Project . Preserving Cultural
                                                   Urbanization and State Formation at Iron Age                                                                                                                                    Southern Levant: Non–Arabic Names of                                                   A Late Antiquity and Early Medieval
 9:00-9:30      Schloen, Sebastiano Soldi,                                                           Yamafuji Masatoshi                      Case of Early Bronze Age in the Southern       Letizia Cerqueglini                                                                    Daniel Varga                                                                        Anna Smogorzewska                    pottery traditions of Neolithic Gulf. A       Turkan Pilavci                   Rituals: The Hand Holding the Cup in         Fares Alia                      Heritage and Engaging Archaeology
                                                   Sam’al (Zincirli, Turkey)                                                                                                                                                       Utensils and Landscape Elements in                                                     Town at Sderot - Israel
                Sturt W. Manning                                                                                                             Dead Sea Valley                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                study from Bahra 1 (Kuwait)                                                    Hittite Libations                                                            for Education on the Lebanon
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Traditional Palestinian Dialects
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Mountain Trail

                                                   Defining “ceramic communities”: models of                                                 Jamaan & Khirbet al-Jamous: Iron Age           Galina E. Veresotstskaya, Nataliya     The experience of the conservation,                                                                                                                                      Traditions of Manufacture in Nahal
                                                                                                     Federico Cappella, Romel Gharib,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Female rattle dancers in the Iron Age                                        Multiscale collaborative approaches to
                                                   interaction between settlements in the                                                    Fortresses of the Kingdom of Ammon at          A. Kovaleva, Mukhmmed A.               restoration and reconstruction of the                                                                                                                                    Repha’im, a Potters Village in the Southern   Regine Hunziker-Rodewald,
 9:30-10:00     Gabriele Giacosa                                                                     Elisabetta Gallo, Licia De Vito,                                                                                                                                              Ignacio Arce                           Two New Umayyad mosques in Jordan            Helena Roth                                                                                                         Levant – a distinctive figurine type         Vito Messina                    archaeological research: the projects
                                                   Northern Levant during the Iron Age (12th-                                                the time of Assyrians (Sapienza - DoA          Mamedov, Nadezhda A. Dubova,           Bronze Age painting with mosaics inlays                                                                                                                                  Levant from the Intermediate and the          Andrei Aioanei
                                                                                                     Lorenzo Nigro                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         rediscovered                                                                 SigNet and (in)visible Collections
                                                   7th centuries BCE)                                                                        rescue excavations)                            Jannet S. Karanova                     (case of Gonur Depe, Turkmenistan)                                                                                                                                       Middle Bronze Ages

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Nadezhda A. Dubova, N. N.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Euro-Iraqi Partnerships for Cultural
                                                                                                     Federica Spagnoli, Fabiola Zielli,      The temples of Motya and their Levantine                                              Life after death of the archaeological sites,                                                                                                                            Typology, Technology, Function and                                                                                          Federico Zaina, Nicolò                                                   Skakun, A. V. Fribus, S. P.       Stone miniature columns, disks and
                                                   The Production of space in Iron Age Squatter                                                                                                                                                                                    Valentina Gallerani, Valentina                                                                                                                                                                          The Making of Terracotta Figurines and                                       Heritage Preservation and
10:00-10:30     Georg Cyrus                                                                          Nina Ferrante, Federico Cappella,       prototypes: recent discoveries of Sapienza     Chamsia Sadozaï, Matilde Mura          Understanding earth architecture                                                       Islamic Europos                              Amaury Havé                          Evolution of Mesopotamian «\,stemmed          Laura Battini                                                                 Marchetti, Licia Proserpio,                                              Grushin, A. M. Yuminov, V. V.     scepters of Margush country (Bronze
                                                   occupation of Godin Tepe                                                                                                                                                                                                        Vezzoli                                                                                                                                                                                                 Plaques                                                                      Archaeological Practice Development:
                                                                                                     Ilenia Melis, Lorenzo Nigro             University of Rome                                                                    preservation                                                                                                                                                             dishes\,» and offering stands                                                                                               Giulia Scazzosi                                                          Terekhina, V. A. Agakhanova,      Age Turkmenistan)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The WALADU and EDUU Projects
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Ya. Tirkisheva

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            New Perspectives in the Analysis of
                                                                                                                                             Middle Bronze Age Settlement in the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           What makes a figurine work? A case
                                                   Distribution of Assyrian Ware in the Urban        Laura Zanazzo, Daniele Morandi                                                                                                Underwater Looting Activity in the                                                     La phase islamique de Tell Deinit (Idlib),                                        “Ubaid” Pottery Materials from Southern                                                                                                                     Near Eastern Archaeology at a Cross-     Vitaliya Agakhanova, Anatoliy     Mineral composition of large stone
10:30-11:00     Yifat Thareani                                                                                                               Transtigridian Plains of Northern Iraqi        Konstantinos-Orfeas Sotiriou                                                           Marco Rossi, Giuseppe Minunno                                                       Luca Volpi                                                                         Monique Arntz                    study from the Neolithic site of             Ingolf Thuesen
                                                   Space: A View from the Westland                   Bonacossi                                                                                                                     Aegean and the Ionian Seas                                                             Syrie                                                                             Mesopotamia: Recent Analyses from the                                                                                                                       Road                                     Yuminov                           objects from the Bronze Age Margiana
                                                                                                                                             Kurdistan                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Çatalhöyük (Turkey)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Excavations in Area B, Tell Zurghul (Iraq)

11:00-11:30                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Coffee Break

                                                                                                                                             Middle and Late Bronze pottery                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Continuity or Change? Detecting the                                                                                                                                                                                                    Hidden behind styles and motives - An
                Simone Arnhold, Paata                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Photogrammetry Works at al Madam
                                                                                                                                             distribution in the north-eastern                                                     Multilateral approach for “Archaeology                                                                                                                                   Development of the Ceramic Horizon                                                                                          Carmen del Cerro, Carlos                                                                                   Analysis of Manufacturing Techniques of
11:30-12:00     Bukhrashvili, Zurab                New data of the East Georgian Late Iron Age       Rafał Koliński                                                                         Micheline Kurdy, Thomas Sagory                                                         Meredyth Lynn Winter                   The Excavated Textiles from Rayy             Eloisa Casadei                                                                     Raz Kletter                      Lioness Figurines, Sekhmet, and Leviat                                       (Sharjah, UAE) on 2019 season of         Jonas Kluge
                                                                                                                                             Mesopotamia. Insights from the UGZAR                                                  and heritage of the middle east”                                                                                                                                         Between the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC                                                                                       Fernandez Rodriguez                                                                                        soft-stone vessels on the Oman Peninsula
                Tskvitinidze                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            work
                                                                                                                                             project.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       as Seen from Tell Zurghul/Nigin                                                                                                                                                                                                        from the 3rd to the 1st millennium B.C.

                                                                                                                                             Social Resilience or Cultural Hybridity?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   The benefits of accessible raw
                                                   Assembling Community: Households and                                                                                                                                            DOJAM – A Pilot Project for Sustainable                                                                                                                                  The Third Millennium pottery sequence                                          ‘Signature Strikes’: A study of breakage                                                                                                                The functional variability of the obsidian
                                                                                                                                             Settlement Developments in the Plain of        Hashem Khries, Jutta Häser,                                                            Rocco Rante, Renata Holod, Leslee      An Archaeological Investigation of Rayy                                                                                                                                                                                                       archaeological data: The Case for the
12:00-12:30     Sarit Paz                          Social Collectivity in the Kura-Araxes Village    Cinzia Pappi                                                                                                                  and Protection of the Cultural Heritage of                                                                                          Angelo Di Michele                    from Area B in Tello (Iraq): Persistence,     Nadeshda Bladt Knudsen           patterns in Levantine Early Bronze Age       Ani Eblighatian                                                          Alice Vinet                       toolkit at Çatalhöyük-West and its socio-
                                                                                                                                             Koya (Iraqi-Kurdistan) in the Middle And       Bernard Beitz                                                                          Michaelson                             between Excavation and Archives                                                                                                                                                                                                               Study of Lamps from Antioch-on-the-
                                                   of Kvatskhelebi, Georgia.                                                                                                                                                       Jordan                                                                                                                                                                   changes and evolutions                                                         zoomorphic figurines                                                                                                                                    economic implications
                                                                                                                                             Late Bronze Age                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Orontes excavations (1932-1939)

                                                                                                                                             Insights into the Mardama(n) Countryside                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   For now, it’s just a matter of style:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Ancient maritime trade between Iran and                                           The Pottery of the German Excavations on                                                                                                                                                                                               The Late Chalcolithic of Arslantepe
                                                   The Zahrani Regional Survey. Results of the                                               in the Mittani and Middle Assyrian                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Pilot experimentation as a data collecting                                   Testing ‘Isolation-by-Distance’ on       Daniela Zampetti, Cristina
12:30-13:00     Aaron Schmitt, Helen Gries                                                           Ivana Puljiz                                                                                                                                                                  Hamid Zarei                            India in the Persian Gulf (Ancient Ports     Albert Dietz                         the Southern Mound of Ur. Ur III and Old      Céline Murphy                                                                 Sergio Russo                                                                                               (Eastern Anatolia): A Lithic Perspective
                                                   2017 and 2018 seasons and future plans                                                    Period: Results of the Excavations at                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         method for research on ancient figurines                                     an Ancient Near Eastern pottery          Lemorini, Davide D'Errico
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          of Bushehr Province)                                                              Babylonian Pottery in Context                                                                                                                                                                                                          on the “KUYU” Structures
                                                                                                                                             Muqable                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    case study

                                                                                                    13. Pottery Traditions and Material Culture in 2nd Millennium BC Northern
Workshop (if                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           1. Ceramic Traditions and Cultural Territories: New Research Approaches in          2. Standardizing Creativity. Analytical Tools for the Study of Clay                                                                                    20. “Let the Stone Speak”: Status and Socioeconomic Implications of
                19. The Bronze and Iron Age archaeological landscape of Western Lebanon             Mesopotamia: Contacts and New Horizons in the Land between the Tigris and
 present)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              the Study of the South Mesopotamia Pottery                                   Figurines in the Mediterranean and Near East                                                                                                             Protohistoric Lithic Productions in the Near East
                                                                                                                                     the Zagros

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April 7th (14:00-18:00)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        7th April (14:00-18:00)
                                                      Room A                                                                              Room B                                                                                Room C                                                                               Room D                                                                                   Room E                                                                          Room F                                                                       Room G

        Theme                                      1. Field reports                                                                    1. Field reports                                                              3. Hammering the material world                                                      3. Hammering the material world                                                       3. Hammering the material world                                                       4. Cognitive archaeology                                                       5. Modeling the past

                Author(s)                             Title                                             Author(s)                             Title                                           Author(s)                            Title                                          Author(s)                               Title                                          Author(s)                              Title                                          Author(s)                       Title                                        Author(s)                       Title

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Fill the silos: from grain containers to                                               Tracking the Invisible Commodities of                                                 Intrasite Spatial-Functional Analysis and                                                                                                                   Lithic on the onset of sedentary
                                                                                                                                              Household & Death at LPPNB Baʻja /                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Exchange of skills or skilled exchanges?
                                                      The Mi-Enlil-Arahtum Survey (Iraq). Seasons       Christoph Purschwitz, Marion                                                          Riccardo Laurenza, Raffaella         garbage dumps. Evidences at Tell Barri                                                 Ancient Trade. Biomolecular methods for                                               Changing Social Practices during the                                                                                                                        societies- typo-technological, functional
14:00-14:30     Abbas Al-Hussainy                                                                                                             Jordan. Summary on the 2016-2019                                                                                                    Barbara Huber                                                                          Michael Fisher                                                                        Sara Caramello                  Specialist Gift Exchange in the Ancient      Ofer Marder
                                                      2018-2019                                         Benz, Hans Georg K. Gebel                                                             Pierobon Benoit                      (Syria) between the Sixth and Twelfth                                                  exploring spices, aromatics, and past                                                 Ubaid-Late Chalcolithic 1 Transition at Tell                                                                                                                and chronological perspectives of the
                                                                                                                                              Seasons of Excavations.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Near East during the Late Bronze Age
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   centuries                                                                              smellscapes                                                                           Zeidan, Syria                                                                                                                                               Epipalaeolithic of the Southern Levant

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The 12th/13th Century CE Glazed and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            From the Natufian into the PPNA:
                                                      Excavation report 2017-2019 at the                                                      More than meets the eye: Locating Late                                               Trash or values: the case of the cistern                                               Incised Pottery from Takht-i Suleyman,                                                Pottery making in the Balikh Valley:           Bruce Routledge, Kevin          Lively weapons on land and sea:
14:30-15:00     Enrico Ascalone                                                                         Pascal Flohr                                                                          Carmelo Pappalardo                                                                  Katharina Kuntz                                                                        Giulia Russo                                                                                                                                                       Tobias Richter                  Social and Economic Change at the end
                                                      Monumental Area in Shahr-i Sokhta                                                       Neolithic sites in Jordan                                                            R16B in Umm al-Rasas / Kastron Mefa’a                                                  Iran. An Archaeo-ceramological                                                        preliminary results                            McGeough                        Objectscapes of the Late Bronze Levant
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            of the Pleistocene
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Approach

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Keep on Trash': Dumping materials form                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Absolute chronology of the Natufian in
                                                      Center of the Iranian Plateau during the Early                                          The 2018-2019 Spanish-Italian                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Household Processes and Social Practice
                Babak Rafiei-Alavi, Ali                                                                                                                                                                                            the late Roman to Islamic Period in Jearsh.    Sinem Hacıosmanoğlu, Mustafa            Archaeometric analysis of Late Bronze                                                                                                                                Copper-Based objects in the Jezireh                                          the southern Levant and
                                                      Bronze Age: New Archaeological Research in        Andrea Polcaro, Juan Ramon            Archaeological Campaigns at Jebel al-                                                                                                                                                                                                                             During the Late Ubaid – Late Chalcolithic
15:00-15:30     Shojaee-Esfahani, Yaser                                                                                                                                                       Raffaella Pappalardo                 Analysis, Methodology and Clues form           Kibaroğlu, Ekin Kozal, Hannah           and Iron Age Plain and Drab Ware from          Michael Lewis                                                                         Souheb Talal Razok              during the Third Millennium BC; Types,       Elisabetta Boaretto             synchronization with climatic and
                                                      the Eastern Zone of the Zāyandehrud River         Muniz                                 Mutawwaq: the Early Bronze Age I Site                                                                                                                                                                                                                             1 in the Shahrizor. A Case Study from
                Jebreili, Hadi Alahyari                                                                                                                                                                                            selected contexts of the Late Antique Jerash   Mönninghoff, Joachim Opitz              Sirkeli Höyük (Cilicia, South Anatolia)                                                                                                                              Fabrication Techniques and origins                                           cultural changes: can we increase the
                                                      Basin                                                                                   and the Megalithic Necropolis                                                        Project
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Gurga Chiya
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            time resolution?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Project Uškiani: The importance of                                                    Recent evidence on the Late Chalcolithic
                                                                                                        Elisabetta Gallo, Romel Gharib,       Khirbet al-Batrawy in north-central                                                  Starting from scratch: the use of cisterns                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               To Die Or Not To Die: death and
                                                      The first season of Archaeological Excavation                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Armenian gold for Bronze Age Caucasia-         Sophie Pietsch, Jean-Jacques Herr,     pottery production from Dinka Settlement
15:30-16:00     Lili Niakan, D. Huff                                                                    Licia De Vito, Gaia Cecconi,          Jordan: new discoveries in the Early            Apolline Vernet                      as dumping deposit in cities after the         René Kunze                                                                                                                                                                   Eva Götting                     A Short Typology of Lamaštu Amulets          Fanny Bocquentin                redistribution of social roles in the
                                                      in Ardeshir Khorreh 2005-2006, Fars, Iran                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Provenance studies on prehistoric gold by      Andrea Squitieri, Jens Rohde           Complex and Gird-i Rostam, in the
                                                                                                        Michele De Marco, Lorenzo Nigro       Bronze Age Palace 2018-2020                                                          Islamic conquest in Near East                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Natufian Period
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          using LA-QICP-MS?                                                                     mountain region of Iraqi Kurdistan

16:00-16:30                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Coffee Break

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Ebla and Yamkhad: Evolution of Old
                Carlo G. Cereti, Barbara                                                                                                      Shedding Light on the Urban/Rural Nexus                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Recognizing the Earliest Late Chalcolithic 1                                                                                                                Long-term changes and tipping points.
                                                                                                        Suzanne Richard, Jesse C. Long Jr.,                                                                                        Syrian mountain village houses dumps,                                                  Dendrochronology - Possibilities and                                                                                                                                 Syrian Kingship Ideology through
16:30-17:00     Faticoni, Gianfilippo Terribili,      Paikuli Project: seasons 2018 and 2019                                                  about 2500 BCE: the 2019 Excavations at         François Villeneuve                                                                 Alexander Janus                                                                        Gil Stein                              (LC1) Period Occupations on the Erbil          Paolo Matthiae                                                               Danny Rosenberg                 The Natufian ground stone tool
                                                                                                        Marta D'Andrea                                                                                                             Roman period: Sia                                                                      Limits                                                                                                                                                               Visual Communication in Middle
                Massimiliano Vassalli                                                                                                         Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Plain, Kurdistan Region, Northeast Iraq                                                                                                                     industry and its significance
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Bronze I and II

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Shaping City-Scapes, Controlling Land-
                Mahsa Taheri, Seyedeh Elaheh,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Detecting Archaeological Damage from                                                  The View from the North (Part II). The
                                                                                                                                              Results of the Fieldwork at Tell Bleibil in                                          Finding Meaning in the Medieval Midden:                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Scapes, Creating Territories. Strategies                                     Cereals, nuts, tubers or seeds?
                Ejtahednejad Kashani,                 The Rock Art Of Tole-Sangbor, Fars                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Space using Open Source Satellite Data                                                emergence and spread of the Chaff-Faced-
17:00-17:30                                                                                             Alexander Ahrens                      the Southern Jordan Valley and the Survey       Bethany Walker                       What Ceramic Dumps Reveal about                Hassan el-Hajj                                                                         Chaterine Marro                                                                       Frances Pinnock                 of Territorial Control at Ebla during the    Amaia Arranz-Otaegui            Revisiting the Natufian plant-based
                Mahdiyeh Rezaei, Sima                 Province, Iran                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      and Machine Learning: The Case of the                                                 Ware oikumenè as seen from the Araxes
                                                                                                                                              in the Wadi Shuʿaib, Jordan, 2018–2019                                               Household Consumption                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Mature Early Syrian Period and the Old                                       subsistence
                Khanbanpoor                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Near East                                                                             valley (4900-3500 BC)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Syrian Period

                                                                                                                                                                                              Tomasz Waliszewski, Urszula                                                                                                 The Warka Environs Survey. The use of                                                 Mapping Sprig Ware across Greater                                              The Ebla Region from the Early to the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          UAV 3D Photogrammetry and geographic
                                                                                                                                                                                              Wicenciak, Krzysztof Domżalski,      Late Roman–Byzantine pottery dumped                                                                                                                                          Mesopotamia. A ‘technological Landscape’       Marta D'Andrea, Agnese          Middle Bronze Age: Reading Socio-                                            Ritual traditions and the reconstitution
17:30-18:00                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Jan Hubert, Max Haibt                   information systems for the archaeological     Paola Sconzo, Silvia Amicone                                                                                                                                       Leore Grosman
                                                                                                                                                                                              Ingrid Périssé-Valéro, Marcin        into large water cistern in Chhim, Lebanon                                                                                                                                   Approach to the Production and                 Vacca                           Cultural Changes in Patterns of                                              of Natufian society
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          research in the ancient city of Uruk and its
                                                                                                                                                                                              Wagner, Agnieszka Szulc-Kajak                                                                                                                                                                                     Circulation of Pottery                                                         Settlement and Material Culture
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          environment

Workshop (if                                                                                                                                                                                 8. Tales from the garbage. Excavation, methodology and pottery processing of         7. Scientific Analyses in Archaeological Contexts -Possibilities and Limits in         23. Delineating the End of a World: Chronological Indicators and Material
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        21. The Natufian at 90: Synthesis and Review
 present)                                                                                                                                                                                     the dumping deposits in the Near East from the Roman to the Islamic period                                   Western Asian Archaeology                                      cultural Changes at the end of the Ubaid Period in Greater Mesopotamia

                                                      Room H                                                                              Room L                                                                                Room M                                                                               Room N                                                                                   Room O                                                                          Room P                                                                       Room Q                                                                          Room R

        Theme                                  5. Modeling the past                                                           3. Hammering the material world                                                        7. Endangered cultural heritage                                                          8. Islamic archaeology                                                            3. Hammering the material world                                                    3. Hammering the material world                                                6. Networked archaeology                                                  3. Hammering the material world
                Author(s)                             Title                                             Author(s)                             Title                                           Author(s)                            Title                                          Author(s)                               Title                                          Author(s)                              Title                                          Author(s)                       Title                                        Author(s)                       Title                                       Author(s)                           Title

                                                                                                                                              Pottery Traditions and Material Culture in                                                                                                                                                                                                                        From the 4th Millennium to the 3rd                                                                                                                          CRANE 2.0: Large-Scale Data
                                                      Fragmentation vs unity: A Political history of                                                                                                                               Aleppo before the War. A Project to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Long-term developments in lithic
                                                                                                                                              2nd Millennium BC Northern                                                                                                                                                  Recent Archaeological Research in the                                                 Millennium BC in Southern Mesopotamia.                                         Modes of production and distribution of                                      Analysis and the Reconstruction of
14:00-14:30     Luigi Turri                           Northern Lebanon during the Bronze and Iron       Lisa Doro, Costanza Coppini                                                           Ahmed Fatima Kzzo                    Archive Inscriptions dated to Ottoman          Haeedeh Laleh, Zahra Lorzadeh                                                          Sara Pizzimenti                                                                       Alexander Pruß                                                               Timothy P. Harrison                                                         Flavia Amato                        production in Eastern Georgia: the cases
                                                                                                                                              Mesopotamia: The view from Gir-e                                                                                                                                            Urban Historic Landscape of Nishapur                                                  The Late Uruk-Early Dynastic I Sequence                                        Near Eastern Terracotta figurines                                            Human-Environment Interaction in the
                                                      Ages                                                                                                                                                                         Period in Aleppo Region                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  of Tsiteli Gorebi 5 and Aradetis Orgora
                                                                                                                                              Gomel                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             of Area A at Tell Zurghul/Nigin                                                                                                                             Ancient Near East

                                                                                                                                              Jars and Sherds in the Flux of History:                                                                                                                                     Plants' circulation in the Persian Gulf and                                                                                                                          Detecting Children Agency in
                                                                                                                                                                                              Youssef Kanjou, R. Del Fabbro,       The documentation of archaeological                                                                                                                                          The Old and the New at al-Hiba/Lagash:                                                                                                                      Climate of the Ancient Near East from
                                                      Between Land and Sea: The Chekka Region                                                 Second Millennium BCE Ceramic                                                                                                       Vladimir Dabrowski, Margareta           the Arabian Sea during the Islamic period:                                                                                                                           Coroplastic Production. Guidelines for       Deepak Chandan, Richard                                                     Francesca Manclossi, Steven A.      Adventures in the Flint Trade: Revisiting
14:30-15:00     Karin Kopetzky, Jakob Rom                                                               Ilaria Calini                                                                         M. Al Najjar, M. Fansa, K.           heritage in Aleppo and its hinterland,                                                                                                Steve Renette, Sara Pizzimenti         Exploring the Way Forward for                  Barbara Bolognani                                                                                            the Early Holocene (9000 kya) to the
                                                      in Lebanon                                                                              Assemblages from Qasr Shemamok (Iraqi                                                                                               Tengberg                                new archaeobotanical data from eastern                                                                                                                               the Interpretation of Clay Figurines as      Peltier                                                                     Rosen                               the Tabular Scraper System
                                                                                                                                                                                              Kohlmeyer                            Syria                                                                                                                                                                        Mesopotamian Ceramic Studies                                                                                                                                Middle Holocene (6000 kya)
                                                                                                                                              Kurdistan)                                                                                                                                                                  Arabia                                                                                                                                                               Children’s Entertainment Products

                                                                                                                                              Identity of a countryside. The rural village                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Investigating a lithic production and
                                                      New Discovery of Phoenician Batroun,                                                                                                                                         Digital 3D models of the IS looters’                                                   Crusader Spolia, Muslim Memories: The                                                 ED III/Akkadian Pottery: Chaîne                                                The use of stone molds for terracotta                                        Agent-Based Modelling of Human-             Daniele Moscone, Giacomo
                Jeanine Abdul Massih, Shinichi                                                                                                of Helawa and the settlement of Aliawa in       Juan Aguilar, Ammar Hatem Najm,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               distribution network: the case of
15:00-15:30                                           northern Lebanon: Iron Age-Persian Period         Valentina Oselini                                                                                                          tunnels under the Nebi Yunus Mosque,           Hana Taragan                            Case of the Turbat al-Kubakiyya's Façade       Marta Zingale, Licia Romano            opératoire and behavioural sequence as         Adi Erlich                      figurines and lamps in Late Roman            Lynn Welton                     Climate Interactions in the Ancient         Eramo, Ignazio Allegretta,
                Nishiyama                                                                                                                     the 2nd millennium BC: pottery and              Stéphane Bordas                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Canaanean blades from the Northern Iraqi
                                                      occupations                                                                                                                                                                  Mosul and their informative potential                                                  (688/1289) in Jerusalem                                                               seen from Abu Tbeirah’s Evidence                                               Palestine                                                                    Near East                                   Cecilia Conati Barbaro
                                                                                                                                              contexts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Kurdistan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Dragons Castle, Seldjuk palace or                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Metalworking at Arslantepe village VI
                                                                                                                                                                                              Yalda Razmahang, Tobin Hartnerll,                                                                                                                                                                                 Ceramic Traditions of Southern                                                 There’s a Figurine at Bottom of the Sea:                                     Resolving Timescale and Multi-Year
                                                      A view from the coast: The Kubba Coastal                                                2nd Millennium BC Pottery Material from                                              AI as a tool for documenting cultural                                                  landlords fortress? - The bathing complex                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Antonella De Angelis, Cristina      B2 (EBA): preliminary data from a use-
15:30-16:00     Jennie Bradbury                                                                         Juliette Mas                                                                          Mohammed Dler, Adam Azad                                                            Jasmin Peschke                                                                         Jacopo Bruno                           Mesopotamia: some Thoughts on the              Meir Edrey                      Methodological Approaches to Dealing         Sturt Manning                   Human-Scale Climate Impacts in the
                                                      Survey Project, 2016-2019                                                               Bash Tapa (Kurdistan Region of Iraq)                                                 heritage at risk: the case of Ashur, Iraq                                              from Bybassos between Islamic and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Lemorini                            wear and residues approach on macro-
                                                                                                                                                                                              Tawfeeq                                                                                                                                                                                                           Ceramic Assemblages of Tell Baqarat 7-8                                        with Terracottas found Underwater                                            East Mediterranean
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Byzantine tradition                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               lithic tools

16:00-16:30                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Coffee Break

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Graham Philip, Lucie
                                                      The Archaeological landscape of the inner                                                                                                                                    Endangered archaeology and remote                                                                                                                                            (Nothing but) Vessels: Chronology and                                          Integrated digital and analytical            Johnson, Lynn Welton,                                                                                           The role of flint tools on the manufacture
                                                                                                                                              The Second Millennium BC Ceramic                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Isotopic Research as a Tool for
                                                      region of Koura: a preliminary overview of        Glenn M. Schwartz, Casey                                                                                                   sensing in Palestine: disturbances and                                                 Between Tradition and Innovation: the Art                                             Specificities of the Early Dynastic III and    Valentina Vassallo, Sorin       approaches to the study of dispersed         Khaled el-Bashaireh, Abdulla                                                Giacoma Petrullo, Francesca         of bone objects: an interdisciplinary
16:30-17:00     Marco Iamoni, May Haider                                                                                                      Sequence from Kurd Qaburstan on the             Pierfrancesco Izzo                                                                  Ana Marija Grbanovic                                                                   Melania Zingarello                                                                                                                                                                                 Reconstructing Human-Environment
                                                      the Bronze and Iron Age settlements and the       Haughin                                                                                                                    threats in Salfit and Southern Nablus                                                  of Ilkhanid Stucco Revetment in Iran                                                  Akkadian Pottery in Southern                   Hermon                          clay figurines collections. The Ayia Irini   Al-Shorman, Janet                                                           Manclossi                           approach applied to the Chalcolithic site
                                                                                                                                              Erbil Plain                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Interaction in the Near East
                                                      local ceramic traditions                                                                                                                                                     Governorate                                                                                                                                                                  Mesopotamia                                                                    assemblage as a case-study                   Montgomery, Geoff Nowell,                                                                                       of Teleilat Ghassul, Southern Levant
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Darren Gröcke

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Defining the Early Bronze IV Pottery                                           From the chemical composition of clay
                                                      Pottery from the Lebanese-German survey of                                                                                                                                   Medieval urban sites of Northern Iraq in                                               The Rural Ceramic Traditions of Middle                                                                                                                                                                            Katleen Deckers, M. De          Vegetation Reconstruction in the                                                A Stone Bead Production Complex from
                                                                                                                                              Tell Shemshara - the early 2nd Mill.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Assemblage in Southern Mesopotamia and         Marianna Castiglione, Ida       to the performance of rituals. The case                                                                                  Florine Marchand, Aurore
17:00-17:30     Hanan Charaf, Anis Chaaya             the Akkar Plain: the Late Bronze and Iron         Costanza Coppini, Jesper Eidem                                                        Lenka Starkova                       the sphere of archaeological remote            Kyra Kaercher                           Islamic Western Asia: A Globalized             Eleonora Mariani                                                                                                                                                   Gruchy, S. Riehl, V.            CLaSS (Climate, Landscape, Settlement                                           the beginning of the Indus Civilization at
                                                                                                                                              Sequence                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          the Akkadian Settlement Patterns in the        Oggiano                         of the figurines from the Phoenician cult                                                                                Didier, David Sarmiento-Castillo
                                                      Ages                                                                                                                                                                         sensing (ARS)                                                                          World Economy?                                                                                                                                                                                                    Tumolo, D. Lawrence             and Society) Project                                                            Chanhu-daro (Sindh, Pakistan)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                QADIS Survey Project                                                           place of Kharayeb (Lebanon)

                                                                                                                                                                                              Mohammad Ebrahim Zarei,              Investigation the cause or causes of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Backed bladelets and tanged points at
                                                      Akkar Survey Project 2018 in a foothill area                                            Social and political changes in the 2nd                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Intensive Survey Strategies and its                                                                                                                         Conceive a new dimension of                 Maria Pia Maiorano, Gregor
                                                                                                                                                                                              Alexandre Tourovets, Mohammad        damages seen on the Pithos Burials in                                                  Timurid imitations of Chinese porcelain in                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Sharbithat SHA-10 (Dhofar, Sultanate of
17:30-18:00     Zuzanna Wygnańska                     of Akkar province, Lebanon: on the trail of       Simone Mühl                           millennium BCE occupation at Gird-i                                                                                                 Valentina Bruccoleri, Jacopo Bruno                                                     Stephanie Rost, Angelo Di Michele      potential to Inform Ceramic Chronology of      Jaimee Uhlenbrock               Studying Greek terracottas. What’s new.      Jacopo Monastero                documentation. 3D data management at        Marchand, Jérémie Vosges,
                                                                                                                                                                                              Masoumian, Hamid Ganjaeian,          Marivan Province, Iran through remote-                                                 Turkmenistan                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Oman): technological issues and
                                                      eluding Bronze and Iron Ages                                                            Shamlu, Iraqi Kurdistan                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           the Umma Region (South Iraq)                                                                                                                                Karkemish                                   Vincent Charpentier
                                                                                                                                                                                              Mozhgan Seif Panahi                  sensing technology                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       chronological implications

                                                                                                       13. Pottery Traditions and Material Culture in 2nd Millennium BC Northern
Workshop (if                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             1. Ceramic Traditions and Cultural Territories: New Research Approaches in             2. Standardizing Creativity. Analytical Tools for the Study of Clay         9. CRANE 2.0: Large-Scale Data Analysis and the Reconstruction of            20. “Let the Stone Speak”: Status and Socioeconomic Implications of
                19. The Bronze and Iron Age archaeological landscape of Western Lebanon                Mesopotamia: Contacts and New Horizons in the Land between the Tigris and
 present)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                the Study of the South Mesopotamia Pottery                                      Figurines in the Mediterranean and Near East                            Human-Environment Interaction in the Ancient Near East                             Protohistoric Lithic Productions in the Near East
                                                                                                                                        the Zagros

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April  8th  (9:00-13:15)
                                                                                                                                                                                         8th April (9:00-13:15)
                                                      Room A                                                                            Room B                                                                         Room C                                                                             Room D                                                                         Room F                                                                      Room G                                                                     Room H

       Theme                                     1. Field reports                                                                   1. Field reports                                                          2. Environmental archaeology                                                      2. Environmental archaeology                                                     4. Cognitive archaeology                                                 3. Hammering the material world                                                5. Modeling the past
               Author(s)                               Title                                           Author(s)                        Title                                         Author(s)                        Title                                            Author(s)                            Title                                         Author(s)                     Title                                        Author(s)                      Title                                       Author(s)                    Title

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Shades of grey: mineralogical and
               Mojgan Shafiee, Michele Casanova,       Recent Archaeological Project of Orzu'iyeh                                       An Assyrian Border City in the Shahrizor                                       Archaeobotanical approaches to the study of                                                                                                                       Buried in the Senses: GIS and the                                                                                                                    Neolithic Earthen Architecture in the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Agata Maria Catena                                                         Moein Eslami, Sharareh         geochemical analysis of Grey wares of
 9:00-9:30     Hekmat Molasalehi, Nasir                valley: Excavations at Tepe Vakilabad,          Shin'ichi Nishiyama              Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: Yasin Tepe            Lucas Proctor                    fuel use practices in Northern Mesopotamia                                                                                                                        Phenomenology of Funerary Practice in                                                                                   Marta Lorenzon               Eastern Mediterranean: a community of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Calabrese                                                                  Farokhnia                      Iron age central Iran from Qeytarieh
               Eskandari                               Kerman, South-East Iran                                                          Archaeological Project, 2016-2019                                              during the Chalcolithic and Iron Ages                                                                                                                             EBA North Mesopotamia                                                                                                                                knowledge and a community of practice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     cemetery

               Marjan Mashkour, H. Davoudi, M.
                                                                                                                                        The Erbil Citadel ceramic corpus: A                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Omri Yagel, Shirly Ben-
               Djamali, S. Shidrang, F. Biglari, M.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  An Experimental Firing Study of Clay and
                                                       Sounding of Tepe Ghazanchi, a PPN site near     Luca Colliva, Serenella          preliminary analysis of main productions      Andrea Orendi, Aharon Tavger,    Agricultural resources of Iron Age Judah: The                                                                                                                     MBA Funerary Enclosures: Life, Death         Tatsundo Koizumi, Hitoshi                                                  Dor Evian, Yehudit      After the empire: New Finds on Egypt’s
 9:30-10:00    Tengberg, M. Orange, M. Rahmati,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Holly Winter                                                                                              Pigments that Replicate those found in
                                                       Kermanshah (Iran)                               Mancini                          and their relationships with archaeological   Itzhaq Shai                      archaeobotanical material from Tel Burna                                                                                                                          and Rulership in MBA Canaan                  Ojima, Yuji Sogabe                                                         Harlavan, Hadas Seri,   Copper Supply during the 21st Dynasty
               B. Moradi, S. Doost, R. Khazaeli,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Ubaid to Late Chalcolithic Artefacts
                                                                                                                                        stratigraphy                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Erez Ben-Yosef
               H. Fathi, Z. Fathi

                                                                                                                                        The Italian Archaeological Expedition in                                                                                                                             Early Bronze Age in South-Eastern                                                                                                                                                                                                For the Typology and Comparative Study
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         (Re)constructing a space for the dead: new
                                                       Excavation at Gheshlagh chel Amiran in 5th                                       the Erbil Plain (Kurdistan Region of Iraq).                                    The role of Heavy Residue data analysis in                                            Arabia. The formation of complex social                                                                                  Claudio Giardino, Carlo        The earliest copper smelting activity in                                 of Middle Bronze Age Silver Vessels:
10:00-10:30    Mahnaz Sharifi                                                                          Luca Peyronel                                                                  Karolina Joka                                                                     Maurizio Cattani                                                                   Giulia Ragazzon               evidence on burial practices from                                                                                       Marina Puturidze
                                                       millenium BC                                                                     A Summary of four seasons of                                                   unravelling Çatalhöyük past                                                           and economic structure according the                                                                                     Bottaini, Conrad Schmidt       Southeastern Arabia                                                      View From the South Caucasus and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Southern Mesopotamia
                                                                                                                                        excavations at Helawa (2016-2019)                                                                                                                                    archaeological evidence of coastal region                                                                                                                                                                                        Beyond South

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             How easy is it to say dolphin? An                                                                                                                       Spatiotemporal patterns of copper supply                                 New evidence for copper trade between
                                                       Early Prehistoric occupations and settling                                       Water, Gods, and Kings. The Discovery
               Bogdana Milić, Barbara Horejs,                                                          Daniele Morandi Bonacossi,                                                     Marco Nicolì, Felix Höflmayer,   Agricultural setting at the Bronze Age city of   Elena Maini, Matteo Bormetti,        analytical protocol to define cetacean taxa                                 Networks of knowledge in the Neolithic                                      networks in Anatolia and Northern                                        Egypt and the Levant in the Third
10:30-11:00                                            patterns in the Sirvan and Chardavol Valley                                      of the Assyrian Canal and Rock Reliefs in                                                                                                                                                                          Amy Richardson                                                             Martina Massimino                                                          Massimiliano Nuzzolo
               Lily Niakan                                                                             Hasan Ahmed Qasim                                                              Katharina Streit, Simone Riehl   Tel Lachish                                      Youri van den Hurk                   and their importance for the prehistoric                                    Zagros                                                                      Mesopotamia during the Late Chalcolithic                                 Millennium BC. The Palermo Stone in
                                                       of the Central Zagros, Iran                                                      Faida (Kurdistan Region of Iraq)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             communities of coastal Oman                                                                                                                             and Early Bronze Age                                                     context

Workshop (if
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           12. The Archaeology of Oman and UAE
 present)

11:00-11:30                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Coffee Break

                                                      Room L                                                                           Room M                                                                          Room N                                                                             Room O                                                                         Room P                                                                      Room Q                                                                     Room R

       Theme                                  5. Modeling the past                                                           7. Endangered cultural heritage                                                     8. Islamic archaeology                                                        3. Hammering the material world                                                   4. Cognitive archaeology                                                 3. Hammering the material world                                                    1. Field reports
               Author(s)                               Title                                           Author(s)                        Title                                         Author(s)                        Title                                            Author(s)                            Title                                         Author(s)                     Title                                        Author(s)                      Title                                       Author(s)                    Title

                                                                                                       Daria Montanari, Mohammed
                                                                                                       Ghayyada, Gaia Cecconi,          Bethlehem. Sapienza University of Rome                                         What were the earliest dome chambers in                                                                                             Niloofar Ehteshami, Leila     The Iconology of Horse in Late Sasanian                                                                                                              Tel Esur: Summary of Ten Seasons of
                                                       Technology as magic and vice versa in the
 9:00-9:30     Milena Gošić                                                                            Alessandra Guari,                and Palestinian Ministry of Tourism &         Lorenz Korn                      Iranian mosques? An Archaeological               Marina Pucci                         Neo-Assyrians in the Amuq                     Khosravi, Mehdi Mousavi       Stuccos from Jahāngir Site, Ilām                                                                                        Bar Shay                     Excavations and a long-lasting
                                                       late prehistory of the Levant
                                                                                                       Pierfrancesco Izzo, Iman Z.      Antiquities rescue excavations 2015-2020                                       Perspective                                                                                                                         Kouhpar                       Province, Iran                                                                                                                                       Community Archaeology Project
                                                                                                       Titi, Lorenzo Nigro

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Ianir Milevski, M.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         From the Realm of the Villagers to the                                                                                  Czarnowicz, A. Ochał-
               Marion Benz, Joachim Bauer,             Creating Relations – Investigating the social                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Glocalization, Power and Resistance: the                                 Tel Erani: The Early Bronze IB defensive
                                                                                                                                        Rethinking the Excavation : Tell Barri                                         Zone of Transition in Seljuq Dome Chambers                                            3rd millennium BC bituminous stone            Aydin Abar, Natascha          Realm of the Numinous: Religious                                                                                        Czarnowicz, J. Karmowski,
 9:30-10:00    Christoph Purschwitz, Hans Georg        impact of symbols in LPPNB burial rituals of    Raffaella Pierobon Benoit                                                      Behruz Omrani                                                                     Emilie Badel                                                                                                                                                  Mariacarmela Montesanto        Late Bronze Age (LBA) in the Northern                                    walls and the early urbanization in
                                                                                                                                        (Syria) in the light of new studies                                            of Iran                                                                               industry at Susa, Khuzistan                   Bagherpour, Thomas Stöllner   Practice in Rural Late Iron Age to                                                                                      Y. Yekutieli, E. Cohen-
               K. Gebel                                the southern Levant                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Levant: a pottery perspective               Sasson, M. Campagno and      southwestern Canaan
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Sasanian Central Iranian Highlands
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 D. Yegorov

                                                       Ritual Complexes along Main Roads in                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Technological analysis of the pottery in
                                                                                                                                        Gone with the Water: Flooded heritage
                                                       Judaea Subsequent to the Bar Kokhba Revolt:                                                                                    Amin Moradi, Marco G.            The Mausoleum of Ali-Shah: Fifty Years of                                             Red Slip pottery from Zincirli: connecting                                  A Meaningful Landscape? The Sanctuary                                       the Dinka Settlement Complex (Iraqi                                      A Middle Bronze II cemetery in the heart
10:00-10:30    Orit Peleg-Barkat                                                                       Jesper Eidem                     and second-phase salvage in the Middle                                                                                          Sebastiano Soldi                                                                   Francesca Giusto                                                           Jean-Jacques Herr                                                          Amir Gorzalczany
                                                       A Means for Demonstrating New Roman                                                                                            Brambilla                        Misunderstanding                                                                      Syria and Anatolia in the Iron Age                                          of Shami and Its Setting                                                    Kurdistan) for the late second Millennium                                of Tel Aviv
                                                                                                                                        East
                                                       Control? Horvat Midras as a Test Case                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         and the early first Millennium BC

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Provincial Clays, Imperial Pots?                                                                                                                        Assyrians in the Land of Nineveh: a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Hidemasa Hashimoto,
                                                       Cultic architecture in the 1st millennium BCE                                    Surveying and excavating after the war:                                                                                                                              Production, Distribution and                                                Surkh Dum-i Luri Temple and its                                             preliminary overview on settlement
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Takuzo Onozuka,              Excavation at lower shelf of Tel Rekhesh
10:30-11:00    Sebastiano Lora                         at Taymāʾ (NW Arabia): a comparative            Mathilde Mura                    methodological and ethical questions for      Sandra Aube                      Ceramic tile decoration in 15th-century Tabriz   Liora Bouzaglou                      Consumption of Assyrian-style Ceramics        Maryam Dowlati                Assignment to the Native Gods of             Katia Gavagnin                 patterns and an analysis of pottery
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Hisao Kuwabara,              2006-2010, 2019
                                                       approach.                                                                        the future                                                                                                                                                           in the Southern Levant (8th – 7th centuries                                 Luristan                                                                    collected among the Land of Nineveh
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Shuichi Hasegawa
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             BCE)                                                                                                                                                    Archaeological Project in Iraqi Kurdistan

Workshop (if
 present)

11:00-11:30                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Coffee Break

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Plenary session 11:30-13:15 (Chair: Nicolò Marchetti)
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Presentations (10 mins.) by the Directors General, countries are listed in geographical order from North to South along an East-West axis

                                                                                                                                                                              TURKEY: Yahya Coşkun - Deputy Director General of the Directorate General for Cultural                            IRAN: Behrouz Omrani - Chairman of the Research Institute for Cultural Heritage and
                                                                                                                                                                                 Heritage and Museums, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ankara (representing Gökhan Yazgı,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Tourism, RICHT, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, Teheran
                                                                                                                                                                                 Director General)

                                                                                                                                                                              IRAQ: Laith Hussein - Chairman of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, SBAH,                        Kurdistan Regional Government, IRAQ: Kaifi Mustafa Ali - Director General of
                                                                                                                                                                                 Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Baghdad                                                            Antiquity, Erbil

                                                                                                                                                                              SYRIA: Lina Kutiefan - Director of the World Heritage Sites Management, Directorate                               CYPRUS: Marina Solomidou-Ieronymidou - Director of the Department of Antiquities,
                                                                                                                                                                                 General of Antiquities & Museums, DGAM, Damascus (representing Nazir Awad - Director
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Ministry of Transport, Communication and Works, Nicosia
                                                                                                                                                                                 General, DGAM)

                                                                                                                                                                              LEBANON: Sarkis Khoury - Director General of the Directorate General of Antiquities,                              PALESTINIAN NATIONAL AUTHORITY: Jehad Yasin - Director General of the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, DACH, Ministry of Tourism and
                                                                                                                                                                                 DGA, Ministry of Culture, Beirut
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Antiquities, Ramallah

                                                                                                                                                                              JORDAN: Ahmad Jum'a Al-Shami - Director General of the Department of Antiquities,                                 EGYPT: Moamen Othman - Head of the Museums Sector, Supreme Council of Antiquities,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  SCA, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Cairo (representing Mostafa Waziry, Secretary
                                                                                                                                                                                 Ministry of Culture, Amman
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  General, SCA)

                                                                                                                                                                              SAUDI ARABIA: Abdullah Al-Zahrani - Director General of Archaeological researches                                 OMAN: Sultan Saif Al-Bakri - Director General for Archaeology, Ministry of Heritage and
                                                                                                                                                                                 and studies, Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, SCTH, Ministry of Tourism,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Culture, Muscat
                                                                                                                                                                                 Riyadh

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