IMAA 2023 Timetable
Saturday April 1st
08.45-09.10 Registration
09.10-09.15 Welcome from Rowena Banerjea
Oral presentations: Rewilding and Conservation
Chair Wendy Matthews
09.15-09.30 Martin Bell, University of Reading, UK
‘The contribution of Estuarine archaeology to rewilding debates’
09.30-09.45 Cathie Barnett, Stantec and University of Reading, UK
‘As the levels rise: challenges and opportunities for furthering conservation and archaeological agendas through a managed coastal retreat scheme at Benacre, Suffolk’
09.45-10.00 Rob Batchelor, University of Reading, UK
‘The history of yew woodland within coastal wetlands; implications for future conservation and management of the species’
10.00-10.15 Tina Roushannafas, Oxford Archaeology, UK
‘‘Rewilding’ Later Prehistory: Finding a niche for Environmental Archaeology in the Anthropocene’
10.15-10.35 Questions
Coffee break and book sale 10.35-11.05
Oral presentations: Archaeobotany of the Islamic West
Chair Cathie Barnett
11.05-11.20 Rowena Banerjea, University of Reading, UK
‘Fumier deposits in medieval Cártama (Spain)?’
11.20-11.35 Jerome Ros, CNRS, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution – Montpellier, France
‘Exploring medieval agriculture and food production in mainland and island Spain: recent archaeobotanical contribution’
11.35-11.50 Ruth Pelling, Historic England, UCL, UK
‘Food from the desert: provisional archaeobotanical results from Islamic farming settlements in the Wadi Draa, Morocco’
Oral presentations: Science communication: knowledge exchange
Chair Rowena Banerjea
11.50-12.05 Irene Torreggiani, University of Oxford, UK
‘The Pollen Atlas Project: reconstructing 1200 yr of climatic change through the creation of the first palynological atlas of Nicaragua’
12.05-12.20 Emma Karoune, Historic England and The Alan Turing Institute, UK
‘Communicating phytolith data transparently and reproducibility using the FAIR data principles’
12.20-12.50 Questions and introduction to Posters and Microscopy Materials
12.50-14.00 Lunch & Posters, book sale
Poster session
14.00-15.30 Microscopy session in Allen G08
Coffee available in Sorby Room 15.30-16.00
16.00-17.00 Discussion session in Allen 110: How do we find and preserve archaeobotanical reference collections – physical and digital?
(Chaired by Emma Karoune and Sarah Elliot)
16.00-17.30 Microscopy session in Allen G08
17.30 Drinks reception in Archaeology Atrium
Poster session
19.00 Workshop meal
Sunday April 2nd
Oral presentations: Sustainable Uses of Plants
Chair Hester Crothers
09.45-10.00 Wendy Matthews, University of Reading, UK
‘Sustainable plant management and use: examples from early agricultural and urban communities in the Zagros and Mesopotamia’
10.00-10.15 Aroa Garcia-Suarez
‘Fire and dung: sustainable use of plants in a Neolithic pastoral campsite at Pınarbaşı, Central Anatolia’
Oral presentation: Archaeo- and Paleobotanical Approaches to Tropical Agriculture
Chair Hester Crothers
10.15-10.30 Josie Handley, University of Reading, UK
‘Towards a better understanding of the resilience of pre-Hispanic traditional agriculture to climate change in the Peruvian Andes’
10.30-10.45 Questions
Coffee break 10.45-11.00
Oral presentation: Innovation in microanalysis, taphonomy and identification
Chair Kate Dudegon
11.00-11.15 Greta Brancaleoni, Institute of Geological Sciences, Poland
‘The Obishir5: A rock shelter site bearing traces of human related activities connected with pastoralism in Kyrgyzstan’
11.15-11.30 Sarah Lo Russo, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
‘Up-dating floor deposits: An interdisciplinary study of floor deposits in the medieval site of DIVA (Antwerp, Belgium)’
11.30-12.00 Questions
12.00-13.00 Discussion session in Allen 110: Phytolith Analysis and Fluorescence Microscopy
(Chaired by Luc Vrydaghs, Yannick Devos and Martin Hodson)
12.00-13.00 Microscopy session in Allen G08
13.00-14.00 Lunch & Posters
Poster session
14.00-15.00 Discussion session in Sorby Room: Communicating Archaeo- and Palaeobotanical Data in Public Archaeology
(Chaired by Rowena Banerjea and Paul Flintoft)