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An integration of use-wear and residues analysis for the identification of the function of archaeological stone tools
International Workshop , “Sapienza” University of Rome,
5th – 7th March 2012

    WORKSHOP PROGRAM

    See pdf version of Workshop Flyer and Program

      March 5th, 2012

      Sala Odeion, “Sapienza” University, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5 (00185) Rome
      at the Museo dell’arte Classica (see map of University grounds)

        9:00 - 10:00  Welcome

      10:00 - 10:30  Coffee break

      10:30    Usewear and residues: confrontation, confusion and reconciliation.
      Richard L. K. Fullagar (Abstract)

      11:30    Integrating residues analysis to the use-wear study of macrolithic tools : goals, technics and limits of interpretation.   
      Caroline Hamon   (Abstract)

      12:00 - 14:00    Lunch & Poster Section



      14:00    Use-wear and residue analysis of chimpanzee pounding tools: a contribution to primate archaeology.
      M. Haslam, A. Crowther,S. Carvalho, T. Matsuzawa         (Abstract)

      14:30   Technical microwear and residues in identifying bipolar knapping on an anvil. Vergès J.M. & Ollé   (Abstract)

      15:00   Usewear and residues on flake platforms: stone tools and tool edges from northern Australia and Timor.
      Elspeth Hayes and Richard Fullagar   (Abstract)

      15:30 - 16:00   Tea break

      16:00    In The Groove: The application of biochemical staining and digital microscopy to overcome methodological constraints associated with quantitative assessments of grindstone function.
      Birgitta Stephenson and Gail Robertson   (Abstract)

      16:30 - 18:00 Discussion

      March 6th, 2012


      Sala Pentagono, CNR, Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 (00185) Rome (see map)

        9:30    Use-trace research design: tackling the bigger questions.
      Marlize Lombard   (Abstract)

      10:30    Use-wear, Residues, Quantification, and Blind-testing: Assembling the Jigsaw of Functional Analysis.
      Adrian A. Evans   (Abstract)

      11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

      11:30    The Impact of Post-Depositional Processes on Use-Wear and Residues.
      Randolph E. Donahue   (Abstract)

      12:00    New clues on the use of microliths in the eastern Alpine region between the Late Mesolithic and the Early Neolithic. The integration of use-wear and residues analyses on the trapezes from RiparoGaban (Trento, Italy).
      Emanuela Cristiani , Stefano Gialanella, Annaluisa Pedrotti   (Abstract)

      12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

      13:30    A weird residue. Microorganisms analysis on lithic tools and its ecological implication: a Mesolithic case study from south eastern Sicily.
      Aranguren B.M.1 , Gatti A.M. , Iovino M.R. , Revedin A.   (Abstract)

      14:00    Residue and ritual: detecting ochre on Neolithic and Bronze Age stone objects from the Lower Rhine Basin.
      Annelou van Gijn   (Abstract)

      14:30    Analyses of working traces and working residues on different metalworking stonetools.
      Mireia Ache, Selina Delgado-Raack, Katja Martin and Roberto Risch   (Abstract)

      15:00 - 15:30 Tea break

      15:30    An integrated techno-functional and residues approach to the study of Late Mesolithic Body Costumes: Burials U2 and U297 at Vlasac (Danube Gorges, Serbia).
      Cristiani E.& Boric D.   (Abstract)

      16:00    Ethnoarchaeology and residues in bone tools from Tierra del Fuego (Argentina).
      D. Zurro, I. Briz & M. Álvarez   (Abstract)

      16:30 – 18:00 Discussion

      March, 7th

      Sala Pentagono , CNR (see map)

        9:30    The function of prehistoric lithic tools: a combined study of use-wear analysis and FTIR microspectroscopy. Results and open problems.
      Cristina Lemorini, Stella Nunziante Cesaro, Natalia Skakun, and Avi Gopher   (Abstract)

      10:00   Statistical approach for the infrared spectra deconvolution of residues on lithic tools: principal component analysis (PCA) for the functional analysis of the archaeological implements.
      Alessandro Nucara and Paola Maselli   (Abstract)

      10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

      11:00    Improved Molecular and biochemical approaches to Residue Analysis.
      Carney Matheson and Margaret-Ashley Veall   (Abstract)

      11:30    Plantrole in Paleonutritional Reassessment.
      Laura Longo   (Abstract)

      12:00   Residue and Use-Wear Analysis to Test Archaeological Assumption: case studies from Australia and Libya.
      Kate Connell   (Abstract)

      13:30 - 14:30 Lunch

      14:30 - 15:30 Discussion

      15:30 Tour

      See pdf version of Workshop Flyer and Program

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      Map of University grounds

      How to get to CNR Sala Pentagono







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