G13 - The Spread of Farming and Herding in Different Parts of the Globe

Session Organisers: Joaquim Fort

Category: Domestication / Subsistence Economy

Session Abstract: This session is devoted to analyzing the spread of farming and herding in different regions of the Earth. We have two main aims. The first one is to cover specific case studies, from several world areas. The second aim is to pave the ground in order to perform comparisons between different regions from several perspectives, not only in this session but also in future work. Qualitative descriptions are welcome, based both on specialized and interdisciplinary approaches. Quantitative estimations will be also addressed, for those regions where they are possible by the data available at present. Among others, quantitative estimations may refer to spread rates, the relative effects of demic and cultural diffusion, interactions between farmers/herders and hunter-gatherers, genetic clines, genomic results, linguistic inferences, etc.

Room: C

07/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
10:00 - 10:15	Joaquim Fort	Introduction
10:15 - 10:30	João Zilhão	The emergence of farming communities in westernmost Eurasia: New evidence from central Portugal
10:30 - 10:45	Oreto García-Puchol, Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, Joan Bernabeu Aubán, María Barrera-Cruz	Modeling neolithic demographic transition at the Western Mediterranean by coupling radiocarbon dates, settlement and cultural data
10:45 - 11:00	Marta Fitula	Eastern Sicily environment and Neolithic strategies
11:00 - 11:15	Angelo Vintaloro	The arrival of the Neolithic in Sicily and in the western Mediterranean

Lunch Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:15	Stephen Shennan, Simon Carrignon, Enrico Crema, Anne Kandler	Post-marital residence rules and transmission pathways in cultural hitchhiking during demographic dispersal
13:15 - 13:30	Juan José Ibáñez, Fiona Pichon, Bogdana Miliç, Luis Teira	The spread of ideas, objects and people as a key factor for the coalescence of the Neolithic in South West Asia.
13:30 - 13:45	Graeme Sarson, Kavita Gangal, Anvar Shukurov	The Near-Eastern Roots of the Neolithic in South Asia
13:45 - 14:00	Christopher Edens	Emergence of food production in southwest Arabia
14:00 - 14:15	Maria Guagnin, Alexander Wasse	Neolithic Neighbours – Populations Dynamics and Material Culture in Northern Arabia and the Jordanian Badia

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:00	Mathias Currat, Alexandros Tsoupas	Modelling population dynamics on the continental route of the European Neolithic expansion
15:00 - 15:15	Alan H. Simmons	The Neolithic on Water: Neolithic Seafarers and the Colonization of Cyprus
15:15 - 15:30	Joaquim Soler, Alejandro Sierra, Lídia Colominas, Isaac Rufí, Helena Ventura, Narcís Soler, Maria Saña	Reevaluating the Neolithic of the Margins: The Case of the Western Sahara
15:30 - 15:45	Tristan Carter, Rose Moir	The Appropriation of Hunter-Gatherer Sacred Landscapes as a Mode of Neolithisation: The Late Mesolithic – Early Neolithic Transition at Freston, Eastern England
15:45 - 16:00	Marco Merlini	Semi-Domestication of Deer. Exploring Post-Paleolithic Rock Art

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
16:30 - 16:45	Menghan Zhang, Sizhe Yang	Inferring language dispersal patterns with velocity field estimation
16:45 - 17:00	Søren Wichmann	Climate-induced language spread in Africa, Eurasia, and South America: farming is not the whole story
17:00 - 17:15	Lasse Vilien Sørensen	Hubs of farming - modeling the spread of agriculture in South Scandinavia during the first half of the 4th millennium BC
17:15 - 17:30	Niels N. Johannsen	Niche construction: A general, comparative framework for studying neolithization processes?
17:30 - 17:45	Konstantina Saliari, Vlatka Cubric-Curik, Ino Curik, Preston T. Miracle, Eva Lenneis, Erich Draganits, Erich Pucher	Archaeozoological analysis of cattle and aurochs in Neolithic Austria
17:45 - 18:00	Hugo Rafael Oliveira, Bernardo Ordás López, Rui Machado	Sowing one’s wild oats: the domestication and spread of oat cultivation in Europe.