| Start Time - End Time | Authors | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Ian Kuijt, John Magnussen, James Fraser | I Live, I Die, I Live Again: Ritual heirlooms and the life history of Near Eastern Neolithic plastered skulls |
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Ergül Kodaş | Re -examination of the concept of ‘skull cult’ of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period in the Near East through spatial and burial context: Archaeological data and anthropological approach |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Cansu Karamurat, Çiğdem Atakuman | Palaeolithic origins of Southwest Asian Skull Cults |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Youssef Kanjou | The Treatment of Skulls in the Neolithic Period at Tell Qaramel, Northern Syria |
| Start Time - End Time | Authors | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 14:45 - 15:05 | Silvia M. Bello | The archaeology of death: a review of the taphonomic traits associated with the manipulation and butchery of human bodies. |
| 15:05 - 15:25 | Yılmaz Selim Erdal | Extensive Incisions and Delayed Burials in the Early Neolithic Settlements of Middle Euphrates |
| 15:25 - 15:45 | Gresky Julia, Clare Lee, Necmi Karul | Intentional Modifications of the Human Bone Fragments from Göbekli Tepe |
| 15:45 - 16:05 | Vassil Nikolov, Desislava Takorova, Kathleen Mcsweeney, Nadezhda Atanassova, Todor Dyakov | The Lives of the Dead: Treating dead bodies during the Neolithic in the Central Balkans - a case study from the Sofia plain |
| Start Time - End Time | Authors | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Scott Donald Haddow | Disassembling the dead: making sense of human skeletal remains in “non-funerary” contexts at Neolithic Çatalhöyük |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Marco Milella, Rafael M. Martínez-Sánchez, Juan Carlos Vera Rodríguez, Juan Antonio Cámara Serrano, María José Martínez Fernández, María Dolores Bretones García, Sylvia Alejandra Jiménez Brobeil, Julia Brünig, Inmaculada López Flores, Zita Laffranchi | As above, so below: deposition, modification, and reutilization of human remains at Marmoles cave (Cueva de los Marmoles: Southern Spain, 4000-1000 cal BCE) |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Alexandra Mari, Anthi Tiliakou | Treating the dead, choosing the bone(s?): performing Neolithic secondary burials in the Cave of Pan at Marathon, Attica, Greece. |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Filipa Rodrigues, Pedro Souto, Luís Gomes, Alexandre Varanda, João Zilhão | New people, new attitudes: the mortuary practices of the first Neolithic groups in central Portugal |
| Start Time - End Time | Authors | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Eline M.J. Schotsmans | An interdisciplinary forensic approach to understanding multi-stage mortuary practices and manipulation of the dead in the Neolithic Near East: experiments at the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Argyro Nafplioti, Ioanna Serpetsidaki | The Neolithic cemetery at Katsambas (near Knossos) on Crete in Greece: Shedding light onto complex mortuary practices |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Anastasia Papathanasiou | Ritual intensification and ancestral memory in Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave of Southern Greece. |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Can Yümni Gündem | A ritual ceremony with a very large crowd |
| Start Time - End Time | Authors | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Stella Katsarou, Fotis Georgiadis, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Anastasios Siros, Andreas Darlas | Burials and Caves: The Spiritual Aspect of Their Relationship |
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Paula Becerra Fuello, Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Miriam Vílchez Suárez, Sonia Robles Carrasco, Margarita Sánchez Romero | Fire in Megalithic funerary practices in Southeastern Iberia |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Yasemin Yılmaz, Aslı Erim Özdoğan, Françoise Le Mort | Silent House: The Skull Building |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Eline M.J. Schotsmans, Lily Canepari, Sacha Kacki, Christopher J. Knüsel | Taphonomy and archaeothanatology of plaster burials: an actualistic study of the effect of lime and gypsum on human remains for a better understanding of Neolithic plaster burials in Western Asia. |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Ali Akın Akyol, Emine Torgan Güzel, Recep Karadağ, Kameray Özdemir, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Yusuf Kağan Kadıoğlu, Abu B. Siddiq, Vecihi Özkaya | Archaeometric Analyses for the Characterization of Pigment and Textile Artifacts from the PPNA site of Körtiktepe, Diyarbakır, Turkiye |
| Start Time - End Time | Authors | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 14:45 - 15:05 | Yılmaz Selim Erdal | Association with Mesolithic-related Ancestry or Demic Diffusion in Neolithic Northwest Anatolia |
| 15:05 - 15:25 | Ana Arzelier, Harmony De Belvalet, Marie-Hélène Pemonge, Pauline Garberi, Didier Binder, Henri Duday, Marie-France Deguilloux, Mélanie Pruvost | Ancient DNA sheds light on the funerary practices of late Neolithic collective burial in southern France |
| 15:25 - 15:45 | Geigl Eva-Maria, Parasayan Oguzhan, Grange Thierry, Thevenet Corinne, Ilett Michael, Hachem Lamys, Dubouloz Jerome | Unprecedented diversity of funerary practices in the LBK of the Paris Basin revealed through anthropology and paleogenomics |
| 15:45 - 16:05 | Melanie Pruvost, Vincent Ard, Ana Arzelier, Marie-France Deguilloux, Delphine Linard, Muriel Gandelin, Jérôme Rouquet | Diverse funerary practices and genetic insights in Late Neolithic France: The LINK Project |
| Start Time - End Time | Authors | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Sabina Cvecek, Yılmaz Selim Erdal | Ghost Children: A diversity of mortuary practices in Anatolia during the Neolithic |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | May Alhaek | Child burials and associated ritual practices during the Neolithic period in Syria. |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Anne Augereau | The funerary gender treatment as a marker of social organization: from the Early to the Middle Neolithic in the Paris basin and its margins (France) |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Victoria Gingley Leyri | Materiality and the embodiment of the deceased: Rank, gender, and class as markers of identity |
| Start Time - End Time | Authors | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Yasmina Chaid-Saoudi , Ichraq Larbi, Stephane Rottier | From lower to middle Holocene, unveiling funerary practices from Columnata necropolis (Algeria) |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Krum Bacvarov, Nikolina Nikolova, Georgi Katsarov, Atanas Tsurev, Kathleen Mcsweeney | Regional ideologies vs local expressions: the Early Neolithic burial evidence from Nova Nadezhda in Upper Thrace |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Alexandra Anders | The Diversity of Mortuary Practices in the 6–5th Millennium BC in Eastern Hungary: Case Studies from the Polgár Microregion |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Raluca Kogalniceanu | Death in The South-East Europe during the Late Neolithic: Particular trends |
| Start Time - End Time | Authors | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Claudia Speciale, Giuseppina Battaglia, Nunzia Larosa, Alessandra Magrì, Giuseppe Montana, Vito Giuseppe Prillo, Flavio De Angelis, C. Eduardo Amorim, Ilaria Arienzo, Vincenza Forgia, Bettina Schulz-Paulsson | The funerary complex of Ustica (Sicily, Italy): evidence of early Megalithism in the central Mediterranean |
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Rula Shafiq, Ted Banning | Mortuary Treatment in Late Neolithic Jordan |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Ergül Kodaş | Human remains at Boncuklu Tarla: Peleodemography and Burial customs. |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Osamu Kondo | Recent findings on the mortuary practices of sedentary hunter-gatherers, {Jomon} in Japan |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Maciej Debiec | Bandkeramik ritual-burial complex from Nezvisko, Ukraine |