G26 - On people, tools, and plant foodways: defining new proxies for the Neolithization(s)

Session Organisers: Laura Dietrich, Laure Dubreuil, Emanuela Cristiani, Caroline Hamon, Avi Gopher, Andrea Zupancich

Category: Technology

Session Abstract: The Neolithic marks a major turning point in human history, leading towards dramatic changes in lifeways, ideologies, societies and economies. In this session, our aim is to establish a global forum for research exploring people and plant intricate relationships within the context of Neolithization(s), considering their multifaceted nature encompassing technological innovations, dietary practices, agents, networks, and lifeways. We invite contributions that focus on the identification of new proxies - defined here as agents and components - of Neolithization, in addition to those related to the domestication of founder crops. These could encompass a wide range of topics, including plant food processing technologies, foodways and dietary habits, plant-people interactions, and the identification of specific tools and recipes at the onset of the Neolithization, local and over regional dietary strategies and plant resource management, along with long-term evolutions and changes in plant consumptions patterns such as storage, grinding, and cooking, techniques. To facilitate discussion on these topics, we encourage worldwide interdisciplinary contributions to the study of human remains and material culture. This includes new methodologies in use-wear and residue analyses, the study of dental macro - and micro-wear on teeth, ancient dental calculus, isotope analysis, metagenomics, as well as experimental and theoretical approaches applied for novel high-resolution reconstructions of Neolithic diets and food technology.

Room: G

04/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:20	Anna Stroulia, Jérôme Robitaille, Laure Dubreuil	Cereal Grinding Rates: From Experimental Results to Ethnographic Facts
13:20 - 13:40	Atsumi Ishida, Akiko Horiuchi, Nobuo Miyauchi, Hitoshi Ozawa, Yoshiki Miyata	Uncovering Alternative Functions of Neolithic Grinding and Pounding Stones: An Analysis of Organic Residues Using Experimental Tools
13:40 - 14:00	Ceren Kabukcu, Maria João Fernandes Martins	A systematic review on experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeological case studies of plant food processing and cooking
14:00 - 14:20	Patrick Pedersen	Preparing a surface: The “seasoning” of food processing ground stone and its implications for use-wear analysis

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:05	Jiajing Wang	Microbotanical dental calculus analysis provides a new proxy for understanding animal domestication during the Neolithization
15:05 - 15:25	Robitaille Jerome, Dubreuil Laure, Stroulia Anna	Transforming Grains, Shaping Societies: Insights into Ground stone Tool Use and Food Processing Techniques.
15:25 - 15:45	David Eitam	Late Natufian, the first pre-domestic agricultures [13,000 – 1,5000 Cal BP]

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
16:30 - 16:50	Laure Dubreuil, Leore Grosman	Exploring the practices and social context of plants processing at Nahal Ein Gev II (Late Natufian, Southern Levant)
16:50 - 17:10	Laura Dietrich, Christoph Von Tycowicz, Julius Mayer	Wear marker, wear trajectories and wear states in the analysis of Neolithic grinding stones (case study Göbekli Tepe)
17:10 - 17:30	Sergio Taranto, Adrià Breu Barcons, Marta Portillo, Anna BachGòmez, Miquel Molist, Marie Le Miere, Cristina Lemorini	Enjoying ’focaccia’ in late-Neolithic Near East. A culinary tradition explored through integrated use-wear, phytolith, and organic residue analysis
17:30 - 17:50	Jaroslav Rídky, Carlos G. Santiago-Marrero, Ali Metin Büyükkarakaya, Kristina Dolezalová, Daniel Pilar, Yasin Gökhan Çakan, Erhan Bıçakçı	Macrolithic artefacts and plant micro-residues in dental calculus as an important sources of information on dietary habits at the Neolithic Tepecik-Çiftlik site (~7,100 – 5,800 cal BCE) in Central Anatolia

05/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
10:00 - 10:20	Agustina Vazquez Fiorani, Julian Salazar, Valeria Franco Salvi, Ian Kuijt, Meredith Chesson, Jordi Lopez-Lillo	A world up in the mountains: Neolithization and early villager lifestyles in the Southern Andes (Argentina, ca. 200 BCE-AD 900)
10:20 - 10:40	Sutonuka Bhattacharya, Kumar Akhilesh, Prachi Joshi, Naama Goren-Inbar, Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Shanti Pappu	From Quarry to Quern: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Grinding Stone Chaîne Opératoires in India
10:40 - 11:00	Weiya Li	New insights into the Neolithic denticulate sickles from Central China
11:00 - 11:20	Julia Reis, Laure Dubreuil, Lisa Janz	Investigating Plant Use Through Ground Stone Tools In The Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Lunch Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:20	Wiebke Kirleis, Jingping An, Dragana Filipovic, Sara Krubeck, Lucy Kubiak-Martens, Tania Oudemans, Henrike Effenberger, Stefanie Klooß	Multiproxy analyses of human-plant interaction in the southwestern Baltic around 3100 BCE: following the {chaîne opératoire} from the fields to the meals
13:20 - 13:40	Caroline Hamon	Variability of grinding systems in neolithization contexts of the VIth millenium BC
13:40 - 14:00	Carlos G. Santiago-Marrero, Marianna Lymperaki, Efrossini Vika, Dushka Urem-Kotsou, Stavros Kotsos, Juan José García-Granero	Insight into Neolithic cuisine: a holistic approach for investigating charred food crust and absorbed residues from cooking vessels from Neolithic Stavroupoli (northern Greece)
14:00 - 14:20	Ana Duricic	If Ovens Could Talk: Bread Consumption in the Neolithic of the Central Balkans

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:05	Alexander Minnich	How did bread come to Central Europe? Investigations into the role of the Neolithic settlement of Brunn am Gebirge near Vienna in the spread of the eating habits of Europe’s first farmers using grinding stones
15:05 - 15:25	All Participants	Discussion: on pleople, tools and plants
15:25 - 15:45	Organisers	Conclusion: on pleople, tools and plants