WORLD NEOLITHIC CONGRESS
SANLIURFA, TÜRKİYE

G03 - Foraging to Food Production and The Consequences: A Global Review

Session Organisers: Peter Bellwood, Hsiao-chun Hung
Category: Domestication / Subsistence Economy
Session Abstract: This session examines six major regions, located around the globe, of transition from foraging to food production. Presenters are asked to give their current opinions, for their regions of expertise, about the following basic issues: a) trajectories of animal and plant domestication; b) trends in settlement sedentism and patterning; c) changes in human population density; d) trends in human population history, acknowledging current debates in genetics and linguistics. Were the transitions driven mainly by indigenous enterprise, or did they involve contact with, or immigration by, food producing populations from external sources? Presenters should outline what we think we know at present, and suggest important goals for future research. The aim of the session is to generate broad multidisciplinary and comparative perspectives. Taking stock is important, and we will invite speakers both from the Scientific Committee and from beyond to express succinctly (in 20-minute bursts) how they perceive their region of expertise. Suggested regions: 1. Southwest Asia 2. East Asia 3. Africa 4. New Guinea 5. Mesoamerica 6. South America

Room: A

05/11/2024
Start Time - End Time Authors Title
16:30 - 16:50 Peter Bellwood, Hsiao-Chun Hung Introduction to Session G03: Foraging to food production, and the consequences: a global review and perspective.
16:50 - 17:10 Henny Piezonka, Natal’ya Chairkina, Ekaterina Dubovtseva, Lyubov’ Kosinskaya, Tanja Schreiber The world’s oldest forts? Amnya and the acceleration of hunter-gatherer diversity in Siberia 8000 years ago.
17:10 - 17:30 Joaquim Fort Interbreeding and demic diffusion in the spread of the Neolithic in Europe.
17:30 - 17:50 Jean-Denis Vigne, François Briois, Jean Guilaine The Southwest Asian Neolithic transition scrutinized from the island of Cyprus.
07/11/2024
Start Time - End Time Authors Title
10:00 - 10:20 Hans Georg K. Gebel Marginal? The roles of grasslands in the establishment of Middle Eastern Neolithic lifeways.
10:20 - 10:40 Koen Bostoen, Peter Coutros, Jessamy Doman The Bantu expansion and low-level food production in central Africa.
10:40 - 11:00 Donatella Usai Thinking globally: the Neolithization of the Nile Valley.
11:00 - 11:20 Steven Brandt And Roger Blench Late Pleistocene Ethiopian hunter-gatherer origin of Afroasiatic peoples and the role of food production in their Holocene dispersals.
Lunch Break
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13:00 - 13:20 Amaia Arranz-Otaegui The origins of agriculture in southwest Asia: a regional overview
13:20 - 13:40 Zhenhua Deng The formation and early development of farming society in the Yangtze Valley, southern China.
13:40 - 14:00 Qin Ling The neolithization process in northern China: emergence of pottery, sedentary societies and millet agriculture.
14:00 - 14:20 Dongdong Tu Rethinking the emergence of early village life in North China: perspectives from the recent archaeological discoveries.
Coffee Break
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14:45 - 15:05 Ben Shaw, Glenn Summerhayes A Neolithic of the New Guinea region and its relevance to global discussions of the human past.
15:05 - 15:25 Dolores R. Piperno The origins and spread of agriculture in Mesoamerica, Central, and South America: where are we now?
15:25 - 15:45 Douglas Kennett, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra Maize domestication and dispersal in the Americas.
15:45 - 16:05 Keith M. Prufer, Dolores R. Piperno, Nadia C. Neff, Mark Robinson, Richard J. George, Douglas Kennett New advances in understanding the early adoption of plant-based diets in the northern neotropics.
Coffee Break
Start Time - End Time Authors Title
16:30 - 16:50 Richard G. Lesure, Reuven J. Sinensky On the two-step Agricultural Demographic Transition in Mesoamerica.
16:50 - 17:10 Jose Iriarte Forest islands, anthrosols, and drained fields: foraging to food-production trajectories in Amazonia.
17:10 - 17:30 Mike Heckenberger Domestication of earth and sky in later Holocene Amazonia.