G09 - Putting Domesticates in their Place

Session Organisers: Melinda Zeder

Category: Domestication / Subsistence Economy

Session Abstract: This session brings together researchers working in different areas of the world to explore the context of initial domestication of plants and animals and their subsequent dispersal. Participants will provide an overview of the ecological setting of domestication and dispersal, as well as the subsistence strategies developed in world areas from which domesticates either emerged or were merged into. Papers will explore questions of the richness and diversity of endemic plants and animals in these different settings, trade-offs between sedentism and mobility, the interaction of resident hunter-gatherers and migrant farmers, and the overall role of domesticates within subsistence strategies of groups with both emergent and introduced domesticates.

Room: B

04/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:20	Melinda Zeder	Putting Domesticates in their Place: Opening Remarks
13:20 - 13:40	Robert Spengler	Insularity Syndrome: Exploring the roles of ecological release and habitat islands in driving early domestication
13:40 - 14:00	Nicholas Conard, Saman Haman-Zarhani, Mario Mata-González, Christopher Miller, Simone Riehl, Brett Starkovich, Moshen Zeidi	Settlement dynamics and the technological context of early harvesting and hunting in the Zagros and Anti-Lebanon
14:00 - 14:20	Simone Riehl, Doğa Karakaya, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas John Conard	Plant resource diversity and wild cereal harvesting in the eastern Fertile Crescent 80.000 years ago

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:05	Mario Mata-González, Iván Rey-Rodríguez, Britt Marie Starkovich, Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas John Conard	Chogha Golan And The Evolution Of Human-Animal Interactions In The Foothills Of The Zagros Mountains During The Aceramic Neolithic
15:05 - 15:25	Hojjat Darabi	Eco-cultural Settings of Initial Domestication in the Central Zagros
15:25 - 15:45	Canan Çakırlar	Plenty and more: Fish and other aquatic resources in settings of Neolithic emergence in Southwest Asia
15:45 - 16:05	Jean-Denis Vigne , Thomas Cucchi	Domestication of insular ungulates during the Cyprus-PPNB

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
16:30 - 16:50	Elisabeth Hildebrand	Highlands vs. Rift: Diverging pathways to food production in adjacent regions of eastern Africa
16:50 - 17:10	Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, Shayla Monroe	Africa’s unique domestication processes: early sedentism, indigenous plants, introduced livestock, significant contributions from African aurochs
17:10 - 17:30	Xuexiang Chen, Zejuan Sun, Jianfeng Lang	Plant Evidence of early crop cultivation from the Xiaogao site (9000-7500B.P.),Shandong province,eastern China
17:30 - 17:50	Hua Wang, Yao Gao, Jianfeng Lang, Chen Wang, Thijs Van Kolfschoten	Intensive exploitation of pheasants at the Early Holocene site of Xiaogao in Northern China

05/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
10:00 - 10:20	Xinyi Liu	Conceptual bridges between biological domestication and early food globalization
10:20 - 10:40	Sarah Mcclure	The social ecology of the spread of farming in the Adriatic: new insights from the Mesolithic to Neolithic transition
10:40 - 11:00	Peter Rowley-Conwy	Voyagers in search of land and resources: the early agricultural colonisation of Britain and the West Mediterranean
11:00 - 11:20	Anne-Brigitte Gebauer, T. Douglas Price	The northern Frontier of European farming, Evidence from Southern Scandinavia

Lunch Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:20	Andrew Somerville, Isabel Casar	The Environmental Context for the Adoption of Agriculture in the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico
13:20 - 13:40	Francisco Javier Aceituno	Other ""Neolithics"" were possible: the case of Northwestern South America (Colombia) in the context of the New World.
13:40 - 14:00	Natalie G. Mueller	Considering plants as people in the process of domestication: A view from eastern North America