ISA2024 Schedule

Monday

Time	Title	Presenter	Session
8.00-9.00	Registration
9.00-10.15	Conference opening/Welcome and smoking ceremony
10.15-10.45	Morning tea
10.45-11.00	Bridging the Gap: Integrating Non-Invasive Technologies and Traditional Archaeological Methods in the Comprehensive Exploration of Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xanten)	N. Babucic	2
11.00-11.15	Unearthing the history of the Victorian Volcanic Plain: Mapping stony rise landforms using remotely sensed data and a machine learning approach	S. Fraser	2
11.15-11.30	Mapping Ancient Lilybaeum. Strategies for complex multi-dimensional areas and different time phases in a two-dimensional WebGIS	A. Güngör	2
11.30-11.45	Using LiDAR to model and test geomorphology-archaeology relationships: A case study from the Falefā Valley, ‘Upolu, Sāmoa	M. Laumea	2
11.45-12.00	Session 2 – Extra discussion
12.00-13.10	Poster session S1+S2+S3+S8	20 posters (TBC)
13.10-14.15	Lunch
14.15-14.30	Combined hyperspectral imaging with portable spectroscopic investigations of Paleolithic cave art in the Font-de-Gaume cave	I. Reiche	1
14.30-14.45	Macro to Micro Approach in Rock Art Documentation and Interpretation: A case study of Behavioural interpretation and spatial documentation of rock art at Baghlatwa hill, Hazaribagh, Indi	S. Rajak	1
14.45-15.00	Multi-analytical Characterization of Ochre Pigments in Eswatini Rock Art	S. Mahan	1
15.00-15.15	Looking Closer: Indigenous Ochre Pigment Materiality and Rock Art Painters at Babine Lake, Canada	B.L. MacDonald	1
15.15-15.30	A new approach to ochre provenance: Using mineral magnetism to fingerprint cultural ochre sources.	M. Crombie	1
15.30-15.45	Ochre: documenting sources and roasting ‘Bininj way’ in Mirarr Country, The Alligator Rivers Regions, Northern Australia.	J. Huntley	1
15.45-16.00	Session 1 – Extra discussion
16.00-16.30	Afternoon tea/posters
16.30-17.15	Keynote “Two ways to see”, A Rock Art Research Journey	I. Waina, A. Gleadow
18.00-20.00	Welcome reception

Tuesday

Time		Title	Presenter	Session
8.00-9.00	Registration
9.00-9.15	Underwater archaeological sites and climate change: experimental study of the impact of ocean acidification on historical stone materials		L. Germinario	8
9.15-9.30	The influence of Mg in the cementation processes of ancient binding composites		V. Razzante (behalf of M. Secco)	8
9.30-9.45	A Geochemical approach for tracing the Provenance of Mortar Binders – a case study from Sagalassos		M. Quilici	8
9.45-10.00	Developing an analysis technique of earthen architecture materials through soil micromorphology		S. Piña Guido	8
10.00-10.15	Extra discussion
10.15-10.45	Morning tea
10.45-11.00	An archaeometric study of two sets of decorated wall plasters from the Agora of Nea Paphos, Cyprus		P. Pizzo	8
11.00-11.15	Building cisterns in ancient Cyprus: A diachronic study of plaster application and use.		M. Kalofonou	8
11.15-11.30	Extra discussion session 8
11.30-12.40	Poster session S5+S7		17 posters (TBC)
12.40-13.45	Lunch
13.45-14.00	Quantitative use-wear analysis by optical profilometry of percussive stone tools from Kenya (Nyayanga, Early Stone Age)		L. Germinario (behalf of I.Caricola)	5
14.00-14.15	An experimental approach for a microwear study on Pinctada margaritifera from French Polynesia		J. McGloin	5
14.15-14.30	Residues and use wear traces on chipped stone artefacts from the Lake Mungo lunette in the Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage Area in south-eastern Australia.		N. Stern	5
14.30-14.45	Agriculture in the Highlands: perspectives from 3rd millennium BC Sos Höyük and Rabati.		C. Longford	7
14.45-15.00	New phytolith reference collections for reconstructing human-environment interactions in Sahul: standards moving forward		M. Turnbull	7
15.00-15.15	Trace element geochemistry in tufas suggests a much wetter early Holocene in the Darling Downs, Queensland		J. Mulder	7
15.15-15.30	Inter and intra-species variability in herbivore dental tribology patterns as paleoenvironmental indicators: Paleoecological implications for the Pleistocene of the Levant		M. Belmaker	7
15.30-15.45	Sessions 5 and 7 – Extra discussion
15.45-16.15	Afternoon tea/posters
16.15-16.30	Axes of power, axes of toil: the production and use wear of the ancient Egyptian and Nubian copper alloy axe blades within their contexts of use		M. Odler	5
16.30-16.45	Unveiling geoarchaeological origins of stone arhat statuettes in Naju, Korea		B. Chang	5
16.45-17.00	Quantifying the influence of argilliturbation on lithic artefacts in clay-rich soils: a case study from Middle Gidley Island, Murujuga, northwest Western Australia		C. Mather	5
17.00-17.45	Keynote Biomolecular archaeology: challenging the future		E. Oras

Wednesday

Time	Title	Presenter	Session
8.00-9.00	Registration
9.00-9.15	Interdisciplinary research to understand the formation and age of rock varnish at Murujuga, Western Australia	Y.L. Wu		3
9.15-9.30	To what extent high resolution mCT-scanning of hominin fossil remains may impact ESR and Radiocarbon dating results?	M.Duval		3
9.30-9.45	A Turkana Tale: Stratigraphic complexities in interpreting ultra-high resolution 40Ar-39Ar ages of closely spaced tuffs in Nadung’a, West Turkana	S. Samim		3
9.45-10.55	Morning tea/Poster session S6(1)	17 posters (TBC)
10.55-11.10	14C dating of lead carbonate, a new chronological tool for archaeology: example from the Grandmont Abbey cemetery, France	L. Beck		3
11.10-11.25	Chronometric ages for Australian Aboriginal Rock Art	D. Finch		3
11.25-11.40	Long and local trade in the Chalcolithic of the southern Iberia: The case of funerary votive assemblages from Perdigões, Portugal	M.I. Dias		5
11.40-11.55	A new method for quantifying flake scar organisation on cores using orientation statistics	S. Lin		5

Thursday

Time	Title	Presenter	Session
8.30-9.30	Registration
9.30-9.45	The power of strontium – Exploring the full potential of strontium concentrations and isotope ratios in bioarchaeology	C. Snoek	4
9.45-10.00	Evidence for a microbial source of oxalate in rock coatings based on trace organic analysis	H. Green	4
10.00-10.15	Oxalic acid in atmospheric aerosols as a possible source of calcium oxalate rock coatings	J. Russ	4
10.15-10.45	Morning tea
10.45-11.55	Poster session S4	14 posters (TBC)
12.00-12.15	Identifying Elephant Species on Archaeological Ivory (…or not)	M. Murillo-Barroso	4
12.15-12.30	A fresh perspective on infrared spectroscopy as a prescreening method for molecular and stable isotopes analyses on ancient human bones	C. Scaggion	4
12.30-12.45	Collagen preservation in animal bones from tropical environments. Developing a baseline for palaeoproteomic analysis in Indo-Pacific archaeological sites	S. Samper Carro	4
12.45-13.00	Session 4 – Extra discussion
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.15	The Last Supper on a Phoenician Ship: Organic Residue Analysis of Cooking Pots from the Xlendi Shipwreck	L. Briggs	4
14.15-14.30	Waves of change: Exploring socio-economic transformations in Western Eurasia through biomolecular and geochemical approaches	L. Pospieszny	4
14.30-14.45	Ceramic technologies in transition, or continuation? A petrographic and geochemical study of Hellenistic to Roman Imperial tableware from Sagalassos (SW Anatolia)	C. Kelepeshi	6
14.45-15.00	Variability in chaînes opératoires for negative painted pottery from Nariño, Colombia	C. Klesner	6
15.00-15.15	A multi-analytical approach applied to pottery from Oman as a key to understanding ancient Indian Ocean maritime trade.	D. Zampierin (virtual)	6
15.15-15.30	Sessions 4 and 6 – Extra discussion
15.30-17.00	Afternoon tea/posters/AGM ISA and SAS
17.00-17.15	The copper provenance in the Shang period China	S. Liu	6
17.15-17.30	Technical and economic history of Western Han dynasty revealed by mirrors from Zonglvcheng cemetery, Linzi, China	J. Gao	6
17.30-17.45	The Empire of Silver: An insight of the Ming Dynasty silver-based monetary system from stylistic and scientific investigation of Ming silver Bullions	T. Liu	6

Friday

Time	Title	Presenter	Session
8.00-9.00	Registration
9.00-9.15	A comprehensive archaeometric study of the first half of the 1st millennium BCE glass from South Etruria and Latium	M. Gumini	6
9.15-9.30	Piecing the shattered past: discovering the stained glass of late medieval Dubrovnik	A. Franjic	6
9.30-9.45	Using Sr and Nd isotopes to provenance plant-ash glass from the Silk Roads	Q.-Q. Lu	6
9.45-10.00	Characterization and new insights of the Warring States period faience beads from Gansu, China	L. Liu	6
10.00-10.15	Microstructure Analysis and Coloring Mechanism of the Jian Bowls	W. Li	6
10.15-10.30	Transformation and Adoption: 8th-13th Century Technical Innovations in Pottery in Raqqa Syri a within a Comparative Study between it and Chinese Turquoise-Glazed W	L. Qin	6
10.30-10.45	Session 6 – Extra discussion
10.45-11.15	Morning tea
11.15-11.30	Inferring Metallurgical Practices from Metallurgical Ceramic Fragments at Mayapan, Mexico	J. Meanwell	6
11.30-11.45	Reintegrating the local into the global: intra-regional movements and the symbolic values of imported Muisca gold (Colombia, AD 600-1600)	J. Vieri	6
11.45-12.00	Metals meet culture: Management and hoarding of metals in prehistoric southeastern Europe	V. Orfanou	6
12.00-12.15	Searching for the origins of early Islamic brass-making in the Middle East and Western Asia	M. Davis	6
12.15-13.25	Poster Session S6 (2)	17 posters (TBC)
12.30-13.30	Lunch
13.30-13.45	Active arsenical copper alloying in the ancient Nile Valley	F. Rademakers	6
13.45-14.00	Production of arsenical bronze using speiss on the Elephantine Island (Aswan, Egypt) during the Middle Kingdom (Middle Bronze Age)	J. Kmosek	6
14.00-14.15	Copper-based metals from el Argar (Antas, Spain). A first detailed case study about Bronze Age metallurgy in Iberia	I. Montero-Ruiz	6
14.15-14.45	Session 6 – Extra discussion
14.45-15.15	Afternoon tea/Poster session
15.15-16.30	Closing ceremony/Awards
19.00-22.00	Conference dinner