Podium Abstracts

Flint scrapers in the Levantine Late Acheulian and their implications on Acheulian cultural conservatism

Vlad Litov

Human landscape use during the Middle Stone Age of northeast Africa: New research in Wadi El-Hudi southeast of Aswan, Egypt

Zeljko Rezek, Pedro Horta, Laurent Bruxelles, Benjamin Davies, Mohamed A. Hamdan

Same road different path – the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition(s) in S-W Asia as seen from the new excavations at Dalarik-1, Armenia

Ariel Malinsky-Buller, Artur Petrosyan, David Nora, Ioannis Oikonomou, Kaja Fenn, Frahm Ellery, Delphine Vettese, Hripsime Gevorgyan, Sebastian Nomade, Boris Gasprayan, Theodoros Karampaglidis

The Dynamic Character of the Early Middle Paleolithic at Tabun Cave and its Implications for Hominin Dispersal and Interaction in the Southern Levant

Ron Shimelmitz, Steven Kuhn, David Friesem, Mina Weinstein-Evron

Ancient collection, fresh insights: Revisiting the lithic technologies at the Middle Paleolithic Nahr Ibrahim Cave, Lebanon

Marion Prévost

Lower Paleolithic tools of potency: Handaxes shaped around fossils and other extraordinary features at Sakhnin valley, Israel

Ran Barkai, Muataz Shalata

“So full of maggots”: Insights on Diet Reconstruction from Stable Nitrogen Isotopes of Maggots

Melanie Beasley, Julie Lesnik, John Speth

A high-resolution paleoenvironmental record based on phytoliths from the Armenian Highlands: The Upper Paleolithic of Aghitu-3 Cave, southern Armenia

Johan Jarl, Boris Gasparyan, Andrew Kandel, Alexia Smith, Angela Bruch

Isotopic evidence speaks to Neanderthal behavioral resilience in the southern Levant

Chen Zeigen, Erella Hovers, Alex Brittingham, Michael Richards, Michael Hren, Rivka Rabinovich, Gideon Hartman

The contribution of the ESR dating and its implication for the human evolution in Western Africa

Eslem BEN AROUS

Who made the late Stage 3 Levallois industry in Eastern Europe?

John Hoffecker, Vadim Stepanchuk, Ruslan Koropetskyi, John Southon

A Comparative Analysis of C. crocuta and H. hyaena Chewing from Two East African Assemblages

Kyle Pontieri

Multiproxy Analysis of Ethnographic Ostrich Eggshell (OES) Dancing Rattles: Identifying Criteria for Inferring Musical Accompaniment and Dance in Prehistory

Hannah Keller, Francesco d'Errico, Alain Queffelec

New Late Pleistocene records of hunter-gatherer behavior and environments in the Kasitu Valley of northern Malawi

Jessica Thompson, Justin Pargeter, Alex Bertacchi, Keller Hannah, Brieuc Kaesmann, Yue Li, Ruoyang Tu, Jackson Lillian, Shang Xiaozheng, Alyssa Enny, Jennifer Miller, Stanley Ambrose, Potiphar Kaliba

Reindeer taphonomy and the role of canids at the purported early dog domestication site of Předmostí, Czech Republic

Kari Prassack, Briana Pobiner, Jennifer Parkinson, Martina Roblíčková, Martina Lázničková, Mietje Germonpré

The Effects of Carnivore Diversity on Scavenging Opportunities and Hominin Range Expansion during Out of Africa I

Reed Coil

A Malthusian-like demographic cycle at Natufian el-Wad, Mount Carmel, Israel

Reuven Yeshurun, Ma'ayan Lev, Mina Weinstein-Evron

An Eastern Mirage? A quantitative evaluation of the technological affinities between early Ahmarian and Protoaurignacian

Armando Falcucci, Steven L. Kuhn

Ecology, Phylogeny, and Tool Use: Rethinking Manual Proportions in Human Evolution

Adela Cebeiro

One color to rule them all: Heated and natural red ochres 100,000 years ago at Tinshemet Cave, Israel

David Gaitero-Santos, Yossi Zaidner

Recent Discoveries at Lusakert-1, a Late Middle Palaeolithic Rockshelter in the Armenian Highlands

Daniel Adler, Ethel Allué, Simon Blockley, Alex Brittingham, Ellery Frahm, Boris Gasparyan, Jayson Gill, Phil Glauberman, Thomas Higham, Johan Jarl, Tanner Kovach, Carolina Mallol, Yannick Raczynski-Henk, Iván Rey Rodriguez, Jennifer Sherriff, Victoria Smith, Naihui Wang, Lior Weissbrod, Keith Wilkinson, Reuven Yeshurun

The Secret Lives of Paleolithic Teens: Assessing puberty status in a sample of European Upper Paleolithic adolescents

April Nowell, Mary Lewis, Jennifer French, Elena Rossoni-Notter, Olivier Notter, Abdelkader Moussous, Francesco Boschin, Stefano Ricci

Behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic

(ca 130-80 ka): New evidence from Tinshemet Cave, Israel

Yossi Zaidner, Marion Prévost, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Reuven Yeshurun, Lior Weissbrod, Naomi Porat, Norbert Mercier, Asmodée Galy, Hélène Valladas, Amos Frumkin, David Gaitero-Santos, Sapir Ben-Haim, Antonella Perdergnana, Dafna Langgut, Onn Crouvi, Christophe Pécheyran, Sarah Borgel, Rachel Sarig, Hila May, Israel Hershkovitz

Changes in hominin land-use through the Oldowan to Acheulean transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Alex Pelissero, Edward Herrmann, Jackson Njau, John Mturi, Tewabe Negash, Danielle Peltier, Michael Pante

Computer vision-aided identification of worked materials from lithic use wear polish on chert

Radu Iovita, Jing Zhang, Alan Hu, Andrea Wong, Chenmeinian Guo, Sara Borsodi, Felix Kisena, Danielle Macdonald, Chen Feng

Context is bone deep: A quantitative analysis of experimentally generated bone surface modifications with applications for developing an open source and collaborative taphonomic database

Trevor Keevil, April Tolley, Erin Gniewek, Tewabe Negash, Emily Orlikoff, Isabell Osborne, Alex Pelissero, Rachel Winter, Michael Pante

Distinguishing bone retoucher marks from other bone surface modifications

Tewabe Negash, Edward Herrmann, Connie Fellmann, Alex Pelissero, Michael Pante

Environmental change and forager land-use in the Later Stone Age of Taforalt and Rhafas Caves, Morocco, as inferred from carbon isotopes in ungulate tooth enamel

Kayla Worthey, Philippe Fernandez, Elaine Turner, Teresa Steele, Louise Humphrey, Nick Barton, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar

Functional traits predict predator-prey relationships in African mammals

Alyssa McGrath, W. Andrew Barr, Andrew Du, Margaret Lewis, J. Tyler Faith

How well does herbivore relative abundance reflect vegetation types on the landscape? An approach using agent-based modeling

Kathryn Fish, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, David Braun, W. Andrew Barr

Local habitat heterogeneity characterized the southern African Middle to Later Stone Age transition: Introducing generalized additive mixed models to carbon isotope paleoecology

Alexandra Norwood, Joshua Robinson, Brian Stewart

Low-cost niche construction can create conditions for subdivided populations without socially imposed boundaries

Emily Coco, Benjamin Davies, Jessica C. Thompson

Paleoanthropological and paleoecological investigations in Albertine Rift, western Uganda

Scott Blumenthal, Jennifer Parkinson, Hilary Duke, Joel Saylor, Chris Ssebuyungo

Pleistocene Behavioral Landscapes of Northern Armenia Project

Jayson Gill, Jennifer Sherriff, Tanner Kovach, Haydosyan Hayk, Kathleen Rodrigues, Johan Jarl, Keith Wilkinson, Boris Gasparyan, Daniel Adler

Reconstructing hunter-gatherer post-marital residence patterns at Hora, Malawi with strontium isotope analysis of pre- and post-weaning molar tooth enamel

Stanley Ambrose, Jessica Thompson, Andrew Zipkin, Alex Bertacchi, Potiphar Kaliba

Refining Analogies in Paleolithic Research: A Critical Examination of Contemporary Comparisons

Michael Ben Dor, NONE NONE, None None

Revised Chronology of a Late Upper Palaeolithic Mammoth Bone Structure at Mezhyrich, Ukraine

Wei Chu, Pavlo Shydlovskyi, Andreas Maier

Silcrete use and heat treatment in the Middle Stone Age at Nelson Bay Cave, South Africa

Sara Watson

The Late Glacial record of Munyama Cave (Uganda)

Christian Tryon, Alice Leplongeon, Veerle Rots, Guilhem Mauran, Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville, Els Cornelissen

The persistence of the Ebro Frontier model and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Iberia  

Jonathan Haws

Virtual Edges:  Finite Element Analysis (FEA) insights from the Late Lower Paleolithic (LLP) lithic assemblage from Dalarik 1 Cave.

David Nora, Marreiros João, Jordi Marcé Nogué, Thomas Püschel, Artur Petrosyan, Boris Gasparyan, Ariel Malinsky-Buller

Poster Abstracts

Site Formation Processes and Diagenetic Pathways through the Geoarchaeological Study of Bone Remains. 

Ioannis Oikonomou, Delphine Vettese, Artur Petrosyan, Theodoros Karampaglidis, Ariel Malinsky-Buller

Renewed Archaeological Explorations in the Nyabusosi Formation of the Albertine Rift, western Uganda

Hilary Duke, Jennifer Parkinson, Scott Blumenthal, Joel Saylor, Chris Ssebuyungo

Functional morphology of ~2.0 million-year-old hominin hand and foot remains from Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa

Caley M. Orr, Stephanie E. Baker, Tara E. Hobbs, A.B. Leece, Jesse M. Martin, Biren A. Patel, Thomas C. Prang, Matthew W. Tocheri, Gary T. Schwartz, David S. Strait, Andy I.R. Herries

Zooarchaeology and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Archaeological Levels at Arma Veirana Cave, Italy

Sarah Manassee, Jamie Hodgkins, Caley Orr

Are human tooth marks truly unique?: A 3-D comparison of human and carnivore tooth induced bone surface modifications

Erin Gniewek, Michael Pante

Serially Sampled Carbon, Oxygen, and Strontium Enamel Isotopes of Late Pleistocene Mammuthus and Bison from Central Texas

Joshua J. Porter, John Samuelsen, Celina Suarez, Adriana Potra, Amelia Villaseñor

The Context of Butchery Across Cultures: Analysis of Overlaps Between Evidence and Preservation

Madeleine Witherel

An Assessment of Stature and Ecogeographic Profile of Human Remains from A Medieval Burial in the Central Highlands of Kenya.

Nasser R. Malit, Francis M. Kirera, Veronica Waweru, Alexandra Sveshnikova, Daniel P. Miggin, Jillani Ngalla, Christine Omuombo, Rahab Kinyanjui, Aryeh Grossman, Francis N. Muchemi, Lorna N. Chege, John Mwangi, Richard Kinyua

An origin of hominin stone knapping via the emulation of mother nature

Metin I. Eren, Stephen J. Lycett, Michelle R. Bebber, Alastair Key, Briggs Buchanan, Joseph Benson, Rebecca Biermann Gürbüz, Adela Cebeiro, Emma Finestone, Roman Garba, Anne Grunow, C. Owen Lovejoy, Danielle MacDonald, Erica Maletic, G. Logan Miller, Joseph D. Ortiz, Jonathan Paige, Justin Pargeter, Tomos Proffitt, Mary Ann Raghanti, Teal Riley, Jeffrey I. Rose, David M. Singer, Robert S. Walker

What does ‘controlled’ bipolar lithic reduction look like? An exploratory experiment

Adela Cebeiro, Isabelle Iturrate, Asithandile Ntsondwa, Metin Eren, Michelle Bebber, Briggs Buchanan, Justin Pargeter

A Quantitative Analysis of Homotherium Serum Tooth Marks

Isabell Osborne, Trevor Keevil, Michael Pante

Abiotic effects on skeletal and dental maturation rates in human evolution

Miriam Belmaker, April Nowell

Balancing the scale: examining the environmental implications of taxonomic abundance and herbivore enamel values across space and time

Krystal Koski, Alexandra Norwood, Madeleine Kelly, Silindokuhle Mavuso, Frances Forrest, David R Braun, J Tyler Faith

Bigger is Not Better: Unexpected Relationship Between Prey Body Size and Macronutrient Composition in East African Mammals

Isabel Heslin, Jessica C. Thompson, David Raubenheimer

Body mass estimates of Fort Ternan artiodactyls (Middle Miocene, Kenya) using long bones

Nick Diego Rosas, Kaitlin Sennewald, W. Andrew Barr

Bone Tool Technologies in the Kasitu Valley, Northern Malawi

Yue Li, Francesco D'Errico, Lila Geis, Potiphar Menaheim Kaliba, Jessica C. Thompson

Differential Effects of end-Pleistocene Climate Change and Early Humans on Megafaunal Spatial Distribution in the American Southwest

Casey Nielsen, Allison Wolfe, Jayson Gill

Experimental tests of different hafting configurations for backed segments as arrowheads

Gerrit Dusseldorp, Mick van Harderwijk, Morgan Roussel, Alessandro Alea

Exploring the Landscape and Hominin Behavior at FxJj20 Using Phytolith and Microscopic Charcoal Analysis

Andrea L. Gonzalez Cabellos, Madison Fortier, Rahab Kinyanjui, David R. Braun, Victoria Rainis, Emmanuel K. Ndiema, Sarah K. Hlubik

Forager Mobility during the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa

Jeremy A. Beller, Karen L. van Kiekerk, Mostafa Fayek, Pieter-Jan Gräbe, Simon J. Armitage, Christopher S. Henshilwood

Indications of Bovid Mortality Profiles From FwJj80 in Area 8A Koobi Fora 

Nicole Marin, Eimy Fernanda Gonzalez Alvarez, David R. Braun, Emmanuel Ndiema, Frances Forrest

Late Pleistocene Guangxi: A Paleoecological Analysis based on Primate genus-level data 

Jessica Castaño, Guangmao Xie, Yanbo Song, Miriam Belmaker

Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic cultural transition in southern Jordan: a view from the western Hisma area

Seiji Kadowaki, Toru Tamura, Risako Kida, Kazuhiro Tsukada, Eiki Suga, Miriam Belmaker, Masato Hirose, Hitoshi Hasegawa, Jianjie Yin, Sate Massadeh

Paleoenvironmental reconstructions of Gona, Ethiopia, between 3-1 Mya: Evidence from faunal community analysis.   

Amanda C. Leiss, Michael J. Rogers, Sileshi Semaw

Rabbit Exploitation in the Middle Paleolithic: Insights from experimental archaeology applied to the Level JJ faunal assemblage from Lapa do Picareiro, Portugal

Milena Carvalho, Cristina Real, Anna Rufà, Jonathan Haws

Reconstructing herbivore diet and rainfall seasonality using dental microwear: Implications for Stone Age foragers on the southern Cape, South Africa

Kathryn Sokolowski, Juniper Koehler, Auriana Dunn, Larisa DeSantis, Justin Pargeter, J. Tyler Faith

Sonstraal: An in situ, open-air Acheulean occupation in the southern Kalahari Desert, South Africa

Benjamin Schoville, Alexander Blackwood, Precious Chiwara-Maenzanise, Mathieu Duval, Irene Esteban, Luke Gliganic, Kelly Kirsten, Robyn Pickering, Jayne Wilkins

The Upper Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic Fauna from Sefunim Cave (Mt. Carmel, Israel): New Insights from the Ungulate Assemblage

Jamie L Clark, Gideon Hartman, Andrew W. Kandel, Ron Shimelmitz

Variability selection in human evolution: versatilist allele success in discrete and temporally unpredictable environments.

David J. Daegling, Henna D. Bhramdat

Variation in Manual Phalangeal Curvature across Sex and Digit in Western Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) versus Eastern Gorillas (Gorilla beringei)

Tara E. Hobbs, Biren A. Patel, Caley M. Orr

Variation in white-tailed and mule deer dental metrics is associated with precipitation gradients in the Americas

Jenna Dagher, Elliot Greiner

Zooarchaeological and Taphonomic Analysis of Aquatic Faunal Assemblages in the Koobi Fora Formation

Kai Jones, Tristan Cope, Maddy Hull, Alyssa Enny, David R. Braun