Day 1 - Thursday 31 May
09:00-09:30 Registration and Coffee
09:30-09:45 Introduction
Session 1 - Human occupation in the Nile Valley before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM),
between 75,000 and 25,000 years ago.
09:45-12:30
Maxine Kleindienst
University of Toronto, Canada
Elena Garcea
University of Cassino and Southern Latium, Italy
Martin Williams
University of Adelaide, Australia
Evidence for Pleistocene habitability and occupations in the Western Desert of Egypt, MIS 4 through early MIS 2.
The Sudanese Nile Valley: the ultimate frontiers of the Aterian and the northern and southern Out-of-Africa routes.
Ice, wind and water: Late Pleistocene environments in the main Nile, Atbara, Blue and White Nile basins (75-15 ka).
mid-morning coffee/tea break
Pierre Vermeersch
Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
Luca Pagani
University of Padova, Italy & Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
MIS 4-2 human occupation density in the Lower Nile Valley.
“Out of Africa expansions and the genetic legacy of human occupation in North- East Africa”.
Discussion
12:30-14:30 Lunch
Session 2 - Human occupation in the Nile Valley and neighbouring regions (North Africa, East Africa, the Levant and Arabia) before the LGM .
14:30-18:00
Jeffrey Rose
Ronin Institute
Mae Goder-Goldberger
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
David Pleurdeau
UMR CNRS 7194, Muséum national
d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
The Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of South Arabia and implications for cultural exchanges across the Red Sea.
Using lithic assemblages to trace human dispersals; did the Nile Valley always act as a corridor between Africa and the southern Levant?
Late Middle Stone Age(s) of the Horn of Africa: technical tradition in southeastern Ethiopia.
mid-afternoon coffee/tea break
Abdeljalil Bouzouggar
Institut National des Sciences de
l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine (INSAP),
Rabat, Morocco
Eslem Ben Arous
UMR CNRS 7194, Muséum national
d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
Cultural transitions in the Middle Stone Age records of North Africa: an overview from Morocco
Relevance of chronological tools to discuss human occupation continuity / discontinuity in Northwestern Africa before the LGM
Discussion
18:00-21:00 - Reception at the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine
Day 2 - Friday 1 June
09:30-12:00 Musée de l’Homme - Hands on Session
12:00 -14:15 Lunch
14:30-16:30 Guided tour of the museum's collections
16:30-18:00 Open visit of the museum and of the Exhibition 'Neandertal l'Expo'
Day 3 - Saturday 2 June
Institut de Paléontologie Humaine , 1 rue R. Panhard, 75013 Paris
Session 3 - Human occupation in the Nile Valley during the Last Glacial Maximum
09:00-11:30
Isabelle Crèvecoeur
UMR CNRS 5199, University of Bordeaux,
France
Piotr Osypiński & Marta Osypińska
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw,
Poland
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene human phenotypic diversity in the Nile Valley.
Upper Nubia and beyond at the Terminal Pleistocene – growing evidence of the late occurrence of MSA.
mid-morning coffee/tea break
Alice Leplongeon
UMR CNRS 7194, Muséum national
d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
Variability of human technical behaviours in the Egyptian Nile Valley at the end of the Pleistocene.
Discussion
Session 4 - Human occupation in the Nile Valley and neighbouring regions during the LGM
11:30-12:30
Graeme Barker
University of Cambridge, UK
Lucy Farr
University of Cambridge, UK
Coping with aridity in Cyrenaica in MIS 4-2: the evidence of the Haua Fteah .
Sedimentary processes, temporality and Palaeolithic narratives of northern Africa (70,000–15,000 BP).
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:30
Ofer Marder
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Nigel Goring-Morris
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Nick Barton
University of Oxford, UK
The Lithic Technologies of Upper Palaeolithic and Epipaleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in the Negev, Israel: Implications from Refitting Studies.
Windows of Opportunity? An Examination of Potential Levantine-North African Connections during the Late Pleistocene
Recent work in the Maghreb and implications for human dispersal in the LSA.
Discussion
mid-afternoon coffee/tea break
16:30- 18:00 Final discussions and conclusions