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