150 YEARS OF NEANDERTHAL DISCOVERIES
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150 YEARS OF NEANDERTHAL DISCOVERIES EARLY EUROPEANS - CONTINUITY & DISCONTINUITY
July 21st – 26th, 2006 in Bonn, Germany
The 150th anniversary of the discovery of the “Neanderthal Man” will be celebrated by an international congress held in Bonn from July 21st until July 26th, 2006. It is organized by the University of Bonn jointly with DEUQUA. The six day conference will include five half-day symposia and a field trip. The symposia will cover the following themes: 1. Neanderthal Origins, 2. Neanderthal Palaeoenvironment, 3. Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology, 4. Neanderthal Anatomy, Adaptation, Physical and Cultural Variations, 5. Neanderthals and Modern Humans. Each symposium will feature plenary lectures with invited speakers. Further contributions are welcome in the form of posters, for which two special sessions are scheduled. The posters will be ranked by the participants and the best ones will be awarded. The “Year of the Neanderthals” is celebrated in addition by three major exhibitions are devoted to the Neanderthals. In Bonn the exhibition “Roots - Wurzeln der Menschheit” at Rheinisches LandesMuseum a large number of the original hominid fossils from Europe, Africa and Asia will be on display. This exhibition will be accessible during the opening ceremony on July 21st. The two others “Close Encounters. Neanderthals – Hautnah” at Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann and the exhibition “climate and mankind. life in eXtremes - Leben in eXtremen) at the Westfälische Museum in Herne will be visited on a field trip on July 24th at which the recently relocated site of the famous 1856 discovery will be visited. In addition two field trips two the Quaternary volcanic field of the eastern and western and Eifel are offered by DEUQUA. The congress dinner will take place on a river cruise ship on the Rhine along the rolling hills of the Tertiary volcanoes of the Siebengebirge.
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| Friday July 21, 2006
In the Rheinisches LandesMuseum Bonn, Colmantstrasse 14: 17:00 h Registration and visit of the exhibition “Roots - Wurzeln der Menschheit” 18:30h opening ceremony and snacks 20:30h introduction lecture F. Clark Howell: Neanderthals and emergent paleoanthropology fifty years ago. | ||||||||
| Saturday July 22, 2006 University of Bonn, Geographisches Institut, Meckenheimer Allee 166site map pdf, 55kb8:30 – 12:30 Symposium 1: Outside Europe and Neanderthal Origins Conveners: Silvana Condemi & Friedemann Schrenk - Respondent: Ian Tattersall
Since the discovery of classical Neanderthal skeleton numerous fossil specimens have been found in various parts of Europe. These fossils have enabled us to show that Neanderthals were an autochthonous population in Europe and that the differentiation of this lineage occurred over a long period of time, which lasted at least 450.000 years. What is the relationship of the Neanderthal population and the early hominids discovered in Europe? What are its phylogenetic relations with populations known today in Africa and in Asia? Can one speak of a cultural particularity for the Neanderthals?
1.1 Chris Stringer: The Middle Pleistocene Records of Western Eurasia and Africa, and the Evolution of Neanderthals and Modern Humans 1.2 Liu Wu: The Hominid Fossils from China Contemporaneous to the Neanderthals and some Related Studies 1.3 Naama Goren-INBAR: Behavioral and Cultural Origins of Neanderthals: A Levantine Perspective 1.4 Francesco Mallegni: The Earliest European Peopling after the Recent Discoveries: Early Neanderthals or Different Lineages? 14:00 – 18:00 Symposium 2: Neanderthal PalaeoenvironmentConveners : Wighart v. Koenigswald & Thomas Litt - Respondent: Clark F. Howell
Dramatic climatic changes altered the environment of the Neanderthal population during the middle and upper Pleistocene. Although the general sequence of the climatic changes is known from the deep sea record, we are far from establishing a stable stratigraphy sequence for the terrestrial realm. The fauna and flora reacted very differently to the climatic changes in the various regions, which be discussed in a geographical framework. The regional conditions in central and western Europe will be compared with those in the Mediterranean.
2.1. Chronis Tzedakis: Climate Change and Vegetation Response in the Mediterranean During the Middle and Late Pleistocene 2.2 Thomas Litt: Climatostratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Middle and Upper Pleistocene in North-Central Europe Based on Paleobotanical Data 2.3 Tassos Kotsakis: Evolution of the Vertebrate Pleistocene Faunas in the Mediterranean Area. 2.4 Wighart v. Koenigswald: Climatic Changes, Faunal Diversity, and Environment of the Neanderthals in Central and Western Europe During the Middle and Upper Pleistocene 2.5 Andrei Sher: Pleistocene Faunal and Environmental Evolution in Siberia: Adding a North-Eastern Dimension to the European Story
20:00 Public lecture at the LandesMuseum Bonn (Colmantstrasse 14)Ralf W. Schmitz: Neue Ergebnisse zum namengebenden Neanderthaler und zu seiner wiederentdeckten Fundstelle. (New results on the Neanderthal type Specimen and on the Rediscovered Locality).
Sunday July 23, 2006 University of Bonn, Geographisches Institut, Meckenheimer Allee 166
8:30 – 12:30 Symposium 3: Neanderthal lifeways, subsistence and technology Conveners: Nicholas Conard & Jürgen Richter - Respondent: Paul A. Mellars
This symposium will present the key archaeological data and ideas that have allowed researchers to reconstruct the lifeways of the Neanderthals. The speakers draw examples across the temporal and spatial range of Neanderthals and critically assess current interpretations. Lectures will address patterns of subsistence and nutrition based on faunal and isotopic analyses. Lithic artifacts and ,when preserved, organic artifacts provide insight into the technology that Neanderthals used in the diverse geographic and climatic zones that they occupied. By pooling the information available from multiple sources, speakers will critically examine models for land use, demographic patterning, and social structures to present an up-to-date assessment of the behavioral patterns of the Neanderthals.
3.1 Hervé Bocherens: Diet and Ecology of Neanderthals 3.2. Eric Boeda: Neanderthal Lithic Technology 3.3 Clive Gamble: Social Organization and Settlement Dynamics of Neanderthals 3.4 Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser: Neanderthal Subsistence Behaviour in Northwestern Europe 3.5. Steven Louis Kuhn: The Economics and Organisation of Neanderthal Technology
14:00 – 18:00 Postersession 114:00 – 18:00 Deuqua Session 1 Conveners: Frank Preusser & Ernst Brunotte Rhine session and Archeological sites
D1.1 Gerald Gabriel et al.: The Heidelberg Drilling Project (Upper Rhine Graben, Germany) D1.2 Peter Fischer & Ernst Brunotte: Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution and Soil Formation in the Range of the Loess Covered Middle Terraces in the Central Lower Rhine Embayment D1.3 Hans Axel Kemna: Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Chronostratigraphy of Middle and Northwestern Europe Based on Pollen Analysis: an Errant Concept and a New Approach D1.4 Andreas Dehnert: Burial Dating of Fluvial Sediments from the Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany D1.5 F.S. Busschers: Imprints of Climate Change, Sea-Level Oscillations and Glacio-Hydro-Isostacy in the Rhine-Meuse Sedimentary Record (the Netherlands)
Archeological sites D1.6 Daniela C. Kalthoff: The Fossil Vertebrate Fauna from the Neanderthal – Results and Problems of New Findings from the Type Locality of Homo Neanderthalensis D1.7 Ulrich Hambach et al. : Magnetic Susceptibility Stratigraphy and Enviromagnetics of Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Cave Sediments from Southern Germany (Hunas Cave Ruin, Franconia and Hohle Fels, Swabia) D1.8 Wilfried Rosendahl et al.: The Neandertalien Site Hunas: 50 ky (OIS 5b – OIS 3) Climate and Environment History in Southern Germany D1.9 Markus Fiebig et al.: Human Palaeoenvironment in the Eastern Alps during the Last Glacial Cycle
Cruise boat on the River Rhine (Foto: M.Sondermann)
Congress-Dinner in a River boat on the Rhine 19:00 h boarding and 19:30 h departure at pier near the “Alter Zoll” for the Congress-Dinner in a River boat “Wappen von Bonn” on the Rhine
Monday July 24, 2006 8:30 h depature for both excursions at the University of Bonn, Geographisches Institut, Meckenheimer Allee 166.
Both excursions will end at the reception of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Jean-Paul Str. 12 at 18:00h.
Tuesday July 25, 2006 University of Bonn, Geographisches Institut, Meckenheimer Allee 166
8:30 – 12:30 Symposium 4: Neanderthal Anatomy, Adaptation, Physical and Cultural Variations Conveners: Silvana Condemi & Winfried Henke - Respondent: Patricia Smith
After 150 years studying of Neanderthals, what do we really know about them? Which of their anatomical traits permit us to recognize and define them? What do we know about their growth and development? Do their morphological features result from adaptation to the particular climate of the middle Pleistocene? Does the Neanderthal pattern indicate long-term isolation in Europe or even speciation? The Neanderthals inhabited a vast geographic area extending from Portugal to Uzbekistan, and from northern Europe to the Near East. This raises the question concerning the homogeneity of the Neanderthal population. Is it possible to identify local variations in such a large areas? Can one recognize sub-groups?
4.1 Jean-Jacques Hublin: Neanderthal as an Other Humankind: Where are we now? 4.2 Anne-Marie Tillier: Palaeauxology Applied to Neanderthals 4.3 PATRICIA SMITH et al.: Computerized Reconstruction of Prenatal Growth Trajectories in the Dentition: Implications for the Taxonomic Status of Neandertals 4.4 Leslie Aiello: Neanderthals, Energetics and Evolution 4.5 Bernard Vandermeersch & M. D. Garralda: The Geographical and Chronological Variation of the Neanderthals.
14:00 – 18:00 Postersession 2 14:00 – 18:00 Deuqua Session 2
D2.1 Frank Preusser & Christian Schlüchter: Middle to Late Quaternary stratigraphy of Switzerland and correlation with high-resolution marine records D2.2 Birgit Terhorst et al.: Loess/paleosol sequences as stratigraphical database of the Brunhes Chron in Upper Austria D2.3 Brigitte Urban: Pleistocene Pollen Records from Schöningen, North Germany D2.4 Norbert Kühl et al.: Reconstruction and comparison of the climatic evolution of middle and upper Pleistocene warm periods and the Holocene D2.5 Sven Lukas et al.: Glaciation during the Younger Dryas in Europe’s mountains – an overview of climatic implications D2.6 Jürgen M. Reitner et al. : The sturzstrom event of Feld (Matrei/Eastern Tyrol/Austria): A forgotten catastrophe during early human settlement in the Alps? D2.7 Naki Akçar et al.: Cosmogenic dating (exposure and/or burial) of stone artifacts: additional dating tool in archeology?
17:00 General assemblage of the DEUQUA members 20:00 Reception at the roof terrace of the LandesMuseum Bonn, Colmantstrasse 14 21:00 Presentation of movies concerning early man
Wednesday July 26, 2006 University of Bonn, Geographisches Institut, Meckenheimer Allee 166
8:30 – 12:30 Symposium 5: Neanderthals and Modern Humans Conveners: Gerd-C. Weniger & Jörg Orschiedt - Respondent: Milford Wolpoff
The question “what happened during the contact between Neanderthals and early Modern Humans” is an evergreen. For decades there seemed to be a clear cultural borderline between the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic and a clear biological borderline between Neanderthals and early Moderns. Furthermore both borderlines were supposed to fit exactly one onto the other. Today the idea is growing that the situation was much more sophisticated and complex. The session will try to identifying some of the smallest common denominators within the plethora of opinions.
5.1 Svante Pääbo: Neanderthal Genomics 5.2 Olaf Jöris, Martin Street,Thomas Terberger & Bernhard Weninger: Dating the Transition 5.3 Eric Trinkaus: Late Neandertals and Early Modern Humans: Biology, Behavior and Population Dynamics5.4 Joao Zilhao: Patterns of Cultural Variability During the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition in Europe 5.5. Roberto Macchiarelli & Gerd-C. Weniger: NESPOS: From Data Accumulation to Data Management
14:00 - 16:00 Round Table discussion: Future Perspectives in the Study of Neanderthals Awarding of poster prize and closing ceremony
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 | Significant original literature:Some early literature on the Neanderthal-find (will be completed)
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