“European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)“ Inaugural Meeting

Leipzig, Germany - September 23rd and 24th, 2011

Time Session 1 (Altes Rathaus) Session 2 (Alte Börse)8:00 Start of Day 18:30-8:50 Opening Speech by Jean-Jacques Hublin Opening Speech by Wil Roebroeks

Chairperson: Bernard Wood Chairperson: Shannon McPherron9:00 Yohannes Haile-Selassie

Revisiting the Origins and Phylogenetic Relationships of Australopithecus africanus: New Perspectives from the Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia

Margherita Mussi et al.

The site of Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia): the archeological record from Oldowan to Late Stone Age

9:20 Fred Spoor et al.

A CT-based reconstruction of the OH 7 Homo habilis type mandible

Ran Barkai et al.

Acheulian lithic variability and its behavioral implications at the site of Revadim, Israel

9:40 Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo et al.

New Associated Hominin Remains from BK (Upper Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)

Michael Field et al.

Preliminary results of recent fieldwork at the Lower Palaeo-lithic site Happisburgh Site 1, East Anglia, UK

10:00 Debbie Argue and Colin Groves

Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus and Homo sapiens — a comparison of morphological characters.

Olaf Jöris

The late Lower Palaeolithic of Western Eurasia

10:20 Colin Groves

Pathological conditions in LB1, the type specimen of Homo floresiensis: what difference do they make?

Elisa Nicoud and Roxane Rocca

The Out of Africa patterns vs. Middle Pleistocene European lithic industries [MIS 16-8]

10:40 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAKChairperson: Christophe Boesch Chairperson: Katerina Harvati

11:00 Christophe Boesch

Tool use and cumulative cultural evolution in humans and chimpanzees

Jordi Serangeli et al.

Schöningen and its importance for research into the cul-tural evolution of humans

11:20 Louis de Weyer

The variability of the first hominin technologies. New approach of Oldowan and Mode 1 assemblages. Questions about the emergence of stone tool tech-nologies and their diffusion

Daniel Richter

The chronostratigraphy of the south-western French Middle Palaeolithic: New TL data for the sequences of Pech de l’Azé IV and Chez Pinaud ( Jonzac)

11:40 Mohamed Sahnouni et al.

Evidence of cutmarks and usewear traces from the Plio-Pleistocene site of El-Kherba (Ain Hanech, Algeria). Implications for early hominid subsistence activities circa 1.8 Ma

Ella Been et al.

The sagittal posture of the Kebara 2 Neandertal

12:00 Josephine Joordens et al.

Magneto- and strontium isotope stratigraphy of the hominin-bearing upper Burgi Member, Karari, Turkana Basin

Patrick Semal et al.

The Neandertals of Spy (Belgium) and their context: results of the radiocarbon dating program

12:20 Sarah Elton et al.

Fauna and habitats in Plio Pleistocene eastern Africa: a multi-species ecomorphological approach

Dušan Mihailović et al.

The Early Middle Palaeolithic in the Balkans. The case of Velika and Mala Balanica (Serbia)

12:40-14:30

LUNCH LUNCH

Friday, 23 September, 2011

14:30-17:00 Poster Presentation Session in the foyer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Cocktail hour from 16:00 Bus Shuttle Service to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology:

1st Bus: 1:15pm (Take this bus if you would like to have lunch at the MPI-EVA, the cafeteria will be open until 2:30pm.)

2nd Bus: 2:00pm

*The buses will be waiting next to Thomaskirche. Please see map below, or follow our guides from the conference venues toward the bus.

No. Poster Presenters

1 Almudena Alcázar de Velasco et al. New data concerning the taxonomy of the Bañolas human mandible (Girona, Spain)

2 Antoine Balzeau & Hélène Rougier Micro-CT analysis of the occipital bone of La Ferrassie 8: new data on the internal structure of the suprainiac fossa of a Neandertal child

3 Benjamin Mora et al. The AST-RX platform: a new efficient X-ray tomography facility for the scientific community at the “Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle”, Paris.

4 William E. Banks et al. Evaluating a possible adaptive shift between the Proto- and Early Aurignacian via Eco-cultural niche modeling.

5 Anna Barros Ontogeny of humeral torsion in humans and African apes: is humeral torsion a homology or a homoplasy?

6 Stefano Benazzi et al. Comparison of dental measurement systems for taxonomic assignment of Neanderthal and modern human lower sec-ond deciduous molars

Friday, 23 September, 2011

7 Nuno Bicho et al. Early Upper Paleolithic ecodynamics in southern Iberia

8 Andrzej Boguszewski & Pawel Hitczenko It’s possible to find a mathematical algorithm in the morphology of the Mesolithic cores? Algorithms as a tool for a mor-phological analysis of Mesolithic cores.

9 Noémie Bonneau et al. Integrative analysis of the hip joint: the three-dimensional orientation of the acetabulum and its relation with the orien-tation of the femoral neck

10 Silvia Bortoluzzi et al. Deciduous molar morphology of living hominids and South African fossil hominins

11 Denise Cappadonia et al. Evolving brains, evolving minds

12 João Cascalheira et al. Dating the Early Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Iberia: the case of Vale Boi.

13 Carmine Collina The Bifacial Shaping Strategies during the Acheulean at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia): the Early Middle Pleis-tocene sites of Simbiro III, Garba XIII and Gombore II

14 Gloria Cuenca-Bescós et al. Human Adaptations to the Late Last Glacial in Western and Central Europe: The Magdalenian landscape of El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, North Spain)

15 Anne Delagnes & William Rendu Alternative strategies in Neandertal mobility

16 Maria Dobrovolskaya & Maria Mednikova Microanatomical investigation of juvenile remains of South Siberian Neanderthals

17 Alexei Tiunov & Maria Dobrovolskaya Stable isotope 13C/12C and 15N/14N evidence for Mid-Upper Paleolithic Hominines’ palaeodiets in Gorny Altai

18 Katerina Douka et al. Recent advances in the radiocarbon dating of Paleolithic remains

19 Edouard-Georges Emonet & Ottmar Kullmer Variability of the number of roots in a single biological population of Pan troglodytes verus

20 Michele Ernandes et al. Supernatural agents in human minds: brain mechanisms and triggering stimuli

21 Virginie Fabre et al. New insights on Neanderthal demise and its determinants by the way of mathematical modelling

22 Cinzia Fornai et al. Enamel thickness and dental tissue proportions in modern human upper first deciduous molars

23 Molly Fox Re-Evaluating the Grandmother Hypothesis

24 Erksin Güleç et al. Initial Upper Paleolithic human dental remains From Ucagizli Cave (Hatay, Turkey)

25 Anja Gumprich & Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons Addressing the challenges of dating archaeological sites: A luminescence assessment of sediments at Jonzac, southwest France

26 John Hawks & Aaron Sams Immunogenetics of archaic humans

27 Thomas Ingicco et al. Complex hunter-gatherers – monkeys interactions in Southeast Asian archipelagos

28 Brett J. Kennedy Group differences in proneness to inflammation influenced by cytokine polymorphisms

29 Tracy L. Kivell et al. Trabecular bone structure of the fossil hominin first metacarpals.

30 Jaime Lira et al. Mitochondrial DNA from Pleistocene and ancient Holocene Iberian horses. Rooting the Iberian domestic lineages

31 Laura Martín-Francés et al. Hypercementosis study in the early and middle pleistocene human fossils of Atapuerca (Spain)

32 Maria Mednikova Morphological patterns and developmental age of Neanderthal juvenile postcranial remains from Altai

33 Valentine Meyer et al. Estimating missing data: comparison of the accuracy and precision of three methods applied on the pelvis.

34 Célimène Mussini et al. A Neandertal femoral diaphysis from Les Pradelles (Marillac-le-Franc, France): morphometric and cross-sectional analy-ses

35 Ricarda Müssig The evolution of the human mind:The Solutrean, time of cultural transition

36 Simon Neubauer et al. Estimating endocranial volume of A. africanus: influences of variability among reconstructions and small sample size

37 Khori Newlander & Jamie L. Clark Conceptualizing Behavioral Variability in the southern African Middle Stone Age

38 Marlijn L. Noback et al. Modern human climate-related variation: face vs. nasal cavity

39 Jörg Orschiedt et al. The Human remains from Maszycka cave – a new approach

40 Adrián Pablos et al. Ankle bones of Homo heidelbergensis from the Middle Pleistocene site of Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca,Burgos, Spain)

41 Telmo Pereira et al. The impact of raw material availability in the SW Iberian Paleolithic

42 Leyre Prado-Simón et al. A morphological study of the tooth roots of the Sima del Elefante mandible (Atapuerca, Spain).

43 Alessandro Riga & Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi Environmental influence on the phenotype: insights from teeth

44 Ermanno Rizzi et al. Genomic Selection and Next Generation Sequencing for genetic characterization of ancient human remains from Italy.

45 Izabela Romanowska The Loess Hypothesis: is the Central and Eastern European Lower Palaeolithic hiding deep underground?

46 François Semah et al. Multi-proxy chronological approach of Homo erectus bearing sites in Indonesia : the Ngebung example

47 Sascha Senck et al. Morphological integration between palatal orientation, cranial base and orbits in Pan and Pongo

48 Nandini Singh et al. Re-examination of Pan sub-species differences – what the cranio-facial data show us

49 Matthew M. Skinner et al. Crown shape correspondence between the EDJ and the enamel surface of hominoid molars

50 Geoff Smith Static data and active agents: Palaeolithic landscape use and meat procurement behaviour in Britain and north-west Europe

51 Leif Steguweit Cut marks and their natural alterations: archaeological imagination meets carnivore activities

52 Stefanie Stelzer et al. Quantitative comparison of dental occlusal wear patterns in Australopithecus afarensis and Pan troglodytes lower mo-lars

53 Andre Strauss et al. Late juvenile, early adult cranial growth in a chimpanzee population from the Tai forest

54 Denise Su The paleoenvironment of Pliocene Laetoli (Tanzania): a synthesis of diverse habitat indicators

55 Viviana Toro-Ibacache et al. The effect of image segmentation method on the cranial response to load: a finite element analysis sensitivity study

56 Elaine Turner et al. Changing patterns of human subsistence in North Africa during the Middle Palaeolithic and Iberomaurusian: evidence from the Grotte de Pigeons at Taforalt, Morocco

57 Nikoloz Tushabramishvili New Paleolithic Cave sites of western Georgia New approach to study the caves

58 Bence Viola et al. Middle Palaeolithic associated hominin remains from Chagyrskaya Cave, Altai Mountains, Russian Federation

59 Thomas Weber Gravel pit archaeology: a valuable source for the Older Palaeolithic periods in Central Europe?

60 Rebecca Wragg Sykes The British Late Middle Palaeolithic: technological practices during the MIS Neanderthal re-occupation

61 Nicolas Zwyns Laminar technology and the Upper Paleolithic in Gorny-Altai: a chrono-cultural model

KEYNOTE ADDRESS "Exploring the Genomes of Archaic Humans" by Svante Pääbo

Friday, September 23rd, 2011, 19:00 - 20:00Large Lecture Hall (Hörsaal 9) + Hörsaal 8 (video transmission), Leipzig University,

Universitätsstraße 3, D-04109 Leipzig

The Keynote address will take place in the large lecture hall, Hörsaal 9, at Leipzig University, Hörsaalgebäude (lecture hall building), Universitätsstraße 3, second floor. In case the maximum size audience in lecture hall # 9 will be exceed-ed, a simultaneous video transmission will be provided in lecture hall # 8, next to lecture hall # 9. How to get to the city center/Leipzig University when leaving from the Max Planck Institute, Deutscher Platz

• The walk from the Max Planck Institute to Leipzig University takes ca. 20 to 25 minutes (see map).• When leaving the institute, turn left towards Semmelweissstraße. In the center of the street you will find the

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Time Session 1 (Alte Rathaus) Session 2 (Alte Börse)8:00 Start of Day 2

Chairperson: María Martinón-Torres Chairperson: Harold Dibble8:20 María Martinón-Torres and José Maria Bermú-

dez de Castro

Evolutionary scenario of the Pleistocene popula-tions from Europe in the light of the Atapuerca hominin fossils

William Rendu et al.

New excavation of the Mousterian site of La Chapelle-aux-Saints.

8:40 Asier Gómez-Olivencia et al.

A complete neck from Sima de los Huesos and the evolution of the cervical spine in Neandertal lineage

João Zilhão et al.

The Last of the Neandertals: preliminary results of New dat-ing and excavation work at Gruta da Figueira Brava (Setúbal, Portugal)

9:00 Ignacio Martínez et al.

Fossils, bits and decibels: communication and the origin of language

Gema Adán et al.

40 kyr old association of Mousterian lithic industry with 20 ant-ler sagaie and two Neandertal milk teeth at Cueva del Conde

9:20 Christine Verna et al.

Morphological and morphometric analysis of the Middle Pleistocene hominin mandible from Payre (Ardèche, France)

Nicholas Conard et al.

Excavations at the MSA shell midden at Hoedjiespunt: testing models for early coastal adaptations

9:40 Chris Stringer

Sorting the muddle: human species and their relationships in the Middle Pleistocene

Christopher Henshilwood et al.

‘Punctuated’ Cultural Evolution & Climate Change: An update on the latest excavations at the southern African sites Blombos Cave and Klipdrift Shelter (100-60 ka)

10:00 Sarah Freidline et al.

Middle Pleistocene human facial morphology in an evolutionary and developmental context

Harold Dibble et al.

New Excavations at the Grotte des Contrebandiers, Morocco

10:20 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAKChairperson: Philipp Gunz Chairperson: Paul Mellars

10:40 Philipp Gunz et al.

The bony labyrinth reconsidered, introducing a new geometric morphometric approach

Philip van Peer

A long-term comparative perspective on the European Middle Palaeolithic and the African MSA

11:00 Katerina Harvati et al.

A reconsideration of the Apidima 2 cranium, S. Greece

Paul Mellars

Conflicting models for the Modern Human Colonisation of South Asia: new Genetic and Archaeological Perspectives)

11:20 Bruno Maureille

Unusual Anatomical traits on the unerupted up-per deciduous incisor crowns of the Le Moustier 2 Neandertal perinate (Le Moustier Lower rock-shelter, Peyzac-le-Moustier, Dordogne, France)

Paul Haesaerts et al.

New perspective on climatic background and chronology of the Middle Pleniglacial (MIS 3 stage) in Central and Eastern Europe

11:40 Adeline Le Cabec et al.

Does anterior tooth root size correlate with symphyseal size in Neanderthals and modern humans?

Alexander Pryor et al.

Dansgaard-Oeschger events and the climatic context of human occupation events in Europe between 50,000-20,000ya

12:00 Dominique Grimaud-Hervé et al.

Evolution of the Homo sapiens brain

Tom Higham et al.

Radiocarbon dating the dispersal of the first anatomically mod-ern humans into western Europe

12:20-14:30

LUNCH LUNCH

Saturday, 24 September, 2011

Chairperson: Jean-Marie Hombert Chairperson: Francesco D’Errico14:00 Gerhard Weber et al.

Biomechanical modelling of hominoid skulls and teeth

Marcello Mannino et al.

Hard times for Neanderthals? An isotopic investigation on the diet of the Late Mousterian humans that populated northern Italy during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition

14:20 Paul O’Higgins et al.

Can we carry out comparative FEA analyses of fossil hominin crania that inform about diet?

Domingo Carlos Salazar-García et al. Dietary adaptations in the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Eastern Iberia

14:40 Christoph Zollikofer et al.

Lamarck and landmarks: evolving morphometric tools for anthropology

Marco Peresani et al.

Adding new evidence to the debate regarding Neanderthals and the exploitation of birds

15:00 Michael Coquerelle et al.

Mandibular morphology in humans and chim-panzees: developmental effect of the teeth, the tongue and suprahyoid muscles on the mental region

Francesco d’Errico et al.

The reality of Neandertal symbolic behavior at the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure

15:20 Aida Gómez-Robles

Morphological integration in the hominin denti-tion: Evolutionary, functional and developmental factors

Morgan Roussel

Norms and variation within the lithic industry during the Châtelperronian. What they tell us about contact between Châtelperronian and Protoaurignacian?

15:40 BREAK BREAKChairperson: Jean-Marie Hombert Chairperson: Francesco D’Errico

16:00 Christine Tardieu et al.

The challenge of bipedal balance. How sagit-tal balance is acquired during gait acquisition? Comparison with non-human primates. Evolu-tionary implications

Marcel Otte

Aurignacian origins in Central Asia

16:20 Karen Rosenberg et al.

Reconsidering the evolution of human rotational birth

Yuri Demidenko

North Black Sea region Archaic Aurignacian complexes with dif-ferent microliths and their role for Western Eurasia Aurignacian variability and origin studies

16:40 Klervia Jaouen et al.

Iron and copper stable isotopes in human bones record sex and metabolism

Sandrine Prat et al.

New Anatomically Modern Humans directly-dated at 32 ky BP from eastern Europe (Buran-Kaya III, Crimea, Ukraine)

17:00 Jeroen Smaers et al.

Sexual dimorphism and laterality in the evolu-tion of the anthropoid prefrontal cortex

Gerhard Bosinski

The Sungir’ - Strelecka techno-complex, representing the oldest stage of Eastern European Upper Palaeolithic

17:20 Jean-Marie Hombert

Lowered larynx in humans: speech or male sexual attractiveness?

Ariane Burke et al.

Modeling the impact of climate on the pattern of human popu-lation expansion in Iberia during the Last Glacial Maximum

17:40 End of Session 1 End of Session 2

17:50 Business Meeting

Saturday, 24 September, 2011