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PROGRAMME - GAINESVILLE 2005
The Status of Archaeomalacology in the 21st Century AMWG Archaeomalacology Working Group ICAZ International Council for Archaeozoology First Working Group Conference 17-19 February 2005 The Environmental Archaeology Program Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611 MISSION STATEMENT There are over 100,000 living species of mollusc, many of which have been important to humans. The use of the phylum Mollusca has been documented in archaeological sites as early as the Middle Palaeolithic. It has long been recognized that mollusc shells are an important zooarchaeological tool for interpreting various aspects of material culture, palaeoeconomy and the environment. Shells originating in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments are found in archaeological sites where they represent subsistence resources and raw materials for the manufacture of a diverse group of artifacts. Cross-culturally, molluscs were collected as or made into artifacts, exchange items, grave goods, etc. with various symbolic meanings attached to them. Mollusc exploitation is also manifested in the use of certain species for the production of dye and construction materials. Further, mollusc shells are often used to reconstruct the season of site occupation, as well as interpreting palaeoclimates, using isotopic and other methods. The mission of the ICAZ Archaeomalacology Working Group is the liberal exchange of data and information about the phylum Mollusca in the zooarchaeological record. It is our goal to focus our activities on molluscs in the zooarchaeological record and to contribute to the methods and theory relevant to the analysis of such remains. In so doing, we seek to encourage the publication of data and information concerning the use of this very important group of animals commonly found in archaeological sites. Program - Thursday, 17 February Chair: Irvy R. Quitmyer 8:00 - 8:30 Museum van pick up of members from their hotels and transport to the Exhibition Center of the Florida Museum of Natural History, Powell Hall, University of Florida. Please meet the van at the lobby entrance of your hotel. 9:00 - 10:00 Receive your registration packs Meet old friends, make new friends and enjoy continental breakfast. 10:00 - 10:10 Introduction: Irv Quitmyer 10:10 - 10:30 Welcome: Douglas S. Jones, Director of the Florida Museum of Natural History. 10:30 - 11:30 An Invited Presentation -- Kenneth E. Sassaman An Overview of Period Shellfish Use in Eastern North America, 8000-3000 B.P. Lunch 11:30 - 12:30 Chair: Katherine Szabó 12:30 - 12:50 Lilian Karali. Archaeomalacological Research in Greece. 12:50 - 1:10 Nathalie Serrand. Shellfish Use Across the Precolumbian West Indies. The Matter of Metrics: What and How Do We Compare? 1:10 - 1:30 David Maxwell. Fish-Drying and El Nino: Recognizing Short-Term Events Through Invertebrate Analysis. 1:30 - 1:50 Victoria Stosel. Observations on the Nicoleno Diet. 1:50 - 2:05 Discussion - Papers 1-4 2:05 - 2:20 Break Chair: Nathalie Serrand 2:20 - 2:40 Esteban Álvarez Fernández. Food & More: Marine Mollusks Exploitation during the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic in Cantabrian. 2:40 - 3:00 Katherine Szabó. Trajectories and Relationships in Shell Artefact Manufacture in Island Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. 3:00 - 3:20 Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer. Interpreting Dentalium Shells. 3:20 - 3:40 Diana Rocio Carvajal Contreras. Human Exploitation of Molluscs at Panamanian Sites. 3:40 - 3:55 Discussion - Papers 5 - 8 4:30 - 5:30 Tour of the South Florida Exhibit with Bill Marquardt. 5:30 - 7:30 Reception with food and drink. 7:30 Museum van will drive you back to your hotels. Program - Friday, 18 February 9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast with Friends 10:00 - 10:30 Kitty Emery, Assistant Curator of Environmental Archaeology. A welcome and comments on Archaeolmalacology. 10:30 - 10:45 Break. Visit with Kitty Emery. Chair: Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer 10:45 - 11:05 Greg Campbell. Sorry, Wrong Phylum: A Neophyte Archaeomalacologist's Experiences in Analyzing a European Atlantic Sea Urchin Assemblage. 11:05 - 11:25 Sándor Gulyás and -Pál Sümegi. Shellfishing in Neolithic Hungary. 11:25 - 11:45 Canan Cakirlar. The Economic Importance of Shellfish at Troy and the First Results of Seasonality Studies on Cerastoderma glaucum. 11:45 - 12:45 Lunch 12:45 - 1:05 Arlene Fradkin. Applying a Seasonality Measure of Oyster Harvesting: A Case Study from the Precolumbian Florida Coast. 1:05 - 1:25 Dan C. Marelli. Giving Life to Dead Scallops (Argopectin irradians). 1:25 - 1:40 Discussion - Papers 9-13 1:40 - 1:55 Break Chair: Evan Peacock 1:55 - 2:15 Teresa E. Steele. Investigating Marine Shellfish Use During the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa. 2:15 - 2:35 David W. Morgan. Rangia cuneata Overharvesting and Subsistence Change in Southwest Alabama, circa A.D. 1100-1250. 2:35 - 2:55 Evan Peacock. Investigating the Hypsithermal Climatic Optimum through Morphometric and Chemical Analysis of Freshwater Mussels. 3:55 - 4:10 Break 4:10 - 4:30 Marcello A. Mannino and Ken Thomas. Shellfish and Season: Investigating Prehistoric Human Ecology in the Coastal Zone of NW Sicily. 4:30 - 4:50 Douglas S. Jones, Irvy R. Quitmyer and C. Fred T. Andrus. Oxygen Isotopic Evidence for Greater Seasonality in Holocene shells of Donax variabilis from Florida. 4:50 - 5:05 Discussion - Papers 14 - 18 End -- Transportation back to you hotel Program - Saturday, 19 February Field Trip MORNING 8:00 - 8:15AM Museum will pick you up at you hotel. Please see Irv Quitmyer if you are staying with friends in Gainesville. He will arrange to pick you up for the field trip. 10:00 - 12:00 Arrive at Crystal River State Archaeological Site. Tour conducted by the Park Ranger. 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch. Box lunches will be provided. 1:00 Depart for Shell Mound near Cedar Key, Florida. Tour site and talk with our naturalist and malacologist, Kurt Auffenburg. 3:30 Depart for Shilo Cemetery. A 19th, 20th, and 21st century cemetery where shells are used to decorate the graves. This place illustrates the continuity between different maritime cultures over the last 4,000 years in Florida. Arrive around 5:00 at Robinson's Restaurant for a Florida fried seafood dinner. The members will be responsible for the cost of their meals ($12.00 USD). Robinson's accepts Visa Credit cards. FOR THE LIST OF ABSTRACTS, PLEASE REFER TO THE ABSTRACTS PAGE |
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