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ESF workshop "Archaeology of Sheep Domestication: New Approaches”, London 18-19 maggio.

ESF Exploratory Workshop

Archaeology of Sheep domestication: new approaches

Preliminary programme

Sunday, 16 May – arrival

Monday, 17 May

9.30-9.45 Welcome by the Director of the UCL Institute of Archaeology, Stephen Shennan

9.45-10.00 Introduction by the organisers

Session 1 Wool textiles

10.00--10.30 Early evidence for wool

Irene Good, Harvard University, USA

10.30-11.00 From raw wool to textile: stages of production

Linda Olofsson, Sweden

11.00-11.30 The impact of processing methods on analysis of woollen textiles from the archaeological record: points for discussion

Carol Christiansen, Shetland Museum and Archives, UK

11.30-12.00 Archaeology of wool textiles

Margarita Gleba, University College London, UK

12.00-13.00 Lunch

Session 2 Archaeozoology of sheep and written sources

13.00-13.30 Archaeological and archaeozoological evidence of the early
domestication of sheep in the Near East and Europe

Jean-Denis Vigne, CNRS, Paris, France

13.30-14.00 Arrival of sheep in Italy and Sardinia and their development during prehistory

Barbara Wilkens, University of Sassari, Italy

14.00-14.30 Sheep breed development in Roman times: Integration of Archaeozoological, Ancient Textual and Artistic Evidence

Michael MacKinnon, University of Winnipeg, Canada

14.30-15.00 TBA

Françoise Rougement, CNRS

15.00-15.30 Coffee

Session 3 Wool fibre

15.30-16.00 Identification of ancient fibres using modern microscopy and diffraction techniques

Bodil Holst, Bergen University, Norway

16.00-16.30 SEM fibre analyses: methods, results and limits

Antoinette Rast-Eicher, Archeotex, Switzerland

16.30-17.00 Hair biology and fibre ultrastructure

Andrew S. Wilson, University of Bradford, UK

17.00-17.30 The dyeing of wool: dyes, dye methods and degradation

Ina Vanden Berghe, Belgium

17.30-18.00 General discussion

Tuesday, 18 May

Session 4 Isotopic tracing

9.00-9.30 Latest advances with isotopes on sheep during the early stages of domestication

Carlos Tornero, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

9.30-10.00 TBA

David Meiggs, University of Wisconsin, USA

10.00-10.30 Strontium isotope analysis and wool provenance

Karin Margarita Frei, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

10.30-11.00 A multiple light stable isotope approach to medieval wool samples: what can we learn about trade and sheep husbandry?

Isabella von Holstein, University of York, UK

11.00-11.30 Coffee

Session 5 New methods

11.30-12.00 Potential of Proteomics for the Identification and Characterisation of Wool in Ancient Textiles

Caroline Solazzo, University of York, UK

12.00-12.30 Modern primitive sheep breeds and sheep domestication

Miika Tapio, International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya

12.30-13.00 Using retrovirus integrations to reveal sheep domestication

Massimo Palmarini, University of Glasgow, UK

13.00-14.00 Lunch

Session 6 DNA and sheep domestication

14.00-14.30 The Sheep Genome Project, what it means for wool

John McEwan, AgResearch, NewZealand

14.30-15.00 Evolutionary genomics and sheep domestication

Anders Götherström, Uppsala University, Sweden

15.00-15.30 DNA survival in modern and ancient wool, and implications for bioarchaeology

Tom Gilbert, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

15.30-16.00 Coffee

16.00-17.30 General discussion and planning of future collaboration

La 11^a Conferenza Internazionale ICAZ (International Council for Archaeozoology) avrà luogo a Parigi dal 23 al 28 Agosto 2010

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