S13A



S13A

Room 2.21

First marks, first minds: Early rock art and the emergence of symbolic thought / Premières marques, premières pensées : l’art rupestre ancien et l’émergence de la pensée symbolique

Session organizers: Sara Garcês, Hipólito Collado, Hugo Gomes, Virginia Lattao

S13A, Fri Sep 4 2026, 9:00 - 12:50, Room 2.21

9:00-9:20 - Stratified MSA Horizons in Equatorial Guinea: Results From Campo 11 / Morales et al.

9:20-9:40 - Revisiting Open-Air Stone Age Sites in The Messak Massif (Central Sahara, Libya / Cancellieri et al.

9:40-10:00 - Geomorphic, Stratigraphic, and Chronologic Contexts of the Acheulian and Middle Stone Age/Paleolithic, Southern Egyptian Sahara / Hill, C.

10:00-10:20 - Identifying Variation in Site Use and Mobility Patterns in Cave Contexts During the Late MSA of Morocco / Sanchez-Morales

10:20-10:40 - The cultural stratigraphic sequence at Sibhudu / Conard et al.

10:40-11:00 - Temporal Dynamics of the Still Bay at Sibhudu Cave, South Africa / Kong et al.

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - New insights into the chronology of Middle Stone Age open-air sites in the central interior grasslands of South Africa / Richard et al.

11:50-12:10 - POSTER 1 (Fusco & Conard / The lithic assemblage from the basal MSA deposits at Sibhudu) & POSTER 2 (Farkouch et al. / Visibility or Efficiency: Modeling MSA Homo sapiens Mobilities in the Aïn Beni Mathar–Guefaït Region, Eastern Morocco)

12:10-12:30 - POSTER 3 (Cicerano et al. / Examining how the Still Bay began at Sibhudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

12:30-12:50 - Discussion of the 2nd day session