S1G



S1G

Room 2.122

Interdisciplinary approaches in studying the human past in Eastern Europe and beyond / Approches interdisciplinaires pour l’étude du passé humain en Europe orientale et au‑delà

Session organizers: Lehti Saag, Monika Karmin, Eve Rannamäe, Kaarel Sikk, Anneli Poska, Miina Norvik

S1G, Wed Sep 2 2026, 9:00 - 13:30, Room 2.122

9:00-9:20 - Welcome and introduction

9:20-9:40 - Reconstructing Social Structure in the Early Copper Age: Integrating Archaeogenetics and Kinship Modeling at Tiszapolgár-Basatanya / Taylor D. Mateyka, Zoltán Kovács Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Zsuzsanna Siklósi

9:40-10:00 - Exploring Seasonality and Husbandry Patterns at two Cernavodă I sites (4th Millenium BC, Romania) / Aurelien Tafani, Adrian Bălășescu, Valentin Radu

10:00-10:20 - Reassessing Animal Traction in the Secondary Products Revolution: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Study from Harappan Gujarat / Angad Lamba, Sharada Channarayapatna

10:20-10:40 - Ancient DNA From Shimao City And Its Satellites Records Genetic Interactions And Kinship Practices In Neolithic China / Zehui Chen, Jacob D. Gardner, Zhouyong Sun, E. Andrew Bennett, Qian Han, Xuesong Pei, Jing Shao, Han Shi, Wenjun Wang, Jiayang Xue, Fan Bai, Xiangming Dai, Nu He, Xiaoning Guo, Nan Di, Xiaowei Mao, Tianxiang Liu, Peng Cao, Feng Liu, Qingyan Dai, Xiaotian Feng, Wanjing Ping, Xiaohong Wu, Lizhao Zhang, Liang Chen, Qiaomei Fu

10:40-11:00 - New insights into genetic affinities of Middle Bronze Age populations from East-Central Europe. The case of Trzciniec Cultural Circle and Otomani-Füzesabony culture / Maciej Chyleński, Anna Juras, Dominika Oravkinova, Mária Krošláková, Zuzana Hukeľová, Łukasz Pospieszny, Ladislav Olexa, Przemysław Makarowicz, Mateusz Stróżyk, Mateusz Jaeger

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Shaping Little Lives: Bioarchaeological Insights into Childhood at Biniadrís Cave during Late Bronze Age Menorca, Spain / Michelle C. Pfeiffer, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla

11:50-12:10 - Human-Seals Interactions And Husbandry In The Southeastern Baltic

- An Interdisciplinary Study On Coastal Communities In Estonia / Piotr Wojtal, Lembi Lõugas, Sylwia Pospuła, Joanna Religa-Sobczyk, Natalia Sawka-Gądek, Chris Mark, Chizu Kato, Christoph Spötl, Teresa Tomek, Krzysztof Wertz, Nina Kowalik

12:10-12:30 - Geographic and Social Migrations - Stable Isotope Analysis of Human Bioarchaeological Data from 14th-18th c.c. Vilnius / Rimantas Jankauskas, Rūta Brindzaitė, Rytis Jonaitis, Irma Kaplūnaitė, Christophe Snoeck, Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė

12:30-12:50 - Challenges and rewards in the large interdisciplinary projects studying human past on local and regional scale: Estonian Roots and OCSEAN / Monika Karmin, Miina Norvik

12:50-13:10 - Mapping Interdisciplinary Data Ecologies of the Human Past: An Experiment from the Centre of Excellence of Estonian Roots / Kaarel Sikk

13:10-13:30 - Concluding discussion

13:30-14:30 - Lunch