GS4



GS4

Room 3.132

Palaeoecology / Paléoécologie

Session organizers: Albert Hafner,  Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo

GS4, Thu Sep 3 2026, 9:00 - 15:10, Room 3.132

9:00-9:20 - Frozen Grounds: Palaeoecology of the Palaeolithic of Western Beringia / Jiri Chlachula, Maksin Yu. Cheprasov, Viktor M. Dyakonov

9:20-9:40 - Characterizing the palaeoecological record of the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in NE Iberia: Cova Foradada (Calafell, Tarragona) / Mónica Fernández-García, Ethel Allué, Isabel Expósito, Juan Manuel López-García, Miguel Soares-Remiseiro, Juan I. Morales

9:40-10:00 - Carrying Capacity and Available Biomass during HE4 in Mediterranean Iberian Peninsula: modelling based on Terrassa de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà, Spain) / Gerard Terrón-Marín, Joan Daura, Montserrat Sanz

10:00-10:20 - L’extinction des grands mammifères dans le nord‑est de la péninsule Ibérique au cours du Pléistocène supérieur et de l’Holocène / Julià Maroto, Isaac Rufí, Ferran Millan, Clàudia Tura-Poch, Jordi Nadal

10:20-10:40 - Late Pleistocene Levantine Megafaunal Extinctions: Insights from Species-Specific Modelling / Meir Orbach, Hannah O’Regan

10:40-11:00 - The antiquity and social implications of early twisted fibre technology / Karen Hardy

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - A story written by phytoliths. Microarchaeobotanical studies of the Neolithic sites in north-central Poland / Dominika Kofel

11:50-12:10 - Intestinal Archives as Direct Evidence: Reconstructing Consumption Practices from Prehistoric Paleofeces / Kerstin Kowarik, Daniel Brandner, Karina Grömer, Daniela Festi, Tom Higham, Christoph Hörweg, Andreas G. Heiss, Valentina Laaha, Robert Moritz, Daniel Oberndorfer, Maximilian Piniel, Gerald Raab, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Mohammed Sarhan, Nicola Segata, Georg Tiefengraber, Julia Walochnik, Frank Maixner

12:10-12:30 - Invisible evidence: microfossils and plant resource management in Bronze Age southeastern Iberia / Victoria Garcia-Martinez, Marta Portillo, Francisco Contreras

12:30-12:50 - Human–Environment Dynamics in the Gash Delta (Eastern Sudan) during the Early Second Millennium BC: Anthracological Evidence from Kassala / Matteo Delle Donne, Alfonso Battimelli, Andrea Manzo

12:50-13:10 - Archaeobotanical Evidence of Human–Plant Interactions during the Mid-Holocene in Wallacea: Insights from the Cappa Lombo Site, South Sulawesi / Erwin Mansyur Ugu Saraka, Fakhri, Marlin Tolla, Muh. Hafda

13:10-13:30 - Decoding Ecology from Epigraphy: Brāhmī Inscriptions as Sources for Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in Sri Lanka / Mandaramnuwara Chandananda, Arpita Chatterjee

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-14:50 - Geomorphology and Archaeological Settlement Pattern of Terai Region of North Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India / Pushp Lata Singh

14:50-15:10 - Mission Palawan: New Evidence for Long-Term Human Occupations and Coastal Adaptations in Southern Palawan, Philippines / Hermine Xhauflair, Timothy Vitales, Francis Claravall, Jerone Cansino, Kristine Kate A. Lim, Dawn Satumbaga, Emil Robles, David Codeluppi, Louis Champion, Rhayan Melendres, Pauline Basilia, Justin Bernardo, Maricar Belarmino, Claire Delhon, Patrick Castro, Gabrielle Anne B. Gascon, Janine Ochoa, Astrud Ulili, Samantha Martija, Cristine Pingal, Karl Garrido, Gary Catingup, Aurora Patiño, Xavier Gallet