S12A



S12A

Room 2.122

The Lower Palaeolithic of Central Europe and neighboring regions: State of the art 30 years after the “Short Chronology” / Le Paléolithique inférieur d’Europe centrale et des régions voisines : état des lieux 30 ans après la « courte chronologie »

Session organizers: Andrzej Wiśniewski, Marcel Weiss, Olaf Jöris

S12A​​, Thu Sep 3 2026, 9:00 - 15:50, Room 2.122

9:00-9:20 - The Lower Palaeolithic of Central Europe and Neighboring Regions: State of the Art 30 Years after the “Short Chronology” – an Introduction / Olaf Jöris, Marcel Weiss, Andrzej Wiśniewski

9:20-9:40 - Studying Lower Paleolithic Population Dynamics with Ancient DNA / Kay Prüfer, Janet Kelso, Matthias Meyer

9:40-10:00 - Biomineral geochronologies for Quaternary Europe - a tool for correlating past environmental change and human activity in the Lower Palaeolithic / Kirsty Penkman, Debra Colarossi, Marc Dickinson, Geoff Duller, Samantha Greeves, Ellie Nelson, Helen Roberts, Lucy Wheeler, Dustin White

10:00-10:20 - Fluvial terraces and loess-palaeosol sequences from Northern France: Quaternary reference sequences and type-site of the Acheulean / Pierre Antoine, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Pierre Voinchet, Nicole Limondin-Lozouet, Julie Dabkowski, David Herisson, Jean-Luc Locht, Marie-Hélène Moncel

10:20-10:40 - Chronological Frameworks and Settlement Patterns of the Early Palaeolithic in Belgium / Kévin Di Modica), Grégory Abrams, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Soraya Bengattat, Jan-Pieter Buylaert, Amélie Challier, Tristan Dedrie, Johan De Grave, Christophe Falguères, Guillaume Guérin, Jef Heyndrickx, Angus Moore, Veerle Vanacker, Dimitri Vandenberghe, Sophie Verheyden, Pierre Voinchet, Stéphane Pirson

10:40-11:00 - Discussion

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Early and Middle Pleistocene Chronostratigraphy of the Central Rhineland, Germany / Olaf Jöris, Debra Colarossi, Geoff Duller, Michal Horsák, Melanie Kranz-Bartz, Tobias Lauer, Simon A. Parfitt, Richard C. Preece, Helen Roberts, Andreas Vött, Dustin White, Peter Fischer

11:50-12:10 - Middle Pleistocene Chronostratigraphy of the Neckar River Catchment and New Age Constraints for the Regional Lower Palaeolithic Record / Olaf Jöris, Berrin Çep, Peter Fischer, Nico Rogalski, Yvonne Tafelmaier, Wolfgang Ufrecht, Tobias Lauer

12:10-12:30 - The Early Palaeolithic of the Morava River Basin: a 40-Year Retrospective / Jiri Chlachula

12:30-12:50 - Elsterian-Holsteinian Chronostratigraphy of Western Central Europe / Marcel Weiss, Tobias Lauer, Olaf Jöris

12:50-13:10 - New Data on the Lower Palaeolithic of Central Europe: Records from the Draby 1 Cave Site, Central Poland / Andrzej Wiśniewski, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Katarzyna Szubińska-Zarzecka, Adrian Marciszak, Piotr Moska, Adam Kobyłka, Dominika Tokarz, Jędrzej Woyciechowski, Marek Kasprzak, Sara Diaz-Perez, Katarzyna Pyżewicz, Claudio Berto

13:10-13:30 - Discussion

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-14:50 - Bilzingsleben / Marcel Weiss, Thomas Weber

14:50-15:10 - The Lower Palaeolithic Record of Vértesszőlős / György Lengyel, Miklós Beke, Antony Borel, Gábor Újvári, Jan-Pieter Buylaert, Natalia Taratunina, Marjan Temovski, László Palcsu, Sándor Kele

15:10-15:30 - The Schöningen Wooden Artefacts / Dirk Leder, Gianpiero Di Maida, Thomas Terberger

15:30-15:50 - Discussion