S21C



S21C

Room 3.19

New directions in African archaeobotany: Building inter- and intra-disciplinary collaborations / Nouvelles orientations en archéobotanique africaine : construire des collaborations inter- et intra-disciplinaires

Session organizers: Celine Kerfant, Sara Scaglia and Giulio Roberto Bartuli

S21C, Wed Sep 2 2026, 9:00 - 11:00, Room 3.19

9:00-9:20 - Intoduction / Celine Kerfant, Sara Scaglia and Giulio Roberto Bartuli

9:20-9:40 - Bridging Microarchaeobotany and Use-Wear Analysis: Grinding Stone Function in Neolithic Luxmanda, Tanzania / Celine Kerfant

9:40-10:00 - Building a Starch and Phytolith Reference Collection of Tanzanian Plants for the Archaeobotanical Interpretation of Pastoral Contexts / Giulio Bartuli

10:00-10:20 - Klasies River, South Africa:120,000 Old Hearths: Sediments, Landscape, and Plant Foods / Cynthia Larbey

10:20-10:40 - Comparing apples with pears? Harmonising relative and absolute chronology for investigating cultivation dynamics in North Africa during the Holocene / Sara Scagli