S4C



S4C

Room 3.20

Integrating multidisciplinary approaches to reconstruct human-environment relationships in the Pleistocene past / Intégrer des approches pluridisciplinaires pour reconstituer les relations homme-environnement durant le Pléistocène

Session organizers: Leire Torres-Iglesias, Emilie Berlioz, Frido Welker and Anna Wagner

S4C, Fri Sep 4 2026, 9:00 - 15:30, Room 3.20

9:00-9:20 - Refining the Late Pleistocene ecology of Stajnia Cave (Poland): insights from stable isotope analysis (δ13C, δ18O) on mammalian tooth enamel / Giuseppe Briatico et al.

9:20-9:40 - New ZooMS Reference Databases For Southern African Zooarchaeology / Johanna Krüger et al.

9:40-10:00 - Quantifying early Pleistocene Habitat Openness: Integrating Dental Microwear Texture Analysis (DMTA) and Sentinel-2 NDVI data / Emilie Berlioz et al.

10:00-10:20 - Multiproxy geochemical approaches to human–environment interactions in Iberian Quaternary contexts / Virginia Lattao et al.

10:20-10:40 - From Fragmented Remains to Faunal Reconstruction: Integrating NIR Pre-screening & Minimally Destructive ZooMS at Boomplaas Cave (14.1–9.7 kcal BP) / Bacara Spruit et al.

10:40-11:00 - Neanderthal hunting strategies at El Castillo cave: insights from amelogenin-based sex estimation of hunted ungulates / Leire Torres-Iglesias et al.

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Testing Proteomics across Middle Paleolithic Contexts: A Pilot Study from Lapa do Picareiro and Gruta da Companheira (Portugal) / Milena Carvalho et al.

11:50-12:10 - Ostrich Eggshells As Proxies For Reconstructing Late Quaternary Human–Environment Interactions in Northern Maharashtra, India / Siddhi Bansod

12:10-12:30 - Advanced imaging (µct), archaeometry, and 'omics' reveal daily and symbolic behavior 30 kyr bp / Laura Longo et al.

12:30-12:50 - Integrating Dental Wear Proxies To Reconstruct Seasonality And Human–Environment Interactions During The Middle And Late Pleistocene / Florent Rivals

12:50-13:10 - Reassessing Neanderthal–Homo sapiens COEXISTence: Zooarchaeological Evidence from Central and Southeastern Europe / Anna Wagner et al.

13:10-13:30 - Observations on the NeoTaphonomic processes at Umaria / Sakina Halvadwala

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:50-15:10 - Late Epigravettian Ungulate Isotopic Ecology and Environmental Change during the Late Glacial at Riparo Tagliente (NE Italy) / Mahym Amanova et al.

15:10-15:30 - Applying Biomolecular Approaches to the Mammoth-steppe Fauna of the Grub-Kranawetberg Site Complex (Austria) / Marjolein Bosch et al.