S4D



S4D

Room 2.123

Moving on: updated scales, concepts and approaches to mobility in the Late Pleistocene

Session organizers: Philip R. Nigst, Timothy Canessa, William Davies, Viola C. Schmid, Paloma de la Peña, Alice Leplongeon

S4D, Fri Sep 4 2026, 9:40 - 15:50, Room 2.123

9:40-10:00 - Approaching mobility and landscape use in the Late Pleistocene of Africa and Eurasia: scales, concepts and methods / Philip R. Nigst, Timothy Canessa, William Davies, Viola C. Schmid, Paloma de la Peña, Alice Leplongeon

10:00-10:20 - Changing Mineral Technologies at Sibhudu Cave Provide New Insights Into a High-Resolution, Diachronic Perspective on MSA Ochre Use / Elizabeth C. Velliky, Nicholas J. Conard

10:20-10:40 - Living in the Rift: reconstructing mobility patterns in the Ethiopian Late Middle Stone Age / Marianna Fusco, Seminew Asrat, Caterina Aureli, Andualem Girma, Cristina Lemorini, Francesco Lucchini, Flavia Marinelli, Carlo Mologni, Sahra Talamo, Laura Tassoni, Marina Gallinaro, Andrea Zerboni, Enza E. Spinapolice

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Mobility, distance and technological organization during the Final Magdalenian: Insights from Molí del Salt (NE Iberia) / Irene González-Molina, Bruno Gómez de Soler, Susana Alonso, Manuel Vaquero

11:50-12:10 - Grotta Laceduzza (Apulia, Italy): Techno-economic analysis of a Late Mousterian Site/ Laura Longo, Paolo Giunti, Donato Coppola

12:10-12:30 - Climate, mobility and resource exploitation strategies of Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in Central and Eastern Europe: A first exploration using faunal data / Philip R. Nigst, Marjolein D. Bosch 

12:30-12:50 - Step by step: mobility corridors at the heart of the Basque Crossroads (Western Pyrenees, south-western Europe) / Miguel A. Berjón-Lobato, Alvaro Arrizabalaga, María J. Iriarte-Chiapusso

12:50-13:10 - Models, meanings and the materialities of mobility: The Early Upper Palaeolithic of Iberia in focus/ Timothy Canessa

13:10-13:30 - Raw Material Sourcing at Grub-Kranawetberg I and II, Austria: Approaching Late Gravettian shifts in mobility and landscape use /     Samuel Kasemann, Walpurga Antl-Weiser, Michael Bandl Stephane Pirson, Bence T. Viola, Marjolein D. Bosch, Philip R. Nigst

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-14:50 - Proto-Solutrean as a proxy: an insight into Upper Pleistocene flows of objects, concepts, and people in Western Iberia / Miguel Almeida, Thierry Aubry, Cristina Gameiro, Henrique Matias, André Santos, Luís Luís, Marcelo Silvestre

14:50-15:10 - Flint Circulation in Two Contemporary Magdalenian Sites within the La Garma Archaeological Complex (Cantabria, Northern Spain) / Antonio Tarriño, Adriana Chauvin, Pablo Arias

15:10-15:30 - In search of a scale of comparison between the model and the data on the ground – A new perspective from the MIS 3 Southern Caucasus / Ariel Malinsky-Buller, Theodoros Karampaglidis, David Nora, Ioannis A.K. Oikonomou, Dominik L. Rogall, Laura Sánchez-Romero, Ellery Frahm, Simon P.E. Blockley, Artur Petrosyan

15:30-15:50 - Closing discussion