Archaeological research in Africa

Opening remarks and seminar overview (9:00 – 9:30 AM)

Morning Session I (9:30 AM - 12:00 PM)

Moderator: Medina Lubisia

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Kuiha’s Pottery from Aksumite to Medieval Period: First Insights on a Diachronic corpus. (Desta Haileyesus - Aix-Marseille Université, France)

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Kansyore Fisher-Foragers: Zooarchaeological Perspectives from the Holocene of Lake Victoria Basin, Eastern Africa. (Sylvia Wemanya - Rice University, USA)

Break (10:30 AM – 11:00 AM)

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Iron Production During the Aksumite and Post-Aksumite Periods in Eastern Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. (Hailay Atsbha - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaures, France)

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: The Nexus of Faith, Water and Power: A Historical Ecology of Monastic Resilience and Resources Governance in the Northern Horn, the case of Tigray Highlands. (Rediat Messel - University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

Lunch break (12:00 - 2:00 PM)

Afternoon Session II (2:00 - 4:00 PM)

Moderator: Hailay Atsbha

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Environmental reconstruction of Nyero and Mukongoro rock art sites in Eastern Uganda. (Eugene Ayebare - Makerere University, Uganda)

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM: The origins of human behaviour: the contributions of manuports in the Oldowan and Acheulean of West Turkana, Kenya. (Medina Lubisia - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaures, France)

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Actualistic taphonomy of small mammal remains from barn owl pellets accumulation in northwest Botswana. (One Tshukudu - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaures, France)

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Exploring functional roles of chert materials during Oldupai Gorge Plio-Pleistocene. (Felix Kisena - New York University, USA)

Closing remarks