Conference Timetable



The Timetable: The first 5 days will be the actual conference (4 days of papers and 1 free day in the middle for local boat trips, fishing, recreation, conference dinner etc.), and the last 3 days will be a fieldtrip ending in Auckland.

The Daily Timetable for Presentation of Papers:
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Monday October 8
Chair: Foss Leach
  09.00-09.30       Introduction - Foss Leach

  09.30-10.00       Paper 1: Eufrasia Rosello Izquierdo and Arturo Morales-Muniz. 
                             A new look at the fish remains from Cueva De Nerja (Costa 
                             Del Sol, Spain): a paleocultural and biogeographic perspective.
  10.00-10.30 Tea
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Chair: Ian Smith
  10.30-11.00       Paper 2: Elizabeth Reitz. Archaeological evidence for change in 
                             marine fishes off the southeastern United States.

  11.00-11.30       Paper 3: Janet Davidson, Foss Leach and Christophe Sand. 3000 years 
                             of fishing in New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands: A 
                             Pacific anomaly ?

  11.30-12.00       Paper 4: Ruth Greenspan. Patterns of fish use and processing in 
                             contrasting coastal environments.
  12.00-13.30 Lunch
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Chair: Omri Lernau
  13.30-14.00       Paper 5: Tony Legge. The Third wave: colonisation and the 
                             acclimatisation of Salmondids in New Zealand.

  14.00-14.30       Paper 6: Sophia Perdikaris. Nabone data products. 

  14.30-15.00       Paper 7: Ian Smith. New Zealand fishing in nutritional perspective.

  15.00-15.30 Tea
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Chair: Leif Jonsson
  15.30-16.00       Paper 8: Marshall Weisler and Chris Lalas. When is enough, enough?: 
                             Sampling fish bones from archaeological sites for estimating 
                             length-frequency distributions of prey species.

  16.00-16.30       Paper 9: Fiona Petchey. Problems and prospects of radiocarbon dating 
                             archaeological fish bones.

  16.30-17.00       Paper 10: Foss Leach and Janet Davidson. Freshwater and marine eels: 
                              food avoidance behaviour and/or differential preservation
                              in the Pacific and New Zealand.

  17.00-17.30       Free Slot for late entries

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Tuesday October 9
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Chair: Lucy Johnson
  09.00-09.30       Paper 11: Jean Desse and Nathalie Desse. Tunas (Thunnus, Euthynnus, 
                              Katsuwonus) and Scaridae (parrot fishes) from Polynesia to 
                              the Indo-Pacific: Skeletal exploitation and archaeological 
                              interpretations.

  09.30-10.00       Paper 12: Jim Samson. Metrical and other characteristics of tarakihi 
                              (Family: Cheilodactylidae, Species: Nemadactylus 
                              macropterus).
  10.00-10.30 Tea
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Chair: Jean Desse
  10.30-11.00       Paper 13: Akira Matsui and Osamu Takahashi. The significance of 
                              anadoromus Salmonidae in Japan.

  11.00-11.30       Paper 14: Alison Locker. Fish as food: Evidence of stored fish in 
                              domestic deposits and comparison of herring and the gadids 
                              by 'portion' versus bone numbers.

  11.30-12.00       Paper 15: Ana Guzman and Oscar Polaco Ramos. A comparative analysis
                              of fish remains from some Mexica offerings.
  12.00-13.30 Lunch
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Chair: Janet Davidson
  13.30-14.00       Paper 16: Tony Pitcher. Back to the future: Why tommorrow's fisheries 
                              need fish remains archaeologists.

  14.00-14.30       Paper 17: Leif Jonsson and Louise Jonsson. Fish hooks and marine 
                              fishes exploited during the Mesolithic and Neolithic 
                              stone age periods on the Swedish west coast.

  14.30-15.00       Paper 18: Lucy Johnson. Prehistoric fishing technologies and species 
                              targeted in the Aleutian Islands: Archaeological and 
                              ethnohistoric evidence.
  15.00-15.30 Tea
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Chair: Arturo Morales
  15.30-16.00       Paper 19: Margarethe Uerpmann. Changing patterns of coastal fisheries 
                              in SE-Arabia from the 5th to the 1st millennium BC.

  16.00-16.30       Paper 20: Matthew Campbell. Taphonomy and archaeofaunal analysis of 
                              fish bone from Pleasant River Mouth, New Zealand.

  16.30-17.00       Paper 21: Rebecca Nicholson. Social storage and the rise of fish 
                              as an economic resource in Shetland.

  17.00-17.30       Free Slot for late entries
  
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Wednesday October 10
  Free Day for Local sight-seeing, charter fishing, etc.

  19.00 Conference Dinner and Dance

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 Thursday October 11
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Chair (to be announced):
  09.00-09.30       Free Slot for late entries

  09.30-10.00       Free slot for late entries

  10.00-10.30 Tea
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Chair: Hans-Peter Uerpmann
  10.30-11.00       Paper 22: Arlene Fradkin and Omri Lernau. The fishing economy at 
                              Caesarea Maritima, Israel.

  11.00-11.30       Paper 23: Ian Streeter. Reconstructing season of capture from growth 
                              increments on archaeological rockfish (Sebastes sp.) 
                              vertebrae: Implications for seasonality and settlement 
                              patterns on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

  11.30-12.00       Paper 24: Laszlo Bartosiewicz, Vasile Sisu and Clive Bonsall. The 
                              history of sturgeon fishing in the Danube.

  12.00-13.30 Lunch
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Chair: Rebecca Nicholson
  13.30-14.00       Paper 25: Alaric Nicholls, Melinda Allen and Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith. 
                              Application of mtDNA to problems in Polynesian fisheries 
                              studies.

  14.00-14.30       Paper 26: Ana Guzman and Oscar Polaco Ramos. Hyperostosis in Mexican fishes.

  14.30-15.00       Paper 27: Hans-Peter Uerpmann. Fishing gear from Stone Age sites in 
                              the Oman Peninsula.
  15.00-15.30 Tea 
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Chair: Sophia Perdikaris
  15.30-16.00       Paper 28: Patrick O'Day. Exploitation of freshwater shellfish (Unionidae)
                              from Stallings Island.

  16.00-16.30       Paper 29: Richard Cooke. Fishing by habitat in tropical tidal 
                              estuaries: A case study from Parita Bay, Panama.

  16.30-17.00       Paper 30: Sharyn Jones-O'Day. Change in marine resource exploitation patterns
                              in prehistoric Jamaica: Human impacts on a Caribbean island
                              environment. 

  17.00-17.30       Free Slot for late entries

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Friday October 12
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Chair: Laszlo Bartosiewicz
  09.00-09.30       Paper 31: William Belcher. Maritime adaptation on the Downeast Coast 
                              of Maine (USA): Fish remains and seasonality of the Roque 
                              Island Archipelago.

  09.30-10.00       Paper 32: Tonya Largy, Peter Burns, Elizabeth Chilton and Diana 
                              Doucette. Lucy Vincent Beach: Another look at the 
                              prehistoric exploitation of Piscine resources off the coast 
                              of Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  10.00-10.30 Tea
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Chair: Richard Cooke
  10.30-11.00       Paper 33: Rintaro Ono. First study of prehistoric marine fishing in 
                              Borneo: The analysis of bones excavated from Neolithic site 
                              in Sabah, Borneo Island.

  11.00-11.30       Paper 34: Deborah Vale. Marine faunal assemblages on the mid-north 
                              coast of New South Wales, Australia.
 
  11.30-12.00       Paper 35: Sue Stallibrass. Fishers of men: Archaeology, art, religion 
                              and dead fish.
 

  12.00-13.30 Lunch
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Chair: Elizabeth Wing
  13.30-14.00       Paper 36: Omri Lernau and Dani Golani. The political significance of 
                              fish in Lachish.

  14.00-14.30       Paper 37: Philippe Bearez. Sciaenids' otoliths: A useful tool for size 
                              reconstruction of consumed fishes in southern Peru 
                              archaeological sites and a help for understanding fishing 
                              strategies.

  14.30-15.00       Paper 38: Heather Builth. Lipids as archaeological bio-markers for 
                              testing Gunditjmara settlement in south eastern Australia.


  15.00-15.30 Tea
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Chair: Elizabeth Reitz
  15.30-16.00       Paper 39: Elizabeth Wing. To catch a shark: Prehistoric shark fishing 
                              in the circum-Caribbean.

  16.00-16.30       The next Conference: Open Forum

  16.30-17.00       Conclusion: Foss Leach

  17.00-17.30       Free






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