Events archives 2013-2022
TraceoLab research seminars
2022
December 15th, 2022
Dr. Niccolò Mazzucco (University of Pisa, Italy)
The Sickle and the Harvest: how the study of the agricultural toolkit can improve our understanding of the Neolithic farming systems
December 13th, 2022 (Musée de Préhistoire, 16h15)
Dr. Gregor Bader (University of Tübingen, Germany)
70 years later: new excavations at the Middle and Later stone age site Holley Shelter, South Africa
June 10th, 2022 (Musée de Préhistoire)
Dr. Hans Vandendriessche (Ghent University, Belgium)
From stop motion to live action sequence - Lithic refitting at the Early Holocene site of Kerkhove (Belgium)
May 10th, 2022 (Virtual conference, 13h30)
Dr. Annemieke Milks (University of Reading, UK)
Talking points: exploring the design, material and lethality of wooden spears
May 3rd, 2022 (Salle Lumière, 14h00)
Colas Guéret (CNRS, UMR TEMPS, France) and Alexandre Cantin (Univ. Paris 1, UMR TEMPS, France)
Graver et habiter les grès de Fontainebleau (Ile-de-France) au premier Mésolithique. Bilan sur les dernières recherches archéologiques et expérimentales
April 29th, 2022 (Virtual conference, 14h00)
Dr. Alla Yaroshevich (Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel)
Transformations in weapons technology during the Levantine Paleolithic: current state of knowledge and questions for future research
March 18th, 2022 (Musée de Préhistoire, 11h00)
Dylan Jones (University of Liverpool, UK)
An investigation into tool use amongst hominin populations at the edge of the Pleistocene world
February 23rd, 2022 (S50, 11h00)
Dr Yves Perdaen (BAAC Vlaanderen, Belgium)
The legislation regarding the rescue-excavation of stone age sites in Flanders, a case study from Beveren LPWW
February 11th, 2022 (Musée de Préhistoire, 10h30)
Benjamin Schürch (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Reassessing the cultural stratigraphy and the techno-economic context of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Vogelherd cave
January 28th, 2022 (Musée de Préhistoire, 15h00)
Dr. Guillaume Porraz (CNRS, UMR LAMPEA, France)
La solution lamelle en contexte Robberg (MIS2, Afrique du Sud): discussion avec TraceoLab
2021
December 21st, 2021 (Virtual seminar)
Prof. Dr. Javier Baena Preysler (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)
Understanding lithic technology through experimentation: projects developed at the Laboratorio de Arqueología Experimental (LAEX, Autonomous University of Madrid)
October 21th, 2021 (S100, 11h00)
Florine Marchand (ULiège)
L’industrie lithique de Tell ‘Arqa (Plaine du Akkar, Liban Nord)
October 12th, 2021 (Musée de Préhistoire, 11h00)
Dr. Valentine Roux (CNRS, University Paris Nanterre, France)
Des invariants anthropologiques pour interpréter la diffusion des techniques céramiques passées et présentes
September 28th, 2021 (Musée de Préhistoire, 16h30)
Dr. Hermine Xhauflair
La pierre qui cache la forêt. Exploration de la relation Hommes-pierre-végétal en Asie du Sud-Est préhistorique
2019
December 12th, 2019 (Musée de Préhistoire, 14h) – Séminaire sur la préhistoire en Afrique
Prof. Dr. Larry Barham (University of Liverpool, UK)
Wind & rain: The ‘Deep Roots’ project, Zambia
Dr. Katja Douze (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Preliminary data on Acheulean to Middle Stone Age occupations in the Falémé Valley, Eastern Senegal
Dr. Guillaume Porraz (CNRS, UMR LAMPEA, France)
Successions and transitions at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa
October 29th, 2019 (Musée de Préhistoire, 14h) – Séminaire Le Later Stone Age, préhistoire d’un autre continent ?
Guillaume Porraz (CNRS, UMR LAMPEA, France)
Quelques clés et données d’introduction sur le Later Stone Age, en Afrique australe
Alice Leplongeon (FWO, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Variabilité dans l’Early Late Stone Age est-africain : l’exemple d’Enkapune Ya Muto, Kenya
Camille Bourdier (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, UMR TRACES, France)
L’art rupestre des Matobo, Zimbabwe (15.000-2.000 BP). Iconographie, dynamiques sociales et climats
May 8th, 2019 (13h)
Dr. Lena Asryan (Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
Visiting the TraceoLab: presentation on my past experience, current research and further perspectives in archaeology
2018
September 25th, 2018 (Musée de Préhistoire, 16h30-18h)
Carole Cheval (UMR CEPAM, France)
Une étude technologique des systèmes de production textile : le cas de la Préhistoire récente en Méditerranée / A technological study of textile production systems: the case of the late Prehistory in the Mediterranean
2017
May 9th, 2017
Pr Olivier Gosselain (Centre d’Anthropologie culturelle & CReA-Patrimoine, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
En finir avec l’Ethnoarchéologie!
2016
November 4th, 2016
Dr. Alison Smolderen (University Nice Sophia Antipolis, France)
Des témoins brûlés aux comportements paléolithiques liés au feu : vers une approche « multi-proxy » de l’archéologie du feu
October 4th, 2016
Dr. Krist Vaesen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Learning from models
September 21st, 2016
Dr. Andrea Dolfini (Newcastle University, UK)
“Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered”: a wear-analysis approach to Bronze Age combat
April 28th, 2016
Lorène Chesnaux (UMR ArScAn, France)
Au-delà des inventaires typologiques – Approches croisées expérimentale et fonctionnelle pour la reconstitution du fonctionnement des microlithes mésolithiques
March 23rd, 2016
Dr. Frank L’Engle Williams (Georgia State University, USA)
Inferring the diet and paleoecology of fossil primates and humans using enamel microwear texture analysis
2015
December 8th, 2015
Marco Peresani (University of Ferrara, Italy)
Juggling interpretation of Neanderthal behaviour across the last twenty years of debates
July 8th, 2015
Guillaume Porraz (CNRS, France; Institut français de Johannesburg, South Africa)
Les soucoupes du Paléolithique ancien de l’Observatoire (Principauté de Monaco)
June 23rd, 2015
Dr. Aimée Little (University of York, UK)
Sticks, stones and animal bones: new discoveries at Star Carr
April 29th, 2015
Prof. Tom Higham and Dr. Katerina Douka (Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, UK)
Improved AMS dating of the Palaeolithic past
April 3rd, 2015
Behrouz Bazgir
An overview of the 2014-15 excavation season at Kaldar Cave (Khorramabad Valley, Western Iran)
April 3rd, 2015
Dr. Elena Marinova (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Vegetation and use of local plant resources during the Late Pleistocene: case studies from in SW Germany and NW Bulgaria
February 10th, 2015
Dr. Antonin Tomasso (University Nice Sophia Antipolis, France)
Systèmes de production et systèmes de mobilité dans le Paléolithique supérieur récent méditerranéen : le cas de l’Epigravettien dans le Sud-Est de la France et en Italie
January 15th, 2015
Prof. Marc De Bie (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Archaelogical Heritage Institute, Agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed, Belgium)
Towards an archaeology of mind in the final Palaeolithic: looking for new avenues to understand cultural behavior and material change in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
January 9th, 2015
Dr. Pascal Depaepe (INRAP, France)
Taphonomie des ensembles lithiques
2014
December 10th, 2014
Prof. Annelou Van Gijn (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)
A biographical study of Middle and Late Neolithic amber, jet and bone ornaments from funerary context: contributions from the microscope
December 5th, 2014
Dr. Valentina Borgia (University of Cambridge, UK)
Hunting high and low: reconstructing Upper Palaeolithic hunting strategies
September 25th, 2014
Dr. Paloma de la Peña (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Bipolar knapping in Howiesons Poort: the case of Grey Sand Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
April 29th, 2014
Dr. Ann Van Baelen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Kesselt-Op de Schans and the Lower / Middle Palaeolithic transition in Northwestern Europe
2013
December 12th, 2013
Prof. Philip Van Peer (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Le processus historique de l’origine du Paléolithique supérieur
October 10th, 2013
Dr. Wei Chu (University of Reading, UK)
Like a Rolling Stone. L’influence des fleuves sur les sites paléolithiques en Europe du Nord
October 2nd, 2013
Prof. Chris Clarkson (University of Queensland, Australia)
New excavations and early complexity at Australia’s oldest site, Malakunanja II, Northern Territory
October 1st, 2013
Prof. Richard Fullagar (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Grinding stones and grinding grounds: archaeological traces of Aboriginal subsistence and resource use in Australia
Conferences
EAA 2022
TraceoLab co-organises a use-wear session at the upcoming conference of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Budapest, 31st August – September 3rd 2022.
AWRANA 2018 – Beyond use-wear traces: about tools and people
Three years after the first AWRANA Conference in Leiden, Connecting people and technologies, the next AWRANA conference will be held in Nice (France), from 29th May – 1st June 2018. This encounter will be the 13th major international meeting of use-wear analysts.
Organizers: S. Beyries (UCA-CNRS), C. Hamon (CNRS, Univ. Paris 1), Y. Maigrot (CNRS, Univ. Paris 1).
Scientific committee: R. Fullagar (Univ. Wollongong, Australia); V. Rots (Univ. Liège, Belgium); D. Macdonald (Univ. Tulsa, USA); E. Gyria (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia); I. Clemente (CSIC Barcelona, Spain); A. Van Gijn (Univ. Leiden, The Netherlands); C. Lemorini (Univ. Roma, Italy); A. Little (Univ. York, UK); E. Claud (INRAP, France).
The Association of Archaeological Wear and Residue Analysts aims to bring together specialists in archaeological research who deal with the analysis of artefacts to study function and modification. This extends to all aspects of wear, modifications, and damage analysis on lithics, faunal remains (e.g. teeth, antler, bone), metals, potsherds, haematite and other artefact materials.
Veerle Rots is one of the founding members of the association and she served as its first Vice President for two terms together with Richard Fullagar as President. TraceoLab member Noora Taipale took care of the social media together with former TraceoLab member Elspeth Hayes.
Workshops
Workshop on taphonomy, 2018
ULiège – Prehistory Museum, September 26th, 2018 (09h-17h)
Taphonomie des traces d’utilisation et des résidus sur les outils en pierre : problèmes et perspectives de recherches / Taphonomy of use-wear traces and residues on stone tools: issues and perspectives.
Workshop on residues and hafting, 2015
ULiège, June 2 – 4th, 2015.
