3-0235 CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE PALAEOLITHIC AND OLD WORLD PREHISTORY (PART I)

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers: Danielle Aviva Macdonald (University of Toronto) and Jayne Wilkins (University of Toronto)

Chairs: Michael Chazan (University of Toronto) and Katie Margaret Biittner (University of Alberta)

08:00

Re-Discovering Lithic Artifacts From the Zhoukoudian Locality 1 Cave: How Much Do We Know?

Chen Shen (Royal Ontario Museum)

08:15

The Role of Small Tools In the Technology of Homo Erectus

Michael Chazan (University of Toronto)

08:30

Technological Behaviors Represented by the Fauresmith Lithic Assemblage At Kathu Pan 1, Northern Cape, South Africa

Jayne Wilkins (University of Toronto)

08:45

The Middle and Later Stone Age In the Iringa Region of Southern Tanzania

Pamela R Willoughby (University of Alberta)

09:00

From Alberta to Africa: Constructing An Africanist Public Archaeology Program Using a Canadian Model

Katie Margaret Biittner (University of Alberta)

09:15

The Druze Marsh Paleolithic Project: The Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Pleistocene Refugium In Jordan

Michael S. Bisson (McGill University)

09:30

Behavioral and Taphonomic Implications of Burned Bones In Paleolithic Assemblages

Eugene Morin (Trent University)

09:45

Break

10:00

When Is a Point a Projectile? Investigation of Middle Paleolithic "Points" Using Quantitative Data Derived From Brittle Fracture Mechanics

W. Karl Hutchings (Thompson Rivers University)

10:15

Agent Based Model of the Palaeoethology of E.Hydruntinus: Preliminary Results

Manuel Arturo Izquierdo (Université de Montréal)

10:30

Resource Selection of Lithic Raw Materials In the Middle Palaeolithic In Southern France

Lucy Wilson (University of New Brunswick in Saint John) and Constance L. Browne (University of New Brunswick in Saint John)

10:45

Dating Old Sites: Perspectives and Initial Results From a Multi-Site Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition Radiocarbon Project In Southern France

Carolyn C Barshay-Szmidt (University of Toronto)

11:00

Marks and Meaning: Engraved Objects From the French Aurignacian

Laura Chassaigne (McGill University)

11:15

Ecological andbehavioural Correlates of Small Adult Body Size In Holocene Southern Africa

Susan Pfeiffer (University of Toronto)

11:30

Discussion

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