Planning
Monday, September 12, 2016
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08:00 - 09:15
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Registration - Participants are invited to go to the 3rd floor of CEREGE in front of the amphitheater, to register or confirm their registration and get their badge. |
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09:15 - 09:30
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Welcome and information (Amphitheater / CEREGE) - Doris Barboni and Nicolas Thouveny, Director of CEREGE |
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09:30 - 10:45
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Phytoliths in archaeology: new approaches and discoveries (Amphitheater / CEREGE) |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 |
› Phytoliths in Archaeology: History and New Developments - Madella Marco, Universitat Pompeu Fabra & ICREA |
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
› Building and Inhabiting Nan Madol: Integrating Phytolith, Plant Macroremain, and Sponge Spicule Data from Pahn Kadira Islet - Maureece Levin, Stanford Archaeology Center |
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| 10:15 - 10:30 |
› Plant-based pigment production on Rapa Nui - Welmoed Out, Department of Archaeological Science and Conservation, Moesgaard Museum |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 |
› Radiocarbon Dating Modern Wild Rice (Zizania) Caryopses: An Exploration of Ancient Carbon Signatures - Linda Scott Cummings, PaleoResearch Institute |
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10:45 - 11:15
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Coffee break (Amphitheater / CEREGE) |
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11:15 - 12:30
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Phytoliths in archaeology: new approaches and discoveries (Amphitheater / CEREGE) |
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| 11:15 - 11:30 |
› Revealing a 5000-year-old Beer Recipe in China - Jiajing Wang, Stanford University |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 |
› Bulliform phytolith research in wild and domesticated rice paddy soil in South China - Xiujia Huan, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
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| 11:45 - 12:00 |
› Phytolith analyses in the Early Pleistocene sediments containing tools of early hominids in the Northern Armenia and paleoclimatic reconstruction - Alexandra Golyeva, Institute of Geography Russian academy of science |
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| 12:00 - 12:15 |
› Phytoliths as a seasonality indicator? The example of the Neolithic site of Pendimoun, South-Eastern France - Claire Delhon, Culture et Environnements, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age |
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| 12:15 - 12:30 |
› Phytoliths in livestock dung: the use of modern reference materials and ethnoarchaeological approaches - Marta Portillo, EU Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading |
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12:30 - 13:30
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Lunch (Forum) |
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13:30 - 15:30
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Phytoliths in archaeology: new approaches and discoveries (Amphitheater / CEREGE) |
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| 13:30 - 13:45 |
› Phytoliths and threshing processes - Patricia C. Anderson, CEPAM - Souhair Alkalesh, CEPAM, GRENES |
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| 13:45 - 14:00 |
› Preliminary results of phytolith analyses from a geoarchaeological study of historic settlement of Kota Cina, North Sumatra (Indonesia) - Yohan Chabot, Laboratoire de géographie physique |
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| 14:00 - 14:15 |
› Early Neolithic flint miners' diet insights in the Iberian Peninsula through an integrated archaeobotanical study - Alexandre Chevalier, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences |
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| 14:15 - 14:30 |
› Environmental and vegetation reconstruction during MIS 5-6 at Cova Negra (Xàtiva, Valencia, Spain): the evidence from phytoliths - Irene Esteban, University of Barcelona |
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| 14:30 - 14:45 |
› Phytoliths in modern plants and soils from Klasies River, Cape Region (South Africa): new findings for archaeological and paleoenvironmental purposes - Alice Novello, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, University of Washington |
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| 14:45 - 15:00 |
› Phytolith investigations at Sibudu Cave: towards understanding the Middle Stone Age of South Africa - May Murungi, Evolutionary Studies Institute and School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand |
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| 15:00 - 15:15 |
› Phytoliths in the stratigraphic layers of Tarioba Shell Mound (Rio Das Ostras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - Rosa Souza, Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense |
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| 15:15 - 15:30 |
› Microfossils as narrators and protagonists in the stories of agricultural landscapes - Maria Alejandra Korstanje, Universitad Nacional de Tucumán |
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15:30 - 16:00
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Coffee break |
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16:00 - 18:30
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Quantification, localisation, and role of phytoliths in modern plants (Amphitheater / CEREGE) |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 |
› Biosilicification in plants: chemistry, function and analysis - Carole Perry, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham Trent University |
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| 16:30 - 16:45 |
› Variations in morphology and type of phytoliths according to the age of leaves and position in the vegetal body in Brachiaria decumbens - Raphaella Dias, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
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| 16:45 - 17:00 |
› Phytoliths in grass and non-grass species: Pattern, function and evolution - Ofir Katz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Dead-Sea and Arava Science Center |
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| 17:00 - 17:15 |
› Phytoliths of characteristic plants from the 'Caatinga' biome, Northeastern Brazil - Sarah Ricardo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro |
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| 17:15 - 17:30 |
› Amorphous silica biomineralizations in species from Argentina: content, morphologies and tissue location, systematic and ecological relations - Mariana Fernández Honaine, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata-CONICET, Instituto de Geología de Costas y del Cuaternario, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata-CIC |
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| 17:30 - 17:45 |
› Influence of silicon in plant – insect interactions: Evidence from Lepidoptera stem borers - Gerald Juma, University of Nairobi, Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes, Comportement et Ecologie, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology |
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| 17:45 - 18:00 |
› Phytoliths, agriculture and environmental stress - Jean-Dominique Meunier, Centre Européen d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Geosciences de l'Environnement |
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18:30 - 21:00
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Welcome party - offered by the Organizing Committee - Place: Esplanade du Forum |
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21:15 - 21:15
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Return to Aix city center - by bus from the Forum |
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
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09:30 - 11:15
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Calibration of the phytolith marker and paleoenvironmental reconstructions (Amphitheater / CEREGE) |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 |
› The curious case of Cenozoic South America: Assembling the grassland biome with almost no grasses - Caroline Stromberg, University of Washington |
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
› Determining new C4 grass plant functional types to reflect the grass cover diversity in Africa - Marine Pasturel, Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement de géosciences de l'environnement |
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| 10:15 - 10:30 |
› Assessing aridity and other climatic variables using grass opal phytoliths in subtropical southern Africa - Carlos Cordova, Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 |
› Quantitative reconstructions of vegetation cover from lake sediments: the power of multi-proxy analysis - Julie Aleman, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University |
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| 10:45 - 11:00 |
› Long-term savanna functioning revealed by a multi-proxy approach - Laurent Bremond, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution - Montpellier |
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| 11:00 - 11:15 |
› Fire episodes response to the droughts and El Niño events in the past 1700 years: phytolith and multiproxy records from the tropical sediments in southwest China - Yansheng Gu, China University of Geosciences |
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11:15 - 11:45
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Coffee break |
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11:45 - 13:30
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Calibration of the phytolith marker and paleoenvironmental reconstructions (Amphitheater / CEREGE) |
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| 11:45 - 12:00 |
› Peatland primary productivity response to the monsoon evolution in the past 20,000 years, Central China - Hongye Liu, State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan |
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| 12:00 - 12:15 |
› Differential characteristics of mesophilous and xerophilous grasses trichomes in the south of Western Siberia - Marina Solomonova, Altai State University |
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| 12:15 - 12:30 |
› Modern phytolith assemblages from vereda wetlands in Minas Gerais cerrado, Brazil - Cristina Augustin, Instituto de Geociências - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
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| 12:30 - 12:45 |
› Identification and discrimination of forest/savanna ecosystems of Brazil based on phytolith assemblages and indices to understand past vegetation and soil genesis - Marcia Calegari, Departamento de Geografia, Universidade Estadoal do Oeste do Paraná |
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| 12:45 - 13:00 |
› Characterization of modern phytolith assemblages from the 'Caatinga' biome, Northeast Brazil - Heloisa Coe, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro |
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| 13:00 - 13:15 |
› Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of land use and vegetation cover in the Macacu and Caceribu river basins, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Jenifer Gomes, Universidade Federal Fluminense |
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› Phytoliths as indicators of Quaternary geomorphological dynamics in alluvial-colluvial ramps, Espinhaço mountain range, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Karina Chueng, Universidade Federal Fluminense |
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13:30 - 14:30
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Lunch (Forum) |
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14:30 - 16:00
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Poster session (Forum) |
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16:00 - 16:30
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Coffee break (Forum) |
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16:30 - 18:00
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Phytoliths and the biogeochemical cycles of silicon and carbon (Amphitheater / CEREGE) |
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| 16:30 - 17:00 |
› Phytolith as medium of coupled biogeochemical cycles of silicon and carbon: a case study of China - Zhaoliang Song, Institute of the Surface-Earth System Science Research, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China |
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| 17:30 - 18:00 |
› Recent advances in phytolith carbon research - Guaciara Santos, Earth System Science, University of California Irvine |
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
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09:30 - 10:15
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Phytoliths and the biogeochemical cycles of silicon and carbon (Amphitheater / CEREGE) |
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| 09:30 - 09:45 |
› Phytolith Dating in Archaeology and Paleoecology: Basic Issues and Possible Answers - Dolores Piperno, Smithsonian Institution |
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| 09:45 - 10:00 |
› New estimates of global phytolith and phytolith-occluded carbon pools and fluxes - Paul Reyerson, University of Wisconsin |
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
› Origin, location and molecular characterization of phytolith carbon: insights for the phytolith carbon cycle - Anne Alexandre, CEREGE, Aix en Provence |
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10:15 - 10:45
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Coffee break (Amphitheater / CEREGE) |
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10:45 - 12:00
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Morphology, morphometry, taxonomy and taphonomy of phytoliths (Amphitheater / CEREGE) |
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| 10:45 - 11:00 |
› Phytolith taphonomy in archaeological sites - Dan Cabanes, Rutgers University, Max Planck Institute |
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| 11:00 - 11:15 |
› Phytolith Morphometrics: An Update on Zea mays Signatures and Comparisons from the American Southwest - Linda Scott Cummings, PaleoResearch Institute |
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| 11:15 - 11:30 |
› Effects of fire in phytolith assemblages: experimental approach and archaeological applications - Shira Gur-Arieh, Max Planck Research Group on Plant Foods in Hominin Dietary Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 |
› Quantitative trumps qualitative: developing automated approaches to phytolith analysis - Rand Evett, Department of ESPM, University of California, Berkeley |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 |
› Silicophytoliths and taphonomy in Cenozoic pedostratigraphic sequences of the Pampean Plain, Argentina - Margarita Osterrieth, Instituto de Geología de Costas y del Cuaternario (IGCyC), FCEyN-UNMdP. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), CONICET-UNMdP. Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
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| 11:45 - 12:00 |
› Morphometric study of variance in articulated dendritic phytolith wave lobes between selected species of Triticeae and Aveneae - Luc Vrydaghs, CReA - Patrimoine Université Libre de Bruxelles |
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12:00 - 13:30
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Lunch (Forum) |
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13:30 - 14:00
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Notes and vote for best communications/posters of young researchers (Amphitheater / CEREGE) - President of the International Phytolith Society |
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14:00 - 15:30
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General assembly of the International Phytolith Society (Amphitheater / CEREGE) |
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15:30 - 16:00
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Coffee break (Amphitheater / CEREGE) |
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16:00 - 18:00
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ICPT - Meeting of the International Committee on Phytolith Taxonomy (Room 207 / CEREGE) - (for members of the ICTP only) |
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Thursday, September 15, 2016
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09:00 - 19:00
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Lubéron and Ochres - Visit of picturesque villages of Luberon. In Roussillon, walk in the path of ochres and visit the Ochre Conservatory. Then free time for lunch in Gordes, visit of the village des Bories and Ménerbes. Day trip accompanied by an English speaking guide. Transport by bus. |
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09:30 - 17:00
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ICPT - Meeting of the International Committee on Phytolith Taxonomy (Room 207 / CEREGE) - (for members of the ICTP only) |
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