Homo heidelbergensis Symposium Program Heidelberg 2007

SYMPOSIUM
100 Years Homo heidelbergensis
October 18 - 19, 2007
Heidelberg
Program
WEDNESDAY, October 17
07:30 pm – 08:30 pm
Welcome Reception and Registration, NH-Hotel Heidelberg
THURSDAY, October 18
08:30 am - 09:30 am
09:30 am - 10:00 am
Registration, Poster Mounting
Welcome Addresses
Morning Session
Homo heidelbergensis of Mauer: the local scenario
Chair: Thilo Bechstädt (Heidelberg)
10:00 am - 10:40 am
10:40 am - 11:20 am
11:20 am - 11.35 am
11:35 am - 12:15 pm
12:15 pm - 14:00 pm
Ulrich A. Glasmacher (Heidelberg)
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Homo heidelbergensis: from excavation to the 100 anniversary
Lutz Maul (Weimar)
The fauna of Mauer: results of new investigations
Break
Günther Wagner (Heidelberg)
Age determination of the Homo heidelbergensis discovery site at Mauer
Lunch, Poster Viewing
Afternoon Session
Homo heidelbergensis: forerunners and
contemporaries in Europe and Africa
Chair: Eberhard Frey (Karlsruhe)
14:00 pm - 14:40 pm
14:40 pm - 15:20 pm
15:20 pm - 16:00 pm
16:00 pm - 16:15 pm
16:15 pm - 16:55 pm
16:55 pm - 17:35 pm
Günter Bräuer, Hamburg
Pleistocene hominid evolution and diversity in Africa
David Lordkipanidze (Tbilisi)
Early humans out of Africa: evidence from the Caucasus
Ana Gracia (Madrid)
The Sima de los Huesos Homo heidelbergensis: the way they were
Break
Chris Stringer (London)
Archaeological and fossil evidence of the earliest human colonisations of
Britain
Giorgio Manzi (Rome)
Ceprano and the earliest Europeans: a proxy for the ancestry of
Neandertals and modern humans?
17:35 pm - 18:20 pm
Annemarie Moigne (Tautavel)
The Tautavel man: palaeontology, age, environment and culture
20:00 pm
Guest Lecture
Friedeman Schrenk, Frankfurt
Out of Africa: Die Großfamilie des Homo heidelbergensis
(in German; Alte Aula, University of Heidelberg)
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FRIDAY, October 19
Morning Session
Methods, Technology and Outlook
Chair: Volker Storch (Heidelberg)
08:45 am - 09:25 am
09:25 am - 10:05 am
10:05 am - 10:45 am
10:45 am - 11:00 am
11:00 am - 11:40 am
11:40 am - 12:20 pm
12:20 pm - 13:00 pm
13:00 pm
Michael Hofreiter (Leipzig)
Palaeogenomics and hominid evolution
David Reed (Gainsville)
Of lice and men: the use of host-specific parasites to reconstruct human
evolutionary history
Break
Jean Jacques Hublin (Leipzig)
Computer-assisted paleoanthropology: giving bones a life
Clemens Eibner (Heidelberg)
Some remarks on replicas of Schoeningen spears from spruce-trees with
small stone implements
John Shea (New York)
Unarmed and dangerous? How did Homo heidelbergensis hunt?
Nicholas Conard (Tübingen)
The origins of cultural modernity
Concluding Remarks, Lunch
Afternoon and Evening Program
Visit of the discovery site at the Grafenrain sandpit of Mauer
Visit of the Homo heidelbergensis exhibition, Mauer
Farewell party
Further information:
Dr. Jürgen Schweizer, Society Homo heidelbergensis of Mauer, Bahnhofstr.4, 69256 Mauer, Germany
Phone: 0049 (0)6226-3278 (private) or 0049(0)6226-9719315 (office)
Fax: 0049 (0)6226- 314
Email: <[email protected]> and <[email protected]>
Please use both Email addresses for your request!
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