Shell and Personal Adornment in Neolithic Cultures

Mon / November 7, 2022 / 08:30

The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv

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8:30	Registration
9:00	Opening and greetings

First session: Neolithic Shell Adornment: Introductions
Chair: Catherine Perlès

9:30	Daniella Bar-Yosef, Tel Aviv University \| The Use of Shells by Humans
10:00	Anna Belfer-Cohen, Nigel Goring-Morris, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem \| “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed…” – The Early Levantine Neolithic
10:30	April Nowell, University of Victoria \| Culturing the Body in the Context of the Neolithization of the Levant
11:00	Coffee break

Second session: Shell and ornament studies from the Levant
Chair: Avi Gopher

11:30	Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, et al., University of Haifa \| On Holes and Strings of Glycymeris in the Middle Paleolithic – The Microscopic Tale for Human Adornment Displays
12:00	Dave Smith and Steven Mithen, University of Reading \| Shell and Stone Personal Adornment at WF16, an Early Neolithic Site in Southern Jordan
12:30	LUNCH
13:30	Ianir Milevski et al. Israel Antiquities Authority\| The Stone and Shell Bangles from Motza and other Final PPNB Southern Levantine Sites
14:00	Heeli Schechter, Nigel Goring-Morris and Daniella Bar-Yosef, The Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University \| Making, Wearing and Sharing Shell Ornaments at Kfar HaHoresh
14:30	Anna Maria Bach-Gómez and Miquel Molist, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona \| Beads at Tell Halula: Social Dynamics in a Production and Consumption Context in Middle Euphrates Valley
15:00	Coffee break
15:30	Examination of shell bead assemblages at the Archaeomalacology lab
19:00	Reception (Workshop participants only)

Third session: Shell Adornment in Anatolia and the Aegean
Chair: Nigel Goring-Morris

9:00	Milena Vasić, Independant researcher \| The Use of Shell for Body Adornment at Çatalhöyük
9:30	Emma Baysal, Ankara University \| Ornaments and Settled Life – A Journey across Anatolia?
10:00	Coffee break
10:30	Rena Veropoulidou, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports \| Perforated Shells in Neolithic Northern Greece: From Molluscan Food Refuse to Shell Artefact Production and Use
11:00	Catherine Perlès, University of Paris-Nanterre \| A Different World Under the Microscope: The Production of Late Neolithic Beads at Franchthi, Greece
11:30	Fotis Ifantidis, University of the Aegean \| On Aegean Neolithic bracelets -shell and stone- once more
12:00	LUNCH

Fourth session: Further around the World
Chair: Anna Belfer-Cohen

13:00	Aldona Kurzawska and Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Polish Academy of Science and Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan \| Shell Ornaments from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Graves in Poland
13:30	Annelou van Gijn, Leiden University \| The Importance of Amber Ornaments in Beaker Burials
14:00	Coffee break
14:30	Abigail Moffett, University of East Anglia \| Adorning Bodies and Articulating Personhood: Cowrie Shells in the Southern African Archaeological Record
15:00	Michelle Langley, Griffith University \| Exploring the Marine Shell Ornament Technology of the Lapita Period (c.3500 – 2000 BP) in Vanuatu
15:30	Laura Kozuch, University of Illinois \| Shell Bead Workshops and Cahokia’s Farmers
16:00	Coffee break
16:30	Final discussion

(Workshop participants only)

9:00	The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History: Shells and shell artifacts study and discussion
12:00	Excursion
18:00	Farewell dinner

8:30	Registration
9:00	Opening and greetings

First session: Neolithic Shell Adornment: Introductions
Chair: Catherine Perlès

9:30	Daniella Bar-Yosef, Tel Aviv University \| The Use of Shells by Humans
10:00	Anna Belfer-Cohen, Nigel Goring-Morris, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem \| “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed…” – The Early Levantine Neolithic
10:30	April Nowell, University of Victoria \| Culturing the Body in the Context of the Neolithization of the Levant
11:00	Coffee break

Second session: Shell and ornament studies from the Levant
Chair: Avi Gopher

11:30	Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, et al., University of Haifa \| On Holes and Strings of Glycymeris in the Middle Paleolithic – The Microscopic Tale for Human Adornment Displays
12:00	Dave Smith and Steven Mithen, University of Reading \| Shell and Stone Personal Adornment at WF16, an Early Neolithic Site in Southern Jordan
12:30	LUNCH
13:30	Ianir Milevski et al. Israel Antiquities Authority\| The Stone and Shell Bangles from Motza and other Final PPNB Southern Levantine Sites
14:00	Heeli Schechter, Nigel Goring-Morris and Daniella Bar-Yosef, The Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University \| Making, Wearing and Sharing Shell Ornaments at Kfar HaHoresh
14:30	Anna Maria Bach-Gómez and Miquel Molist, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona \| Beads at Tell Halula: Social Dynamics in a Production and Consumption Context in Middle Euphrates Valley
15:00	Coffee break
15:30	Examination of shell bead assemblages at the Archaeomalacology lab
19:00	Reception (Workshop participants only)

Third session: Shell Adornment in Anatolia and the Aegean
Chair: Nigel Goring-Morris

9:00	Milena Vasić, Independant researcher \| The Use of Shell for Body Adornment at Çatalhöyük
9:30	Emma Baysal, Ankara University \| Ornaments and Settled Life – A Journey across Anatolia?
10:00	Coffee break
10:30	Rena Veropoulidou, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports \| Perforated Shells in Neolithic Northern Greece: From Molluscan Food Refuse to Shell Artefact Production and Use
11:00	Catherine Perlès, University of Paris-Nanterre \| A Different World Under the Microscope: The Production of Late Neolithic Beads at Franchthi, Greece
11:30	Fotis Ifantidis, University of the Aegean \| On Aegean Neolithic bracelets -shell and stone- once more
12:00	LUNCH

Fourth session: Further around the World
Chair: Anna Belfer-Cohen

13:00	Aldona Kurzawska and Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Polish Academy of Science and Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan \| Shell Ornaments from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Graves in Poland
13:30	Annelou van Gijn, Leiden University \| The Importance of Amber Ornaments in Beaker Burials
14:00	Coffee break
14:30	Abigail Moffett, University of East Anglia \| Adorning Bodies and Articulating Personhood: Cowrie Shells in the Southern African Archaeological Record
15:00	Michelle Langley, Griffith University \| Exploring the Marine Shell Ornament Technology of the Lapita Period (c.3500 – 2000 BP) in Vanuatu
15:30	Laura Kozuch, University of Illinois \| Shell Bead Workshops and Cahokia’s Farmers
16:00	Coffee break
16:30	Final discussion

(Workshop participants only)

9:00	The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History: Shells and shell artifacts study and discussion
12:00	Excursion
18:00	Farewell dinner