Paleoanthropology Society

2017 Annual Meeting March 28 and 29

Vancouver Hyatt Regency

Posters

Tuesday, March: 28 4:00 – 6:00 Plaza Ballroom

HowdoweinterpretelevatedNeanderthalδ15Nlevels?AlexanderAllan,JonathanHarding,DennisSandgathe,MarkCollardAnexperimentalinvestigationintotheimpactofpointdimensions,haftmorphologyandfixingmethodontheeffectivenessofNeanderthalspearsPhilippeAubinAhighresolutionmicrotomographicstudyoftheStW578PliocenehominidcraniumfromSterkfonteinCaveAmélieBeaudet,JasonL.Heaton,TravisR.Pickering,DominicStratford,RonJ.ClarkePaleoecologyacrossthePleistocene-Holocene:ThesmallmammalassemblageofKotiasKlde,GeorgiaMiriamBelmaker,GeordonTaylor,NinoJakeli,TengizMeshveliani,AnnaBelfer-Cohen,OferBar-YosefTheimplicationsoffaunalabundanceforPleistocenepaleoenvironmentsintheTurkanaBasin,NorthernKenyaLorenaBenitez,CatherineLlera,MaryseBiernat,DavidR.Braun,AshleyS.Hammond,DavidB.Patterson,W.AndrewBarrTxinaTxina:aLaterStoneAgesitefromtheLimpopobasininsouthernMozambiqueNunoBicho,JoãoCascalheira,JonathanHaws,CéliaGonçalves,MussaRaja,LinoAndré,MichaelBenedetti,AnaGomes,MilenaCarvalho,BrandonZinsiousArchaeologicalsupportfortheBeringianstandstillhypothesis:humanoccupationoftheBluefishCavessite(YukonTerritory,Canada)duringtheLastGlacialMaximumLaurianeBourgeon,ArianeBurke,ThomasHigham,

?PreMIS3occupationofMochenaBoragoRockshelter,SWEthiopiaStevenABrandt,GeorgeA.Brook,MinassieGirmaTekelemariam,NathanLawres,AbebeMengistuTaffere,BenSmith,RalfVogelsangTechnologicalvariabilityintheMiddleStoneAgeofMozambique:preliminaryresultsJoaoCascalheira,NunoBicho,CeliaGoncalves,JonathanHaws,MussaRajaThedepositionalcontextandspatialpatterninginthehominin-bearinglayersofBlock2atDmanisi,GeorgiaReedCoil,MarthaTappen,ReidFerring,MaiaBukhsianidze,DavidLordkipanidzeForagingalongbluehighways:preliminaryfaunalandtaphonomicinvestigationsatSM-1,alateMiddleStoneAgesiteintheBlueNileBasinofEthiopiaChristopherA.Davis,JohnKappelman,LawrenceToddMiddleandUpperPaleolithicinSoutheasternEurope:preliminaryresultsfromexcavationsattwonewlydiscoveredsitesinSerbiaTamaraDogandžić,SahraTalamo,VesnaDimitrijević,TobiasLauer,VeraAldeias,ShannonP.McPherron,DušanMihailovićPercussiontechnologyandthepotentialforresidueanalysisatFLKN,OlduvaiGorgeJulienFavreau,MakariusItambu,PatrickLee,RobertPatalano,LauraTucker,EnriqueBaquedano,ManuelDomínguez-Rodrigo,AudaxMabulla,,JulioMercaderPreliminaryfindingsfromSareRiver,anearlyPleistoceneOldowansiteontheHomaPeninsula,KenyaEmmaM.Finestone,ThomasW.Plummer,PeterW.Ditchfield,ElizabethWhitfield,ThomasVincent,ScottA.Blumenthal,LauraC.Bishop,JamesS.Oliver,DavidR.Braun,JonathanS.Reeves,RaquelLamela-Lopez,JenniferA.ParkinsonApplyingsystematicsamplingsurveytoevaluateStoneAgesettlementintheElephantRiver,Limpopobasin,SWMozambiqueCeliaGoncalves,AnaGomes,JoaoCascalheira,MussaRaja,NunoBicho,JonathanHawsAssessingtheeffectsoffluvialabrasiononbonesurfacemodificationsusinghigh-resolution3-DscanningMerveGumrukcu,MatthewMuttart,MichaelPanteInsightsintotheimportanceofrawmaterialavailabilityforPaleolithicsettlement:surveyresultsfromtheResavaandJasenicaRiverValleys,SerbiaEricHeffter,DušanMihailović

StratigraphyandnewESRmolluscdatesforMiddleandLatePleistocenedepositsatBirTarfawi,WesternDesert,EgyptChristopherL.Hill,BonnieA.B.Blackwell,AislinnE.Deely,JonathanA.Florentin,AndrésC.Montoya,ImpreetSingh,JoelL.B.Blickstein,AnneR.SkinnerBreakagepatternsoflongbonearticularends,Hadar,Ethiopia:ImplicationsforassessingcauseofdeathofA.L.288-1(‘Lucy’)MatthewHill,JohnKappelman,LawrenceTodd,FantahunZelelewInferringEarlyStoneAgetooltypefromcutmarksonfossilbonesusinghigh-resolution3-DscanningTrevorL.Keevil,MichaelC.Pante,JayS.RetiEvaluatinglanguage-relatedasymmetryinendocastsusingnon-rigiddiffeomorphicimageregistrationLindseyKitchellEarlyAcheuleanlargeflakepreparedcoretechnology:debatingthedistinctivenessofTheVictoriaWestmethodGeorgeMLeaderDiggingforthepast,present,andfuture:bridgingMaasaiandpaleoanthropologicalpracticesinOlduvaiGorge,TanzaniaPatrickLee,RobertBird,MariamBundala,JulienFavreau,MakariusItambu,SamsonKoromo,,CharlesMather,RobertPatalano,LauraTucker,EnriqueBaquedano,ManuelDomínguez-Rodrigo,AudaxMabulla,JulioMercaderLocalrawmaterialutilizationattheUpperPaleolithicsiteofShuidonggouLocality2,Ningxia(China)SamC.Lin,FeiPeng,NicolasZwyns,JialongGuo,,HuiminWang,XingGao3DfracturepatternsinthelumbarvertebraandtibiaofA.L.288-1(‘Lucy’)areconsistentwithperimortemtraumaJanetMMattox,ChristopherA.Davis,BrettNachman,DanielL.Petersen,WileyAkins,MulugetaFeseha,MatthewHill,RichardA.Ketcham,LawrenceTodd,AdrienneP.Witzel,FantahunZelelew,JohnKappelmanALateMiddleStoneAgelithiclandscapeintheEasternLakeVictoriaBasinAlisonF.Mant-Melville,NicholasBlegen,J.TylerFaith,ChristianA.Tryon,KirstenH.Jenkins,EmilyJ.Beverley,DanielPeppe

Time-averagingandthespatialscaleofregionalculturaldifferentiationinPaleolithicassemblagesGalenMiller-Atkins,L.S.Prem,Macroscopicinvestigationofrawmaterialproperties:comparisonswithmechanicalpropertiestestsJoanneMunga,DavidBraunAminoacidracemization(AAR)datingofostricheggshell(OES):experimentaltestingoftheeffectofnaturalcampfireburningonOESvaluesSerrinaNasrollahi,ChrisFlorian,GiffordH.Miller,JohnKappelman,LawrenceToddHominin,gorilla,andchimpanzeeopponenspolliciscrestmorphologicalvariationWesleyNiewoehnerAquantitativeassessmentoftrampling-inducedmodificationtobonesurfacesEmilyRebeccaOrlikoff,TrevorL.Keevil,MichaelC.PanteAssessinglikelihoodofconvergenceinflakeattributesJonathanPaige,CharlesPerreaultThathighlonesomesound:LastInterglaciallithictechnologiesfromMelikaneRockshelter,LesothoKyraPazan,BrianA.StewartEffectofwristextensiononhumanthrowingaccuracy:acasestudywithimplicationsforAustralopithecusAngelaPena,AlisonBrooksEcoPlis:humanoccupationsinthePleistoceneecotonesofRiverLis(Portugal):the2015-2016resultsTelmoPereira,VaniaCarvalho,TrentonHolliday,EduardoPaixao,PatriciaMonteiro,JoaoMarreiros,SandraAssis,MarinaEvora,RitaDias,CarlosDuarte,RoxaneMatias,DavidNora,JoanaPereiraSettlementdynamicsinEasternGermanyduringtheMiddlePaleolithicAndreaPicinBipedalismevolvedfromknuckle-walking:evidencefrom3DgeometricmorphometricanalysesofthoracicandlumbarvertebralshapeofHomosapiens,Pantroglodytes,Pongopygmaeus,andPapiohamadryasKimberlyA.Plomp,UnaStrandVidarsdottir,DarleneWeston,KeithDobney,MarkCollard

ApromisingnewandsimpleestimatorofinitialmassforretouchedflaketoolsCornelM.Pop,WillArcher,ZeljkoRezek,MarcelWeiß,TamaraDogandžić,SamLin,ShannonP.McPherronGaJj17:anMSAlakeshoresiteatEastTurkanaKathrynL.Ranhorn,TamaraDogandžić,SilindokuhleS.Mavuso,SsebuyungoChristopher,LoganVanHagen,CourtneyE.Jirsa,MichaelJ.Ziegler,ShannonL.Warren,J.W.K.Harris,DavidR.BraunTherelevanceof‘precious’rawmaterialengagementstodiscussionsofgroupcohesionandinteractionintheFrenchUpperPaleolithicSarahRanlettPreliminarystudyofbioavailablestrontium(87Sr/86Sr)andassessmentofdiagenesisatOlduvaiGorge,Tanzania:proposedresearchandmethodologyLauraTucker,JulienFavreau,MakariusItambu,PatrickLee,RobertPatalano,EnriqueBaquedano,,ManuelDomínguez-Rodrigo,AudaxMabulla,,JulioMercaderSelectivityamongEarlyPleistocenehominins:newevidencefromtheKoobiForaFormationKristenTuosto,SamanthaAscoli,DavidBraun,SusanaCarvalho,ReneBobe,MarkSier,JonathanWynn,JackW.K.Harris,MatthewCaruana,DavidPattersonVolumetricdifferencesintheupperribcageofextanthominoidswithimplicationsforhominidevolutionJeanelleUy,JohnHawksU-Thdatingofostricheggshell:understandingtherelationshipbetweeneggshellmicrostructureanddiffusionandimplicationsforsamplepreparationJessicaValdes,StaciL.Loewy,JayL.Banner,JohnKappelman,LawrenceToddThePleistoceneandearlyHolocenearchaeologicalrecordofBarrowIsland,northwesternAustralia:earlyandsustainedevidenceformixeduseofcoastalandaridinteriorsettingsProfessorPeterVeth,DrTiinaManne,KaneDitchfield,FionaHook,IngridWard,MarkBasgall,DavidZeanah,JaneSkippington,ChaeByrneHumanpelvicmorphologyfromanintegrativecontextCaraWall-Scheffler,HelenKurki,BenAuerbach,TheNorthofKurumanproject:newlydiscoveredMiddleandLaterStoneAgerockshelterdepositsintheKalahariBasinatGamohanaHill,NorthernCape,SouthAfricaJayneWilkins,BenjaminJ.Schoville,KyleS.Brown,RobynPickering,AndyI.R.Herries,BenjaminCollins

AncientMiddleStoneAgeclimatesatSM-1inNWEthiopiaasrevealedbystableisotopicsclerochronologyLaniWyman,NeilTabor,JohnKappelman,LawrenceTodd,

Oral Presentations

Tuesday, March 28: 9:00 – 12:15 Georgia A/B 9:00 Introduction 9:15 PleistocenehabitatsuitabilitycorrelatedwithgeneticvariationintheSouthernAfricanbaboon(Papioursinussensulato):implicationsforhominindemographyinsouthernAfricaBenjaminJSchoville,RiashnaSithaldeen,9:30 PrimatestonetooluseforpaleoanthropologistsMichaelHaslam9:45 ThesiliciclasticdepositsofJacovecCavern,Sterkfontein:Reconstructingdepositionalenvironmentsinkarstsystems.SilindokuhleSiyabonga,DominicJustin10:00 AustralopithecusanamensispaleoenvironmentsintheOmo-TurkanabasinusingstableisotopeanalysisoftoothenamelfrommixedfeedingtaxaLaurenceDumouchel,JonathanG.Wynn,RenéBobe,MichelleS.M.Drapeau,DenisGeraads10:15 UsingtephrostratigrapytolinkcorestooutcropsatOlduvaiGorge,TanzaniaLindsayJ.McHenry,JacksonK.Njau,IanG.Stanistreet,HaraldStollhofen,AlanDeino,KathySchick,NickToth 10:30Discussion 10:45 PhytolithPalaeolandscapeduringBedIIatOlduvaiGorge(Tanzania)MakariusPeterItambu,ManuelDomiguez-Rodrigo,AudaxMabulla,CharlesEgeland,FernandoDiez-Martin,AlfredoPérezGonzález,ManuelSantonjaGomez,JulienFavreau,LauraTucker,PatrickLee,RobertPatalano,JulioMercader

11:00 Taxonomicdistinctionsinthe3-DmicromorphologyoftoothmarkswithapplicationtofeedingtracesfromMiddleBedII,OlduvaiGorge,TanzaniaMatthewVMuttart,MichaelCPante,IgnaciodelaTorre,JacksonKNjau11:15 ThefeedingbehaviorandecologyofearlyHomoatHWK-EE,BedII,OlduvaiGorgeMichaelPante,JacksonNjau,IgnaciodelaTorre,LindsayMcHenry11:30 FwJj70–abutcheredbonesurfaceassemblagefromtheOkoteMemberofKoobiFora,KenyaStephenR.Merritt,EleanorA.Cordiner,SilindokuhleMavuso,KellyFetchenhier,ElliotGreiner11:45 SiteformationandintegrityofFxJj20AB,KoobiFora,Kenya:implicationsforinterpretationofOldowanhomininfireuseintheEarlyPleistoceneSarahKHlubik,DavidRBraun,FrancescoBerna,CraigFeibel,JWKHarris12:00DiscussionTuesday, March 28: 2:00 – 4:00 Georgia A/B 2:00 FireandGenusHomo:newevidencefromESAcontextsatWonderwerkCave,SouthAfricaFrancescoBerna,RobertJacob,LioraKolska-Horwitz,CandiceKoopowitz,MichaelChazan2:15 MolecularisotopicanalysisrevealsdetailsontheenvironmentalcontextoftheearliestAcheuleanatOlduvaiGorgeRobertPatalano,JulienFavreau,MakariusItambu,PatrickLee,LauraTucker,EnriqueBaquedano,FernandoDiez-Martin,ManuelDomínguez-Rodrigo,AudaxMabulla,DavidManuelMartínPerea,DavidUribelarrea,JulioMercader2:30 TheculturalmaterialfromtheLowerPalaeolithicsiteofMarathousa1,Megalopolis,Greece:preliminaryresultsVangelisTourloukis,NicholasThompson,EleniPanagopoulou,,DomenicoGiusti,PanagiotisKarkanas,GeorgiosKonidaris,KaterinaHarvati2:45ESRdatingungulatetoothenamelwithinthePaleolithicLayersatVelikaBalanica,SerbiaBonnieA.B.Blackwell,KalyaniGopalkrishna,DušanMihailović,MirjanaRoksandic,JoelI.B.Blickstein,AnneR.Skinner

3:00 EarlyandMiddleStoneAgesurveyintheupperreachesoftheFourthCataract,SudanDeborahI.Olszewski,SidneyRempel,BulentArikan,BrendaJ.Baker3:15 PaleoenvironmentalreconstructionoftheFlorisbadspringsitebasedonamicro-geoarchaeologicalapproachMichaelB.Toffolo,JamesS.Brink,CornievanHuyssteen,FrancescoBerna3:30DiscussionPoster Session 4:00 – 6:00 Plaza Ballroom Wednesday, March 29 9:00 – 12:15 Georgia A/B 9:00 TemporallinkestablishedbetweentwoMiddleStoneAgesites(southcoast,SouthAfrica)usingtheTobaIsochronEugeneSmith,SimenOestmo,JayneWilkins,RachealJohnsen,MinghuaRen,AmberCiravolo,ShelbyFitch,ZenobiaJacobs,PanagiotisKarkanas,ErichFisher,CurtisMarean9:15 Open-airinsitu72-thousand-yearoldstonetoolknappingeventsatVleesbaai,PinnaclePoint,SouthAfricaSimenOestmo,JayneWilkins,JoshGiesken,JamieHodgkins,ZenobiaJacobs,PanagiotisKarkanas,CurtisW.Marean9:30 TheSymbolicResponse:MiddleStoneAgeochreuseinitssocialandenvironmentalcontextatPinnaclePoint5-6,WesternCapeProvince,SouthAfricaJamesR.McGrath,JocelynBernatchez9:45 MiddleStoneAgeochrecontextsinBlombosCave,South-Africa:amacro-andmicro-contextualinvestigationMagnusM.Haaland,ChristopherE.Miller,KarenL.VanNiekerk,ChristopherS.Henshilwood10:00 EthnographyofredochreusebypastoralistsandhuntersinKenyaStanleyH.Ambrose,AndrewM.Zipkin,MercyGakii,DavidCoulson,MatthewW.Magnani10:15 ConstructionofanochresourcestrontiumisoscapeintheKenyaRiftValleyforproveniencestudiesofarchaeologicalandrockartmineralpigmentsAndrewM.Zipkin,StanleyH.Ambrose,CraigC.Lundstrom,GideonBartov,MercyGakki10:30Discussion

10:45 Throughavolcanicglassdarkly:viewingmodernhumanoriginswiththelensofrawmaterialtransport.NickBlegen,FrankBrown11:00 Thearchaeologyofthe1929-1932excavationsatSkhul(Israel)ChristianTryon,RavidEkshtain,PaulGoldberg,LaureMetz,11:15 AcaseforanaturalhistoryoftheNeanderthalsMarkCollard,DennisSandgathe11:30 Asemioticapproachtotheevolutionofsymbolingcapacitieswithimplicationsforclaimsof‘modernity’inearlyhumangroupsElisabethVCulley11:45Youknowthedrill:anewmethodofdifferentiatingstoneagebeadmakingtechniquesJenniferMiller,JJeffreyWerner12:00DiscussionWednesday, March 29 2:00 – 6:00 Georgia A/B 2:00 CandNstableisotopesinLatePleistocene-HoloceneostricheggshellsrevealdistinctlocalpaleoenvironmentsinEastAfricaduringtheMSA-LSAtransitionElizabethM.Niespolo,WarrenD.Sharp,ChristianA.Tryon,J.TylerFaith,JasonLewis,ToddE.Dawson2:15 Manot1calvariaandrecentmodernhumanevolution:ananthropologicalperspectiveIsraelHershkovitz,BruceLatimer,OmryBarzilai,OferMarder2:30 SynthesizingtheevidenceonMiddleandUpperPaleolithicdietsinEuropeandSWAsiaEugèneMorin,JohnD.Speth,JuliaLee-Thorp,2:45 ArmaVeirana:anewsiteinLiguria(northwesternItaly)preservingtheMiddle-to-UpperPaleolithictransitionJamieHodgkins,CaleyM.Orr,DavidStrait,ChristopherE.Miller,FabioNegrino,JulienRiel-Salvatore,MarcoPeresani,StefanoBenazzi,GenevièvePothierBouchard,ClaudineGravel-Miguel,DominiqueMeyer3:00 Lithicminiaturization,bipolarreduction,andlatePleistocenelithictechnologyatBoomplaasCave,SouthAfricaJustinPargeter

3:15Discussion 3:30 AnimalexploitationstrategiesduringtheEarlyUpperPaleolithic:theEUPfaunafromMughrel-Hamamah,Jordan(45-39kcalBP)JamieL.Clark3:45 LivinganddyingintheEpipalaeolithic:a20,000-year-oldcremationfromEasternJordanLisaA.Maher,DanielleA.Macdonald,JayT.Stock4:00 Ageometricmorphometricandnon-metricanalysisoftheOase1andMuierii1mandiblesfromRomaniaKaterinaHarvati,MirjanaRoksandic 4:15 AcomparativeempiricalanalysisofUluzzianlunatesandcoevalbackedpiecesJulienRiel-Salvatore4:30 MagdalenianimagesandnotationsAndreaCastelli4:45 Exploringtechnologicalorganizationthroughgeometricmorphometrics:thecaseofAurignacianprojectilepointsmadeofantler,boneandivoryLucDoyon,ArianeBurke,Francescod'Errico,HeidiKatzKnecht5:00AchronologicalframeworkconnectingtheearlyUpperPalaeolithicacrosstheCentralAsianpiedmontKathrynE.Fitzsimmons,RaduIovita,TobiasSprafke,MichelleGlantz,KatharineHorton,TylerBeeton,SayaAlipova,,GalymzhanBekseitov,YerbolatOspanov,Jean-MarcDeom,RenatoSala,ZhakenTaimagambetov5:15 Discussion 5:50 Business meeting