The meeting will be held in Room R, Second Floor, at the UGA Hotel & Conference Center.

The final program can be downloaded here.

Thursday 3rd March 2016

9:00 – 10:00  Registration/Coffee

10:00 – 10:20  Welcome and Introduction Suzanne Pilaar Birch

Session 1:

10:20 – 10:40  Hirons A.: Paleoceanographic Productivity Reconstructions Using Marine Mammal Bone Collagen

10:40 – 11:00  Conrad C.: Stable Isotopes as a Species and Anthropogenic Indicator in a Gold Rush-era Galapagos Tortoise and Sea Turtle from San Francisco, California 

11:00 – 11:20  Reid R.: A new record of Holocene terrestrial climate variability from the Horn of Africa: Constraining the cause and timing of the African Humid Period

11:20 – 11:40  Reitsema L: Invited Paper Applications in Economic Archaeology of the Ecogeographic Variations in Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Ratios of Faunal Bone Collagen

11:40 – 12:00  Discussion  

12:00 – 1:00  Lunch

Session 2:

1:00 – 1:20  Andrus F.: Oxygen isotope season of capture estimates in mollusks may be incorrect, yet the method is still useful

1:20 – 1:40  Lulewicz I.: Reimagining the Complexity of Shell Deposits at Crystal River and Roberts Island Shell Mound Complex through Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry

1:40 – 2:00  Hadden C.: There and Back Again: Stable Oxygen Isotope Evidence for Resource Catchment Area at the Bayou St. John Site, Alabama, USA

2:00 – 2:20  Burchell M.: Invited Paper From Microns to Millennia: Resolution and Interpretation of  Sclerochemical data in Archaeology

2:20 – 2:40  Discussion

2:40 – 3:10  Coffee Break

Session 3: 

3:10 – 3:30  Jones E.: The Changing Rio: Insights from the seventeenth century archaeological fish of Isleta Mission Convento (LA 724)

3:30 – 3:50  Bassett C.: Clams and Climate: Implications for reconstructing past environments in Southern Alaska

3:50 – 4:10  Llorente-Rodríguez L.: Trawling for data: exploring carbon and nitrogen isotopic variation within a large dataset of archaeological and modern Atlantic cod

4:10 – 4:30  Payne T.: Archaeological Applications of δ15N Obtained from Mollusk Shells

4:30 – 5:00  Discussion

 

Friday 4th March 2016

9:30 – 10:00 Coffee

10:00 – 12:00  Neotoma Database Workshop led by Russell Graham and Eric Grimm

12:00 – 1:00  Lunch 

1:00 – 4:00  Lab Tours 

Georgia Museum of Natural History Zooarchaeology Lab
Center for Applied Isotope Studies
UGA Archaeology Lab

4:30  Reception Georgia Museum of Natural History

 

Saturday 5th March 2016

9:30 – 10:00  Coffee 

Session 4:

10:00 – 10:20  Price G.: Subjectification of Faunal Objects: Isotopic Contributions to Post-Processual Archaeology

10:20 – 10:40  Edwards, R.: Dog-Human Symbiosis: Archaeological Evidence from the Great Lakes

10:40 – 11:00  Greenfield, H.: An examination of economic specialization in the Early Bronze Age city of Tell es-Safi using isotopic analysis of domestic animals

11:00 – 11:20  Reitz E. Invited Paper  Musings on Stable Isotopes in Zooarchaeology

11:20 – 11:40  Discussion

12:00 – 1:00  Lunch

 
Session 5:

1:00 – 1:20  Pilaar Birch S.: Seasonality and Herd Management at Neolithic Ulucak, Turkey

1:20 – 1:40  Zavodny E.: Differentiating Animal Management Strategies in Prehistoric Croatia Using Stable Isotopes

1:40 – 2:00  Roberts G.: Seasonality, hunting strategies and palaeoecology of
Late Pleistocene Tasmania, Australia – new directions in Australian research

2:00 – 2:20  Swift J.: Bone collagen stable isotope analysis of the Pacific rat
(Rattus exulans) as paleoenvironmental and paleodietary proxy in
Polynesian archaeological sites

2:20 – 2:40  Discussion

2:40 – 3:10  Coffee

3:10 – 4:00  Final Discussion and Working Group Plans