Calpe 07: People in the Mediterranean: a history of interaction

CALPE CONFERENCE 2007 - People in the Mediterranean: a history of interaction - GIBRALTAR 27 - 30 September 2007 - Email Us

Conference Programme

27th September
08:30	Registration
09:00	Official Opening
09:30	Opening Lecture Jacques Blondel: CEFE-CNRS UMR 5175, 34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France The design of Mediterranean landscapes: a millennial story of humans and ecological systems
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Naama Goren-Inbar: Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Paleoenvironment reconstruction and Hominin adaptation at the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel
12:00	Geraldine Finlayson: The Gibraltar Museum, Gibraltar Neanderthals and the Mediterranean environment
1300	Clive Finlayson: The Gibraltar Museum, Gibraltar and University of Toronto, Canada Of Dukes, Dehesas and Dromedaries
14:00 Lunch
15:30	José Manuel Recio Espejo: Departamento de Ecología Aplicada, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain Human activities and Mediterranean wetlands: palaeoecological reconstruction
16:30	Tea
17:00	Dominik Faust: Department of Physical Geography, University of Dresden, Germany The last 15ka of environmental change in the western Mediterranean – Man or Climate, or...?
18:00	Melinda Zeder: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA Domestication and Early Agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, Diffusion, and Impacts
19:00	Discussion
20:30	Welcome Reception
28th September
09:30	José Carrión: Department of Plant Biology, University of Murcia, Spain Vegetation change and cultural transitions in a Mediterranean montane region with a long history of human settlement
10:30	Coffee
11:00	R. Scott Anderson: Northern Arizona University, USA Fire histories in Mediterranean-type ecosystems: comparisons of the Old and New Worlds
12:00	Suzanne Leroy: Institute for the Environment, Brunel University, London, UK Was the end of the Roman period of intense agricultural activities in Turkey precipitated by environmental catastrophes?
13:00	Neil Roberts: Department of Geography, University of Plymouth, UK Mediterranean landscape disturbance and recovery: an historical case study from Turkey
14:00 Lunch
15:30	Juan M. Pleguezuelos: Departamento de Biología Animal, Universidad de Granada, Spain Snake charming in Morocco: the Aissaouas and their impact on poisonous snakes
16:30	Tea
17:00	Uriel Safriel: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Land use dynamics and biodiversity in Israel
18:00	John Fa: Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Jersey, UK Mediterranean Biodiversity: Uniqueness, Fragility and Solutions
19:00	Discussion
29th September
09:30	Geoff Bailey: Department of Archaeology, University of York, UK Coastlines and world prehistory. Is the Mediterranean atypical?
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Arturo Morales: Departamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain 20,000 years of fishing in the Strait: The archaeological fish assemblages from the southern Iberian Peninsula ?
12:00	Sebastiano Tusa: Soperintendenza del Mare, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Human adaptation to the coastal environment in Sicily between the Mesolithic and the middle Bronze Age
13:00	Dario Bernal: Facultad de Historia, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain Rome and the Sea. The exploitation of marine resources in the area of the Strait of Gibraltar in the Ancient World.
14:00 Lunch
15:30	Darren Fa: The Gibraltar Museum, Gibraltar & Free Espinosa Torres: Dept. de Biologia Marina, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain On the road to extinction? Long-term impact of human activities along the Mediterranean coastal zone and their effect on littoral species, with particular reference to the endangered limpet Patella ferruginea Gmelin, 1791
16:30	Tea
17:00	Closing Lecture Joaquín Rodríguez Vidal : Departamento de Geodinámica y Paleontología, Universidad de Huelva, Spain Human adaptation to the changing geomorphological face of Gibraltar
18:00	Discussion
21:00	Conference Dinner

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