PROGRAM

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Early rice cultivation systems and their impact on social evolution and the environment听

Schedule

September 15 (Tuesday)

9:30-9:45 听听听听听听听听听Coffee

9:45-10:30 听听听听听听听听Welcome and Overview: A decade of progress on Early Rice - Dorian Fuller (UCL)

10:30-11:00 听听听听听听听Coffee

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Session 1: Arable ecology and subsistence systems: analytical methods 听听听听听听听听听听听Chair: Peter Bellwood

11:00-11:25 听听听听听听听Marco Madella (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)--Agricultural subsistence systems and non-food products. How phytoliths can help identifying the forgotten production of arable crops

11:25-11:50听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Alison Weisskopf (UCL)--听A path between the fields: identifying changing rice arable systems in Asia using silica bodies

11:50-12:15听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Huw Barton (University of Leicester)

12:15-12:40听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Amy Bogaard (University of Oxford)--听Combining functional weed ecology and crop stable isotope values: case studies from the AGRICURB project

12:40-12:55 听听听听听听听Discussant - Peter Bellwood (ANU)

12:55-2:00 听听听听听听听听Lunch

Session 2:听Indian archaeology and rice (1)听

" Chair: Cameron Petrie

2:00-2:25 听听听听听听听听听Charlene Murphy (UCL)-- Exploring Eastern Patterns, New Archaeobotanical and Radiocarbon Evidence from Kirindia and Kandarodai, Sri Lanka and Harirajpur, Odisha

2:25-2:50 听听听听听听听听听Pramod Joglekar (Deccan College)

2:50-3:15 听听听听听听听听听Monica Smith (UCLA)--听 Food, Flood, and Famine: Urban Perspectives on Rice Production and Consumption in the Early Historic Period of the Indian Subcontinent (3rd century BC-4th century AD)

3:15-3:30 听听听听听听听听听Discussant - Cameron Petrie (Cambridge University)

3:30-4:00 听听听听听听听听听Tea听听听听听

Session 3: Archaeology from South China to Southeast Asia

" Chair: Cristina Castillo

4:00-4:25听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Barry Rolett (University of Hawaii)--听Phytolith evidence for Neolithic rice cultivation in Fujian, southeast China听

4:25-4:50听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Katie Miller (UCL)--听Rice agriculture at Ban Non Wat: Identifying听change in the upper听Mun听Valley from plant macro-remains.

4:50-5:15听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Charles Higham (University of Otago)--听Social changes and rice agriculture in Northeast Thailand: from the Neolithic to the Iron Age

5:15-5:30 听听听听听听听听听 Discussant - Charles Higham

September 16 (Wednesday)听

9:20-9:40 听听听听听听听听听Coffee

Session 4: Indian archaeology and rice (2), from the Northeast to the South听

" Chair: Rabi Mohanty听

9:40-10:05 听听听听听听听听Ellie Kingwell-Banham (UCL)--听 Identifying rice cultivation systems in South Asia

10:05-10:30 听听听听听听听Tilok Thakuria (Meghalaya University)

10:30-10:45 听听听听听听听Discussant - Rabi Mohanty (Deccan College)

10:45-11:15 听听听听听听听Coffee

Session 5: Southeast Asian archaeology & rice 听听听

" Chair:听Gill Thompson

11:15-11:40 听听听听听听听Janice Stargardt (University of Cambridge)

11:40-12:05 听听听听听听听Rasmi Shoocongdej (Silpakorn University)

12:05-12:30 听听听听听听听Peter Bellwood (ANU)--听On the merits of big pictures: The Holocene in Southeast Asia

12:30-12:45 听听听听听听听Discussant - Jill Thompson (Bradford University)

12:45-1:45 听听听听听听听听Lunch

Session 6: Indian archaeology and rice (3), the Northwest

" Chair:听Pramod Joglekar (Deccan College)听

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1:45-2:10 听听听听听听听听听Jennifer Bates (University of Cambridge)--听 Rice Domestication, Cultivation and Agriculture: the role of the Indus Civilisation?

2:10-2:35 听听听听听听听听听Penny Jones (University of Cambridge)--听 Stable isotope analysis: a new window into early rice?

2:35-3:00 听听听听听听听听听Dorian Fuller (UCL)- The Proto-indica hypothesis and place of rice in the agriculture of Chalcolithic western India and Pakistan.

3:00-3:25 听听听听听听听听听Vasant Shinde (Deccan College)

3:25-3:45 听听听听听听听听听Tea听听听听听

Session 7: Chinese archaeology and rice听听

" Chair: Guiyin Jin

3:45-4:10 听听听听听听听听听Chris Stevens (UCL)-- The evolution of rice and rice cultivation in the Lower Yangtze based on macro-botanical remains from Caoxieshan and Maoshan

4:10-4:45 听听听听听听听听听 Min Rui (Yunnan Institute)-- Baiyancun and Haimenkou excavations

4:45-4:55 听听听听听听听听听 Chris Stevens/Dorian Fuller (UCL) preliminary 听听 archaeobotanical results ftom Yunnan (Haimenkou and Baiyancun)

4:55-5:25 听听听听听听听听听Yijie Zhuang (UCL)--听Evolution of paddy fields in China

5:25-5:35 听听听听听听听听听Discussant -- Professor Guiyin Jin (Shandong University)

5:35-7:30 听听听听听听听听听Reception 听听听

September 17 (Thursday)听

9:15-9:30 听听听听听听听听听Coffee

Session 8: Rice in the West: the Middle East and Africa听听

" Chair: Mark Nesbitt

Chair: Mark Nesbitt

9:30-9:55 听听听听听听听听听Nicole Boivin (Oxford)--听Introduction of Asian rice to Africa and Madagascar (with Alison Crowther, Leilani Lucas and the Sealinks Team).

9:55-10:20 听听听听听听听听Louis Champion (UCL)-- Oryza glaberrima steud. (African rice): history and new evidence from North Benin (with Anne Haour & Dorian Fuller)听

10:20- 10:45 听听听听听听 Suresh Muthukumaran (UCL)--听The origins of rice cultivation in the Middle East and the Mediterranean

10:45-11:00 听听听听听听听Discussant - Mark Nesbitt (Kew)

11:00-11:30 听听听听听听听Coffee

Session 9:听Southeast Asian subsistence regimes: Hunter-gatherers to the Metal Age

" Chair:听B茅r茅nice听Bellina-Pryce

Chair:听B茅r茅nice听Bellina-Pryce

11:30-11:55 听听听听听听听Marc Oxenham (ANU)--听The Mainland Southeast Asian Neolithic: Foragers or Farmers?听(with A Willis)

11:55-12:20 听听听听听听听Philip Piper (ANU)--听The Origins and Routes of Translocation of the Earliest Domestic Animals in Southeast Asia

12:20-12:45 听听听听听听听Cristina Castillo (UCL)--听 Archaeobotany in Southeast Asia: What have we learnt so far...

12:45-1:00 听听听听听听听听Discussant - B茅r茅nice Bellina-Pryce (CNRS)

1:00-2:00 听听听听听听听听听Lunch

Session 10: Modelling the impact of early land use听

" Chair: Andy Bevan

Chair: Andy Bevan

2:00-2:25听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Jed Kaplan (ARVE, Lausanne)--听Monsoon variability and the decline of Angkor: A modeling study of human responses to environment change

2:25-2:50听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Liviu Giosan (Woods Hole Oceanographic)--听 Fluvial Dynamics and Past Civilizations

2:50-3:15听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Fabio Silva (UCL)--听Modelling Rice Dispersals: from geographical origins to methane emissions

3:15-3:30 听听听听听听听听听Discussant - Andy Bevan (UCL)

3:30-4:00 听听听听听听听听听Tea听听听听听

Session 11: Genetics & aDNA

" Chair: Mark Thomas

Chair: Mark Thomas

4:00-4:25听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Ryo Ishikawa (Kobe University)--听 Evaluation of the domestication-related traits in rice. (with Ryo Ishikawa, Yumi Oka, Ryo Nishioka, Mai Ikemoto, Than Myint Htun, Chizuru Inoue, Koji, Numaguchi, and听)

4:25-4:50听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Robin Allaby (Warwick)--听Rice and the central dogma: insights from modeling on cereal evolution and domestication

4:50-5:15听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Terry Brown (Manchester)--听Independent domestications of the indica, japonica and aus groups of Asian rice

5:15-5:40 听听听听听听听听听Discussant - Mark Thomas (UCL)

5:40-6:10 听听听听听听听听听Summary/Discussion on future work - Dorian Fuller

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