Program

Date: 14th February

Place: Auditori Pati Manning. Centre d'Estudis i Recursos Culturals. 7 Montalegre St, 08001. Barcelona

Hour	Title	Authors
9-10	Reception
10-10,40	Welcome: Josep Manel RUEDA Subdirector General de Patrimoni  Arquitectònic, Arqueòlogic i Paleontològic. Departament de Cultura.  Generalitat de Catalunya. Manel LOPEZ-BEJAR Vicerector d’Investigació Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Luis Calvo Calvo, Delegate in Catalonia of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Tribute to Marie-Claire Cauvin

Cofee Break: 10,40-11,10

Hour	Title	Authors
11,10-11,35	Nahal Ein Gev II – A late Natufian site/village?	Leore Grosman, Anna Belfer-Cohen and Ofer Bar-Yosef
11,35-12	Incised slabs from Hayonim Cave: a methodological case study for reading Natufian art	Dana Shaham
12-12,25	How to assess variability in Epipalaeolithic assemblages: Two case studies from the Middle Epipalaeolithic of the Southern Levant	Lisa A. MAHER and Danielle A. MACDONALD
12,25-12,50	The Lithic Assemblage from Hof Shahaf – Early or Late Natufian?	Noa Klein

Lunch: 13-14,30

Hour	Title	Authors
14,30-14,55	Sedentism or mobility: can subsistence strategy be detected through lithic technology? Core exploitation and blank manufacture in the Late Natufian of the core area and periphery.	Hila Ashkenazy, Anna Belfer-Cohen, and Nigel Goring-Morris
14,55-15,20	Early Neolithic Flint Raw Material Procurement in the Greater Petra Region/Southern Levant. Research Possibilities and Limits as seen from LPPNB Ba'ja.	Christoph Purschwitz
15,20-15,45	The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Quarry Site of Kaizer, Modi‘in – the spoils	Gadi HeRzlinger, Leore Grosman, Naama Goren-Inbar
15,45-16,10	Large Scale Larnite-Marble Quarries and Bifacial tools production sites, from the southern Judean Desert	Jacob Vardi

Cofee Break: 16,10-16,40

Hour	Title	Authors
16,40-17,05	The Bidirectional Blade Industries of the Southern Levant	Omry Barzilai
17,05-17,30	Naviform Technology at Göllüdağ:  Some Remarks	Semra Balcı
17,30-17,55	The spatial and temporal distribution of the off-set bi-directional strategy in the Northern Levant.	Ferran BORRELL
17,55-18,20	Discussion

Date: 15th February

Place: Auditori Pati Manning. Centre d'Estudis i Recursos Culturals. 7 Montalegre St, 08001. Barcelona

Hour	Title	Authors
9-9,25	Observations on the Chaîne Opératoire at Nahal Lavan 1021, Western Negev Dunes, in Light of Refitting Studies	Netta Mitki, Omry Barzilai and Nigel Goring-Morris
9,25-9,50	Long blade caches at Late Neolithic Shir, Syria	Dörte Rokitta-Krumnow
9,50-10,15	Caching and depositing in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B of Yiftahel, Israel	Hamoudi Khalaily, Ianir Milevski and Omry Barzilai
10,15-10,40	Household Stone Tool Production at the Neolithic Site of ‘Ain Ghazal	Theresa M. BARKET

Cofee Break: 10,40-11,10

Hour	Title	Authors
11,10-11,35	Retrospective and Vision for the Future of PPN Chipped-Stone Research	Philip J. WILKE and Leslie A. QUINTERO
11,35-12	The Neolithic Commodification of Stone	Hans G. GEBEL
12-12,25	Distinguishing between arrowheads and spearheads: the case of Çatalhöyük projectile points	Lilian Dogiama
12,25-12,50	A Functional Look at Drills from Huzuk Musa, The Lower Jordan Valley	Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, Danny Rosenberg and Dani Nadel

Lunch: 13-14,30

Hour	Title	Authors
14,30-14,55	Chinese armatures – different approach for shaping arrowheads	Ofer BAR-YOSEF
14,55-15,20	Microdrill use at Khiamian and PPNA sites in central and north Levant (Syria and Lebanon)	González Urquijo, J.; Ibáñez, J.J.; Lazuén, T. and Abbès, F.
15,20-15,45	Points with Palmyran Retouch from Tell Ain el-Kerkh, Syria	Makoto ARIMURA
15,45-16,10	Hafting and maintaining sickles in the southern Levant during the 6th and 5th millennia	Jacob Vardi and Isaac Gilead

Cofee Break: 16,10-16,40

Hour	Title	Authors
16,40-17,05	The Natufian bedrock mortars of Qarassa 3: interdisciplinary methodology and first results	Xavier TERRADAS , Juan José IBÁÑEZ , Frank BRAEMER , Luis C. TEIRA , Eneko IRIARTE , David ORTEGA , Karen HARDY
17,05-17,30	Back to the good-old porridge - PPNA cupmarks versus late Natufian "stone pipes"	David EITAM
17,30-17,55	Grooved stones and the Neolithic–Chalcolithic transition in the southern Levant	Ariel Vered
17,55-18,20	Discussion

Date: 16th February

Place: Auditori Pati Manning. Centre d'Estudis i Recursos Culturals. 7 Montalegre St, 08001. Barcelona

Hour	Title	Authors
9-9,25	The ground stone tools from the PPN site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, western Iran	Nicholas J. Conard and Mohsen Zeidi
9,25-9,50	First results of the functional study of grinding stone tools from Jerf el Ahmar, tell Halula and tell Aswad (Syria)	María BOFILL
9,50-10,15	Preliminary Results of Trial Excavations at Nahal Hava: A PPNB Campsite in the Central Negev Highlands, Israel	Michal Birkenfeld and Nigel Goring-Morris
10,15-10,40	Qumran Cave 24, A Neolithic-Chalcolithic Site near by the Dead Sea: some information on lithics	A. Gopher, R. Barkai, C. Lemorini and H. Schechter

Cofee Break: 10,40-11,10

Hour	Title	Authors
11,10-11,35	The lithic industry at the Early PPNB levels of Tell Qarassa North (Sweida, Southern Syria).	Juan José IBÁÑEZ and Frank BRAEMER
11,35-12	The PPNA lithic assemblage of Hasankeyf Höyük: a microlith industry in the upper Tigris valley, SE Anatolia	Osamu MAEDA
12-12,25	The Lithic Assemblages of Gusir Höyük (Southeastern Turkey)	Çiler Altınbilek-Algül
12,25-12,50	Recent fieldwork at WF16: some preliminary thoughts on the interpretation of PPNA assemblage variability in southern Jordan	Sam SMITH

Lunch: 13-14,30

Hour	Title	Authors
14,30-14,55	The Lithic Assemblages of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel: A Reappraisal	Dana Shaham, Lena Brailovsky and Nigel Goring-Morris
14,55-15,20	La région des « marges arides » et la diffusion du PPNB en Syrie intérieure.	Eric COQUEUGNIOT and Bernard GEYER
15,20-15,45	Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Foragers in the Central and the Western Negev: a summary of recent investigations	Nigel Goring-Morris and Omry Barzilai
15,45-16,10	The sequence of chipped stone artifacts from the PPN site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, western Iran	Mohsen Zeidi and Nicholas J. Conard

Cofee Break: 16,10-16,40

Hour	Title	Authors
16,40-17,05	Chipped Stone industry from excavation in PPN settlement of Tel-e Atashi, SE Iran	Mozhgan Jayez and Masoud RAHMATI
17,05-17,30	Chipped Stone Assemblage from Systematic Surface Survey in PPN Settlement of Tell-e Atashi in South-Eastern Iran	Maryam Shakooie
17,30-17,55	Changes in the Pottery Neolithic flaked stone industries from the late 7th to the early 6th millennium BC in Fars, southwest Iran	Yoshihiro NISHIAKI
17,55-18,20	Discussion

Lithic Family Dinner

Date: 17th February

Place: Sala de Graus. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra.

Hour	Title	Authors
9-9,25	Most southern occurrence of Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) technology in Saudi Arabia	Rémy CRASSARD, Michael D. PETRAGLIA and Abdullah ALSHAREKH
9,25-9,50	The Early Cypriot Pre-Pottery Neolithic : new light from Amathus area.	F. BRIOIS, J.-D. VIGNE, J. GUILAINE
9,50-10,15	The Neolithic of Lebanon: a critical statement of knowledge	Maya Haïdar-Boustani
10,15-10,40	The Near Eastern connections of the Neolithic in the Southern Caucasus: a lithic perspective	Zinovi Matskevich

Cofee Break: 10,40-11,10

Hour	Title	Authors
11,10-11,35	Obsidian Circulation in PPNA: The View from Hemmeh	Daniel A. CONTRERAS, Tristan CARTER, and Cheryl MAKAREWICZ
11,35-12	The Göllüdağ survey (2007-2011).	Nur Balkan-Atlı and Nurcan KAYACAN
12-12,25	Results of geochemical analyses of obsidian artefacts from the Neolithic site of Tell Labwe-South and the deep sounding at the site of Baalbek, Lebanon	L. Khalidi, B. Gratuze, M. Haidar-Boustani, J.J. Ibáñez and M. van Ess
12,25-12,50	The Consumption of Obsidian at Neolithic Çatalhöyük: A Long-Term Perspective	Tristan CARTER and Marina MILIĆ

Lunch: 13-14,30

Hour	Title	Authors
14,30-14,55	The obsidian assemblage from Neolithic Hagoshrim, Israel: Pressure technology, craft specialization and trade.	Heeli C. Schechter, Ran Barkai, Ofer Marder and Avi Gopher
14,55-15,20	Of Neolithisation and Regionalism: Obsidian sourcing at PPNA Körtik Tepe (SE Turkey).	Sarah GRANT, Tristan CARTER, Vecihi ÖZKAYA and Metin KARTAL
15,20-15,45	Towards an Archaeology of Pilgrimage: Sourcing Obsidian from the PPN Temple Complex of Göbekli Tepe	Tristan CARTER, François-Xavier LE BOURDONNEC, Gérard POUPEAU and Klaus SCHMIDT
15,45-16,10	Arpachiyah obsidians:   their context	Stuart CAMPBELL and Elizabeth HEALEY
16,10-16,35	Mythes et Techniques au PPNB	Marcel OTTE

Cofee Break: 16,35-17,05

Hour	Title	Authors
17,05…	Discussion