The Sunghir archaeological site

 

SUNGHIR Seminar 2004 Books CD Contacts

Anthropological findings
Morphology about
Palaeopathology about
Trace elements analyses of bones
Molecular analyses of DNA
How those humans looked like
Ecology and evolution
  Conferences

International Seminar "UPPER PALEOLITHIC PEOPLE FROM SUNGHIR, RUSSIA" will be hosted by the Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, UK at 10th of August 2004.

The Institute for Bioarchaeology (USA) is kindly providing financial support for the Seminar.



For detail information (registration, accommodation and fee): http://www.dur.ac.uk/ppa2004.conference/PPAStuff/Page19.php

The format of the Seminar is as follows:
Tuesday (10th August): Registration of the participants from 9-30 a.m. Sessions starts at 10 a.m. Coffee, tea and lunch breaks. Seminar closes at 5 p.m.

Preliminary program:

I PART
1. Roxie Walker (Institute for Bioarchaeology, USA) Opening session.
2. Video film about the excavations of the material, which were about 30ty years ago.
3. Tatiana Alexeeva (Russia). New investigation of Sunghir data: 30ty years later.
4. Maria Mednikova (Russia). Postcranial morphology of Sunghir remains
5. Erik Trinkaus (USA). Appendicular morphology of the Sunghir remains

Coffee break

II PART

6. Alexandra Buzhilova (Russia). Pathology of the Sunghir people and ecology of Upper Paleolithic Eastern Europe
7. Vincenzo Formicola (Italy). From the Sunghir children to the Romito dwarf: reflections on pathology and Upper Paleolithic funerary practices
8. Maria Dobrovolskaya (Kozlovskaya) (Russia). Sunghir humans: the problems of diet reconstruction
9. M. Richards (Germany) Isotopic evidence of diets at Sunghir and other European Gravettian sites.

Lunch break

POSTER SESSION:

1. Evgeniy Kulikov, Andrey Poltaraus, Irina Lebedeva (Russia). DNA analysis of Sunghir remains: problems and perspectives
2. Sergei Vassilyev (Russia). Craniotrigonometry of Sunghir skulls
3. Galina Lebedinskaya (Russia). Anthropological reconstruction of physical appearance of Sunghir people
4. Alexandr Zubov (Russia). Morphology of Sunghir children's teeth
5. Alifanova et al. Environment of the Sunghir people habitant: the evidence of native sciences

DISSCUTION

Organize Committee:

Alexeeva T. (Russia)
Buzhilova A. (Russia)
Dobrovolskaya (Kozlovskaya) M. (Russia)
Formicola V. (Italy)
Mednikova M. (Russia)
Roberts C. (Great Britain)
Trinkaus E. (USA)
Walker R. (Switzerland)

The Seminar is being coordinated by Dr. Alexandra Buzhilova (Moscow, Russia): Department of Physical Anthropology, Institute of Archaeology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Dm. Ulianova Str. 19, 117036, Moscow, RUSSIA; fax: 095-126-0630; email: albu_pa@mail.ru