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Meso’10 – Notebook

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Meso’2020 - Tenth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe

7-11 Sep 2020 (Toulouse, France)

Table of contents

Session: Thing theory and lithics........................................................18Changing the perspective, adapting the scale: macro- and microlithic

technologies of SW Iberian Early Mesolithic...............................19Stone tool technology at the Cabeço da Amoreira shellmidden (Muge,

Portugal): a diachronic perspective..............................................20Can Phylogenetics and Factor Analysis be Complementary? The

Geometric Microliths as a Case Study..........................................21The Neolithisation of the Northern French Alps: contextualisation of a

transition period according to the lithic study of La Grande-Rivoire rock shelter (Vercors, France)..........................................22

Polished slate knives and slate raw-material variability in the Late Mesolithic of Northern Scandinavia.............................................23

Stylistic study of the Late Mesolithic lithic industries in Western France: crossing Principal Coordinate Analysis and use-wears analysis. .24

A Little Mystery, Mythology and Romance: How the ’Pigmy Flint’ got its Name........................................................................................25

Handling Pressure: Migrations and Transmission of Knowledge in the 7th-5th Millennia BC......................................................................26

Session: Material productions (varia)................................................27Variability of microliths morphology at the Cabeço da Amoreira

shellmound: an approach using Geometric Morphometrics.........28Raw material economy through Mesolithic in southwest France..........29

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The Mesolithic in the Marches: Lithic Sourcing in the Random Forest 30Macroscopic Analysis of Lithic Grave Finds from Yuzhniy Oleniy

Ostrov...........................................................................................31Lithic raw material management at Mesolithic shell midden site of El

Mazo (Asturias, Northern Spain)..................................................32Mesolithic Kukrek technocomplex revisited in the light of the collection

from the Kamyana Mohyla 1 site (south-eastern Ukraine)..........33Evolutionary dynamics of armatures in southern France in the 2nd

Mesolithic and Early Neolithic.....................................................34Provenance Archaeometric Study of Chert Artefacts from Cocina Cave

(Dos Aguas, Valencian Community, Spain)..................................35Mesolithization, Mesolithic and Neolithization in the South-West of

France: contribution of the Cuzoul de Gramat (Gramat, Lot, France) to the establishment of a new chronocultural framework between the Pyrenees and the Massif Central (XI-VI millennia cal BC)................................................................................................36

Session: The Great Transition – Early-Mid Holocene biological and cultural transformations......................................................................37On the brink of cultural change: animal resource procurement and use in

the final Mesolithic at “Tivoli” Place Saint Lambert, Liège (Belgium)......................................................................................38

The Meso-Neolithic Transition in the Alpine and Peri-Alpine Region: Still Open to Debate......................................................................39

Approaching spatio-temporal analysis to explore mechanisms about the Late Mesolithic and Neolithic spread in the central and western Mediterranean...............................................................................40

The Hidden Factor – The socio-political and economic contributions of indigenous hunter-gatherer populations to the Mid-Holocene societies in Temperate Europe......................................................41

An elusive transition: Revisiting the Mesolithic/Neolithic continuity in the Southern Adriatic and its margins...........................................42

Mobility and territoriality during the Mesolithic in southern Scandinavia......................................................................................................43

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Britain in or out of Europe during the late Mesolithic?.........................44Comparison between Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup frequencies of

Prehistoric and Modern Siberian Populations..............................45Para-Neolithic in Eastern and East-Central Europe. Reflection of our

classificatory imagination or reflection of the real past?..............46Ancient genomes from Iberia reveal regional- and local-scale population

dynamics of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.....................................47The Mesolithic genetic legacy in the first Neolithic societies sheds light

on the processes of admixture in Europe......................................48Investigating sociocultural patterns of the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of

Téviec and Hoëdic, Brittany, France: an archeogenomic approach......................................................................................................49

Session: Cultural and regional identities (varia)...............................50Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Southern France: can archaeological

evidences attest a possibility of interaction between different human groups?..............................................................................51

Filling the gap: Evidence from Dvoynaya Cave on the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in the North Caucasus..................................52

Investigating the Early to Late Mesolithic transition in North-Eastern Italy: a multifaceted regional perspective.....................................53

‘Bearers of civilization’ or ‘useful idiots’. The southern Baltic coast Mesolithic and its relation with the Neolithic. The case from Dabki, Poland...............................................................................54

Late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic: was there the “Neolithic hiatus” in the North Caucasus?.....................................................................55

Stone tools production from the Mesolithic levels of Grotta del Romito (Calabria, Italy): new insights on the Sauveterrian of Southern Italy...............................................................................................56

The Time of the Last Hunters: Chronocultural Aspects of Early Holocene Societies in the Western Mediterranean.......................57

Transitions in Mesolithic Societies of Baltic Scandinavia.....................58

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Session: From animals to osseous remains: recent advances in the study of human-animal relationships in the Mesolithic....................59Understanding European Mesolithic dog domestication.......................60Heads They Lose: investigating the modification of animal skulls in the

British Early Mesolithic................................................................61Human bone points, ZooMS identifications from the Dutch North Sea62Macrofaunal remains from the Cuzoul de Gramat (Lot, France) during

the Late Mesolithic: archaeozoological preliminary results.........63Contribution of archaeozoology to the characterization of the mobility

systems of the latest nomadic societies: a combined approach of classical archaeozoological methods, cementum increment analysis and three-dimensional dental microwear texture analysis......................................................................................................64

The last hunter-gatherers of the Swiss plateau. Zooarchaeological approach of the Mesolithic rock shelter Arconciel/La Souche (Fribourg, Switzerland).................................................................65

Mesolithic Jewelry at Skateholm: Local and Long-distance.................66Zooarchaeological study of the Mesolithic site of El Collado (Oliva,

Eastern Iberian Peninsula). Preliminary results and research perspectives...................................................................................67

Exploitation of osseous materials during the Mesolithic in the Iron Gates.............................................................................................68

An update on the macromammal exploitation in the Cantabrian Spain during the Mesolithic (11.5 – 7.5 ky cal BP)................................69

Tracing hide craft as human-animal relations in Stone Age Norway... .70Wild pig hunting in Mesolithic Ireland: investigating human-animal

relationships..................................................................................71Deer hunting during the Mesolithic at Les Cabônes rockshelter (Jura,

France): insights from dental remains..........................................72Pioneer the frontier. Red deer antler headdresses and the beginning of

the Mesolithic in the Lowlands.....................................................73Relict traditions: Techno-typological analysis, direct radiocarbon dating

and protein mass spectrometry of biserial harpoons from Denmark suggest Palaeolithic traditions continued into the Holocene........74

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Session: Beyond the nutshell: diet, cooking and cuisine in the Mesolithic..............................................................................................75Cultural and food choices of ancient communities of the 6th mill BC in

the forest zone of Eastern Europe (based on Upper Volga culture materials)......................................................................................76

Hidden foods, health and lifestyles in the Mesolithic Balkans: Data from dietary debris, microbiota and groundstone technology...............77

Reviewing the palaeodietary reconstruction of the Mesolithic site of El Collado (Spain) with Compound Specific Isotope Analysis of Amino Acids.................................................................................78

Fowling and feasting (?) on middle sized-ducks at the peatbog of Dagsmosse, Östergotland, Sweden...............................................79

There are not only pots: organic residues analysis applied to prehistoric hearths...........................................................................................80

On the border: pottery use in Bug-Dniester culture in the 7th-5th mill BC......................................................................................................81

Para-Neolithic pottery use: Organic residue analysis of ceramics from Dudka and Szczepanki..................................................................82

Session: Striving for affluence – Active resource management and natural storage in hunter-gatherer societies......................................83Exploiting fish migration and seasonal agglomeration in connection to

long-term storage at Norje Sunnansund – Strontium isotope analyses on fish teeth through LA-MCICP-MS...........................84

Pottery use within a specialized shell-midden site in the southern part of Eastern Europe: a case-study of Rakushechny Yar settlement (6th mill BC)........................................................................................85

Archaeological evidence for freshwater fish exploitation during the Mesolithic: a case study from the Doubs catchment basin (Jura, Eastern France).............................................................................86

The rational resource management as the key to successful livelihood strategy of the population of the Dnieper Rapids Region during the Late Mesolithic.......................................................................87

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Just getting nuts...? Consequences of new research at ancient Lake Duvensee and Friesack (Germany)...............................................88

Seasonal abundance and resource management: A view from the northern forests.............................................................................89

Deep pits, large game exploitation and isotopes: converging evidences of very early sedentarism during the Mesolithic..........................90

Mesolithic lifeways on the shores of Skadar Lake: the evidence from Seocka pećina, Montenegro..........................................................91

Session: Living on the coast: maritime hunter-fisher-gatherers, shell middens and the use of marine resources in Mesolithic Europe......92The technological system of the maritime hunter-fisher-gatherers of the

Atlantic façade: a preliminary approach through use-wear analysis on knapped industries...................................................................93

Symbolism of the Red deer appears among Coastal (Mesolithic) people......................................................................................................94

Why have Mesolithic populations eaten crabs only in the last 15 years?......................................................................................................95

Stable oxygen isotope analysis and the seasonal exploitation of Patella depressa Pennant, 1777 during the Mesolithic in the Cantabrian region (N Iberia)...........................................................................96

Maritime hunter-fisher-gatherers in northern Iberia during the Mesolithic: new perspectives from the shell midden site of El Mazo (Asturias, Spain).............................................................97

How maritime can you get? Conceptualizing adaptive shifts from coastal opportunism to maritime specialization in Early/Mid-Holocene Arctic Norway..............................................................98

Living on the Brittany coast in the Mesolithic period: from formation processes of shell middens to the socio-economic practices of the last hunter-gatherer-fishermen, the case study of Beg-er-Vil (Quiberon, France)........................................................................99

Below the threshold: the importance of shell middens’ sedimentary context to recognize Mesolithic shellfish cooking.....................100

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Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? Identifying tool use in British Mesolithic woodworking..............................................................................101

Session: Multidisciplinal approaches to the uses of plants as food, medicine and raw material by mesolithic communities..................102Dendro-antracological approaches appled to Mesolithic contexts in NE

Iberia: the exploitation of Montane Pinewoods..........................103Fishing nets and string at the Final Mesolithic and Early Neolithic site

of Zamostje 2, Sergiev Posad (Russia).......................................104Pine, birch and hazel: Early Mesolithic plant management systems at

Krzyz Wielkopolski 7 (Poland)..................................................105There is no Smoke without Fire: Anthracological Analysis of the

Feature A, Cabeço da Amoreira, Muge Shell-middens, Portugal....................................................................................................106

Site formation and use of wetland plant resources in the Mesolithic occupations of La Fragua Cave (Cantabria, Spain)....................107

The exploitation of wild plant resources in Can Sadurní Cave site (Begues, Spain) during the last hunter-gatherer occupations (11.000-6000 cal BC).................................................................108

Plants as materials in ritual practice.....................................................109

Session: Environmental Change, Cultural Landscapes and Human Adaptations in the Mesolithic............................................................110Doggerland dynamics. Exploring the characteristics of human-

environment interaction and adaptability in the Mesolithic of the North Sea area 9000-5000 cal BC..............................................111

Environmental Change and the Neolithization of the Balkans............112Ice Patch Hunters in the Mesolithic? An exploratory review of the

current evidence..........................................................................113The Eastern Link – a link to the past....................................................114Towards a history of the British Mesolithic.........................................115Reconstructing palaeolandscapes: new perspective combining

geophysics and excavations........................................................116

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Organic chemistry and magnetic susceptibility to characterize Late Mesolithic (ca. 8400-7000 cal BP) palaeoenvironmental conditions in the Sado Estuary, Portugal....................................117

Fire, fuel and food: perceptions of the environment in early Mesolithic Arctic Norway.............................................................................118

A multi-proxy research program to evaluate the relationship between Mesolithic occupation patterns and Early Holocene environmental dynamics in the Upper Vinalopó Valley (SE Iberian Peninsula) 119

Hunter-fisher-gatherers and the changing environment, c. 9000–7600 cal BP. A case study from central Scandinavia...........................120

8.2 ka event in the Cantabrian region (N Iberia) from marine (oxygen isotopes on gastropods) and terrestrial (palynology) proxies: implications for Mesolithic populations.....................................121

The Early Mesolithic at ancient Lake Duvensee: Past, present and Future..........................................................................................122

Business as usual? Fishing, hunting and gathering through 3 millennia of climate change at the Mesolithic wetland complex Dagsmosse, eastern Central Sweden...............................................................123

Kŏzený Zámek: Archaeological and Paleoecological Insight from a Late Paleolithic site in Kokŏrínsko, Central Bohemia.......................124

Pressure lamellar production as an adaptive choice in Mesolithic-Eneolithic of south-western Ukraine..........................................125

Eastern European Mesolithic in the forest-steppe of the Volga basin: new results..................................................................................126

The end of the “Epi-Mesolithic” and Mid-Holocene environmental changes in the Eastern Gulf of Finland.......................................127

The archaeological evidence for fishing in the Mesolithic of North Angara (Baikal Siberia)..............................................................128

Environment and firewood use at Tourasse cave (South-West France) around the Late Glacial-Holocene transition..............................129

Forests, wild game and humans-paleoecological aspects of large herbivore foraging reflected in stable isotopes and dendrological indications of bark-stripping and its implications for Mesolithic hunting........................................................................................130

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Accommodate or relocate. Adaption strategies to shore level displacement in eastern Norway during the Mesolithic.............131

Vegetation dynamics, landscape and climate change in northern Iberia during the Mesolithic: archaeobotanical data from the shell midden of El Mazo (Asturias, Spain).........................................132

Socioeconomic, Technological and Cultural Adaptation of the Mesolithic population in Central-Eastern Cantabria (Spain) in the Early and Middle Holocene........................................................133

Socio-ecological impact of last volcanic eruptions in the Iberian Peninsula in the Late Glacial- Early Holocene transition: multi-proxy analysis results from Pla de les Preses palaeolake (Vall d’en Bas, La Garrotxa, NE Iberia)......................................................134

Time depth in changing environments – From Early Mesolithic coastal sites to strategic observation points in the hinterland in later Mesolithic times..........................................................................135

Session: Enculturating landscapes....................................................136The formation of River Motala Ström – the beginning of a river

landscape and human presence in the early Holocene................137Diachronic trends in the Early Mesolithic site types of Norway.........138Colonization and the enculturation of landscapes. A case from

Mesolithic southeast Norway.....................................................139Deep pits and Schlitzgruben in the Mesolithic in the northern half of

France, crossed approaches........................................................140Depositionary Practices in the Landscape: New Research from the Vale

of Pickering, UK.........................................................................141The defense residential complex Kayukovo 2 of the turn of VII – VI BC

in the North of Western Siberia. Experience in reconstruction of architecture and planning structure.............................................142

Mesolithic resource use inferred from DNA captured in birch tar pitch....................................................................................................143

Eurasia’s most ancient promontory fort? The 8000 year old hunter-gatherer settlement complex of Amnya in the Western Siberian taiga.............................................................................................144

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”Ain’t no mountain high enough”. Mesolithic colonisation processes and landscape usage of the inner alpine region Kleinwalsertal (Prov. Vorarlberg, Western Austria)............................................145

The site of Murten/Ober Prehl (Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland): reflection on the notion of territory in Early Mesolithic.............146

Mesolithic Montology: a space for connection....................................147Emerging evidence relating to the late Pleistocene and early Holocene

settlement of Scotland.................................................................148

Session: The place of art in Mesolithic societies: from technical gesture to graphic abstraction...........................................................149Portable soapstone animal figures in Mesolithic western Norway......150Is there a mesolithic art? Mesolithic versus modernity at the time of

Napoleon 3 and Jules Grévy.......................................................151Experimental approach of prehistoric rock art in the sandstone chaos of

Fontainebleau massif: analysis of the engraved material, technical choices and engraving durations in a ritual practice dating from the 8th millennium BCE...............................................................152

On the question when the Shigir Idol was made..................................153The engraved plaquettes collection of Cueva de la Cocina: Redefining

the Mesolithic archaeological context from 3D stratigraphic reconstruction and new radiocarbon framework........................154

The engraved portable art from the Iberian Mesolithic: first insights to the technical and compositional patterns of the plaquettes from Cueva de la Cocina (Valencia, Spain).........................................155

An engraved pebble from the Roquemissou site (Aveyron, France): technique, composition and context...........................................156

Techniques and ideas. Context of use of the zigzag motif in Zamostje 2 (Upper Volga region)..................................................................157

An engraved shale pendant from Star Carr, UK: An indicator of cultural connection?.................................................................................158

Action and dynamics in the manufacture of Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic art objects..................................................................159

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Rediscovered Mesolithic rock art collection from Kamyana Mohyla complex in Eastern Ukraine........................................................160

Prehistoric Rock Art in the sandstone chaos of Fontainebleau massif. Strategies for research, archiving and outreach..........................161

Session: Death and the dead: new approaches to Mesolithic mortuary practices.............................................................................162Back to Hoedic: Recording the Breton Mesolithic cemeteries from a 21st

century perspective.....................................................................163One by one. A case study of the multiple grave VI-2 at Dudka cemetery,

Masuria, NE-Poland...................................................................164Left behind or venerated ancestors? New data on the mortuary practices

of the last hunter-gatherers in Belgium.......................................165Applying GIS spatial density analysis to infer human burial practices at

the Mesolithic shellmidden of Cabeço da Amoreira (Muge, Portugal).....................................................................................166

”Fat or other tissues of corpses”: Sensory engagements with the dead in Mesolithic Europe.......................................................................167

Sex determination of the late Mesolithic individuals from the Strøby Egede burial, Køge Bugt, Denmark............................................168

Tradition and Transition – The Mesolithic Cemetery of Groß Fredenwalde, Northeastern Germany.........................................169

Past Responses to Plague reflected by the Northern Tradition Rock art....................................................................................................170

Fell and lost into the Abyss? Mesolithic human skull remains from a sinkhole in southern tip of Iberian Peninsula (Sima Hedionda, Casares, Málaga).........................................................................171

A Wasteful Death? Rethinking the Treatment of the Dead in the Late Ertebølle Period..........................................................................172

Documenting the diversity of the treatment of the dead: the case of Cuzoul de Gramat (Lot, France, 2nd Mesolithic)........................173

Mortuary programmes and bioarchaeology of the Danube Gorges Mesolithic foragers in the central Balkans.................................174

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Reassessing Mesolithic human diet, mobility and funerary practices in the Cantabrian Region (northern Spain) throughout dental calculus, stable isotopes and funerary taphonomy analyses.......175

Late Mesolithic individuals of the Middle Danube origin on the Dnipro Rapids (Ukraine): archaeological and bioarchaeological records....................................................................................................176

Animal tooth pendants and burial customs at the Kreiči cemetery, south-eastern Latvia..............................................................................177

Animal tooth pendants and burial customs at the Kreiči cemetery, south-eastern Latvia..............................................................................178

Biographies of recycled artefacts in burial context. Case study from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Northwest Russia.................................179

Stone axes in ritualized contexts – the production and deposition of pecked adzes at Strandvägen, Motala, 5500–5000 BC...............180

Session: Modelling the Mesolithic.....................................................181Beyond structures: A microscale multi-proxy approach to understanding

the social dimensions of tool using areas at the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, UK...................................................................182

Ornaments as proxy for reconstructing social networks from Iberia Mesolithic hunter-gatherers........................................................183

Modelling radiocarbon dates and site counts: paleo-demographical dynamics in the western Scheldt Basin in Belgium and Northern France.........................................................................................184

Predictive modeling for Mesolithic site locations in southeastern Europe....................................................................................................185

Modelling a submerged and preserved Mesolithic landscape under the Harbour of Køge, Denmark, with sites from the Maglemose and Kongemose Cultures...................................................................186

Modelling hunter-gatherer cultures after nature? – Reality or fake research? An old and unfortunately forgotten anthropological discussion....................................................................................187

The diffusion of pottery technology among Eastern European hunter-gatherer-fishers: using spatial-temporal modelling to understand

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the knowledge transfer process...................................................188Modelling the Mesolithic without people............................................189A modelling approach to explore the origin(s) of the Blade-Trapeze

Complex......................................................................................190Agent-based modelling of the Mediterranean Neolithization and

Mesolithic-Neolithic interactions: a first draft...........................191Building a model for material flow patterns in North Swedish river

systems – Part 1..........................................................................192Combining agent-based modelling and geographical information

systems to create a new tool for modelling movement dynamics: A case-study of Mesolithic Orkney................................................193

Session: Experimental Archaeology in Mesolithic Research..........194Fishing during the Late Mesolithic Ertebølle Culture – an Experimental

Approach to the Use of Fishhooks..............................................195Burning questions about Mesolithic sites............................................196Functional analyses of Mesolithic ground stone tools.........................197Axes and chisels made of elk antler from the Mesolithic – Early

Neolithic sites of Russia and Belarus: technologies and functions....................................................................................................198

Personal ornaments at Star Carr: Integrating experimental archaeology, microwear analysis, and GIS to identify crafting spaces............199

To fish or not to fish? Fish processing at Iron Gates: an experimental approach......................................................................................200

Something new in the quivers: experimental approach to functioning of the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic geometric bitruncations....................................................................................................201

Qualitative and quantitative experimental data for understanding functional biographies of quartzite macro tools from Mesolithic Danube Gorges...........................................................................202

Session: A Little Give & Take: Studying Mesolithic Archaeology and Studying Hunter-Gatherers in 2020..........................................203

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Consumers, not contributors? The study of the Mesolithic and the study of Hunter-Gatherers....................................................................204

Using Ethnography to focus our minds on the specifics of Mesolithic Archaeology, not to mask them..................................................205

Learning about Mesolithic societies through disasters........................206Towards expert dialogues on the hunter-gatherer past: Perspectives of

ethnoarchaeology in Mesolithic studies......................................207Marking a Landscape – thoughts on how early Danish Maglemosian

hunters marked their routes and sites in the boreal forests.........208Discussant’s Summary.........................................................................209Selected Themes in Emergent Hunter-Gatherer Research...................210

Topic: Current research.....................................................................211Fading Ageröd – Human encroachment, climate change and the

deterioration on a Scandinavian Mesolithic key-site in despair. 212The “Reguisheimer Feld/ZAID Tranche 3 and 4” site in Ensisheim

(Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France). First results..................................213Hidden in the Hills? Preliminary fieldwork results from Pimple Hill,

Herefordshire..............................................................................214Preliminary results and research perspectives on the submerged Stone

Age in Storstrømmen, Denmark.................................................215Stable oxygen isotopes and Mg/Ca ratios from the limpet Patella

depressa Pennant, 1777: climatic and archaeological implications of the novel application of LIBS to mollusc shells.....................216

Mesolithic and Chalcolithic mandibular morphology: using Geometric Morphometrics to reconstruct incomplete specimens and analyse morphology.................................................................................217

Muge Portal: A new digital platform for the last hunter-gatherers of the Tagus Valley, Portugal................................................................218

Into the wide! Extensive surveys in rescue archaeology and the question of Mesolithic site function in Northern France...........................219

The open-air Mesolithic site of Arenal de la Virgen (Villena, SE Iberia). Occupation features and Bayesian chronological modelling......220

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From Early to Late Mesolithic in Sicily. New data from Grotta D’Oriente (Favignana Island).....................................................221

More than stones? A survey for Mesolithic sites in Northwestern Germany.....................................................................................222

Motorways of Prehistory? Boats, Rivers, and Mobility in Mesolithic Ireland.........................................................................................223

A newly discovered South Swedish Mesolithic settlement with more than 50 huts or houses, Ljungaviken..........................................224

Palimpsest dissection in Early Holocene open-air sites through lithic refits and intra-site spatial analysis. The Arenal de la Virgen (Villena, Spain) study case.........................................................225

The InterCity project – New insights into the Middle Mesolithic in the Oslo fjord basin...........................................................................226

The Mesolithic of La Baume de Monthiver (Vallée du Jabron, Var): context and nature in a mid-mountain holocene occupation......227

Go the whole hog in microwear analysis! A new reference dataset of dental microwear textures in extant wild boars (Sus scrofa) and implications of intra-facet and intra-dentition variability for applications to the Mesolithic record..........................................228

A new Mesolithic site in the Eastern Pyrenees: the Bauma dels Fadrins (Queralbs, Girona)......................................................................229

A new open-air Early Mesolithic site in central Italy: Contrada Pace. 230Living in the mountains. Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic settlement in

NW Portugal: Rock shelter 1 of Vale de Cerdeira (Vieira do Minho)........................................................................................231

“Revealing the hidden” Central Balkan and Pannonian Mesolithic: new radiocarbon evidence from Serbia..............................................232

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Session: Thing theory and lithics

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Changing the perspective, adapting the scale: macro- and microlithic technologies of SW Iberian Early Mesolithic

Ana Cristina Araujo

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Stone tool technology at the Cabeço da Amoreira shellmidden (Muge, Portugal): a diachronic perspective

Joana Belmiro, João Cascalheira, Célia Gonçalves

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Can Phylogenetics and Factor Analysis be Complementary? The Geometric Microliths as a Case Study

Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, Thomas Perrin, Oreto García Puchol, Salvador Pardo-Gordó

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The Neolithisation of the Northern French Alps: contextualisation of a transition period according to the lithic study of La Grande-Rivoire rock shelter (Vercors,

France)

Marc-André Dallaire

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Polished slate knives and slate raw-material variability in the Late Mesolithic of Northern Scandinavia

Fredrik Hallgren

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Stylistic study of the Late Mesolithic lithic industries in Western France: crossing Principal Coordinate Analysis and

use-wears analysis

Lola Hauguel-Bleuven, Jorge Calvo-Gómez, Grégor Marchand

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A Little Mystery, Mythology and Romance: How the ’Pigmy Flint’ got its Name

Stephanie F. Piper

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Handling Pressure: Migrations and Transmission of Knowledge in the 7th-5th Millennia BC

Sandra Söderlind

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Session: Material productions (varia)

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Variability of microliths morphology at the Cabeço da Amoreira shellmound: an approach using Geometric

Morphometrics

João Cascalheira, Joana Belmiro, Célia Gonçalves

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Raw material economy through Mesolithic in southwest France

Guilhem Constans

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The Mesolithic in the Marches: Lithic Sourcing in the Random Forest

Tom Elliot, Robert Morse, Duane Smythe, Ashley Norris

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Macroscopic Analysis of Lithic Grave Finds from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov

Olli Eranti

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Lithic raw material management at Mesolithic shell midden site of El Mazo (Asturias, Northern Spain)

Diego Herrero-Alonso, Natividad Fuertes-Prieto, Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti, David Cuenca-Solana

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Mesolithic Kukrek technocomplex revisited in the light of the collection from the Kamyana Mohyla 1 site (south-eastern

Ukraine)

Dmytro Kiosak, Nadiia Kotova

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Evolutionary dynamics of armatures in southern France in the 2nd Mesolithic and Early Neolithic

Sylvie Philibert, Elsa Defranould, Thomas Perrin

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Provenance Archaeometric Study of Chert Artefacts from Cocina Cave (Dos Aguas, Valencian Community, Spain)

Mirco Ramacciotti, Gianni Gallello, Oreto García Puchol, Agustín Pastor García, Alfredo Cortell Nicolau, Agustín Diez Castillo

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Mesolithization, Mesolithic and Neolithization in the South-West of France: contribution of the Cuzoul de Gramat (Gramat, Lot, France) to the establishment of a new

chronocultural framework between the Pyrenees and the Massif Central (XI-VI millennia cal BC)

Nicolas Valdeyron, Guilhem Constans, Marine Gardeur, Benjamin Marquebielle, Farid Sellami, Aurélie Zemour, Auréade Henry, Laurent

Bouby

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Session: The Great Transition – Early-Mid Holocene biological and cultural

transformations

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On the brink of cultural change: animal resource procurement and use in the final Mesolithic at “Tivoli” Place

Saint Lambert, Liège (Belgium)

Annelise Binois, Anne Bridault

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The Meso-Neolithic Transition in the Alpine and Peri-Alpine Region: Still Open to Debate

Philippe Della Casa

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Approaching spatio-temporal analysis to explore mechanisms about the Late Mesolithic and Neolithic spread

in the central and western Mediterranean

Oreto García Puchol, Salvador Pardo-Gordó, Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, Joan Bernabeu Aubán, Agustin Diez Castillo

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The Hidden Factor – The socio-political and economic contributions of indigenous hunter-gatherer populations to

the Mid-Holocene societies in Temperate Europe

Detlef Gronenborn, Nicolas Antunes

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An elusive transition: Revisiting the Mesolithic/Neolithic continuity in the Southern Adriatic and its margins

Sonja Kačar

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Mobility and territoriality during the Mesolithic in southern Scandinavia

Mathilda Kjällquist, Adam Boethius

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Britain in or out of Europe during the late Mesolithic?

Thomas Lawrence, Mike Donnelly, Liz Kennard, Caroline Sdy, Rose Grant

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Comparison between Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup frequencies of Prehistoric and Modern Siberian Populations

Nour Moussa, Hugh Mckenzie, Vladimir Bazaliiskii, Olga Goriunova, Fiona Bamforth, Andrzej Weber

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Para-Neolithic in Eastern and East-Central Europe. Reflection of our classificatory imagination or reflection of

the real past?

Marek Nowak

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Ancient genomes from Iberia reveal regional- and local-scale population dynamics of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers

Rita Peyroteo Stjerna, Luciana Simões, Ana Cristina Araújo, Mariana Diniz, Miriam Cubas, Pablo Arias, Jesús Tapia, Torsten Günther,

Mattias Jakobsson

— 47


The Mesolithic genetic legacy in the first Neolithic societies sheds light on the processes of admixture in Europe

Maïté Rivollat, Choongwon Jeong, Stephan Schiffels, Isil Kucukkalipci, Marie-Hélène Pemonge, Adam Ben Rohrlach, Kurt Alt, Didier Binder, Susanne Friederich, Emmanuel Ghesquière, Detlef Gronenborn, Luc

Laporte, Philippe Lefranc, Harald Meller, Hélène Réveillas, Eva Rosenstock, Stéphane Rottier, Chris Scarre, Ludovic Soler, Joachim Wahl, Johannes Krause, Marie-France Deguilloux, Wolfgang Haak

48 —


Investigating sociocultural patterns of the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of Téviec and Hoëdic, Brittany, France: an

archeogenomic approach

Luciana G. Simoes, Rita Peyroteo Stjerna, Darshan Chetty, Amélie Vialet, Grégor Marchand, Torsten Günther, Mattias Jakobsson

— 49


Session: Cultural and regional identities (varia)

50 —


Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Southern France: can archaeological evidences attest a possibility of interaction

between different human groups?

Elsa Defranould

— 51


Filling the gap: Evidence from Dvoynaya Cave on the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in the North Caucasus

Daria Eskova, Alina Fedorova

52 —


Investigating the Early to Late Mesolithic transition in North-Eastern Italy: a multifaceted regional perspective

Federica Fontana, Stefano Bertola, Emanuela Cristiani, Elisabetta Flor, Davide Visentin

— 53


‘Bearers of civilization’ or ‘useful idiots’.The southern Baltic coast Mesolithic and its relation with the

Neolithic. The case from Dabki, Poland.

Jacek Kabaciński, Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny, Christopher Hill L.

54 —


Late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic: was there the “Neolithic hiatus” in the North Caucasus?

Elena Leonova

— 55


Stone tools production from the Mesolithic levels of Grotta del Romito (Calabria, Italy): new insights on the Sauveterrian

of Southern Italy

Domenico Lo Vetro, Stefano Bertola, Fabio Martini

56 —


The Time of the Last Hunters: Chronocultural Aspects of Early Holocene Societies in the Western Mediterranean

Thomas Perrin

— 57


Transitions in Mesolithic Societies of Baltic Scandinavia

Mikkel Sørensen, Theis Trolle Jensen

58 —


Session: From animals to osseous remains: recent advances in the study of human-animal relationships in the

Mesolithic

— 59


Understanding European Mesolithic dog domestication

Sophy Charlton, Greger Larson

60 —


Heads They Lose: investigating the modification of animal skulls in the British Early Mesolithic

Chantal Conneller, Ben Elliott

— 61


Human bone points, ZooMS identifications from the Dutch North Sea

Joannes Dekker, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Merel Spithoven, Bjørn Smit, Frido Welker, Alexander Verpoorte, Marie Soressi

62 —


Macrofaunal remains from the Cuzoul de Gramat (Lot, France) during the Late Mesolithic: archaeozoological

preliminary results

Marine Gardeur

— 63


Contribution of archaeozoology to the characterization of the mobility systems of the latest nomadic societies: a

combined approach of classical archaeozoological methods, cementum increment analysis and three-dimensional dental

microwear texture analysis

Marine Gardeur

64 —


The last hunter-gatherers of the Swiss plateau. Zooarchaeological approach of the Mesolithic rock shelter

Arconciel/La Souche (Fribourg, Switzerland)

Aurélie Guidez, Jean-Christophe Castel

— 65


Mesolithic Jewelry at Skateholm: Local and Long-distance

Lars Larsson, T. Douglas Price

66 —


Zooarchaeological study of the Mesolithic site of El Collado (Oliva, Eastern Iberian Peninsula). Preliminary results and

research perspectives

Raquel Moya Ruiz, Alfred Sanchis, Javier Fernández-López De Pablo

— 67


Exploitation of osseous materials during the Mesolithic in the Iron Gates

Monica Mărgărit, Adina Boroneant, Adrian Bălăsescu, Clive Bonsall

68 —


An update on the macromammal exploitation in the Cantabrian Spain during the Mesolithic (11.5 – 7.5 ky cal BP)

Rodrigo Portero Hernández, Marián Cueto

— 69


Tracing hide craft as human-animal relations in Stone Age Norway

Marianne Skandfer

70 —


Wild pig hunting in Mesolithic Ireland: investigating human-animal relationships

Jonathan Small, Paula Reimer, Janet Montgomery, Laura Basell, Geoff Nowell

— 71


Deer hunting during the Mesolithic at Les Cabônes rockshelter (Jura, France): insights from dental remains

Malo Trémolières, Christophe Cupillard, Anne Bridault

72 —


Pioneer the frontier. Red deer antler headdresses and the beginning of the Mesolithic in the Lowlands

Markus Wild, Birgit Gehlen, Martin Street

— 73


Relict traditions: Techno-typological analysis, direct radiocarbon dating and protein mass spectrometry of biserial harpoons from Denmark suggest Palaeolithic

traditions continued into the Holocene

Theis Zetner Trolle Jensen, Markus Wild, Peter Vang Petersen, Lasse Sørensen

74 —


Session: Beyond the nutshell: diet, cooking and cuisine in the Mesolithic

— 75


Cultural and food choices of ancient communities of the 6th mill BC in the forest zone of Eastern Europe (based on

Upper Volga culture materials)

Manon Bondetti, Blandine Courel, Alexandre Lucquin, Lara Gonzalez Carretero, Ekaterina Dolbunova, Olga Lozovskaya Andrey

Mazurkevich, Elena Kostyleva, Marianna Kulkova, John Meadows, Rowan Mclaughlin, Carl Heron, Oliver Craig

76 —


Hidden foods, health and lifestyles in the Mesolithic Balkans: Data from dietary debris, microbiota and

groundstone technology

Emanuela Cristiani, Anita Radini, Claudio Ottoni, Andrea Zupancich, Ron Pinhasi, Dusan Boric

— 77


Reviewing the palaeodietary reconstruction of the Mesolithic site of El Collado (Spain) with Compound Specific Isotope

Analysis of Amino Acids

Maria Fontanals-Coll, Silvia Soncin, Helen M. Talbot, André C. Colonese, Oliver E Craig

78 —


Fowling and feasting (?) on middle sized-ducks at the peatbog of Dagsmosse, Östergotland, Sweden

Sara Gummesson

— 79


There are not only pots: organic residues analysis applied to prehistoric hearths

Andrew Langley, Sönke Hartz, Carl Heron, Aimee Little, Oliver Craig, Alexandre Lucquin

80 —


On the border: pottery use in Bug-Dniester culture in the 7th-5th mill BC

Alexandre Lucquin, Blandine Courel, Dmytro Haskevych, Serhii Telizhenko, Valerii Manko, Ekaterina Dolbunova, Carl Heron,

Oliver Craig

— 81


Para-Neolithic pottery use: Organic residue analysis of ceramics from Dudka and Szczepanki

Harry Robson, Witold Gumiński, Alexandre Lucquin, Ekaterina Dolbunova, Gunilla Eriksson, John Meadows, Carl Heron, Oliver Craig

82 —


Session: Striving for affluence – Active resource management and natural

storage in hunter-gatherer societies

— 83


Exploiting fish migration and seasonal agglomeration in connection to long-term storage at Norje Sunnansund –

Strontium isotope analyses on fish teeth through LA-MCICP-MS

Adam Boethius

84 —


Pottery use within a specialized shell-midden site in the southern part of Eastern Europe: a case-study of

Rakushechny Yar settlement (6th mill BC)

Manon Bondetti, Ekaterina Dolbunova, Lara Gonzalez Carretero, Marianna Kulkova, Andrey Mazurkevich, John Meadows, Carl Heron,

Oliver E Craig

— 85


Archaeological evidence for freshwater fish exploitation during the Mesolithic: a case study from the Doubs

catchment basin (Jura, Eastern France)

Anne Bridault, Annelise Binois-Roman, Déborah Frontin, Christophe Cupillard, Christophe Petit

86 —


The rational resource management as the key to successful livelihood strategy of the population of the Dnieper Rapids

Region during the Late Mesolithic

Olha Demchenko

— 87


Just getting nuts...? Consequences of new research at ancient Lake Duvensee and Friesack (Germany)

Daniel Groß, Harald Lübke, Ulrich Schmölcke

88 —


Seasonal abundance and resource management: A view from the northern forests

Henny Piezonka

— 89


Deep pits, large game exploitation and isotopes: converging evidences of very early sedentarism during the Mesolithic

Christian Verjux, Charlotte Leduc, Dorothée Drucker

90 —


Mesolithic lifeways on the shores of Skadar Lake: the evidence from Seocka pećina, Montenegro

Ivana Zĭvaljević, Marc Vander Linden, Jane Gaastra

— 91


Session: Living on the coast: maritime hunter-fisher-gatherers, shell middens

and the use of marine resources in Mesolithic Europe

92 —


The technological system of the maritime hunter-fisher-gatherers of the Atlantic façade: a preliminary approach

through use-wear analysis on knapped industries

Jorge Calvo Gómez, Grégor Marchand, David Cuenca-Solana, Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti

— 93


Symbolism of the Red deer appears among Coastal (Mesolithic) people

Éva David, Anne Tresset, Emmanuelle Vigier, Solange Rigaud, Grégor Marchand

94 —


Why have Mesolithic populations eaten crabs only in the last 15 years?

Catherine Dupont, Yves Gruet

— 95


Stable oxygen isotope analysis and the seasonal exploitation of Patella depressa Pennant, 1777 during the

Mesolithic in the Cantabrian region (N Iberia)

Asier García-Escárzaga, Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti, David Cuenca-Solana, Manuel Ramón González-Morales, Jana Zech, Patrick Roberts

96 —


Maritime hunter-fisher-gatherers in northern Iberia during the Mesolithic: new perspectives from the shell midden site

of El Mazo (Asturias, Spain)

Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti, David Cuenca-Solana, Natividad Fuertes-Prieto, Asier García-Escárzaga, Borja González-Rabanal, Inés López-Dóriga, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Arturo Morales Muñiz, Sara Núñez, Solange Rigaud, Eufrasia Roselló-Izquierdo, Mónica Ruiz-Alonso, Carlos

Simões, Manuel González-Morales

— 97


How maritime can you get? Conceptualizing adaptive shifts from coastal opportunism to maritime specialization in

Early/Mid-Holocene Arctic Norway

Erlend Kirkeng Jørgensen

98 —


Living on the Brittany coast in the Mesolithic period: from formation processes of shell middens to the socio-economic

practices of the last hunter-gatherer-fishermen, the case study of Beg-er-Vil (Quiberon, France)

Marylise Onfray, Grégor Marchand, Catherine Dupont, Guirec Querré, Diana Nukushinaǁ, Jean-Christophe Le Bannier

— 99


Below the threshold: the importance of shell middens’ sedimentary context to recognize Mesolithic shellfish

cooking

Carlos Simões, Vera Aldeias

100 —


Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? Identifying tool use in British Mesolithic woodworking

Adam Turner, Martin Bell

— 101


Session: Multidisciplinal approaches to the uses of plants as food, medicine and raw material by mesolithic communities

102 —


Dendro-antracological approaches appled to Mesolithic contexts in NE Iberia: the exploitation of Montane

Pinewoods

Marta Alcolea, Alexa Dufraisse

— 103


Fishing nets and string at the Final Mesolithic and Early Neolithic site of Zamostje 2, Sergiev Posad (Russia)

Marian Berihuete-Azorín, Olga V. Lozovskaya, Raquel Piqué I Huerta

104 —


Pine, birch and hazel: Early Mesolithic plant management systems at Krzyz Wielkopolski 7 (Poland)

Auréade Henry, Maxime Rageot, Maria Lityńska-Zajac, Jacek Kabaciński

— 105


There is no Smoke without Fire: Anthracological Analysis of the Feature A, Cabeço da Amoreira, Muge Shell-middens,

Portugal

Roxane Matias, Patrícia Monteiro, Nuno Bicho

106 —


Site formation and use of wetland plant resources in the Mesolithic occupations of La Fragua Cave (Cantabria, Spain)

Sara Núñez, Carlos D. Simões, Roberto Suárez-Revilla, Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti, Manuel González-Morales, Pablo Arias

— 107


The exploitation of wild plant resources in Can Sadurní Cave site (Begues, Spain) during the last hunter-gatherer

occupations (11.000-6000 cal BC)

Eva Ros Sabé, Marian Berihuete-Azorín, Ferran Antolín, Raquel Piqué, Manel Edo

108 —


Plants as materials in ritual practice

Barry Taylor

— 109


Session: Environmental Change, Cultural Landscapes and Human

Adaptations in the Mesolithic

110 —


Doggerland dynamics. Exploring the characteristics of human-environment interaction and adaptability in the

Mesolithic of the North Sea area 9000-5000 cal BC

Luc Amkreutz

— 111


Environmental Change and the Neolithization of the Balkans

Clive Bonsall, Maria Gurova

112 —


Ice Patch Hunters in the Mesolithic? An exploratory review of the current evidence

Martin Callanan

— 113


The Eastern Link – a link to the past

Tom Carlsson

114 —


Towards a history of the British Mesolithic

Chantal Conneller, Seren Griffiths

— 115


Reconstructing palaeolandscapes: new perspective combining geophysics and excavations

Erica Corradini, Daniel Groß, Harald Lübke, Marco Zanon, Ercan Erkul, Dennis Wilken, Martin Thorwart, Diana Panning,

Natalie Pickartz, Wolfgang Rabbel

116 —


Organic chemistry and magnetic susceptibility to characterize Late Mesolithic (ca. 8400-7000 cal BP)

palaeoenvironmental conditions in the Sado Estuary, Portugal

Ana Maria Costa, Maria Da Conceiçaõ Freitas, Manel Leira, Rogério Mota, Ana Cristina Araújo, Mariana Diniz, Klaus Reicherter,

Felix Teichner, Pablo Arias

— 117


Fire, fuel and food: perceptions of the environment in early Mesolithic Arctic Norway

Charlotte Damm

118 —


A multi-proxy research program to evaluate the relationship between Mesolithic occupation patterns and Early Holocene

environmental dynamics in the Upper Vinalopó Valley (SE Iberian Peninsula)

Javier Fernández-López De Pablo, Ana Polo-Díaz, Rosa Maria Poch, Carlos Ferrer-García, Magdalena Gómez-Puche, Francesc Burjachs

— 119


Hunter-fisher-gatherers and the changing environment, c. 9000–7600 cal BP. A case study from central Scandinavia

Guro Fossum

120 —


8.2 ka event in the Cantabrian region (N Iberia) from marine (oxygen isotopes on gastropods) and terrestrial (palynology)

proxies: implications for Mesolithic populations

Asier García-Escárzag, Sara Nuñez De La Fuente, Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti, David Cuenca-Solana, Javier Martin-Chivelet, José Antonio

López-Sáez, Manuel Ramón González-Morales

— 121


The Early Mesolithic at ancient Lake Duvensee: Past, present and Future

Daniel Groß, Harald Lübke, John Meadows, Ulrich Schmölcke, Erica Corradini, Marco Zanon

122 —


Business as usual? Fishing, hunting and gathering through 3 millennia of climate change at the Mesolithic wetland

complex Dagsmosse, eastern Central Sweden

Fredrik Hallgren

— 123


Kŏzený Zámek: Archaeological and Paleoecological Insight from a Late Paleolithic site in Kokŏrínsko, Central Bohemia

Kapustka Katarína, Matthew Walls, Karolína Pauknerová, Ivan Svetlik, Suvova Zdenka

124 —


Pressure lamellar production as an adaptive choice in Mesolithic-Eneolithic of south-western Ukraine

Dmytro Kiosak

— 125


Eastern European Mesolithic in the forest-steppe of the Volga basin: new results

Andreev Konstantin

126 —


The end of the “Epi-Mesolithic” and Mid-Holocene environmental changes in the Eastern Gulf of Finland

Marianna Kulkova, Dmitriy Gerasimov, Alexander Kulkov, Tatiana Gusentsova, Alexander Zhulnikov

— 127


The archaeological evidence for fishing in the Mesolithic of North Angara (Baikal Siberia)

Aleksei Kuznetsov, Evgeniy Rogovskoi, Ekaterina Lipnina

128 —


Environment and firewood use at Tourasse cave (South-West France) around the Late Glacial-Holocene transition

Aurélie Liard, Benjamin Marquebielle, Jean-Paul Huot, Auréade Henry

— 129


Forests, wild game and humans-paleoecological aspects of large herbivore foraging reflected in stable isotopes and

dendrological indications of bark-stripping and its implications for Mesolithic hunting

Ola Magnell, Johannes Edvardsson, Anton Hansson, Björn Nilsson, Arne Sjöström

130 —


Accommodate or relocate. Adaption strategies to shore level displacement in eastern Norway during the Mesolithic

Axel Mjaerum

— 131


Vegetation dynamics, landscape and climate change in northern Iberia during the Mesolithic: archaeobotanical data

from the shell midden of El Mazo (Asturias, Spain).

Sara Núñez, Inés López-Dóriga, Mónica Ruiz-Alonso, Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti, Pablo Arias, José Antonio López-Saéz

132 —


Socioeconomic, Technological and Cultural Adaptation of the Mesolithic population in Central-Eastern Cantabria

(Spain) in the Early and Middle Holocene

Mercedes Pérez-Bartolomé

— 133


Socio-ecological impact of last volcanic eruptions in the Iberian Peninsula in the Late Glacial- Early Holocene

transition: multi-proxy analysis results from Pla de les Preses palaeolake (Vall d’en Bas, La Garrotxa, NE Iberia)

Jordi Revelles, Eneko Iriarte, Walter Finsinger, Francesc Burjachs, Maria Saña

134 —


Time depth in changing environments – From Early Mesolithic coastal sites to strategic observation points in the

hinterland in later Mesolithic times

Almut Schülke

— 135


Session: Enculturating landscapes

136 —


The formation of River Motala Ström – the beginning of a river landscape and human presence in the early Holocene

Jonas Bergman, Anna Plikk, Jens Heimdahl, Linus Hagberg, Fredrik Hallgren, Jan Risberg, Fredrik Molin

— 137


Diachronic trends in the Early Mesolithic site types of Norway

Heidi Breivik

138 —


Colonization and the enculturation of landscapes. A case from Mesolithic southeast Norway

Hege Damlien, Lucia Koxvold, Steinar Solheim

— 139


Deep pits and Schlitzgruben in the Mesolithic in the northern half of France, crossed approaches

Emmanuel Ghesquière, Vincent Riquier, Nathalie Achard-Corompt

140 —


Depositionary Practices in the Landscape: New Research from the Vale of Pickering, UK

Amy Gray Jones, Nick Overton, Barry Taylor

— 141


The defense residential complex Kayukovo 2 of the turn of VII – VI BC in the North of Western Siberia. Experience in

reconstruction of architecture and planning structure

Oleg Viktorovich Kardash, Henny Piezonka, Georgii Petrovich Vizgalov, Natalya Chairkina

142 —


Mesolithic resource use inferred from DNA captured in birch tar pitch

Per Persson, Tiina Maria Mattila, Natalija Kashuba, Bengt Nordqvist, Mikael Manninen

— 143


Eurasia’s most ancient promontory fort? The 8000 year old hunter-gatherer settlement complex of Amnya in the Western

Siberian taiga

Henny Piezonka, Lyubov Kosinskaya, Natalya Chairkina, Ekaterina Dubovtseva, Tanja Schreiber

144 —


”Ain’t no mountain high enough”. Mesolithic colonisation processes and landscape usage of the inner alpine region

Kleinwalsertal (Prov. Vorarlberg, Western Austria)

Caroline Posch

— 145


The site of Murten/Ober Prehl (Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland): reflection on the notion of territory in Early

Mesolithic

Pauline Rostollan, Anthony Denaire, Michel Mauvilly

146 —


Mesolithic Montology: a space for connection

Graeme Warren

— 147


Emerging evidence relating to the late Pleistocene and early Holocene settlement of Scotland

Caroline Wickham-Jones, Kate Britton, Torben Ballin

148 —


Session: The place of art in Mesolithic societies: from technical gesture to

graphic abstraction

— 149


Portable soapstone animal figures in Mesolithic western Norway

Knut Andreas Bergsvik, David Simpson, Hanne Årskog

150 —


Is there a mesolithic art? Mesolithic versus modernity at the time of Napoleon 3 and Jules Grévy

Florence Bouvry

— 151


Experimental approach of prehistoric rock art in the sandstone chaos of Fontainebleau massif: analysis of the

engraved material, technical choices and engraving durations in a ritual practice dating from the

8th millennium BCE

Alexandre Cantin, Alain Bénard, Colas Guéret, Emilie Lesvignes, Michel Rey, Eric Robert, Médard Thiry, Boris Valentin, Laurent Valois

152 —


On the question when the Shigir Idol was made

Natalya Chairkina

— 153


The engraved plaquettes collection of Cueva de la Cocina: Redefining the Mesolithic archaeological context from 3D

stratigraphic reconstruction and new radiocarbon framework

Oreto García Puchol, Esther Lopez Montalvo, Joaquim Juan Cabanilles, Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, Martina Basile, Josep Lluís Pascual Benito,

Sarah B. Mcclure, Agustín Diez Castillo, Salvador Pardo-Gordó

154 —


The engraved portable art from the Iberian Mesolithic: first insights to the technical and compositional patterns of the

plaquettes from Cueva de la Cocina (Valencia, Spain)

Esther Lopez Montalvo, Oreto García Puchol, 2, Joaquim Juan Cabanilles, Josep Lluís Pascual Benito, Sarah B. Mcclure

— 155


An engraved pebble from the Roquemissou site (Aveyron, France): technique, composition and context

Esther Lopez Montalvo, Marc Bobœuf, Thomas Perrin

156 —


Techniques and ideas. Context of use of the zigzag motif in Zamostje 2 (Upper Volga region)

Olga Lozovskaya

— 157


An engraved shale pendant from Star Carr, UK: An indicator of cultural connection?

Andy Needham

158 —


Action and dynamics in the manufacture of Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic art objects

Tomasz Płonka, Marcin Diakowski, Bernadeta Kufel-Diakowska

— 159


Rediscovered Mesolithic rock art collection from Kamyana Mohyla complex in Eastern Ukraine

Simon Radchenko

160 —


Prehistoric Rock Art in the sandstone chaos of Fontainebleau massif. Strategies for research, archiving and

outreach

Boris Valentin, Alain Bénard, Alexandre Cantin, Colas Guéret, Emilie Lesvignes, Michel Rey, Eric Robert, Médard Thiry

— 161


Session: Death and the dead: new approaches to Mesolithic mortuary

practices

162 —


Back to Hoedic: Recording the Breton Mesolithic cemeteries from a 21st century perspective

Pablo Arias, Grégor Marchand, Ángel Armendariz, Fernando Buchón, Jorge Calvo, Catherine Dupont, Patricia Fernández, Fernando García, Florian Hermann, Eneko Iriarte, François Lévêque, Paul Naumann,

Felix Teichner, Luis Teira, Jorge Vallejo

— 163


One by one. A case study of the multiple grave VI-2 at Dudka cemetery, Masuria, NE-Poland

Karolina Bugajska

164 —


Left behind or venerated ancestors? New data on the mortuary practices of the last hunter-gatherers in Belgium

Clémence Glas, Caroline Polet, Nicolas Cauwe

— 165


Applying GIS spatial density analysis to infer human burial practices at the Mesolithic shellmidden of Cabeço da

Amoreira (Muge, Portugal)

Célia Gonçalves, Cláudia Umbelino, João Cascalheira, Ricardo Miguel Godinho, Nuno Bicho

166 —


”Fat or other tissues of corpses”: Sensory engagements with the dead in Mesolithic Europe

Amy Gray Jones

— 167


Sex determination of the late Mesolithic individuals from the Strøby Egede burial, Køge Bugt, Denmark

Kurt J. Gron, Kristoffer Buck Pedersen, Nicolas Stewart, Janet Montgomery

168 —


Tradition and Transition – The Mesolithic Cemetery of Groß Fredenwalde, Northeastern Germany

Andreas Kotula, Bettina Jungklaus, Sebastian Lorenz, Henny Piezonka, Thomas Schenk, Franz Schopper, Magdalena Wieckowska-Lüth,

Thomas Terberger

— 169


Past Responses to Plague reflected by the Northern Tradition Rock art

Trond Lodoen

170 —


Fell and lost into the Abyss? Mesolithic human skull remains from a sinkhole in southern tip of Iberian Peninsula (Sima

Hedionda, Casares, Málaga)

Rafael M Martinez-Sanchez, M. Dolores Bretones García, Cristina Valdiosera, Juan Carlos Vera Rodríguez, Immaculada López Flores,

María D Simón Vallejo, M Pilar Ruiz Borrega, M José Martínez Fernández, Jorge Luis Romo Villalba, Francisco Bermudez Jiménez,

Rafael Martín De Los Santos, Lázaro Moreno Alarcón, Miguel Cortés Sánchez

— 171


A Wasteful Death? Rethinking the Treatment of the Dead in the Late Ertebølle Period

Melissa Villumsen

172 —


Documenting the diversity of the treatment of the dead: the case of Cuzoul de Gramat (Lot, France, 2nd Mesolithic)

Aurélie Zemour, Nicolas Valdeyron

— 173


Mortuary programmes and bioarchaeology of the Danube Gorges Mesolithic foragers in the central Balkans

Dusan Boric, David Reich, Ron Pinhasi, Emanuela Cristiani, T. Douglas Price, Marija Edinborough, Alessia Nava, Luca Bondioli, Dragana

Antonović

174 —


Reassessing Mesolithic human diet, mobility and funerary practices in the Cantabrian Region (northern Spain)

throughout dental calculus, stable isotopes and funerary taphonomy analyses

Borja González-Rabanal, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Emanuela Cristiani, Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti, Manuel R. González Morales

— 175


Late Mesolithic individuals of the Middle Danube origin on the Dnipro Rapids (Ukraine): archaeological and

bioarchaeological records

Dmytro Haskevych

176 —


Animal tooth pendants and burial customs at the Kreiči cemetery, south-eastern Latvia

Aija Macane, Kerkko Nordqvist

— 177


Animal tooth pendants and burial customs at the Kreiči cemetery, south-eastern Latvia

Aija Macane, Kerkko Nordqvist

178 —


Biographies of recycled artefacts in burial context. Case study from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Northwest Russia

Kristiina Mannermaa, Anna Malyutina, Dimitri Gerasimov

— 179


Stone axes in ritualized contexts – the production and deposition of pecked adzes at Strandvägen, Motala, 5500–

5000 BC

Fredrik Molin, Linus Hagberg, Ann Westermark

180 —


Session: Modelling the Mesolithic

— 181


Beyond structures: A microscale multi-proxy approach to understanding the social dimensions of tool using areas at

the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, UK

Jessica Bates, Nicky Milner, Aimée Little, Chantal Conneller

182 —


Ornaments as proxy for reconstructing social networks from Iberia Mesolithic hunter-gatherers

Carolina Cucart-Mora, Valéria Romano, Javier Fernández-López De Pablo, Sergi Lozano, Magdalena Gómez-Puche

— 183


Modelling radiocarbon dates and site counts: paleo-demographical dynamics in the western Scheldt Basin in

Belgium and Northern France

Elliot Dewerte, Philippe Crombé

184 —


Predictive modeling for Mesolithic site locations in southeastern Europe

Paul Duffy, Dusan Boric

— 185


Modelling a submerged and preserved Mesolithic landscape under the Harbour of Køge, Denmark, with sites from the

Maglemose and Kongemose Cultures

Klara Fiedler, Morten Johansen, Catherine Jessen

186 —


Modelling hunter-gatherer cultures after nature? – Reality or fake research? An old and unfortunately forgotten

anthropological discussion

Ole Grøn

— 187


The diffusion of pottery technology among Eastern European hunter-gatherer-fishers: using spatial-temporal modelling to understand the knowledge transfer process

Rowan Mclaughlin, John Meadows, Ekaterina Dolbunova

188 —


Modelling the Mesolithic without people

Philip Murgatroyd, Eugene Ch’ng, Tabitha Kabora, Micheál Butler, Vincent Gaffney

— 189


A modelling approach to explore the origin(s) of the Blade-Trapeze Complex

Salvador Pardo-Gordó, Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, Didier Binder, Lionel Gourichon, Oreto García Puchol

190 —


Agent-based modelling of the Mediterranean Neolithization and Mesolithic-Neolithic interactions: a first draft

Thomas Perrin

— 191


Building a model for material flow patterns in North Swedish river systems – Part 1

Mattias Sjoelander

192 —


Combining agent-based modelling and geographical information systems to create a new tool for modelling

movement dynamics: A case-study of Mesolithic Orkney

Leo Sucharyna Thomas, Alison Heppenstall, Caroline Wickham-Jones

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Session: Experimental Archaeology in Mesolithic Research

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Fishing during the Late Mesolithic Ertebølle Culture – an Experimental Approach to the Use of Fishhooks

Solveig Chaudesaigues-Clausen

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Burning questions about Mesolithic sites

Eva Halbrucker, Géraldine Fiers, Hans Vandendriessche, Tim De Kock, Veerle Cnudde, Philippe Crombé

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Functional analyses of Mesolithic ground stone tools

Daniela Holst

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Axes and chisels made of elk antler from the Mesolithic – Early Neolithic sites of Russia and Belarus: technologies

and functions

Anna Malyutina, Aliaksandr Vashanau, Maryia Tkachova, Olga Lozovskaya

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Personal ornaments at Star Carr: Integrating experimental archaeology, microwear analysis, and GIS to identify crafting

spaces

Andy Needham, Jessica Bates, Nicky Milner, Chantal Conneller, Aimée Little

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To fish or not to fish? Fish processing at Iron Gates: an experimental approach

Ana Petrović, Cristina Lemorini, Stella Nunziante-Cesaro, Ivana Zĭvaljević

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Something new in the quivers: experimental approach to functioning of the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic

geometric bitruncations

Sylvie Philibert, Lorène Chesnaux, Sandrine Costamagno

— 201


Qualitative and quantitative experimental data for understanding functional biographies of quartzite macro

tools from Mesolithic Danube Gorges

Andrea Zupancich, Emanuela Cristiani, Dragana Antonović, Dušan Borić

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Session: A Little Give & Take: Studying Mesolithic Archaeology and Studying

Hunter-Gatherers in 2020

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Consumers, not contributors? The study of the Mesolithic and the study of Hunter-Gatherers

Ben Elliott, Graeme Warren

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Using Ethnography to focus our minds on the specifics of Mesolithic Archaeology, not to mask them

Overton Nick, Barry Taylor

— 205


Learning about Mesolithic societies through disasters

Astrid Johanne Nyland

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Towards expert dialogues on the hunter-gatherer past: Perspectives of ethnoarchaeology in Mesolithic studies

Henny Piezonka

— 207


Marking a Landscape – thoughts on how early Danish Maglemosian hunters marked their routes and sites in the

boreal forests

Anne G. Rosenberg

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Discussant’s Summary

Charlotte Damm

— 209


Selected Themes in Emergent Hunter-Gatherer Research

Alice Rudge, Noa Lavi, Simon Hoyte

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Topic: Current research

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Fading Ageröd – Human encroachment, climate change and the deterioration on a Scandinavian Mesolithic key-site in

despair

Adam Boethius, Mathilda Kjällquist, Ola Magnell, Apel Jan

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The “Reguisheimer Feld/ZAID Tranche 3 and 4” site in Ensisheim (Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France). First results

Alexandre Deseine, Sylvain Griselin

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Hidden in the Hills? Preliminary fieldwork results from Pimple Hill, Herefordshire

Tom Elliot, Gerry Ronan, Julie Birchenall, Tom Lawrence, Jack Rowe

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Preliminary results and research perspectives on the submerged Stone Age in Storstrømmen, Denmark

Klara Fiedler, Morten Johansen

— 215


Stable oxygen isotopes and Mg/Ca ratios from the limpet Patella depressa Pennant, 1777: climatic and archaeological

implications of the novel application of LIBS to mollusc shells

Asier García-Escárzaga, Marina Martínez, Adolfo Cobo-García, Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti, David Cuenca-Solana, Alvaro Arrizabalaga,

Jana Zech, Patrick Roberts

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Mesolithic and Chalcolithic mandibular morphology: using Geometric Morphometrics to reconstruct incomplete

specimens and analyse morphology

Ricardo Miguel Godinho, Cláudia Umbelino, Célia Gonçalves

— 217


Muge Portal: A new digital platform for the last hunter-gatherers of the Tagus Valley, Portugal

Célia Gonçalves, Cláudia Umbelino, Ana Gomes, César Gonçalves, Cláudia Costa, Joana Belmiro, João Cascalheira, João Luís Cardoso,

José Rodrigues, Lino André, Marielba Zacarias, Marina Évora, Mauro Figueiredo, Nuno Bicho, Patrícia Monteiro, Ricardo Miguel

Godinho, Roxane Matias, Vera Aldeias

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Into the wide! Extensive surveys in rescue archaeology and the question of Mesolithic site function in Northern France

Coals Guéret, Bénédicte Souffi, Thierry Ducrocq, Sylvain Griselin

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The open-air Mesolithic site of Arenal de la Virgen (Villena, SE Iberia). Occupation features and Bayesian chronological

modelling

Magdalena Gómez-Puche, Ana Polo-Diaz, Yolanda Carrión, José Ramón Rabuñal-Gayo, Ana Cantó, Javier Fernández-López De Pablo

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From Early to Late Mesolithic in Sicily. New data from Grotta D’Oriente (Favignana Island)

Domenico Lo Vetro, Andrè Colonese, Federico Poggiali, Stefano Bertola, Fabio Martini

— 221


More than stones? A survey for Mesolithic sites in Northwestern Germany

Svea Mahlstedt

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Motorways of Prehistory? Boats, Rivers, and Mobility in Mesolithic Ireland

Martin Moucheron

— 223


A newly discovered South Swedish Mesolithic settlement with more than 50 huts or houses, Ljungaviken

Carl Persson, Mathilda Kjällquist, Karina Hammarstrand Dehman

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Palimpsest dissection in Early Holocene open-air sites through lithic refits and intra-site spatial analysis. The Arenal

de la Virgen (Villena, Spain) study case

José Ramón Rabuñal, Magdalena Gómez-Puche, Ana Polo-Diaz, Javier Fernández-López De Pablo

— 225


The InterCity project – New insights into the Middle Mesolithic in the Oslo fjord basin

Gaute Reitan, Tina Jensen Granados, Linnea S. Johannessen, Silje Hårstad, Inger M. Berg-Hansen

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The Mesolithic of La Baume de Monthiver (Vallée du Jabron, Var): context and nature in a mid-mountain holocene

occupation

Guilia Ricci, Antonin Tomasso, Benjamin Audiard, Lela Hoareau, Marie-Anne Julien, Carlo Mologni, Louise Purdue, Guillaume Porraz

— 227


Go the whole hog in microwear analysis! A new reference dataset of dental microwear textures in extant wild boars

(Sus scrofa) and implications of intra-facet and intra-dentition variability for applications to the Mesolithic record

Antoine Souron, Marine Gardeur, Frederic Santos

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A new Mesolithic site in the Eastern Pyrenees: the Bauma dels Fadrins (Queralbs, Girona)

Carlos Tornero, Celia Díez-Canseco, Iván Ramírez-Pedraza, Marian Berihuete, Isabel Expósito, Juan Ignacio Morales, María Soto,

Eudald Carbonell

— 229


A new open-air Early Mesolithic site in central Italy: Contrada Pace

Davide Visentin, Alessandro Potì, Michele Bassetti, Marialetizia Carra, Arianna Cocilova, Emanuela Cristiani, Alessandra D’ulizia,

Federica Fontana, Marco Peresani, Paola Mazzieri, Stefano Finocchi

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Living in the mountains. Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic settlement in NW Portugal: Rock shelter 1 of Vale de

Cerdeira (Vieira do Minho)

Pedro Xavier, José Meireles, Carlos Alves

— 231


“Revealing the hidden” Central Balkan and Pannonian Mesolithic: new radiocarbon evidence from Serbia

Ivana Zĭvaljević, Vesna Dimitrijević, Jelena Jovanović, Tamara Blagojević, Jugoslav Pendić, Anelka Putica, Viktorija Uzelac,

Jelena Bulatović, Miloš Spasić, Dragan Anelić, Milica Bajčeta, Nenad Jončić, Sofija Stefanović

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