CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
02-06.10.2024

Wednesday, 2nd October 2024

  • 14:00 – 18:00: Registration (Venue: Conference room 1 (Largo). The venue is located in the underground level of the glass domes beneath the “Independence Square”, near “Serdica” subway station)
  • 19:00: Opening Ceremony and Wine Reception (Venue: National Archaeological Museum – main entrance, Address: Atanas Burov square)

Thursday, 3 rd. October 2024
  • 8:30 - 9:00: Registration and welcome Coffee 🍵
  • 9:00 - 9:15: Opening remarks
  • 9:15 - 10:00: Keynote Speaker: Dr David Orton (University of York): “In small bones forgotten”: fish, rodents, and the potential of seemingly insignificant remains to address key historical issues
  • 10:00 – 10:30: ​Poster session and coffee break 🍵

10:30 - 14:30 Session 1 Eastern Europe and Middle East (15 minutes per talk, 5 minutes questions)

  • 10:30 - 10:45: Camels from Romania in the Medieval period
     Adrian Balasescu
  • 10:50 - 11:05: Astragals of sheep/goat used as game pieces in Medieval urban settlements east of the Carpathians
    Luminița Bejenaru, Ludmila Bacumenco-Pîrnău, Margareta Simina Stanc, Vlad Vornic
  • 11:10 - 11:25: Animal management in the Medieval Koprijan fortress: Archaeofaunal remains from the upper town
   Mladen Mladenović, Teodora Mladenović, Vesna Bikić, Uglješa Vojvodić
  • 11:30 - 11:45: Faunal remains as evidence of changes during the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern period in the territory of present-day Serbia
   Teodora Mladenović, Irina Kajtez, Zorana Mladenović
  • 11:50 - 12:05: Animal health and husbandry in the century of the great plague, a case study on the faunal assemblages from Slana bara, Northwestern Bulgaria
   Stella Nikolova, Nadezhda Karastoyanova, Alexander Manev, Angel Mavrovski
  • 12:10 – 13:10: Lunch break (catering in conference venue) 🥪🥨
  • 13:10 - 13:25: Archaeozoological examination of faunal remains from Stratonikeia (Southern Anatolia)
    Ahmet İhsan Aytek, Erhan Tarhan, Esra Hilal Kaya
  • 13:30 - 13:45: Archaeozoological studies of the Islamic Period in the United Arab Emirates: Past work and future potential
    Mark Jonathan Beech
  • 13:50- 14:05: Domestic herbivore populations of the Iranian Plateau during the Medieval and Modern periods
    Roya Khazaeli
  • 14:10 - 14:25: Feeding Cities: A millennium of food traditions inIsfahan viewed from the faunal remains of the Great Mosque
Marjan Mashkour, Haeedeh Laleh, Ali Shojaee Esfahani, Homa Fathi, Roya Khazaeli, Hossein Davoudi, Zeinab Fathi,        Zahra Lorzadeh, Solmaz Haji Alilou, Abdolreza Kargar, Hadi Allahyari, Morteza Djamali
  • 14:30 - 14:45: Coffee break 🍵

14:45 - 16:25: Session 2 Central Europe (15 minutes per talk; 5 minutes questions)

  • 14:45 - 15:00: Caught red-handed… Fish and fish processing in Early Medieval Ciepłe, northern Poland
     Urszula Iwaszczuk, Sławomir Wadyl, Anna Gręzak
  • 15:05 - 15:20: Tubular bone objects from 500–1500 CE sites in Hungary
     Erika Gál, László Daróczi-Szabó, Márta Daróczi-Szabó
  • 15:25 - 15:40: Seventy years of medieval archaeozoology in Hungary
     László Bartosiewicz
  • 15:45 - 16:00: Gliding through the research of Hungarian bone skates
     Kata Szathmári
  • 16:05 - 16:20: 13th – 17th Century worked osseous materials from the castle district of Buda
     Ágnes Font
  • 16:25 - 16:40: Coffee break 🍵

16:25 - 17:35 Session 3 Iberian peninsula (15 minutes per talk; 5 minutes questions)

  • 16:40 - 16:55: Zooarchaeological analysis of the first archaeological campaign in the city of Bayra (Almería, Southeast Iberia)
      Ekiñe Mancha Iturribarria, Moisés Alonso Valladares
  • 17:00 - 17:15: Between the Reconquista and the Black Death: Animal husbandry at the ecclesiastical complex of Sant Esteve d’Olius (10th-14th centuries)
      Karl Cajtak
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Friday, 4th October 2024 - Conference tour
  • Full day: Conference Tour – Rila monastery/Boyana church (with lunch)
  • Meetting point: behind Alexander Nevski Cathedral at 8:30 AM (Bus: Traventuria travel agency)

Saturday, 5th October 2024
  • 9:00 - 9:30: Welcome Coffee 🍵

9:30 - 11:40 Session 3 Iberian peninsula continued (15 minutes per talk; 5 minutes questions)

  • 9:30 - 9:45: Farming strategies to dry environmental conditions in inland Spain during the early Middle Ages
     Marta Moreno-García
  • 9:50 - 10:05: Turtles as a dietary supplement for medieval Islamic populations: the case of Huerta del Inglés (Medina de  las Torres, Badajoz, Spain)
     Iratxe Boneta Jiménez
  • 10:10 - 10:25: Archaeozoological remains on a Late Antiquity Majorcan site
      Antoni Grimalt Brunet
  • 10:25 - 10:40: Coffee break 🍵
  • 10:40 - 10:55: From Pasture to Seashore: the exploration of animal resources in Medieval Cacela-a-Velha (Algarve, Portugal)
      Maria João Valente
  • 11:00 - 11:15: The prosopographical method applied to the study of equids in Portugal: first results and possibilities
      Afonso Soares de Sousa, Tiago Viúla de Faria
  • 11:20 - 11:35: The presence of migratory birds in the Tagus estuary, Portugal(13th-14th century)
      Eva Pires

11:40 - 13:55: Session 4 Italian peninsula (15 minutes per talk; 5 minutes questions)

  • 11:40 - 11:55: Animals and humans in the Venetian Lagoon: The zooarchaeological evidence from the Roman and Early Medieval periods
     Mauro Rizzetto, Silvia Garavello
  • 12:00 – 13:00: Lunch break (catering in conference venue) 🥪🥨
  • 13:00 - 13:15: Animals and humans in the Venetian Lagoon: The zooarchaeological evidence from the early and later Middle Ages
     Silvia Garavello, Mauro Rizzetto
  • 13:20 - 13:35: An animal bones tale: the Middle Ages in the Aosta Valley. The case of Orgères (La Thuile - AO - Italy)
    Chiara Mascarello


13:40 - 16:55: Session 5 UK, Greenland, Western Europe (15 minutes per talk; 5 minutes questions)
  • 13:40 - 13:55: Feeding the invaders: faunal remains from the first  Anglo-Norman castle in Ireland
     Fiona Beglane
  • 14:00 - 14:15: Animal paleopathology at Early Medieval West Stow, Suffolk, UK - A new look at old bones
     Taylor Zaneri, Pam Crabtree
  • 14:20 - 14:35: Coffee break 🍵
  • 14:35-14:50: Horses, cows and Anglo-Saxon funerary performance
     James Morris
  • 14:50 - 15:05: Anglo-Norman colonization and Gaelic resistance in Late Medieval Ireland: An analysis of animal exploitation and dietary breadth at Ballintober castle and settlement
      Ana Marcela Goeller
  • 15:10 - 15:25: Medieval Norse Greenland: A marine hunting and farm economy in the Arctic
      Konrad Smiarowski
  • 15:30 - 15:45: Porcine pathology and sanitary issues in urban France (12th to 16th c. AD)
      Annelise Binois-Roman
  • 15:50 - 16:05: Coffee break 🍵
  • 16:05-16:20: Identifying kitchens from zooarchaeological remains: the example of Suscinio castle (Morbihan, France)
     Borvon Aurélia
  • 16:20 - 16:35: Faunal remains from Medieval Brussels (Belgium): a current overview
     Bea De Cupere
  • 20:00 - Conference dinner 🥪🥨

Sunday, 6th October 2024
  • 9:00 - 9:30: Welcome Coffee 🍵

9:30 - 11:05: Session 7 Methodology, Genetics, Innovations

  • 9:30 - 9:45: PalaeoFarm: Domestic animal development across the longue durée of medieval Eurasia from a genetic and geometric morphometric perspective
      Ashleigh Haruda
  • 9:50 - 10:05: Exploring the evolutionary history of domestic ferrets
      Alice Dobinson
  • 10:10 - 10:25: CERVIFIED: a biometrical approach to the identification of archaeological European cervid remains (red deer, fallow deer, roe deer) for the reconstruction of human-deer-environment relationships and past cervid zoogeography
     Veronica Aniceti, Mauro Rizzetto
  • 10:30 - 10:45: Demarginalizing of past knowledge about birds: use of AI to retrieve bird images from Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
      Marcel van Tuinen
  • 10:50 - 11:05: The Central North Atlantic Marine Historical Ecology Project, Preliminary Results
     George Hambrecht
  • 11:05 - 11:20: Coffee break 🍵
  • 11:20 - 12:00: Keynote speaker: Prof. Dr. Zlatozar Boev, Birds and people in Medieval Bulgaria (Review of the subfossil record of birds during the First and Second Bulgarian Empires)
  • 12:00 - 12:30: Awards for best presentations and poster.
  • 12:30 - 12:45: Closing remarks: Veronica Aniceti, coordinator of the ICAZ Medieval Period working group
  • 12:45 - 13:45: Lunch 🥪🥨

*NB: Changes to the programme might occur, but will be updated on our site.