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Early rice cultivation systems and their impact on social evolution and the environment
Schedule
September 15 (Tuesday)
9:30-9:45 Coffee
9:45-10:30 Welcome and Overview: A decade of progress on Early Rice - Dorian Fuller (UCL)
10:30-11:00 Coffee
Session 1: Arable ecology and subsistence systems: analytical methods Chair: Peter Bellwood
11:00-11:25 Marco Madella (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)--Agricultural subsistence systems and non-food products. How phytoliths can help identifying the forgotten production of arable crops
11:25-11:50 Alison Weisskopf (UCL)-- A path between the fields: identifying changing rice arable systems in Asia using silica bodies
11:50-12:15 Huw Barton (University of Leicester)
12:15-12:40 Amy Bogaard (University of Oxford)-- Combining functional weed ecology and crop stable isotope values: case studies from the AGRICURB project
12:40-12:55 Discussant - Peter Bellwood (ANU)
12:55-2:00 Lunch
Session 2: Indian archaeology and rice (1)
" Chair: Cameron Petrie
2:00-2:25 Charlene Murphy (UCL)-- Exploring Eastern Patterns, New Archaeobotanical and Radiocarbon Evidence from Kirindia and Kandarodai, Sri Lanka and Harirajpur, Odisha
2:25-2:50 Pramod Joglekar (Deccan College)
2:50-3:15 Monica Smith (UCLA)-- Food, Flood, and Famine: Urban Perspectives on Rice Production and Consumption in the Early Historic Period of the Indian Subcontinent (3rd century BC-4th century AD)
3:15-3:30 Discussant - Cameron Petrie (Cambridge University)
3:30-4:00 Tea
Session 3: Archaeology from South China to Southeast Asia
" Chair: Cristina Castillo
4:00-4:25 Barry Rolett (University of Hawaii)-- Phytolith evidence for Neolithic rice cultivation in Fujian, southeast China
4:25-4:50 Katie Miller (UCL)-- Rice agriculture at Ban Non Wat: Identifying change in the upper Mun Valley from plant macro-remains.
4:50-5:15 Charles Higham (University of Otago)-- Social changes and rice agriculture in Northeast Thailand: from the Neolithic to the Iron Age
5:15-5:30 Discussant - Charles Higham
September 16 (Wednesday)
9:20-9:40 Coffee
Session 4: Indian archaeology and rice (2), from the Northeast to the South
" Chair: Rabi Mohanty
9:40-10:05 Ellie Kingwell-Banham (UCL)-- Identifying rice cultivation systems in South Asia
10:05-10:30 Tilok Thakuria (Meghalaya University)
10:30-10:45 Discussant - Rabi Mohanty (Deccan College)
10:45-11:15 Coffee
Session 5: Southeast Asian archaeology & rice
" Chair: Gill Thompson
11:15-11:40 Janice Stargardt (University of Cambridge)
11:40-12:05 Rasmi Shoocongdej (Silpakorn University)
12:05-12:30 Peter Bellwood (ANU)-- On the merits of big pictures: The Holocene in Southeast Asia
12:30-12:45 Discussant - Jill Thompson (Bradford University)
12:45-1:45 Lunch
Session 6: Indian archaeology and rice (3), the Northwest
" Chair: Pramod Joglekar (Deccan College)
1:45-2:10 Jennifer Bates (University of Cambridge)-- Rice Domestication, Cultivation and Agriculture: the role of the Indus Civilisation?
2:10-2:35 Penny Jones (University of Cambridge)-- Stable isotope analysis: a new window into early rice?
2:35-3:00 Dorian Fuller (UCL)- The Proto-indica hypothesis and place of rice in the agriculture of Chalcolithic western India and Pakistan.
3:00-3:25 Vasant Shinde (Deccan College)
3:25-3:45 Tea
Session 7: Chinese archaeology and rice
" Chair: Guiyin Jin
3:45-4:10 Chris Stevens (UCL)-- The evolution of rice and rice cultivation in the Lower Yangtze based on macro-botanical remains from Caoxieshan and Maoshan
4:10-4:45 Min Rui (Yunnan Institute)-- Baiyancun and Haimenkou excavations
4:45-4:55 Chris Stevens/Dorian Fuller (UCL) preliminary archaeobotanical results ftom Yunnan (Haimenkou and Baiyancun)
4:55-5:25 Yijie Zhuang (UCL)-- Evolution of paddy fields in China
5:25-5:35 Discussant -- Professor Guiyin Jin (Shandong University)
5:35-7:30 Reception
September 17 (Thursday)
9:15-9:30 Coffee
Session 8: Rice in the West: the Middle East and Africa
" Chair: Mark Nesbitt
Chair: Mark Nesbitt
9:30-9:55 Nicole Boivin (Oxford)-- Introduction of Asian rice to Africa and Madagascar (with Alison Crowther, Leilani Lucas and the Sealinks Team).
9:55-10:20 Louis Champion (UCL)-- Oryza glaberrima steud. (African rice): history and new evidence from North Benin (with Anne Haour & Dorian Fuller)
10:20- 10:45 Suresh Muthukumaran (UCL)-- The origins of rice cultivation in the Middle East and the Mediterranean
10:45-11:00 Discussant - Mark Nesbitt (Kew)
11:00-11:30 Coffee
Session 9: Southeast Asian subsistence regimes: Hunter-gatherers to the Metal Age
" Chair: Bérénice Bellina-Pryce
Chair: Bérénice Bellina-Pryce
11:30-11:55 Marc Oxenham (ANU)-- The Mainland Southeast Asian Neolithic: Foragers or Farmers? (with A Willis)
11:55-12:20 Philip Piper (ANU)-- The Origins and Routes of Translocation of the Earliest Domestic Animals in Southeast Asia
12:20-12:45 Cristina Castillo (UCL)-- Archaeobotany in Southeast Asia: What have we learnt so far...
12:45-1:00 Discussant - Bérénice Bellina-Pryce (CNRS)
1:00-2:00 Lunch
Session 10: Modelling the impact of early land use
" Chair: Andy Bevan
Chair: Andy Bevan
2:00-2:25 Jed Kaplan (ARVE, Lausanne)-- Monsoon variability and the decline of Angkor: A modeling study of human responses to environment change
2:25-2:50 Liviu Giosan (Woods Hole Oceanographic)-- Fluvial Dynamics and Past Civilizations
2:50-3:15 Fabio Silva (UCL)-- Modelling Rice Dispersals: from geographical origins to methane emissions
3:15-3:30 Discussant - Andy Bevan (UCL)
3:30-4:00 Tea
Session 11: Genetics & aDNA
" Chair: Mark Thomas
Chair: Mark Thomas
4:00-4:25 Ryo Ishikawa (Kobe University)-- Evaluation of the domestication-related traits in rice. (with Ryo Ishikawa, Yumi Oka, Ryo Nishioka, Mai Ikemoto, Than Myint Htun, Chizuru Inoue, Koji, Numaguchi, and Takashige Ishii)
4:25-4:50 Robin Allaby (Warwick)-- Rice and the central dogma: insights from modeling on cereal evolution and domestication
4:50-5:15 Terry Brown (Manchester)-- Independent domestications of the indica, japonica and aus groups of Asian rice
5:15-5:40 Discussant - Mark Thomas (UCL)
5:40-6:10 Summary/Discussion on future work - Dorian Fuller