Neolithic violence in a European perspective

Oxford, March 14-15, 2008
Registration information at: http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/conferences/neolithic_violence
For queries contact:
Rick Schulting rick.schulting@arch.ox.ac.uk
Linda Fibiger linda.fibiger@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Provisional Programme
Friday 14 March
1:00 Registration
Session 1: Chair: Rick Schulting
2:00 Rick Schulting Neolithic violence in a European perspective: an introduction
and Linda Fibiger
2:15 Rick Schulting Violence in the British Neolithic: bodies of evidence
2:45 Pia Bennike Evidence for trauma in earlier Neolithic Denmark
3:15 Discussion
3:30 COFFEE
4:00 Torbjörn Ahlström An overview of the skeletal evidence from Neolithic Sweden
4:30 Gundula Lidke Life under the Battle Axe – Violence in the Single Grave Culture?
5:00 Linda Fibiger A view from the north: skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence
in Neolithic northwest Europe
5:30 Discussion

Saturday 15 March
Session II: Chair: Linda Fibiger
9:30 Jörg Orschiedt & Violence on the living, violence on the dead: The human remains
Miriam N. Haidle from the LBK site of Herxheim, Germany
10:00 Horst Bruchhaus, Traces of physical injury on selected skeletal remains from the Middle-
Ronny Bindl, Andreas Elbe-Saale-Area (Central Germany)
Neubert and Joerg Wicke
10:30 Rimantas Jankauskas Violence in the Stone Age from the Eastern Baltic Perspective
11:00 Discussion
11:15 COFFEE
11:45 Wieslaw Lorkiewicz The evidence for conflict on Neolithic skeletons from Northern Poland
12:15 Alain Beyneix Neolithic violence in France : a comprehensive study
12:45 Discussion
1.00 LUNCH
Session III: Chair: TBA
2:00 Martin Smith Anarchy in the UK? Contextualising evidence for violence in Neolithic
Britain
2:30 Ángel Armendariz Violence in Northern Spain: San Juan ante Portam Latinam
and Lourdes Herrasti
3:00 Maria Teschler-Nicola Dimensions of aggression in the early Neolithic site of Asparn/Schletz
(Lower Austria) – The anthropological evidence
3:30 Discussion
3.45 COFFEE
4:15 Anastasia Papathanasiou Evidence of trauma in Neolithic Greece
4.45 Nick Thorpe Beaker Period Europe - Fighting, Feuding, or the Enemy Within?
5:15 John Robb The social context of Neolithic violence
5:45 Discussion
Evening
7:00 CONFERENCE DINNER