THE ARCHAEOGENETICS OF IBERIAN CATTLE - PROJECT MEETING
Zooarchaeogenetics has offered a great opportunity to better understand the past of animal species. The development of the Archaic project, hosted by the ARCHGEN Research Group at CIBIO-InBIO, involved the analysis of genomic data retrieved from the now extinct aurochs and from domestic cattle specimens of different chronologies collected in Iberia and North Africa. The genomic analysis of cattle remains from Iberia is particularly challenging since DNA has not been preserved in optimal conditions due to the temperate Mediterranean climate.
Organised under the scope of CIBIO-InBIO's ARCHAIC PROJECT, in close collaboration with LARC-DGPC and UNIARQ, this meeting will bring together national and international experts in Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Evolutionary Biology, Genomics and Bioinformatics to promote multidisciplinary discussions about the evolutionary trajectories of human and animal populations.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, February 21
13:00 – Lunch at a local restaurant, Vairão
14:15 – OPENING SESSION
Catarina Ginja | PI of the ARCHAIC Project, CIBIO-InBIO
14:30 – PLENARY TALK | CASUAL SEMINAR IN BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION
The middle pleistocene cranium from gruta da aroeira (almonda karst system): implications for our understanding of the human evolution process
João Zilhão | University of Barcelona
SESSION 1: WHAT ZOOARCHAEOLOGY CAN TELL US ABOUT CATTLE POPULATIONS OVERTIME?
15:15 – Simon Davis | LARC-DGPC and CIBIO-InBIO
Climate, domestication, livestock improvement and sex: aurochsen and cattle bones from late Pleistocene and Holocene Portugal and the Near East
16:00 – Silvia Valenzuela | CSIC-Institució Milà i Fontanals, Barcelona
Cattle from the East, cattle from the West: diversity of cattle morphotypes in the Iberian Peninsula in late Prehistory and Roman times.
16:45 - Coffee Break
17:15 – Cleia Detry | UNIARQ, University of Lisbon
Cattle improvement in the cities of Roman Lusitania
18:00 – Carlos Fernandez | University of Léon
Title to be confirmed
18:45 – CONCLUDING REMARKS
Ana Elisabete Pires | LARC-DGPC and CIBIO-InBIO
Catarina Ginja | CIBIO-InBIO
19:30 – Dinner in Porto
Friday, February 22
SESSION 2: THE ARCHAIC PROJECT – WHERE DID WE GET AND WHERE TO GO?
9:30 – Catarina Ginja | CIBIO-InBIO
Overview of the ARCHAIC project: pitfalls and achievements
10:15 – Irene Ureña | CIBIO-InBIO
Cattle DNA retrieval: a look into some successful archaeological sites from the Iberian peninsula
11:00 - Coffee Break
11:30 – Silvia Guimarães | CIBIO-InBIO
Genomic screening of Iberian cattle specimens: preliminary results
12: 15 – GENERAL DISCUSSION AND PERSPECTIVES
13:00 – Lunch at a local restaurant, Vairão
14:30 – PLENARY TALK | SEMINAR IN BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION
Of Vikings and their contemporaries: mobility in early medieval northern Europe
Anders Götherström | University of Stockholm
SESSION 3: ARCHAEOGENETICS AND BIOINFORMATICS TO INFER CATTLE EVOLUTION
15:15 – Ceiridwen Edwards | University of Huddersfield
Domestication and DNA Sequence Analyses of a British Aurochs (Bos primigenius)
15:40 – Rita Monteiro | University of Huddersfield
Archaeogenetics and Palaeogenetics of Cattle Domestication in North-West Europe
16:00 – Rita Rasteiro | University of Bristol
Demographic inference in the postgenomic era
16:45 – CONCLUDING REMARKS
Ana Elisabete Pires | LARC-DGPC and CIBIO-InBIO
Catarina Ginja | CIBIO-InBIO
19:30 – Dinner in Vila do Conde
Saturday, February 23
8:00 – TRIP TO THE CÔA VALLEY WORLD HERITAGE MUSEUM
REGISTRATION
Please PRE-REGISTER by following this link.
Deadline: February 8, 2019
Participation is open to the scientific community and general public, free of charge but places are limited! The two plenary talks are open to all CIBIO-InBIO members and general public without registration.
CONTACT
For questions please send an e-mail to: archaic@cibio.up.pt
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