| Day 0 - Wednesday, 1st July, 2009 |
| 2:30 – 6:00 pm | Opening of registration desk and poster set-up |
| Day 1 - Thursday, 2nd July, 2009 |
| 8:30 am | Registration and poster set-up |
| 9:00 am | Welcome ceremony |
| Session 1 - Methodological issues Chairmen: Tony WALDRON |
9:45 am
| Keynote Lecture |
| MSM - Perhaps not a superstar but an important member of the team Charles F. MERBS |
| 10:20 am | Oral presentations |
| Musculoskeletal stress markers (MSM): methodological reflections Valentina MARIOTTI, Marco MILELLA, Maria Giovanna BELCASTRO |
| 10:40 am | Enthesopathies as occupational stress markers: a reliable and reproducible method based on present medical data Sébastien VILLOTTE |
| 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 am | A quantitative method for assessing MSM rugosity Charlotte Y. HENDERSON |
| 11:35 am | The scientific value of using a 3d surface scanner to quantify entheses Doris PANY, Thomas VIOLA, Maria TESCHLER-NICOLA |
| 11:55 am | Cross sections of radial tuberosity - geometrical properties, BMD distribution and effects of aging in MSM remodeling Milton NUNEZ, Sirpa NIINIMÄKI, Markku NISKANEN, Juho-Antti JUNNO |
| 12:15 am | New directions in the analysis of musculoskeletal stress markers Cynthia A. WILCZAK |
| 12:35 am | Discussion and balance of the session |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm | Poster session 1 Chairperson: Sandra ASSIS |
| The morphology of clavicular entheses observed on a sample of identified skeletons (SIMON collection, Switzerland): methodological discussion Geneviève PERRÉARD LOPRENO |
| Entheses of the hands and studies of activity: possibilities and limitations Aimee FOSTER, Hallie BUCKLEY and Nancy TAYLES |
| Reconstruction of labour intensity in Neolithic early agriculturalists from central Poland Wiesław LORKIEWICZ, Marta KUREK, Agnieszka ŁĘGOCKA, Joanna URBANIAK |
| Musculoskeletal stress markers in Portuguese Late Neolithic population: What do they tell us? Ana Maria SILVA |
| Musculoskeletal markers in the Bronze Age population from Motilla del Azuer (Daimiel, Ciudad Real, Spain) Ihab AL OUMAOUI, Zita LAFFRANCHI, Maria G. ROCA, Sylvia A. JIMÉNEZ-BROBEIL |
| The costoclavicular ligament as an indicator of general workload: preliminary investigations Renata L. F. PICALLUGA, Adilson D. SALLES, Claudia RODRIGUES-CARVALHO |
| 3:00 pm | Coffee Break |
| Session 2a - MSM studies: Applications to archaeological sample Chairwomen: Charlotte ROBERTS |
| 3:20 pm | Keynote Lecture |
| When Adam delved and Eve span, there were, of course, no gentlemen: Muscles, movements, and activity-related skeletal change Christopher J. KNÜSEL |
| 4:00 pm | Oral presentations |
| Task-related changes in the dentitions of prehistoric skeletons from central Sudan Tina JAKOB |
| 4:20 pm | Interpreting patterns: A comparison of Near Eastern Neolithic MSM studies Jane PETERSON |
| 4:40 pm | Musculoskeletal stress marker patterns of Neolithic populations in Sweden Correlations with material culture Petra MOLNAR
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| 5:00 pm | Enthesopathies and the various lifestyles of the inhabitants of the Great Moravian centre of Mikulčice (9th -10th century; Czech Republic) Petra HAVELKOVÁ |
| 5:20 pm | Researching ancient behaviours: a biocultural approach to the study of musculoskeletal stress markers (MSM) in a skeletal sample from Constância, Portugal (14-19th centuries) Sandra ASSIS |
5:40 pm
7:00 pm | Discussion and balance of the session Reception Sun set at the City Hall |
| Day 2 - Friday, 3rd July, 2009 |
| Session 2b - Applications to identified sample Chairwomen: Jane PETERSON |
| 9:00 am | Oral presentations |
| Can we deduce occupation from enthesopathies? Lessons from the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collection Cláudia UMBELINO, Eugénia CUNHA |
| 9:20 am | Musculoskeletal markers in a 20th-century Spanish sample. What can they contribute to the study of ancient populations? Sylvia A. JIMÉNEZ-BROBEIL, Maria G. ROCA, Ihab AL OUMAOUI, Zita LAFFRANCHI |
| 9:40 am | On Human behaviour and storytelling: Gender, sex, age and muscular stress markers Francisca Alves CARDOSO |
10:00 am |
Carrying loads and making shoes: skeletal markers of activity in a sample of porters and shoemakers from contemporary Italy Marco MILELLA, Stefania ZAMPETTI, Maria Giovanna BELCASTRO, Valentina MARIOTTI |
| 10:20 am | Discussion and balance of the session |
| 10:45 am | Coffee-break |
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Session 3 - Multifactorial etiology of enthesopathies Chairmen: Sébastien VILLOTTE |
| 11:00 am | Keynote Lecture |
| Understanding “musculoskeletal stress markers:” Their multifactorial etiology and constraints on simplistic interpretations Robert JURMAIN |
| 11:35 am | Oral presentations |
| The cost of lifestyle revisited: Musculoskeletal stress markers (MSM) in Brazilian prehistoric coastal populations. Methodological and interpretation challenges Claudia RODRIGUES-CARVALHO |
| 11 :55 am | Incipient DISH and MSM: Diagnosis and problems of interpretation in the lower limb Paula KYRIAKOU |
| 12:15 am | Enthesial lesions and spondylarthropathies: clinical and paleopathological insights Carina MARQUES |
| 12:35 am | Discussion and balance of the session |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm | Poster session 2 Chairperson: Francisca Alves CARDOSO |
| Enthesopathies as “pregnancy markers”: consideration of a large archaeological sample of hip bones Annalisa CONZATO, Jasmine RIZZI |
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| | Musculoskeletal stress markers in the prehispanic archaeological site of El Agujero (Gran Canaria, Spain). Preliminary results Jonathan Santana CABRERA, Javier Velasco VÁZQUEZ, Martha Alamón NÚÑEZ, Amelia RODRÍGUEZ-RODRÍGUEZ |
| | Stress markers on Pre-Columbian skeletons from San Lorenzo Island: A Weavers's Cemetery? José Antonio HUDTWALCKER, Guido P. LOMBARDI, Uriel GARCÍA-CÁCERES |
| | Is apophyseal facet remodeling a useful complement to musculoskeletal stress markers for the study of past activities? A study of a medieval skeletal sample from São Martinho, Leiria Susana GARCIA |
| | The auricular surface - a ‘dead end’ or a misunderstood resource? Ian MAGEE |
| | Musculoskeletal markers in the toes: population data from early twentieth century Lisbon, Portugal Hugo F. V. CARDOSO, Vanessa CAMPANACHO, Eunice CONCEIÇÃO, José GOMES |
| | Iconographic approaches to the study of musculoskeletal stress markers Sandra ASSIS, Maria do Rosário MARTINS, Maria Arminda MIRANDA, Ana Luísa SANTOS |
3:30
| Plenary session Moderator: Ana Luisa SANTOS Annotators: Charlotte ROBERTS and Tony WALDRON |
| 4:15 pm | Coffee-break General discussion and elaboration of a list of recommendations for future studies |
5:30 pm
6:00 pm | Closing session
Farewell wine tasting at the Rose Garden |