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| Day one, May 29th, 2015 |
08.00 Registration
09.00 Welcome reception
Session in Human Evolution
09.30 Plenary Session - The phylogenetic position of Homo antecessor in the Eurasian Human Evolution: a review eighteen years later
José Bermúdez de Castro, CENIEH, Burgos, Spain
10.15 The modular nature of the Neanderthal thorax: the status quo
Daniel García-Martínez, Markus Bastir
10.30 The biomechanical performance of Homo heidelbergensis vs. Homo sapiens
Ricardo Miguel Godinho, Laura Fitton, Paul O’Higgins
10.45 Coffee-break
11.05 Poster session (Odd Numbers)
11.40 The origin of Homo ca. 2.8 Ma in the Ledi Geraru research area (Afar, Ethiopia)
Ignacio Lazagabaster, Ellis Locke, Irene Smail, John Rowan, Dominique Garello, Chalachew Seyoum, Joshua Robinson, Eric Scott, David Feary, Christopher Campisano, Brian Villmoare, William Kimbel, Erin DiMaggio, Guillame Dupont-Nivet, Alan Deino, Faysal Bibi, Margaret Lewis, Antoine Souron, Lars Werdelin, David Braun, Ramon Arrowsmith, Kaye Reed
11.55 Human Evolution teaching within a context of non-formal education: a course for high school students
Richard Marques, Ana Santos-Carvalho, Eugénia Cunha, Ana Luísa Santos, Ana Maria Silva, Cláudia Umbelino, Davide Delfino, Nelson Almeida, Paulo Gama Mota, Sónia Ferreira
12.05 Light Lunch
Session in Population Genetics
13.45 Plenary Session – Long-term balancing selection in the great apes
João Teixeira, Max Planck Institute, Germany
14.30 Association
study of VNTR polymorphisms in 5-HTT (SLC6A4) gene with obesity risk in
students from the University of Coimbra
Helena Dias, Magdalena Muc, Cristina Padez, Licínio Manco
14.45 The human maternal ancestry of the Indian Subcontinent
Marina Silva, Marisa Oliveira, Luísa Pereira, Pedro Soares
15.00 Investigating the maternal demographic history of an ancient human population in Southwest Turkey
Rita Rasteiro, Claudio Otton, Rinse Willet, Johan Claeys, Peter Talloen, Katrien Van de Vijver, Reyhan Yaka, Lounès Chikhi, Jeroen Poblome, Ronny Decorte
15.15 Identification of subclades within Y-chromosome haplogroup J in the Portuguese population
Joana Albuquerque, Rui Martiniano, Licínio Manco
15.30 Coffee-break
Session in Human Ecology
15.50 Plenary Session - Metabolic disease in migrant populations of South Asian origin: competing explanations
Tessa Pollard, University of Durham, United Kingdom
16.35 Poverty, health and health inequalities
Helena
Nogueira, Ana Cláudia Lourenço
16.50 “In the between” or a particular portrayal of (a) human life
Maria Jorge Ferro, Telma Rodrigues, Bernardo Ferreira
17.05 Nutritional status of the Riverine population of the Caxiuaña National Forest, Melgaço - Pará, Brazil
Ligia Amaral Filgueiras, Hilton Pereira da Silva
17.20 Daytime sleepiness and caffeine intake in Portuguese University students
Maria Raquel Silva, Teresa Paiva
17.35 If you fear death, anxiety will haunt your life – so, let a story cherish your dreams
Maria Jorge Ferro, Luiza Nobre Lima
17.50 Changes in television viewing, computer use and walk to school among elementary school-aged children in Portugal from 2002 to 2009
Cristina
Padez
18.05 Social determinants of health and Sickle Cell Disease in Amazonia
Ariana
Silva, Hilton Pereria da Silva
20.00 social dinner (optional)
End of day one
| Day two, May 30th, 2015 |
Session in Primatology
09.00 Plenary Session - The evolutionary origins of Human Cognition: insights from research on chimpanzees
Tetsuro Matsuzawa, University of Kyoto, Japan
09.45 The diet of the chimpanzees at Caiquene-Cadique, Guinea-Bissau: from cashew to snails
Joana Bessa, Cláudia Sousa, Kimberley J. Hockingsa
10.00 Dispersal in the Desert: genetic diversity and population structure of the Mauritanian baboon (Papio papio)
Vitor Silva, Maria Joana Silva, José Carlos Brito
10.15 Is sexual dimorphism in cranial form associated with sexual dimorphism of masticatory function? An approach using finite elements analysis and geometric morphometrics on two papionin species
Miguel Prôa, Laura C. Fitton, Paul O’Higgins
10.30 Mother-infant behavior in wild Bornean orangutans in a great apes perspective
Renata Mendonça, Tomoko Kanamori, Misato Hayashi, Tetsuro Matsuzawa
10.45 Coffee-break
Session in Anthropology of Past Populations
11.00 Plenary Session – Basque “oral history” from a dental anthropological perspective
Richard G. Scott, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
11.45 An experimental reconstruction of cremation rituals in the ancient Veneto area: preliminary results
Giovanni Magno
12.00 Can a database with pathology be healthy for research? The inclusion of data considering paleopathological information in the bioarchaeology database
Filipa Neto, Ana Seabra
12.15 Funerary contexts: some ideas on the problem of children representation and on evidence of family and affective ties in death
Bruno Magalhães, Ângela Araújo
12.30 Dental enamel hypoplasia in a Medieval Portuguese sample from Coimbra and its possible etiology
Liliana Carvalho, Sofia N. Wasterlain
12.45 Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Stress Markers (MSM) as indicators of occupational stress in a Catalan Cistercian Community
Núria Montes, Maria Eulàlia Subirà
13.00 Light Lunch
14.15 A kidney’s ingenious path to trimillennar preservation: renal tuberculosis in an Egyptian mummy ?
Carlos Prates, Carlos Oliveira, Sandra Sousa, Salima Ikram
14.30 “By any other name”: procedures for establishing terminology in bioarchaeology
Cristina Cruz, Ana Seabra, Filipa Neto, Margarita Correia
14.45 Paleoparasitological studies in Portugal: first results
Luciana Sianto, Daniela Cunha, Sergio Chaves, Isabel Teixeira-Santos, Paula Pereira, Ricardo Godinho, David Gonçalves, Antônio Matias, Vítor Matos, Sara Leitão, Ana Luisa Santos
15.00 Bone mass in young skeletal women: what’s love got to do it?
Francisco Curate, Eugénia Cunha, Ana Tavares, Anabela Albuquerque
15.15 The bigger you are the faster you age? Analysing body size effects on age-related criteria from the hip bone joints
Vanessa Campanacho, Andrew Chamberlain, Pia Nystrom, Eugénia Cunha
15.30 The paleopathology of rib cage fistulae: challenges and pitfalls
Vítor Matos, Carina Marques, Francisco Curate, Célia Lopes
15.45 CraMs: new tool to help anthropologists
Catarina Coelho, Maria Teresa Ferreira, Paulo Dias, Beatriz Sousa, Luis Neves, Daniel Santos, Hélder Santos
16.00 A possible Madura foot from medieval Estremoz, southern Portugal
Ana Curto, Teresa Fernandes
16.15 Biological affinities between Portuguese and North Africans: dental nonmetric trait analysis
Luís Miguel Marado, Joel D. Irish, Ana Maria Silva
16.30 Coffee-break
Poster Session (Even Numbers)
Session
in Forensic Anthropology
17.00 Plenary Session – Forensic Anthropology: Bones, but not just bones
Niels Lynnerup, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
17.45 Intra-skeletal variation in microbial invasion of bone and the influence of adipocere development
Amanda Hale
18.05 Taphonomic alterations of animal bone induced in different standardized soil conditions: biomechanical pilot study
Adrianna Lacel, Celina Pezowicz, Zofia Spiak, Renata Ryl, Stanisław Graczyk
18.15 Human identification in context of catastrophe: preliminary report on the remains recovered from de Parish Cemetery of Penco, Chile
Ricardo Gomes, Erika Reyes, Camila Guerra, Carlos Jácome
18.30 What can we learn from compensatory movement?
Maria Alejandra Acosta, Maria Teresa Ferreira, Eugénia Cunha
18.45 A deep sewers murder investigation: a case of successful teamwork between forensic pathologist and forensic anthropologist
José Vieira de Sousa, Gonçalo Carnim, Maria C. de Mendonça
19.00 Closing session