III IMMWG Meeting
SESSIONS
2nd September 2021
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Session 1
Chair: Youri van den Hurk
12:00 - 12:20 Whalecome
12:20 - 12:40 1. Bea De Cupere, Julie Timmermans and Valérie Ghesquière
The presence of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) on a late medieval site of Brussels (Belgium)
12:40 - 13:00 2. Cholawit Thongcharoenchaikit and Masaki Eda
Applying Discriminant Function Analysis of Atlas and Axis Vertebrae of the Toothed Whales for Aiding Species Identification of Zooarchaeological Specimens
13:00 - 13:20 3. Sarah Victoria Veronika Aarup Saboia, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen and Morten Tange Olsen
Holocene Spatio-temporal Occurrence of Small Odontocetes in the Greater Baltic Sea [CANCELLED]
13:20 - 13:40 4. Sally Evans and Jacqui Mulville
Marine exploitation in the Western Isles: Characterising cetacean bone assemblages to understand the past and unlock future research
13:40 - 14:00 Break
Session 2
Chair: Emily Ruiz Puerta
14:00 - 14:20 5. Aikaterini Glykou, Lembi Lõugas, Giedrė Piličiauskienė, Ulrich Schmölcke, Gunilla Eriksson and Kerstin Lidén
The impact of climatic change and humans on the Baltic Sea harp seals: a history of 6000 years
14:20 - 14:40 6. Willemien de Kock and Canan Çakirlar
Turtle Recall: Species identifications and foraging habitat use from Bronze and Iron Age Levantine sea turtle remains using multi-proxy zooarchaeology
14:40 - 15:00 7. Hanna Kivikero
The use of seals as resources in the northern parts of the Baltic Sea during the early modern period
15:00 - 15:20 Break
Session 3
Chair: Fabricio Furni
15:20 - 15:40 8. Caroline Borges
How did this whale gets here?: Addressing new observations about the capture, exploitation patterns and symbolic significance of marine mammals, and sea turtles on the Atlantic coast of Brazil during mid-Holocene
15:40 - 16:00 9. Aleksa K. Alaica
Moche Marine Mammals: Exploring Sea Lion Remains as Food and Symbol on the North Coast of Peru in the 1st Millennium CE
16:00 - 16:20 10. A. Sebastián Muñoz
Archaeological otariids from Atlantic southern Patagonia: A research agenda
16:20 - 16:40 Break
Session 4
Chair: Willemien de Kock
16:40 - 17:00 11. Jack Frazier
Middle Stone Age Marine Turtle Management?
17:00 - 17:20 12. Magie Aiken, Elena Gladilina, Canan Çakırlar, Sergey Telizhenko, Youri van den Hurk, Luminita Bejenaru, Morten Tange Olsen and Pavel Gol’din
Cetacean Exploitation in the Black Sea
17:20 - 17:40 13. Sebastian Yrarrazaval, Ximena Power and Diego Salazar
A tongue for the dead? Interpreting an unusual pinniped hyoid representation in a funerary site at the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert, Chile
17:40 - 18:00 14. Rafael M. Varas-Malca, Manuel J. Laime and Yoshimitsu Ccoyllo
Mythical killer whale? A new interpretation of the marine deity of the Nasca culture, southern Peru
3rd September 2021
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Session 5
Chair: Sean Desjardins
12:00 - 12:20 15. Iona Claringbold
The Zooarchaeology of Polynesian Ritual: Analysis of ritually sacrificed turtle remains from Fakahina, Tuamotu Archipelago
12:20 - 12:40 16. Youri van den Hurk, Elena Maini and Matteo Bormetti
Dolphin exploitation in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age coastal Oman: Preliminary considerations
12:40 - 13:00 17. Grace Pyles
Narwhal Tusks as Unicorn Horns in Medieval and Post-Medieval Europe
13:00 - 13:20 18. Laura Courto, Christina Lockyer and James Barrett
Scrimshaw: unlocking the cultural and biological archive of sea mammal art
13:20 - 13:40 19. Kerstin Lidén, Maiken Hemme Bro-Jørgensen, Hans Ahlgren, Emily Johana Ruiz Puerta, Lembi Lõugas, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, Aikaterini Glykou, Morten Tange Olsen, Ulrich Schmölcke and Anders Angerbjörn
A matter of presence and absence grey seals and harp seals in the Baltic Sea
13:40 - 14:00 Break
Session 6
Chair: Youri van den Hurk
14:00 - 14:20 20. Fabricio Furni, Camilla F. Speller, Eduardo R. Secchi, Martine Bérubé and Per J. Palsbøll
The Ecological and Evolutionary Legacy of Industrial Whaling in the Genomic Composition of Baleen Whales from Antarctic Grounds
14:20 - 14:40 21. James H. Barrett, Cristina Brito, Francis Ludlow, Bastiaan Star and Poul Holm A History of the World in 10 Marine Taxa? An Introduction to 4-OCEANS
14:40 - 15:00 22. Rosanne van Bodegom and Frigga Krusse
Investigating an Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) slaughter site in Trygghamna, Svalbard
15:00 - 15:20 Break
Session 7
Chair: Fabricio Furni
15:20 - 15:40 23. Emily Ruiz-Puerta, Xenia Keighley, Sean Desjardins, Peter Jordan and Morten Tange Olsen
Deciphering the History of the Largest Extant Pinniped: A Phylogenetic Study of the Atlantic Walrus
15:40 - 16:00 24. Ramona Harrison, Vicki Szabo and Brenna Frasier
Chronicling Medieval Human-Whale Interactions at Coastal Siglunes
16:00 - 16:20 25. Gabriel Prieto and Ali Altamirano
The Stranded Whale: cultural and symbolic interactions between humans and marine mammals between 1500 B.C. and 850 A.D. in Huanchaco, north coast of Peru
16:20 - 16:40 Break
Session 8
Chair: Willemien de Kock
16:40 - 17:00 26. Jennifer Routledge, Christian Sonne, Rune Dietz and Paul Szpak
Long Term Food Web Patterns in the Canadian High Arctic: Evidence from Stable Isotope Analysis of Polar Bears
17:00 - 17:20 27. Erika Ebel, Christyann Darwent, John Darwent and Genevieve LeMoine
Using ZooMS to Understand Marine Mammal Use at Iita, Northwest Greenland
17:20 - 17:40 28. Cyler Conrad, Jeremy Inglis, Allison Wende, Travis Tenner, Kimberly Wurth, Benjamin Naes, Jeanne Fair, Earl Middlebrook, Shannon Gaukler, Jeffery Whicker, Washington Tapia Aguilera, James Gibbs and Blair Wolf
Examining the Long-Term Record of 20th Century Nuclear Testing in a Dolphin and Sea Turtles from Enewetak Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands
[CANCELLED]
17:40 – 18:00 Concluding remarks