Der Mitteldeutsche Archäologentag
wird jährlich vom Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie
Sachsen-Anhalt veranstaltet. Die internationale Tagung greift jeweils
eine ausgewählte archäologische Thematik auf, um ausgehend vonFunden oder Befunden Mitteldeutschlands im interdisziplinären
Diskurs neue Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen.
Im Mittelpunkt des diesjährigen Kongresses steht die Geschichtevon (Be)Kleidung in der Steinzeit, die über direkte und indirekte
Belege in ihrer evolutionären und sozialen Bedeutung betrachtet
wird. Ausgehend von frühen Belegen von Bekleidung bzw. deren
Herstellung wie den Funden der Bestattung der Schamanin vonBad Dürrenberg in Sachsen-Anhalt sowie weiteren nationalen undinternationalen Befunden sollen auf der Tagung verschiedene Aspekteder Geschichte der Bekleidung in der Steinzeit diskutiert werden.
Die adressierten Themen reichen von der Notwendigkeit bis hin
zu sozialen Dimensionen der Bekleidung.

The Archaeological Conferenceof Central Germany
is held every year by the State Office for Heritage Management andArchaeology Saxony-Anhalt. Taking an interdisciplinary approach,the aim of the international conference is to gain new insight ona specially selected subject by studying finds and features fromCentral Germany and beyond.
This year’s conference is devoted to the history of Stone Ageclothing and examines its evolutionary and social significanceusing both direct and indirect evidence. Based on early evidenceof clothes and their manufacture such as the finds from the burialof a female shaman from Bad Dürrenberg in Saxony-Anhalt aswell as other features from Germany and abroad, conference
participants will discuss various aspects of the history of clothing
in the Stone Age.
Various topics will be addressed, ranging from clothing as anecessity to their social dimension.

Lectures

PROGRAM

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

THURSDAY, 26. SEPTEMBER 2024

Steintor Campus, lecture hall I

Registration from 09.00

Adam-Kuckhoff-Straße 35
06108 Halle (Saale)

9.45–10.00 Harald Meller (Halle [Saale]/DE)/Olaf Jöris(Mainz and Neuwied/DE)/Oliver Dietrich (Halle [Saale]/DE)/
Roberto Risch (Barcelona/ES)

Until 15 September 2024

10.00–10.15 Olaf Jöris (Mainz and Neuwied/DE)

cgaertner@lda.stk.sachsen-anhalt.delandesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/mda17Conference »Table of Contents«: The Multiple Dimensionsof Clothing and Body Ornamentation in a Stone Age
Perspective

Coordination

From Possibilism and Imagination to Scienceand Perception

Claudia Gärtner M.A.
Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie

Dr. Olaf Jöris (Mainz and Neuwied/DE)
Dr. Oliver Dietrich (Halle [Saale]/DE)

10.15–10.30 (+5) Pauline Coste (Paris/FR)

Sachsen-Anhalt

Clothing or Nakedness in »Scientific« Reconstructions ofPrehistoric Humans from the Nineteenth Century to thePresent: Based on Pure Hypotheses or ArchaeologicalEvidence?

– Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte –Richard-Wagner-Straße 9, 06114 Halle (Saale)+49 (0)345 5247 372
cgaertner@lda.stk.sachsen-anhalt.de

10.35–10.50 (+5) Karina Grömer/Kayleigh Saunderson/
Lukas Dobler (all Vienna/AT)

Clothes Worn by Prehistoric Societies in PopularMedia (Period Films, Comics, and Games)

Conference Fee45 € per participant; 20 € reduced(Free access to speakers and students from Halle.)

10.55–11.30 Coffee Break

Organiser

Clothing and Body Ornamentation in Stone AgeArtistic Depictions

With Support of

11.30–11.45 (+5) Olaf Jöris (Mainz and Neuwied/DE)
Martin-Luther-Universität
Halle-Wittenberg

17th Archaeological Conference of Central Germany

Evidence for Clothing in Palaeolithic Art: An Overview
11.50–12.05 (+5) Olaf Jöris (Mainz and Neuwied/DE)

Scientific board
Prof. Dr. Harald Meller (Halle [Saale]/DE)

Welcoming

Registration (Speakers are already registered.)

A Stone Age History of Clothing

The Case of Palaeolithic Figurines as a Historical Sourcefor Clothing, Hairstyle, and Body Ornamentation

Zur Geschichte der Kleidung
in der Steinzeit

12.10–12.25 (+5) Christina Marangou (Athens/GR)

During the event photo and video recordings will be made forpurposes of documentation and public relations.

26 to 28 September 2024
International Conference in Halle (Saale)

Prof. Dr. Roberto Risch (Barcelona/ES)
Design: Brigitte Parsche, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie
Sachsen-Anhalt; title motif: © Karol Schauer, Salzburg

Appearance and Perceptions of Neolithic Figurines,
Covered, Nude, or otherwise
12.30–14.30 Lunch Break14.30–14.45 (+5) Oliver Dietrich (Halle [Saale]/DE)

Cloak, Belt, and Loincloth. 10th–9th Millennium BC
Depictions of Clothing from Göbekli Tepe and otherUpper Mesopotamian Sites
14.50–15.05 (+5) Simon Kaner (Norwich/GB)

Wrapping the Stone Age Body: Clothing Jōmon dogū
Ceramic Figures from the Prehistoric Japanese Archipelago
15.10–15.20 Short Break

Human Bodily Conditions: Phylogenetic andEnvironmental Adoptive Benefits of Clothing

FRIDAY, 27. SEPTEMBER 2024

12.40–14.20 Lunch BreakSATURDAY, 28. SEPTEMBER 2024

Materials and Technologies

Social Signaling and the Socio-Psychological
Underpinnings of Clothing

Social Differentiation in Burial Contexts

9.00–9.15 (+5) Ivo Verheijen (Schöningen/DE)

Exploitation of Carnivores for Clothing: Evidence of Carnivore
Skinning from the Lower to the Upper Palaeolithic of Europe

14:20–14.35 (+5) Thomas Junker (Tübingen/DE)

9.20–9.35 (+5) Joao Marreiros (Neuwied/DE)

14:40–14.55 (+5) Mark Collard (Burnaby/CA)

Micro-Evidence of Animal Hide Working in the Archaeological
Record: A Perspective from Lithic Use-Wear Analysis

Patterns of Clothing Use in the Ethnohistoric Period

9.40–9.55 (+5) Veerle Rots/Sonja Tomasso/Dries Cnuts(all Liège/BE)

Evolution of the Human Skin Barrier as Innovative Clothing

Functional Approaches to Understand Plant Processing
and Fibre Technology in the Paleolithic

15.40–15.55 (+5) Andrew Kitchen (Iowa/US)

10.00–10.30 Coffee BreakThe Evolutionary Context of Clothing: Implications
from the Evolution of Human Lice

10.30–10.45 (+5) María Isabel Borao Álvarez (Valencia/ES)

15.20–15.35 (+5) Cristina de Guzman Strong (Detroit/US)

Chronological Overview
16.00–16.15 (+5) Mark Collard (Burnaby/CA)

Did Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans Dress
Differently?

The Palaeolithic Origins of Sewing Technologies
10.50–11.05 (+5) Liliana Janik (Cambridge/GB)

Weaving as an Everyday Seasonal Activity ofUpper Palaeolithic Communities in Central Europe andthe Russian Plain

16.20–16.50 Coffee Break11.10–11.25 (+5) Francisco Martinez-Sevilla/Maria Herrero Otal/Raquel Piqué (all Madrid/ES)

16.50–17.05 (+5) Sibylle Wolf/Nicholas J. Conard(both Tübingen/DE)

Fashion Trends, Sewing, and Body Ornamentationin the Upper Palaeolithic of Southwestern Germany

Baskets, Cords, and Footwear as the Most Extensive andDiverse Record of the Last Hunter-gatherers and First
Farmers Fibre-Based Technologies in Southern Europe:
The Cueva de los Murciélagos Site (Albuñol, Granada)

17.10–17.25 (+5) Ulla Mannering (Copenhagen/DK)

The Danish Stone Age Cloth Culture
17.30–17.45 (+5) Albert Hafner (Bern/CH)

Neolithic Clothing Discoveries: Waterlogged Finds
from Alpine Submerged and Glacial Sites
17.50–18.00 Short BreakPrinces of Prehistory« (2021) with Introduction byPauline Coste (Paris/FR)

Richness and Diversity of Burial Rituals in the Gravettian
Period and their Potential for Clothing Reconstructions
in Documentaries
09.20–09.35 (+5) Thorsten Uthmeier (Erlangen/DE)

How to Enter Afterlife: The Burial Evidence forStone Age Clothing

Differences in Social Status Expressed in Palaeolithicand Mesolithic Burials?

15.00–15.15 (+5) Marian Vanhaeren (Bordeaux/FR)

09.40–09.55 (+5) João Zilhão (Lisboa/PT)

Reconstruction of Clothing Based on the Distributionof Personal Ornaments in Palaeolithic andMesolithic Burials
15: 20–15.50 Coffee BreakThe Lagar Velho Child Burial Twenty-five Years on:
The New Evidence and its Implications
10.00–10.30 Coffee Break
10.30–10.45 (+5) Susanna Harris (Glasgow/GB)

15.50–16.05 (+5) Nadezhda Kotova (Kyiv/UA)

Sensible Cloth of the Mesolithic

Elements of Funeral Clothing of the Neolithic
Population of the Northern Black Sea Region and theirSocial Aspect

10.50–11.05 (+5) Kristiina Mannermaa/Riitta Rainio(both Helsinki/FI)

16.10–16.25 (+5) Anabel Ortiz (Barcelona/ES)

Wrapped and Clothed Bodies at Tell Halula: Unveilingthe Role of Fabrics and Basketwork in Funerary Practices
among Early Farming Communities in the Near East
16.30–16.45 (+5) Susanne Friederich (Halle [Saale]/DE)

Animals as Providers of Identities and Sound
11.10–11.25 (+5) Tuija Kirkinen (Helsinki/FI)

Microscopic Feather Fragments in Mesolithic Burials
11.30–13:00 Lunch BreakBags and Blankets of the Corded Ware Culture

13.00–13.15 (+5) Harald Meller/Jörg Orschiedt(both Halle [Saale]/DE)

11.30–11.45 Short Break

16.50–17.50 Coffee BreakProfessionally Dressed–The Bad Dürrenberg
Shaman Burial

11:45–12.00 (+5) Susanne Friederich (Halle [Saale]/DE)

18.00 Greetings form the Rector of the Martin-Luther-

Flax–From Cultivation to Further Processing
12.05–12.15 (+5) Florian Klimscha (Hanover/DE)

Earliest Cotton Production
12.20–12.35 (+5) Martha Görlitz (Wilhelmshaven/DE)

18.00–19.00 ARTE-Documentary »Ladies andClothing and the Evolutionary Meaning of Shame

9.00–9.15 (+5) Pauline Coste (Paris/FR)/Giacomo Giacobini(Torino/IT)

Old Spindle Whorls–New Yarn. Series of Tests on theFunctionality of Different Types of Whorls in Practical
Use Based on the Case Study of Feddersen Wierde,
Cuxhaven District

Universität Halle Wittenberg, Prof. Dr. Claudia Becker
18.15–19.15 Keynote Lecture Karina Grömer (Vienna/AT)

Clothing, Messages, and Identity: Theoretical andMethodological Approaches on Clothing in Central
European Prehistory

From 20.15 Reception at the State Museum of Prehistory,
Richard-Wagner-Str. 9, 06114 Halle (Saale)

13.20–13.35 (+5) Annelou van Gijn (Leiden/NL)

A Toolkit for Basketry: Microwear Analysis of theBone Tools from the Bad Dürrenberg Grave
13.40–13.55 (+5) Peter Vang Petersen (Copenhagen/DK)

Tooth and Amber Amulets–Magic Elements of Clothingin Danish Stone Age Burials
From 14.00 Harald Meller/Olaf Jöris/Oliver Dietrich/Roberto RischFinal Discussion and Resumee