What is an eco-cultural niche? Rethinking the shape of eco-cultural niches

9:00 - 9:30 (30min)

Welcoming of participants

9:30 - 9:45 (15min)

Introduction

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9:45 - 11:15 (1h30)

Insights from macro-ecology and biogeography

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Anaïs Vignoles

› What is an Ecological Niche and What Should it Look Like? Conceptual and Practical Lessons from Ecology and Biogeography - A. Townsend Peterson, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas 09:45-10:15 (30min)

› Fundamental Niches and Behavior - Jorge Soberón, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas 10:15-10:45 (30min)

11:15 - 11:30 (15min)

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00 (1h30)

Eco-cultural niche modeling methodology revisited

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A. Townsend Peterson

› Addressing the Impacts of Collinearity on Interpretations of Variable Importance - Jesper B. Pedersen, Ro.C.E.E.H., University of Tübingen 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› For those about to rock: Could raw material circulation help discussing eco-cultural modelling ? - Erwan Vaissié, Sarl Paléotime, Anthropologie des techniques, des espaces et des territoires au Pliocène et au Pléistocène 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› Do we need to be including biotic interactions when estimating the ecological niches of past hunter-gatherer cultures? - William E. Banks, De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas 12:30-13:00 (30min)

13:00 - 14:00 (1h)

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

Finding the middle-ground: a matter of scale

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Didier Roche

› Adapting Ecological Niche Models to Diachronic Data and Archaeological Questions - Peter M. Yaworsky, Department of Culture and Heritage studies, Aarhus University, Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere, Aarhus University, Center of Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Copenhagen 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Meaningful Units of Analysis for Archaeological Niche Models - Peter M. Yaworsky, Department of Culture and Heritage studies, Aarhus University, Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere, Aarhus University, Center of Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Copenhagen 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Landscape evolution of the valleys of Prehistory: a new scale to consider for modelling past processes and socio-ecosystems - Kim Génuite, De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie 15:00-15:30 (30min)

15:30 - 15:45 (15min)

Coffee break

15:45 - 17:45 (2h)

Feedbacks from the field

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Pierre Noiret

› How can data about hard animal materials industry be useful for modeling ecocultural niches in the Upper Paleolithic? - Nejma Goutas, Technologie et Ethnologie des Mondes Préhistoriques - Bibiana Hromadová, Technologie et Ethnologie des Mondes Préhistoriques 15:45-16:15 (30min)

› When pastoralism creates grazing land: ecological dynamics of reindeer herding populations - Nicolas Bureau, Milieux Environnementaux, Transferts et Interactions dans les hydrosystèmes et les Sols 16:15-16:45 (30min)

› Human-Environment relationship in France during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition: What do the data tell us? - Tiffanie Fourcade, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 16:45-17:15 (30min)

› Ecological influences on technological systems: The scarcity of raw materials and their impact on tool morphologies at Ifri n'Ammar - Sonja TOMASSO, TraceoLab 17:15-17:45 (30min)

17:45 - 18:00 (15min)

Conclusion of the day

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