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The history of sheep in Southwest Asia. From archaeological bones to modern genetics
ANR EVOSHEEP
Time & Location
Lyon/France - 27-28 May 2024
About the Event

The history of sheep in Southwest Asia. 

From archaeological bones to modern genetics 

Workshop 

Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée,
7 rue Raulin 69007 Lyon / France

27-28 May 2024 
Organised by 

Emmanuelle Vila (UMR 5133-Archéorient), Marjan Mashkour (UMR 7209-AASPE) and 
Dan Bradley (Trinity College, Dublin) 

 

PROGRAMM 

Monday 27 May 

 

10.00-11.00 - Welcome of participants / coffee 

  • 11.15-11.30 - Introduction: Emmanuelle Vila, Marjan Mashkour and Dan Bradley 

 

I-Sharing Sheep bones: contextualisation of material (and tentative synthesis) 
  • 11.30-12.30 - Mesopotamia and Northern Levant: Emmanuelle Vila, Jwana Chahoud, Moussab Albesso, Lionel Gourichon  / Iran: Marjan Mashkour, Hossein Davoudi 

12.30-14.00 - Lunch break 

  • 14.00-15.00 - Caucase: Rémi Berthon, Tim Mibord, Jwana Chahoud / Anatolia: Bea de Cupere, Joris Peters / Central Asia: Delphine Decruyenaere, Marjan Mashkour 

15.00-15.30 - Discussion on archaeozoological data 

 
II- Cuneiform sources
  • 15.30-15.40 - Evosheep-Sheep in the cuneiform texts from the 3rd to the early 2nd millennium B.C.: 
    Philippe Abrahami et Cécile Michel presented in absentia by E. Vila
  • 15.40-16.00 - Fat-rumped and fat-tailed sheep in southern Mesopotamia: Historical sketch based on cuneiform sources: Walther Sallaberger
  • 16.00-16.20 – Discussion on epigraphy and philological aspects 

16.20-16.30 - Coffee break 

 
III- Geometric Morphometric approaches 
  • 16.30-16.50 - 3D geometric morphometrics for the zooarchaeological discrimination of sheep: 
    Nadja Pöllath et al.
  • 16.50-17.10 - 3D morphological investigations in Evosheep Project: Manon Vuillien et al.
  • 17.10-17.30 - Discussion on morphometric geometric approaches 

19h30 - Dinner

Tuesday 28 May 

IV- Proteomic and genomic approaches 
  • 9.00-9.20 - Evosheep-Paleoproteomics of sheep remains for South-West Asia: Fabrice Bray et al.
  • 9.20-9.40 - Evosheep-Modern sheep genomics (Awassi): Océane Deschamps & François Pompanon et al.
  • 9.40-10.00 - Evosheep-Methodological approaches: DNA on modern sheep bones from Iran and Turkey: Régis Debruyne & Ludovic Orlando et al. 

10.00-10.20 - Coffee break 

  • 10.20-10.40 - Ancestral Weaves-Sheep genomics research in Dublin: Kevin Daly & Dan Bradley et al.
  • 10.40-11.00 - Ancestral Weaves-Sheep genomics research in Dublin: Aine Halpin et al.
  • 11.00-11.20 - Ancestral Weaves- Sheep pathogen genomics research in Dublin: Louis L’Hôte et al.
  • 11.20-11.40 - PaleoFarm-Sheep genomics research in Munich: Laurent Frantz & Joris Peters et al.
  • 11.40-12.00 - Evosheep paleogenomics research: Ludovic Orlando et al. 

12.00-13.30 – Lunch break

 
V - General discussion
  • 13.30 – 16.00 - General discussion - Sampling, recording, analyzing and sharing data (archaeozoology, morphometrics, genetics, proteomics). - Genomic methodologies with a discussion on reference material, sequencing depth, etc… 

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break 

  • 16.30-19.00 - General discussion (continued) - Questions related to the strategies of publications - Financing sources, applying to new projects 

20.00 – Dinner

Participants

Evosheep ANR
Ancestral Weaves ERC 
  • Bradley Dan. Smurfit Institute of Genetics -Trinity College Dublin, DBRADLEY@tcd.ie
  • Daly Kevin. University College, Dublin, kevin.daly@ucd.ie
  • L'Hote Louis. Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College,Dublin, lhtel@tcd.ie
  • Siekmann Alex, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College,Dublin. siekmana@tcd.ie 
Staatssammlung für Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie & PaleoFarm ERC- Munich 
  • Frantz Laurent. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Munich, laurent.frantz@lmu.de
  • Peters Joris. Staatssammlung für Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie, Munich, joris.peters@palaeo.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de
  • Pöllath Nadja. Staatssammlung für Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie, Munich, poellath@snsb.de
  • Sallaberger Walter. Institut für Assyriologie und Hethitologie Department, Munich, WaSa@assyr.fak12.uni-muenchen.de