Summary timetable:  Monday 8 Conference Papers  Tuesday 9 Conference Papers  Wednesday 10 Free Day and Dinner & Dance in the evening  Thursday 11 Conference Papers  Friday 12 Conference Papers  Saturday 13 Fieldtrip Day 1 ending at Omapere  Sunday 14 Fieldtrip Day 2 ending at Whangarei  Monday 15 Fieldtrip Day 3 ending at Auckland

Monday October 8

Chair: Foss Leach
 09.00-09.30: Introduction - Foss Leach
 09.30-10.00: Paper 1: Eufrasia Rosello Izquierdo and Arturo Morales-Muniz. A new look at the fish remains from Cueva De Nerja (Costa Del Sol, Spain): a paleocultural and biogeographic perspective.
 10.00-10.30 Tea

Chair: Ian Smith
 10.30-11.00: Paper 2: Elizabeth Reitz. Archaeological evidence for change in marine fishes off the southeastern United States.
 11.00-11.30: Paper 3: Janet Davidson, Foss Leach and Christophe Sand. 3000 years of fishing in New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands: A Pacific anomaly ?
 11.30-12.00: Paper 4: Ruth Greenspan. Patterns of fish use and processing in contrasting coastal environments.
 12.00-13.30 Lunch

Chair: Omri Lernau
 13.30-14.00: Paper 5: Tony Legge. The Third wave: colonisation and the acclimatisation of Salmondids in New Zealand.
 14.00-14.30: Paper 6: Sophia Perdikaris. Nabone data products.
 14.30-15.00: Paper 7: Ian Smith. New Zealand fishing in nutritional perspective.
 15.00-15.30: Tea

Chair: Leif Jonsson
 15.30-16.00: Paper 8: Marshall Weisler and Chris Lalas. When is enough, enough?: Sampling fish bones from archaeological sites for estimating length-frequency distributions of prey species.
 16.00-16.30: Paper 9: Fiona Petchey. Problems and prospects of radiocarbon dating archaeological fish bones.
 16.30-17.00: Paper 10: Foss Leach and Janet Davidson. Freshwater and marine eels: food avoidance behaviour and/or differential preservation in the Pacific and New Zealand.
 17.00-17.30: Free Slot for late entries

Tuesday October 9

Chair: Lucy Johnson
 09.00-09.30: Paper 11: Jean Desse and Nathalie Desse. Tunas (Thunnus, Euthynnus, Katsuwonus) and Scaridae (parrot fishes) from Polynesia to the Indo-Pacific: Skeletal exploitation and archaeological interpretations.
 09.30-10.00: Paper 12: Jim Samson. Metrical and other characteristics of tarakihi (Family: Cheilodactylidae, Species: Nemadactylus macropterus).
 10.00-10.30 Tea

Chair: Jean Desse
 10.30-11.00: Paper 13: Akira Matsui and Osamu Takahashi. The significance of anadoromus Salmonidae in Japan.
 11.00-11.30: Paper 14: Alison Locker. Fish as food: Evidence of stored fish in domestic deposits and comparison of herring and the gadids by ’portion’ versus bone numbers.
 11.30-12.00: Paper 15: Ana Guzman and Oscar Polaco Ramos. A comparative analysis of fish remains from some Mexica offerings.
 12.00-13.30 Lunch

Chair: Janet Davidson
 13.30-14.00: Paper 16: Tony Pitcher. Back to the future: Why tommorrow’s fisheries need fish remains archaeologists.
 14.00-14.30: Paper 17: Leif Jonsson and Louise Jonsson. Fish hooks and marine fishes exploited during the Mesolithic and Neolithic stone age periods on the Swedish west coast.
 14.30-15.00: Paper 18: Lucy Johnson. Prehistoric fishing technologies and species targeted in the Aleutian Islands: Archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence.
 15.00-15.30 Tea

Chair: Arturo Morales
 15.30-16.00: Paper 19: Margarethe Uerpmann. Changing patterns of coastal fisheries in SE-Arabia from the 5th to the 1st millennium BC.
 16.00-16.30: Paper 20: Matthew Campbell. Taphonomy and archaeofaunal analysis of fish bone from Pleasant River Mouth, New Zealand.
 16.30-17.00: Paper 21: Rebecca Nicholson. Social storage and the rise of fish as an economic resource in Shetland.
 17.00-17.30: Free Slot for late entries.

Wednesday October 10

 Free Day for Local sight-seeing, charter fishing, etc.
 19.00 Conference Dinner and Dance

Thursday October 11

Chair (to be announced):
 09.00-09.30: Free Slot for late entries
 09.30-10.00: Free slot for late entries
 10.00-10.30 Tea

Chair: Hans-Peter Uerpmann
 10.30-11.00: Paper 22: Arlene Fradkin and Omri Lernau. The fishing economy at Caesarea Maritima, Israel.
 11.00-11.30: Paper 23: Ian Streeter. Reconstructing season of capture from growth increments on archaeological rockfish (Sebastes sp.) vertebrae: Implications for seasonality and settlement patterns on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
 11.30-12.00: Paper 24: Laszlo Bartosiewicz, Vasile Sisu and Clive Bonsall. The history of sturgeon fishing in the Danube.
 12.00-13.30 Lunch

Chair: Rebecca Nicholson
 13.30-14.00: Paper 25: Alaric Nicholls, Melinda Allen and Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith. Application of mtDNA to problems in Polynesian fisheries studies.
 14.00-14.30: Paper 26: Ana Guzman and Oscar Polaco Ramos. Hyperostosis in Mexican fishes.
 14.30-15.00: Paper 27: Hans-Peter Uerpmann. Fishing gear from Stone Age sites in the Oman Peninsula.
 15.00-15.30 Tea

Chair: Sophia Perdikaris
 15.30-16.00: Paper 28: Patrick O’Day. Exploitation of freshwater shellfish (Unionidae) from Stallings Island.
 16.00-16.30: Paper 29: Richard Cooke. Fishing by habitat in tropical tidal estuaries: A case study from Parita Bay, Panama.
 16.30-17.00: Paper 30: Sharyn Jones-O’Day. Change in marine resource exploitation patterns in prehistoric Jamaica: Human impacts on a Caribbean island environment.
 17.00-17.30: Free Slot for late entries.

Friday October 12

Chair: Laszlo Bartosiewicz
 09.00-09.30: Paper 31: William Belcher. Maritime adaptation on the Downeast Coast of Maine (USA): Fish remains and seasonality of the Roque Island Archipelago.
 09.30-10.00: Paper 32: Tonya Largy, Peter Burns, Elizabeth Chilton and Diana Doucette. Lucy Vincent Beach: Another look at the prehistoric exploitation of Piscine resources off the coast of Massachusetts, U.S.A.
 10.00-10.30 Tea

Chair: Richard Cooke
 10.30-11.00: Paper 33: Rintaro Ono. First study of prehistoric marine fishing in Borneo: The analysis of bones excavated from Neolithic site in Sabah, Borneo Island.
 11.00-11.30: Paper 34: Deborah Vale. Marine faunal assemblages on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, Australia.
 11.30-12.00: Paper 35: Sue Stallibrass. Fishers of men: Archaeology, art, religion and dead fish.
 12.00-13.30 Lunch

Chair: Elizabeth Wing
 13.30-14.00: Paper 36: Omri Lernau and Dani Golani. The political significance of fish in Lachish.
 14.00-14.30: Paper 37: Philippe Bearez. Sciaenids’ otoliths: A useful tool for size reconstruction of consumed fishes in southern Peru archaeological sites and a help for understanding fishing strategies.
 14.30-15.00: Paper 38: Heather Builth. Lipids as archaeological bio-markers for testing Gunditjmara settlement in south eastern Australia.
 15.00-15.30 Tea

Chair: Elizabeth Reitz
 15.30-16.00: Paper 39: Elizabeth Wing. To catch a shark: Prehistoric shark fishing in the circum-Caribbean.
 16.00-16.30: The next Conference: Open Forum.
 16.30-17.00: Conclusion: Foss Leach.
 17.00-17.30: Free

Three-day post-conference bus tour: October 13-15

 Day 1: This will take in several archaeological sites at Kerikeri, Pouerua mountain, and Kokohuia on the Hokianga harbour (staying at Omapere Tourist Hotel overnight).

 Day 2: visit to the kauri forest at Waipoua (where the great tree known as Tane Mahuta is found), special guests of the Maori New Zealand community (indigenous people) at Te Houhanga Marae and Rahiri meeting house near Dargaville including traditional Maori food luncheon; then free late afternoon in Whangarei (staying overnight at The Quality Hotel ).

 Day 3: Tour of the Marine Research Laboratory at Leigh, visit to a fish processing factory in Auckland, visit to the volcanic cone archaeological sites in Auckland city.