Provisional Programme (subject to change)
 

Day 1, Tueday 6 May

Location: Turret Room at CAS

09:00-09:30      
Arrival & coffee 

09:30-09:45
Rosie Bishop: Introduction

09:45-10:05
Ingrid Mainland and Sean Denham (online): Zooarchaeological evidence

10:05-10:20
Rosie Bishop and Amy Bogaard (in person/online): Archaeobotanical evidence

10:20-10:35
Questions

10:35-11:00
Break

11:00-11:20
Kenny Brophy and Astrid Nyland (in person): Artefacts and physical traces of agriculture

11:20-11:40
Steinar Solheim and Daniel Fredh (in person): C14 evidence and C14 dated cultivation horizons

11:40-11:55
Questions

11:55-13:15
Lunch at Gabelshus hotel

13:15-13:35
Daniel Fredh, Scott Timpany and Anette Sand-Eriksen (in person/online): Pollen evidence for agriculture

13:35-13:55
Anne Bjune, Pete Langdon, Rob Wilson, Kayleigh Letherbarrow, and Andy Dugmore (in person/online): Palaeoclimate evidence

13:55-14:10
Questions

14:10-14:40
Break

14:40-15:00
Dan Hill (in person): Climate modelling

15:00-15:10
Questions

15:10-16:15
Discussion: Overall discussion and discussion of plans for individual/small group working for tomorrow

Day 2, Wednesday 7 May

Location: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

08:30-09:00      
Arrival & coffee 

09:00-09:15
Rosie Bishop: Introduction

09:15-09:30
Break

09:30-11:30
Individual/small group work session 1

11:30-11:50
Presentation and questions: Doria De Souza Etchells (University of Edinburgh, UK): The challenge of inferring palaeoweather patterns

11:50-12:50
Lunch

12:50-13:05
Presentation and questions: Sarah-Jane Haston (online): Farming at the Edge: Neolithic Agricultural Evidence from the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney

13:05-14:30
Individual/small group work session 2

14:30-14:50
Break

14:50-16:20
Individual/small group work session 3

16:20-17:05
Presentation and questions: Kevin Edwards (University of Cambridge/University of Aberdeen, UK): Scotland, the North Atlantic, pollen data and assorted thoughts

18:30-19:00
Pre-dinner drinks in the Academy

19:00-22:00
Dinner in the Academy

Day 3, Thursday 8 May

Location: Turret Room at CAS

09:00-09:15      
Coffee 

09:15-09:30
Discussion of yesterday's individiual/group work and plan for the day

09:30-10:30
Individual/small group work session 4

10:30-10:45
Break

10:45-12:00
Individual/small group work session 5

12:00-13:20
Lunch at Gabelshus hotel

13:20-13:40
Presentation and questions: Mark Peaple (University of Southampton, UK): Extracting the signal from the noise - quantifying uncertainty in spatial proxy networks

13:40-14:45
Group discussion updating what has been done during individual and small group work sessions. Discussion of next steps for the project. Discussion of AEA conference in Stavanger December 2025

14:45-15:05
Break

15:05-15:45
Group discussion (continued)