Dear colleagues, Those of you doing archaeogenomics or ancient biomolecules might be interested joining our symposium at the World Neolithic Congress in Sanliurfa, Turkey, November 4-8 2024. The description of the session is below and the meeting website is: https://worldneolithiccongress.org/ The deadline for abstract submissions is Apr 30. Looking forward to seeing you in Urfa! Mehmet and Wolfgang *** Title: Bioarchaeological Perspectives on the Neolithic Transition (G15) Description: This session will cover bioarchaeological advances that can or will shed new light on the Neolithic from the perspective of natural sciences, broadly including ancient DNA from animal, plants and humans, stable and dietary isotopes, microbiome, proteomics and residue analyses. The scope of the session is multidisciplinary and covers the many regions of the world that have witnessed a transition from foraging to food producing, sedentary lifestyles, including the domestication of plants and animals. Emphasis is placed on comparisons of data from before, during and after the transition, between foraging and farming groups, or between regions, which can identify and characterise modes of change or continuity, but also on patterns of assimilation, exchange and admixture. Cross-regional, comparative analyses of bioarchaeological evidence on Neolithic transitions, i.e., from different parts of the world, would also be highly welcome. We invite contributions of 20 minutes (incl. discussion time) on any of the four themes, or combinations thereof: 1) The roles of human movement and cultural interaction in processes of sociocultural change during the Neolithic transitions, studied through genetic continuity vs. discontinuity through time 2) Individual mobility, kinship practices and social organization in early sedentary communities 3) The domestication of animals and plants, with particular emphasis on the tempo of domestication processes 4) Evidence from dietary isotopes and residue analyses (e.g. proteomics or lipidomics) that are shedding light on changing lifestyles Organizers: Wolfgang Haak / Max Planck Institute, Germany Mehmet Somel / Middle East Technical University, T�rkiye Mehmet Somel METU Dept. Biology / ODT� Biyoloji B�l�m� 06800 Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90-543-9799060; Office: +90-312-2106460 Email: msomel@metu.edu.tr Lab: compevo.bio.metu.edu.tr aDNA Lab: http://adna.bio.metu.edu.tr/ Eco-Evo Society of Turkey: https://ekoevo.org Mehmet Somel (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)