Why?
Large carnivorans and humans are joined by a Pleistocene-old imbroglio of fear, competition, domestication and extinction. In the last decades, the importance of large carnivorans in maintaining ecosystem integrity and functional diversity has given a hopeful, inspiring twist to those long relations.
Aims
The “Human-Carnivoran interactions: past, present, and future” symposium will focus on that Archimedean point between the past and future of human relations with carnivorans. The one-day event will include papers aiming to provide a broad perspective on paleobiological and conservation/restoration related issues, aiming to integrate past and present perspectives on carnivores and humans.
Speakers
Marius Robu
Researcher, Emil Racovita Institute of Speleology, Romanian Academy (Romania)Lars Werdelin
Professor, Swedish Museum of Natural History (Sweden)Ine Dorresteijn
Assistant Professor, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)Tom Gilbert
Professor, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)Saverio Bartolini Lucenti
Postdoc, University of Florence (Italy)Tamar Dayan
Professor, Tel Aviv University (Israel)Marco Galaverni
Programme Director – WWF (Italy)Uri Davidovich
Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)Jordi Rosell
Researcher, Catalan Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution and Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain)Ignacio Lazagabaster
Postdoc, University of Liverpool (United Kingdom)
Session 1 - ECOLOGICAL ROLE OF LARGE CARNIVORES
13:10 - 14:20
Talk 01 - Plenary speaker
Talk 02
The DEADSEA_ECO Project: investigating human-carnivoran interactions through the study of cave bone assemblages in the Judean Desert
Session 1: Ecological role of large carnivores
Ignacio Lazagabaster
Session 2 - FELIDS: EVOLUTION AND CONSERVATION
14:30 - 15:40
Talk 03 - Plenary speaker
Talk 04
Talk 05
Competition in the Plio-Pleistocene East African large carnivore guild: impact of hominins
Session 2: Felids: evolution and conservation
Lars Werdelin
Leopard traps and human-leopard interactions in the Judean Desert
Session 2: Felids: evolution and conservation
Uri Davidovich
Living with wildlife: thinking beyond conflict
Session 2: Felids: evolution and conservation
Ine Dorresteijn
Session 3 - WOLVES AND OTHER CANIDS
15:50 - 17:10
Talk 06
Talk 07
One against many: considerations on the carnivore guild of Dmanisi and the place of Homo in the Early Pleistocene ecosystem of Georgia
Session 3: Wolves and other canids
Saverio Bartolini Lucenti
Learning from the past to inform the future: the challenges in coexisting with large carnivores in Italy
Session 3: Wolves and other canids
Marco Galaverni
Session 4 - GENETICS AND BEARS
17:10 - 18:20
Talk 08 - Plenary speaker
Talk 09
Talk 10
Lions and wolves in space and time – genomic time series as a tool for guiding conservation efforts
Session 4: Genetics and Bears
Tom Gilbert
Underrated ambush specialists in caves – Ice Age wolves preying on cave bears. Study case: Muierilor Cave, Romania
Session 4: Genetics and Bears
Marius Robu
The identification of trophic dynamics at Toll Cave (Barcelona, Spain) from an actualistic research on Ursus arctos in the Spanish Pyrenees
Session 4: Genetics and Bears
Jordi Rosell
