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WAC Inter-Congress
23 DEGREES SOUTH: The Archaeology and
Environmental History of Southern Deserts
15-18 January 2003,
National Museum of Australia, Canberra,
Australia
www.nma.gov.au/conferences/second_circular.htm
Some of the great deserts of the world
lie in the Southern Hemisphere, astride
the Tropic of Capricorn at 23oS:
the Atacama and Puna deserts in South America;
the Australian deserts; and the Namib and
Kalahari deserts in southern Africa. The
aim of this conference is to review and
compare the archaeology and environmental
history of these regions, identifying common
themes in human responses to these environments,
as well contrasts in their environmental
records. The meeting will explore what happens
when human social systems interact with
desert environments and how settlement,
when combined with climate change, has shaped
these distinctive and often precarious environments.
It will comprise interdisciplinary regional
sessions – on southern African deserts,
Australian deserts, and South American deserts
– linked by forums on: Colonising and recolonising
arid lands; Interactions between foragers,
herders and farmers in southern deserts;
and Human impacts and responses in desert
environments.
Venue, dates and sponsors
The conference is an official inter-congress
of the World Archaeological Congress. It
will be held from 15-18 January 2003, at
the new National Museum of Australia complex
in Canberra, overlooking Lake Burley Griffin
and adjacent to the Australian National
University. The meeting is hosted by the
National Museum of Australia. Other academic
sponsors conference include: the World Archaeological
Congress; the Centre for Archaeological
Research, Australian National University;
and the IGCP413 program (Understanding Future
Dryland Changes From Past Dynamics), Sheffield
Centre for International Drylands Research,
University of Sheffield UK.
Papers
If you wish to offer a paper, please send
a title and abstract to Mike Smith (m.smith@nma.gov.au)
by 1 May 2002.
Papers are welcome on the environmental
history of southern deserts, any aspect
of their settlement history, or human interactions
with these desert environments – from studies
of late Pleistocene settlement through to
the archaeology of the colonial period (see
First Circular for details of themes). We
particularly encourage review papers, regional
overviews and interdisciplinary papers.
Abstracts should be 200-300 words. Please
include the speaker’s name, affiliation
and address and include the text within
the body of an email. Speakers will be notified
by 1 June of acceptance of papers and a
provisional program will be issued at that
time.
ARCLING II The Second Conference
on the Archaeology and Linguistics of Australia
Echoes of ancient footsteps: archaeological
and linguistic evidence in Australian culture
history
1-4 October 2002
National Museum of Australia and Australian
Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Studies, Canberra, Australia
Contact: Dr. Patrick McConvell, Convener,
Planning Committee
Email: patrick.mcconvell@aiatsis.gov.au
phone: +61-2-62461116; fax +61-2-62497714
(GMT+10hrs)
URL:
http://crlc.anu.edu.au/arcling2
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN ARCHAEOLOGY
AND CONSERVATION
12 - 18 August, 2002
Queen Rania’s Institute for Tourism and
Cultural Heritage
The Hashemite University
Zarqa, Jordan.
Queen Rania’s Institute for Tourism and
Cultural Heritage has been established to
meet the rising demands for skilled human
resources and research in Sustainable Tourism
and Cultural Heritage Management in Jordan.
Topics
Archaeology, Tourism, Cultural Heritage
Management, AIS: Archaeological Information
System, GIS: Geographical Information System,
Information Technologies, Stone Weathering,
Restoration of Monuments and Historical
Artifacts, Policies and Strategies in Conservation,
Archaeometry, Museology, Imaging And Non-Destructive
Techniques Applications, Ancient Art and
Technologies, Landscape Archaeological Conservations.
Contact
Prof. Talal Akasheh
takasheh@index.com.jo
Tel: 00962-5-3826600 Ext. 4480 Fax:
00962-5-3826613
Mr. Maher Abu Jafar
mjafar@hu.edu.jo
Tel: 0096253826600 ext. 4383
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