Nas Margens do Passado - Os Concheiros de Muge
quarta-feira, 13 de abril de 2011
Everyone Made Stone Tools: Exploring Methodology in Lithic Analysis
We would like to invite you to participate at an upcoming conference, Everyone Made Stone Tools: Exploring Methodology in Lithic Analysis. This conference emerged as part of a discussion carried out at the Northeast Graduate Archaeology Workshop (2010) at Brown University. The organizers, listed below are seeking researchers (faculty or graduate students) interested in discussing wider aspects of lithic technology.
This conference, hosted by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, will be held between the 14th-15th October of 2011 and will focus on creating a dialogue between archaeologists studying widely different temporal and geographic topics. The goal is to encourage novel applications of analytical methods, interdisciplinary collaborative research, and comparative approaches to technology and behavior. This will be a two-day conference at Brown University.
This conference is dedicated to discussing approaches to lithic analysis, concentrating on specific results that demonstrate how different techniques function as well as their potential for broader application in archaeological studies. In general we are interested in receiving submissions that deal with the following aspects of lithic analysis and technology:
·Methodology of analysis
·Experimental and replicative research
·Extraction and acquisition of raw materials
·Manufacture and production
·Issues of technology and techniques
·Gender and agency
·Other lithic technology including ground stone, gunflints, etc.
·Ethical concerns
If you are interested in presenting or submitting a poster, please respond (by indicating interest or abstract) to this letter by April 30th, 2011. We look forward to hearing from you. If you have any questions, please contact us at everyonemadestonetools@gmail.com.
Palaeolithic Research Centre
The Palaeolithic Research Centre (PARC) was established in the year 2010. PARC is an institution in which science and art are tightly interweaven. The common roots of this once indivisible unity extend far back into the past, when the first signs of abstract, symbolic thinking appeared in mankind. Today science and art share a common place in the concept of culture. Thus PARC is a cultural institution, which is concerned with the longest period of human history, the Old Stone Age or Palaeolithic. PARC is not limited to Slovenia, but cooperates with similar institutions all over the world. PARC organizes international expert meetings about new discoveries, ideas and theories within anthropology.
SPLASHCOS - Submerged Prehistory Archaeology and Landscape of the Continental Shelf
About SPLASHCOS
Excavation on Danish underwater
Mesolithic site
SPLASHCOS is a European research network that operates under the COST scheme (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).
COST Actions are intended to facilitate coordination of research activities and information gathering across national and disciplinary boundaries, and to stimulate new ideas and collaborations.
Funds are provided for meetings, workshops, training activities, and dissemination of results. During the course of the Action we expect to collate and publicise information on a variety of topics, and to develop ideas for new collaborative research programmes including new fieldwork investigations, but the COST scheme does not provide the funds for these programmes, which have to be sought from other European funding schemes, or national funding agencies.
The main objectives of SPLASHCOS are to promote research on the investigation, interpretation and management of the drowned landscapes and prehistoric archaeology of the European continental shelf, to create a structure for the development of new interdisciplinary and international research proposals, and to provide guidance to heritage professionals, government agencies, commercial organisations, policy makers and a wider public on the relevance of underwater research to a deeper understanding of European history, reconstructions of palaeoclimate and sea-level change, and the social relevance and likely future impact of these changes.
European continental shelf with maximum
extent in red of exposed land 20,000 years ago
The scope of SPLASHCOS extends to all European coastal waters, and in some cases beyond. The work of the Action is overseen by a Management Committee (MC), with two representatives from each participating country (currently 19 European States), which normally meets twice a year.
The detailed work is undertaken by four Working Groups (WG), comprising members of the MC, and additional members recruited for their particular scientific or geographical expertise. We are keen to hear from new members who think they have a useful contribution to make to the WGs, especially Early Stage Researchers (pre-doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers within 8 years of their PhD). See the WG page for further details
Meetings and discussion forums are normally restricted to the Action membership, but workshops or conferences open to the wider community will be organised from time to time.
IKUWA 4
"managing the underwater cultural heritage"
September 29th - October 2nd 2011
ZADAR - CROATIA
About IKUWA
The first international congress for underwater archaeology (IKUWA 1) was held in February 1999 in Sassnitz on the island of Rügen on the coast of the Baltic Sea in Germany, with the theme "protection of cultural heritage under water". It received considerable support from the Raphael Programme of the European Union, in the context of reinforcing east-west cultural and educational ties, and was organised on the initiative of the Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Unterwasserarchäoloqie (DEGUWA) by 7 German and 5 non-German (Switzerland, UK, Greece, Netherlands and Poland) partner organizations.
The congress was a resounding success, with wide international participation. It had a series of chronological sessions and a series of thematic sessions on subjects such as conservation, recording and management. Particular importance was given to a round table on the protection of the European underwater cultural heritage, with particular reference to the UNESCO 2001 Convention. The participants were mainly from Europe, but also from India, Israel and the U.S.A.
It was agreed at Sassnitz to inaugurate an ambitious programme of congresses to build an international network of institutions dealing with underwater archaeology. This was achieved by the holding of IKUWA2 and IKUWA3. IKUWA2 was held in Zurich in October 2004. The organizing committee included German and British members. About 200 participants from 25 countries attended. The proceedings were published in 2006 as "Die Neue Sicht. Une nouvelle lnterprétation de I'histoire." The new view in the series Antiqua, vol.40. In the days preceding the congress a postgraduate training workshop was held, with 21 participants from 11 European countries.
IKUWA3 took place under the auspices of UNESCO's Director-General. It was held in University College London in July 2008, with the title "Beyond Boundaries" and was organized by the Nautical Archaeology Society and the Institute of Field Archaeologists. The Steering Committee included German and Swiss members. 260 participants from over 20 different countries presented 126 papers over the three days.
IKUWA3 was preceded by a professional development field school with participants from almost a dozen nations organized by NAS. One day before, UNESCO held a one-day intergovernmental conference in the British Academy on the 2001 Convention.
Preparations are now under way to hold IKUWA4 in October 2011 in Zadar, where the International Centre for Underwater Archaeology has been established under UNESCO's auspices. The theme of IKUWA4 is "Managing the underwater cultural heritage".
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domingo, 3 de abril de 2011
Machados de pedra com mais de um milhão de anos encontrados na Índia
Alguns dos artefactos achados em Attiramapakkam
Datação é a mais antiga daquela zona e pode ajudar a perceber as migrações dos nossos antepassados
Bifaces da cultura acheulense com mais de um milhão de anos foram descobertos no sudeste da Índia. Estas são as ferramentas mais antigas encontradas até agora no sul da Ásia. As descobertas providenciam mais dados para se perceber a diáspora dos antigos hominídeos.
Shanti Pappu, o arqueólogo indiano responsável pelos trabalhos, explica que foram localizados mais de 3500 artefactos a sete metros de profundidade em Attiramapakkam, um dos sítios arqueológicos mais ricos do paleolítico (situado no estado de Tamil Nadu), descoberto em 1863 pelo geólogo britânico Robert Bruce Foote. O estudo está publicado na «Science».
Para datarem os artefactos, os investigadores fizeram medições electromagnéticas aos sedimentos que os cobriam. Percebeu-se então que os objectos tinham sido ali deixados antes da última inversão geomagnética. Juntamente com medições de isótopos de berílio e alumínio foram capazes de datar os objectos entre um milhão e 1,7 milhões de anos.
Os bifaces mais antigos encontrados fora de África encontram-se em Israel (Ubeidiya) e têm 1,4 milhões de anos. Os outros estão na China (800 mil anos) e no Paquistão (500 mil anos). Os investigadores consideram, à luz desta descoberta, que os objectos encontrados anteriormente no sul da Ásia deviam ser datados novamente.
A comunidade científica encontra-se dividida quanto à interpretação deste conjunto lítico. Citado pelo jornal espanhol «El Mundo», o arqueólogo inglês Robin Donnell, da Universidade de Sheffield, diz que o achado significa que esta tecnologia se estendeu pelo sul da Ásia centenas de milhares de anos antes do que pelo Levante e a Europa, onde este tipo de indústria tem apenas 500 mil anos.
Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, que investiga na Garganta de Olduvai, na Tanzânia, onde se encontra a tecnologia acheulense e a olduvaiense, lembra que o sistema de datação utilizado pode não ser totalmente fiável.
Para José María Bermúdez de Castro, director do centro espanhol do de Investigação e Evolução Humana, estes achados têm muita importância, pois pensa-se que terá sido pela Índia que os antigos hominídeos (homo erectus) traçaram a sua rota migratória até à Indonésia. Existe também a possibilidade de que esta tecnologia tenha surgido em paralelo neste período em várias zonas do planeta.
sexta-feira, 1 de abril de 2011
quinta-feira, 31 de março de 2011
segunda-feira, 28 de março de 2011
Workshop - Flakes not Blades
SHOULDER GLANCE RESEARCH - International Symposium at the Neanderthal Museum
With the Upper Paleolithic (about 35,000 before present) long narrow stone artifactswin in the tool of the hunter-gatherers in importance. These so-called blade-likemass is a prerequisite for the manufacture of tools, only through them can emergefrom almost identical series of peaks, scratches, inserts and much more.
Nevertheless, such blades make the total amount of a group finds from this period, only about half the remainder are reductions. What were these discounts? Why does the Stone Age man is not contented with blades? In research, these issues were previously covered only by the edges.
Under the heading "flake not Blades - Discussing the role of flake-production at theonset of the Upper Palaeolithic" ("The significance of the advance-production at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic"), the Neanderthal Museum in collaboration withthe University of Ferrara (Italy) Last week an international conference aimed. The participants from across Europe have been intensively discussed and alive on the presentations. Thus the event a great success for all. At the end of the year if all goes well, appear in our own series 'Scientific publications' a band with various articles of the conference participants.Traduzido do blog do Museu de Neanderthal
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sexta-feira, 25 de março de 2011
O NAP foi à escola
No passado mês de Fevereiro o NAP foi à escola!
A convite de uma professora do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, da Escola E.B. 1 D. Francisca de Aragão (Quarteira), o NAP foi conversar com os mais pequenos sobre arqueologia. A recepção foi calorosamente recebida com um "hino"...
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