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> Dear Dominique,
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> I'd like to send the following to the archbot mailing list, but can't find
>the address. Please could you post it for me?
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> Many thanks,
> Amanda......
>
> Details of a session that Tim Denham is co-organising at WAC5 (June 2003:
>http://www.american.edu/wac5/) on early agriculture attached (list of
>titles, also pasted below). Anyone who is interested please contact Tim for
>abstracts: 
>
> Tim Denham ([log in to unmask])
> Department of Archaeology, Flinders University,
> GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia.
> Tel: (08) 8201 3769
> Fax: (08) 8201 3845
>
> 
> Inherited Models and the Denial of Prehistory: Challenging Existing
>Concepts of Agriculture
>
> Tim Denham, Flinders University ([log in to unmask])
> Jose Iriarte, University of Kentucky ([log in to unmask])
> Luc Vrydaghs, Ghent University ([log in to unmask])
>
> 
> Minisession 1: Theorising the Origins of Agriculture
> Chairs and introduction to session: Tim Denham, Jose Iriarte and Luc
Vrydaghs
>
> 1. Semantics and Substance in the Search for Evidence of “Agricultural
>Origins”
> David R. Harris, University College London
>
> 2. Low-Level Food Production and “Domestication”
> Bruce D. Smith, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
>
> 3. Evolutionary Theory and Agricultural Origins
> Dolores R. Piperno, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
>
> 4. Detecting Agriculture in the Environmental Record: Theoretical and
>Methodological Issues
> Deborah M. Pearsall, University of Missouri
>
> 5. The Nature of Domestication in Agricultural Formation
> Doug Yen, private address
>
> 
>   Perspectives on Agriculture in Indo-Malaysia, Melanesia and the Pacific
> Chair: Tim Denham, Flinders University
>
> a) Transitions from Foraging to Farming in Southeast Asia:
>Inter-disciplinary Insights from Niah Cave, Sarawak
> Graeme Barker, University of Leicester
>
> b) Tubers and Palms and their Role in Rain Forest Occupation in Borneo
> Huw Barton, University of Leicester
>
> c) Bananas in Prehistory: Perspectives from Papua New Guinea
>   abstract to follow
>
> d) The Kuk Site and New Guinea Agricultural History
> Jack Golson, Australian National University
>
> e) Prehistoric Plant Exploitation in New Guinea: Towards a Contingent
>Conception of Agriculture
>   abstract to follow
>
> f) The Intensification Model as Applied to New Guinea Prehistory: a
>Re-examination of Kuk Phases 4, 5 and 6
> Tim Bayliss-Smith, University of Cambridge
>
> g) The Concept of 'Domestication' in Pacific Prehistory
> J. Peter White, University of Sydney
>
> h) “Traditional” or Spiritual-Driven as Opposed to “Modern” or
>Rational-Driven Agricultural Systems on the Island of Rapa Nui (Easter
>Island, Chili)
> Geertrui Louwagie, Ghent University
> Roger Langohr, Ghent University
>
> 
>   Perspectives on Agriculture in the Americas
> Chair: José Iriarte, University of Kentucky
>
> A1. Investigating the Dispersal of Cultigens into Southern South America
> Jose Iriarte, University of Kentucky
>
> A2. Pre-Columbian Indigenous Migrations on South America Inferred by
>Genetic Studies on Archaeological Crops Found in Calcareous Shelters of
Brazil.
> Fábio de Oliveira Freitas, Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia,
>Brasilia
>
> A3. Chronicling Indigenous Accounts of the Rise of Agriculture
> Matthew P. Sayre, University of California at Berkeley
>
> A4. An Exploration in Domesticating Prehistoric Andean Landscapes: The
>Case Study of Zea mays L. 
> John E. Staller, The Field Museum, Chicago
>
> A5. Tracing the Origin and Diffusion of Domesticated Maize Through
>Phytolith Assemblages Recovered from Food Residues 
> Robert G. Thompson, University of Minnesota
>
> "" pre-Hispanic Lowland South American Diet: a View from the Middle Orinoco
> Linda Perry, 
>
> A7. Plant Domestication and Early Village Life in Mesoamerica and the Near
>East
> Kevin O. Pope, Geo Eco Arc Research, Aquasco
> Mary D. Pohl, Florida State University
>
>   Early Mound-builders, Forest Managers, Fisher-Hunters, and Cultivators
> Gayle J. Fritz, Washington University in St. Louis
>
> A9. Archaeobotany, Native Agriculture, and Bridges Between Native and
>Non-Native People: Upstate New York and Beyond
> Jack Rossen, Ithaca College
>
> 
>   Perspectives on agriculture in India and Africa
> Chair: Luc Vrydaghs, Ghent University
>
> B1. Waxing Crescents, Non-Centres and Non-Sense: The Local Scale of
>Agricultural Origins
> Dorian Q. Fuller, University College London
>
> B2. Palaeo-ethnobotanical Finds from Excavations in South India with
>Reference to Protohistoric Watgal, Karnataka: Initial Farming Practices and
>Possible African Crop Connections with Deccan Peninsula
> Mukund D. Kajale, Deccan College
>
>   
> Why Is Acceptance So Slow?
> Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, University of California at Santa Cruz
>
> B4. Human Impact on the Environment of Two Forested Central African
>Countries (Gabon and Cameroon) during the Holocene.
> R. Oslisly, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement,  Yaoundé
> L. White, The Wildlife Conservation Society, New York
>
> B5. Agriculture in Rwanda during the Early Iron Age
> Marie-Claude Van Grunderbeek, Brussels
> Emile Roche, Université de Liège
>
> B6. Human Created Landscapes: The Archaeology of the Shashe-Limpopo River
>Basin, Northeastern Botswana 
> Sarah Dingalo, University of Botswana
> Alfred Tsheboeng, University of Botswana
>
> B7. Holocene Land Use Patterns in Central Africa: a GIS approach
> Philippe Lavachery, EMP Department, Douala
>
> B8. Space and Activity Patterns: A Proxy of Social Complexity?
> L. Vrydaghs, Ghent University
> V. Baeke, Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren
>
> Closing Comments
> Tim Denham, Flinders University
> Jose Iriarte, Kentucky University
> Luc Vrydaghs, Ghent University
>
> 
>
> Regards,
>  Amanda Kennedy
> Administrator
> Centre for Archaeological Research
> Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
> The Australian National University
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