Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you that an Africanist session will be
organised at the ICAZ 2010 Conference in Paris, from 23 to 28 August
2010 as *Session 14 : Archaeozoology of Holocene Africa *and will be
organise by us, Hélène Jousse and Joséphine Lesur-Gebremariam.
Note that the second circular for the ICAZ 2010 Conference has been
updated
(http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/ICAZ2010/00-1st%20page/1st%20page.htm).
In particular, the registration fees have been reduced, and information
regarding the publication of the proceedings of the conference were added.
The deadline to propose pre-title(s) and pre-abstract(s) for the
session is 20 NOV 2009.
Please inform those of your colleagues or young scientists out of
Internet reach, and forward this announcement as widely as possible.
Best regards,
Hélène Jousse & Joséphine Lesur-Gebremariam
CNRS, UMR 7209 « Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques,
environnements », MNHN, Dpt Écologie et gestion de la biodiversité, 55
rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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ARCHAEOZOOLOGY OF HOLOCENE AFRICA
The session explores new data in archaeozoology in Holocene Africa. This
interdisciplinary field of research is related to social and cultural
archaeology, geosciences and bioarchaeology. It covers diverse thematics
such as the relation between human and natural environment, pattern of
animal exploitation linked with the emergence of complex societies,
pastoral strategies, gestion of food ressources, supply and
conservation, use of animal material, cultual practices. They also imply
new methodologies such as statistics, database, GIS, palaeogenetics and
biogeochemical analysis. Therefore, we wish to leave the session open to
all thematics to get a recent overview of African archaeozoology.
However, the main issues proposed include: origin and diffusion of
livestock, diversity of faunal exploitation, interactions with climatic
changes and evolution of biodiversity.
A special workshop will focus on the database created by Helene Jousse,
that records the distribution of mammals across the African continent
since the last glacial maximum. It also compiles biometrical data
published on the skeletal remains of ungulates. The database will be
available in 2009-2010 and the session could be an opportunity to
develop a collective work around it.
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