Dear friends and colleagues,
sorry for cross-posting.
We invite you to participate in a session we are organising on "The
origins of Agriculture in the Near East" as part of the 15th IWGP
meeting in Wilhelmshaven 2010 (May 31 to June 5). The session will be
convened by George Willcox and Andy Fairbairn. Accepted contributions
(lectures and posters) could deal with:
Late Pleistocene gatherers.
Living plants: Wild progenitors, DNA, evolution and ecology under
cultivation, choice of crops.
First cultivators: Hunters, gatherers and cultivators.
Domestication: Mechanisms and archaeobotanical evidence.
Early Farmers: Evolution of agriculture, cultivation with herding.
The final decision will be made by the organisers evaluating the topic
and abstracts.
Registration is open until end of December 2009, abstracts are expected
by February 15. Definite titles of contributions are needed until
February 15, please indicate if your contribution is part of the planned
session.
For details (registration, accomodation) see the IWGP- or NIhK-webpages
(http://www.archaeobotany.org, http://www.palaeoethnobotany.com/,
www.nihk.de). The registration fee is not yet settled but will not
exceed 200 ¤.
Participants may submit their presentations for publication in a special
issue of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany which will be published
independently from the proceedings. Therefore we will accept also
submissions from scholars who were not present at the meeting but
contribute to "The origins of Agriculture in the Near East".
Yours sincerely
F. Bittmann, A. Fairbairn and G. Willcox
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Dr. Felix Bittmann
Ltd. Wiss. Direktor
Niedersaechsisches Institut für historische Kuestenforschung
Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research
Viktoriastr. 26/28
D-26382 Wilhelmshaven
Tel +49 (0)4421 915 146
Fax +49 (0)4421 915 110
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http://www.nihk.de
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