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Date sent: Sun, 02 May 1999 11:34:03 +0200
From: Miha Budja <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Neolithic Seminar
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Organization: FF Arheologija
Dear Mark,
may I ask you to put the information and the programme of 6th
Neolithic
Seminar we are organizing at the University of Ljubljana on your
"Italian
List". Many thanks in advance.
Dr. Mihael Budja (Dept. of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana)
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Dear colleagues,
could we please draw your attention to a Neolithic Seminars we are
organising at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. "The transition to
farming and long-distance connections in Eurasia" is the theme of the
Sixth Neolithic Seminar to be held at the Department of Archaeology from
May 18-20, 1999. The Seminars in Ljubljana represent the meeting points of
many links and interests that connect people and institutions involved.
For further information: ring the Department of Archaeology, University of
Ljubljana at 386 61 1233082 or e-mail organiser Dr. Mihael Budja /
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Monday 17 May 17.00 Reception at the Department of Archaeology
Tuesday 18 May
10.00 - 13.00
Introduction to the Seminar
Zhang Chi (Department of Archaeology Peking University, Beijing)
The conceptualisation of Mesolithic period in Chinese archaeology
Yang Yachang (Shaanxi Archaeological Institute, Xi'an)
The processes of transition to farming in China
Coffee/tea break
Kostas Kotsakis (Department of Archaeology, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki)
The Neolithization of Greece: New prospects and new ideas
Indre Antanaitis (Department of Archaeology , Vilnius University)
Concerning the transition to farming in the East Baltic
Discussion & lunch
16.00 - 19.00
Denise Schmandt-Besserat (Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The
University of Texas at Austin)
Near Eastern tokens: The precursors of writing and counting
Mihael Budja (Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana)
Clay tokens in European Neolithic contexts
Coffee/tea break
Hasan Talai (Institute of Archaeology, University of Tehran)
Funeral rites at Zagheh: a Neolithic site in the Qazvin Plain
Discussion, coffee/tea & vine
Wednesday 19 May
9.00- 14.00
Zhang Chi (Department of Archaeology Peking University, Beijing)
The Neolithic cultural development in China
Denise Schmandt-Besserat (Center for Middle Eastern Studies The
University of Texas at Austin)
Tokens: The cognitive significance
Coffee/tea break
Douglass W. Bailey (School of History and Archaeology Cardiff
University)
The built environment: pit-huts, buildings and houses in the Neolithic
Dusan Boric (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge)
Places that created time in the Danube Gorges and beyond, c. 8000-5500 BC
Coffee/tea break
Jalal Rafifar (Department of Anthropology, University of Tehran)
Obsidian industry on tepe Ahranjan (Iran)
Nives Ogrinc (Department of Environmental Sciences, "J. Stefan"
Institute, Ljubljana)
Stable isotope evidence of the diet of Neolithic population in Slovenia. A
case study: Ajdovska jama
Discussion & lunch
Thursday 20 May
9.00 -12.00
Maja Andrič (Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana, School of
Geography, Oxford University) Transition to farming and human impact on
the Slovenian landscape Dimitrij Mlekuž (Department of Archaeology,
University of Ljubljana) Mid-Holocene landscape dynamics at Ljubljana Moor
Simona Petru (National Museum, Ljubljana)
Usewear analyses on Mesolithic and Neolithic stone tools
Alenka Tomaž (Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana)
Regional differences in Neolithic pottery production in Slovenia
Tomaž Fabec (Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana)
Critical analyses of data about Neolithisation of the Karst area. One more
story
Discussion & lunch
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Dr Mark PEARCE,
Dept of Archaeology, University of NOTTINGHAM, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
tel. +44.(0)115.951.4839; fax. +44.(0)115.951.4812; email [log in to unmask];
URL http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/mpearce.htm
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