>Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:05:38 +0100
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>From: Madeleine Gray <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: TAG 99, Cave archaeology Session.
>
>A colleague has sent me the attached. As I found quite a lot of material
on ritual use of caves when trawling through old lists, I thought some
list members might be interested.
>
>>Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:48:28 +0100
>>From: Lucy gibbons <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: TAG 99, Cave archaeology Session.
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>>To: Madeleine Gray <[log in to unmask]>
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>>Hello! I have put a little note above the abstract to explain a bit more
>>about what I am hoping for...Thanks...
>>
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>>I am organising a session on cave archaeology at TAG 99- the session
>>abstract is pasted in below but as a general outline papers are invited on
>>all aspects of human use of caves throughout human history- from medieval
>>and industrial sites to the palaeolithic. Anyone interested should contact
>>me asap. The deadline for abstracts is the 30th June.......
>>
>>New Light on Dark Spaces: Approaches to the Archaeology of Caves.
>>
>>TAG 99 session (14th-16th December, Cardiff)
>>
>>
>>As shelters, depots, landmarks and tombs, caves have been focal points for
>>human ritual and subsistence activities. As geological structures, caves
>>preserve a record of past faunas and environments, as well as documenting
>>the geomorphological history of karst landscapes and littoral zones.
>>Archaeologists, geologists, and amateurs have been interested in the
>>contents of caves for a variety of reasons, and cave archaeology is itself
>>a discipline with a long history.
>>
>>The scope of the session is intended to cover a broad range of theoretical
>>and methodological issues relevant to cave archaeology. Papers are
>>therefore welcome from all disciplines pertinent to the interpretation of
>>archaeology in caves. However, themes for the session have been identified
>>as guidance for contributors:
>>
>>Firstly, the session will explore ways in which caves have been integrated
>>into the subsistence activities and symbolic systems of human societies.
>>Caves have been places of habitation, burial, and/or ritual significance
>>throughout human existence. As such, archaeological evidence from caves
>>provides a glimpse of past societies' cultural understanding of natural
>>places in the landscape.
>>
>>In addition, the session aims to address the ways in which methodological
>>approaches and scientific techniques facilitate and often constrain
>>theoretical ideas about the role of caves in human societies. As
>>landmarks, shelters and sediment traps, with relatively stable
>>microclimates, caves provide ideal contexts for the preservation of
>>artefacts, human burials and palaeontological remains. Yet the complexity
>>of deposition processes and often haphazard excavation histories are
>>frequently limiting factors in studies of cave use. The session welcomes
>>new research into site formation processes and cave site taphonomy that
>>will shed light on archaeological problems.
>>
>>Please send titles and abstracts by June 30th to:
>>
>>Lucy Gibbons
>>SCARAB Research Centre. University of Wales College, Newport, Caerleon
>>Campus, Caerleon. Newport, NP18 3YG.
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>>[log in to unmask]
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>>Or:
>> TAG 99 Organising Committee HISAR
>>Cardiff University
>>PO Box 909
>>Cardiff
>>CF1 3XU
>>
>>[log in to unmask]
>>http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/hisar/conferences/tag99/
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>>Lucy Gibbons
>>PhD Candidate
>>SCARAB Research Centre
>>University of Wales College, Newport
>>Caerleon Campus
>>Newport
>>NP6 1YG
>>
>>01633 430088 ext 3142
>>
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