Hi zooarchers,
I just received an email advertising the Unravelling Human Origins conference and thought I would pass it on-see below!
Best,
Suzanne
Unravelling Human Origins, 18th-19th January 2013
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Abstract submissions for papers and posters are now welcome for the Unravelling Human Origins conference. Following Unravelling the Palaeolithic (CAHO Southampton 2011) and HOBET (Liverpool, 2012), Unravelling Human Origins is an interdisciplinary forum to stimulate discussion on a wide variety of topics related to the archaeology of human origins. The conference will consist of three sessions:
1) Adaptation to Old and New Landscapes - includes the studies of hominin dispersals, adaptations to new landscapes, population changes through time and allows a multidisciplinary discussion of humans in their landscape.
Applications from the following fields are invited: ancient DNA and population genetics, isotope studies, lithic and faunal analysis, climatic and environmental studies and human remains, as well as cognitive approaches to changing landscape(s).
2) Creativity, Communication and Personhood - focuses on inter- and intra-group social interactions, origins of language as a metaphor, non-verbal communication as a form of early notification, the role of arts and crafts as technology and aesthetic experience, and the creation of meaning as a socially recognisable signification of individuals.
3) Food in the Palaeolithic - includes a wide range of interests from the reconstruction of what the first hominins ate to the social context and meaning of food and consumption techniques in the Late Pleistocene, including new analytical approaches to food remains and subsistence strategies.
Specifically, we would like to concentrate on the questions that reflect the contemporary in Palaeolithic study but also put forward new topics that could stimulate and possibly combine the new theoretical approaches with the results of scientific techniques. Contributions from other fields of study are welcome.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is Friday 2nd November 2012.
Please fill out and submit the form at the following link:
For further information please visit the website below or contact us at [log in to unmask]
Unravelling Human Origins Organising Committee
http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/conferences/unravelling2013/index.html