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Preserving African Cultural Heritage
Dakar, Senegal, Nov 1-7, 2010. The 13th PAA Congress (Panafrican Association of Prehistory and Assimilated Disciplines) and the 20th conference of the SAFA (Society of Africanist Archaeologists).
The University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) of Dakar, and Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop (IFAN-CAD), are pleased to announce the joint organization of the 13th PAA Congress (Panafrican Association of Prehistory and Assimilated Disciplines), and the 20th conference of the SAFA (Society of Africanist Archaeologists). This unprecedented opportunity to bring together members of these two associations dedicated to African Prehistory, in African soil, will certainly represent a turning point in the history of African Archaeology.
THEMES
The local organizing committee proposes the following list of topics:
1. Geology of the Quaternary
2. Hominids Evolution
3. Paleo-Environments and the peopling of Africa
4. Prehistoric Art in Africa
5. Transition from Stone to Metal
6. Food Production
7. Pastoralism
8. Megalithism in Africa
9. The African Iron Age
10. Complex Societies
11. Power, Society and State Formation
12. New Research on Urbanization and Cities in Africa
13. Historical Archaeology in Africa
14. Recomposed Past: The Archaeology of Identity in Africa
15. The Archaeology of Inequality: Gender, Class and Material Culture in Africa
16. Population Movements in African Past: Rethinking Migration
17. The Archaeology of African Diasporas
18. Heritage Management in Africa
19. Ethnoarchaeology in Africa: Beyond Analogy?
20. Matter and Techniques
21. Experimental Archaeology
22. African Languages
23. Bioarchaeology
24. Archaeology and NTICs in Africa
Participants are encouraged to propose additional topics and initiate thematic panels. It is desirable that teams working on specific or related issues lead sessions. Abstracts must be submitted either in French or English, and no later than April 30th, 2010, at the following address:
Panaf/Safa2010
Laboratoire d’Archéologie
IFAN Cheikh Anta Diop
BP : 206 DAKAR – Senegal
Tel : (+221) 33 825 98 90
Fax : (+221) 33 824 49 18
Adresse courriel : .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Having been invited by Dr. Ibrahim THIAW on occasion of the EAA conference at Riva in September to take part in Dakar I am glad to present a paper for session 8 dealing with new research results on Megalithism looking forwards to meet a most interesting exchange of ideas on this topic
I AM DELIGHTED TO PROPOSE A PAPER FOR PRESENTATION AT THIS MEETING BASED ON MY EXPOSURE TO HERITAGE MANAGEMENT UNDER THE AFRICA 2009 TRAINING PROGRAMMES IN KENYA,BOTSWANA AND ETHIOPIA FROM 2001-2006.
Great!
Abstracts must be submitted either in French or English, and no later than April 30th, 2010 to e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
I would wamt to present a paper on the conflicting aspects of the Management of heritage in Zimbabwe, the law versus community mangement systems.