Movement, Adaptation, and Resilience. Archaeological Science and the African past.
Join us at St Hugh's College on Wednesday 28 February from 10am for a one-day workshop: Movement, Adaptation, and Resilience. Archaeological Science and the African past.
Full programme:
10:00am: Arrival
10:20am: Welcome and Purpose of Workshop Professor Shadreck Chirikure
10:30–11:30am: Recap of the State of the Art Where are we? Issues, questions and key insights? Professor Chapurukha Kusimba
11:30am–12:30pm: Movements I: People, Ideas, Materials, Plants and Animals Mobility, isotopes, technology and people, aDNA and migration models from eastern and southern Africa, hunter-gatherer farmer interactions, high resolution chronologies. Chair: Professor Shadreck Chirikure and Professor Paul Lane
12:30-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30-2:30pm: Hinterland and Coastal Entanglements Chair: Dr. Abigail Moffett, Dr. Scott Dunleavy and Muchen Zhou
2:30-3:30pm: Resilience Paleoenvironments, resilience and usable pasts, contributions of archaeological science Chair: Dr. Freda Nkirote, Dr. Matt Davies, and Dr. Rachel King
3:30-3:45pm: Tea
3:45-4:30pm: Integrating It All and Way Forward Chair: Professor Chapurukha Kusimba, Professor Shadreck Chirikure, Professor Paul Lane, Professor Peter Mitchell
4:30 pm Closing Remarks: Professor Peter Mitchell
