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Dear colleagues,<\/span><\/p>\nWe are pleased to inform you that our workshop proposal entitled “<\/span> V<\/i><\/span>ariability of Late Pleistocene Microlithic Industries in Western North Africa: Recent Interpretations and Perspectives. Essay in Honor of Jacques Tixier<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>” has been accepted for the\u00a0next UISPP congress.<\/span><\/p>\nThis workshop which is part of a large session of the two UISPP commissions \u201cPaleolithic landscapes, techniques and cultures of Western North Africa<\/i>\u201d & \u201cPrehistory in northern Africa during Quaternary: Landscapes, Hominids and behaviors<\/i>” is posted with the other accepted worskshops and sessions, on the website of the UISPP congress at:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/uispp2018.sciencesconf.org\/resource\/page\/id\/7<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span>The opening conference will be given by the <\/span><\/span>honourable<\/span><\/span> Mr Jacques Tixier to whom the workshop is dedicated.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWe appreciate you bringing your expertise to the proposed thematic when appropriate.\u00a0<\/span>Please note that the communications deposit closure is November 30th<\/sup>, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\nCordially,<\/span><\/p>\nLatifa Sari and Giuseppina Mutri.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tFebruary 9, 2017<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\nThe IPHES (Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci\u00f3 Social) organize the 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> in Tarragona, from Tuesday, March 28th, 2017<\/strong> and Wednesday, March 29th<\/strong>. The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the \u201cParaninfo Rectorado\u201d of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (L\u2019Escorxador Street, s\/n, ES43003 Tarragona).<\/p>\nThe 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> will provide an ideal forum to bring together Africanist researchers (archeologists, paleoanthropologists, paleontologists, geologists\u2026) in the aim of sharing and disseminating the results of their field and laboratory research, establishing contact networks between scientists and students; and creating venues for collaborative investigation amongst different researchers.<\/p>\nRegistration is open until March 15th, 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThe deadline for abstract submission have been extended until February, 26th<\/strong>. The abstract can be sent in Spanish, English or French, and must be submitted by e-mail to: 3jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nAcceptance of the submitted abstracts and the presentation type (oral presentation<\/strong> or poster<\/strong>) will be sent by e-mail on March, 5th<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor any further information, please download the attached files (2nd Call, registration form and preliminary program) and do not hesitate to contact us at the email address:\u00a03jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nWe are looking forward to your participation in this event in Tarragona in March 2017, and we are sure that your contributions will make for a successful meeting on African Prehistory.<\/p>\nThe Organizing Committee:<\/p>\nM. Gema Chac\u00f3n, Isabel C\u00e1ceres, Robert Sala<\/p>\nPD. If you think this call would be of interest to any of your colleagues or other parties, please do not hesitate to disseminate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n The Speciation of Human<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tOctober 25, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
We are pleased to inform you that our workshop proposal entitled “<\/span> V<\/i><\/span>ariability of Late Pleistocene Microlithic Industries in Western North Africa: Recent Interpretations and Perspectives. Essay in Honor of Jacques Tixier<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>” has been accepted for the\u00a0next UISPP congress.<\/span><\/p>\nThis workshop which is part of a large session of the two UISPP commissions \u201cPaleolithic landscapes, techniques and cultures of Western North Africa<\/i>\u201d & \u201cPrehistory in northern Africa during Quaternary: Landscapes, Hominids and behaviors<\/i>” is posted with the other accepted worskshops and sessions, on the website of the UISPP congress at:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/uispp2018.sciencesconf.org\/resource\/page\/id\/7<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span>The opening conference will be given by the <\/span><\/span>honourable<\/span><\/span> Mr Jacques Tixier to whom the workshop is dedicated.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWe appreciate you bringing your expertise to the proposed thematic when appropriate.\u00a0<\/span>Please note that the communications deposit closure is November 30th<\/sup>, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\nCordially,<\/span><\/p>\nLatifa Sari and Giuseppina Mutri.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tFebruary 9, 2017<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\nThe IPHES (Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci\u00f3 Social) organize the 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> in Tarragona, from Tuesday, March 28th, 2017<\/strong> and Wednesday, March 29th<\/strong>. The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the \u201cParaninfo Rectorado\u201d of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (L\u2019Escorxador Street, s\/n, ES43003 Tarragona).<\/p>\nThe 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> will provide an ideal forum to bring together Africanist researchers (archeologists, paleoanthropologists, paleontologists, geologists\u2026) in the aim of sharing and disseminating the results of their field and laboratory research, establishing contact networks between scientists and students; and creating venues for collaborative investigation amongst different researchers.<\/p>\nRegistration is open until March 15th, 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThe deadline for abstract submission have been extended until February, 26th<\/strong>. The abstract can be sent in Spanish, English or French, and must be submitted by e-mail to: 3jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nAcceptance of the submitted abstracts and the presentation type (oral presentation<\/strong> or poster<\/strong>) will be sent by e-mail on March, 5th<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor any further information, please download the attached files (2nd Call, registration form and preliminary program) and do not hesitate to contact us at the email address:\u00a03jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nWe are looking forward to your participation in this event in Tarragona in March 2017, and we are sure that your contributions will make for a successful meeting on African Prehistory.<\/p>\nThe Organizing Committee:<\/p>\nM. Gema Chac\u00f3n, Isabel C\u00e1ceres, Robert Sala<\/p>\nPD. If you think this call would be of interest to any of your colleagues or other parties, please do not hesitate to disseminate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n The Speciation of Human<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tOctober 25, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
This workshop which is part of a large session of the two UISPP commissions \u201cPaleolithic landscapes, techniques and cultures of Western North Africa<\/i>\u201d & \u201cPrehistory in northern Africa during Quaternary: Landscapes, Hominids and behaviors<\/i>” is posted with the other accepted worskshops and sessions, on the website of the UISPP congress at:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/uispp2018.sciencesconf.org\/resource\/page\/id\/7<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span>The opening conference will be given by the <\/span><\/span>honourable<\/span><\/span> Mr Jacques Tixier to whom the workshop is dedicated.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWe appreciate you bringing your expertise to the proposed thematic when appropriate.\u00a0<\/span>Please note that the communications deposit closure is November 30th<\/sup>, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\nCordially,<\/span><\/p>\nLatifa Sari and Giuseppina Mutri.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tFebruary 9, 2017<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\nThe IPHES (Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci\u00f3 Social) organize the 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> in Tarragona, from Tuesday, March 28th, 2017<\/strong> and Wednesday, March 29th<\/strong>. The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the \u201cParaninfo Rectorado\u201d of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (L\u2019Escorxador Street, s\/n, ES43003 Tarragona).<\/p>\nThe 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> will provide an ideal forum to bring together Africanist researchers (archeologists, paleoanthropologists, paleontologists, geologists\u2026) in the aim of sharing and disseminating the results of their field and laboratory research, establishing contact networks between scientists and students; and creating venues for collaborative investigation amongst different researchers.<\/p>\nRegistration is open until March 15th, 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThe deadline for abstract submission have been extended until February, 26th<\/strong>. The abstract can be sent in Spanish, English or French, and must be submitted by e-mail to: 3jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nAcceptance of the submitted abstracts and the presentation type (oral presentation<\/strong> or poster<\/strong>) will be sent by e-mail on March, 5th<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor any further information, please download the attached files (2nd Call, registration form and preliminary program) and do not hesitate to contact us at the email address:\u00a03jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nWe are looking forward to your participation in this event in Tarragona in March 2017, and we are sure that your contributions will make for a successful meeting on African Prehistory.<\/p>\nThe Organizing Committee:<\/p>\nM. Gema Chac\u00f3n, Isabel C\u00e1ceres, Robert Sala<\/p>\nPD. If you think this call would be of interest to any of your colleagues or other parties, please do not hesitate to disseminate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n The Speciation of Human<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tOctober 25, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
We appreciate you bringing your expertise to the proposed thematic when appropriate.\u00a0<\/span>Please note that the communications deposit closure is November 30th<\/sup>, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\nCordially,<\/span><\/p>\nLatifa Sari and Giuseppina Mutri.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tFebruary 9, 2017<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\nThe IPHES (Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci\u00f3 Social) organize the 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> in Tarragona, from Tuesday, March 28th, 2017<\/strong> and Wednesday, March 29th<\/strong>. The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the \u201cParaninfo Rectorado\u201d of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (L\u2019Escorxador Street, s\/n, ES43003 Tarragona).<\/p>\nThe 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> will provide an ideal forum to bring together Africanist researchers (archeologists, paleoanthropologists, paleontologists, geologists\u2026) in the aim of sharing and disseminating the results of their field and laboratory research, establishing contact networks between scientists and students; and creating venues for collaborative investigation amongst different researchers.<\/p>\nRegistration is open until March 15th, 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThe deadline for abstract submission have been extended until February, 26th<\/strong>. The abstract can be sent in Spanish, English or French, and must be submitted by e-mail to: 3jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nAcceptance of the submitted abstracts and the presentation type (oral presentation<\/strong> or poster<\/strong>) will be sent by e-mail on March, 5th<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor any further information, please download the attached files (2nd Call, registration form and preliminary program) and do not hesitate to contact us at the email address:\u00a03jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nWe are looking forward to your participation in this event in Tarragona in March 2017, and we are sure that your contributions will make for a successful meeting on African Prehistory.<\/p>\nThe Organizing Committee:<\/p>\nM. Gema Chac\u00f3n, Isabel C\u00e1ceres, Robert Sala<\/p>\nPD. If you think this call would be of interest to any of your colleagues or other parties, please do not hesitate to disseminate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n The Speciation of Human<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tOctober 25, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
Cordially,<\/span><\/p>\nLatifa Sari and Giuseppina Mutri.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tFebruary 9, 2017<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\nThe IPHES (Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci\u00f3 Social) organize the 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> in Tarragona, from Tuesday, March 28th, 2017<\/strong> and Wednesday, March 29th<\/strong>. The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the \u201cParaninfo Rectorado\u201d of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (L\u2019Escorxador Street, s\/n, ES43003 Tarragona).<\/p>\nThe 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> will provide an ideal forum to bring together Africanist researchers (archeologists, paleoanthropologists, paleontologists, geologists\u2026) in the aim of sharing and disseminating the results of their field and laboratory research, establishing contact networks between scientists and students; and creating venues for collaborative investigation amongst different researchers.<\/p>\nRegistration is open until March 15th, 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThe deadline for abstract submission have been extended until February, 26th<\/strong>. The abstract can be sent in Spanish, English or French, and must be submitted by e-mail to: 3jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nAcceptance of the submitted abstracts and the presentation type (oral presentation<\/strong> or poster<\/strong>) will be sent by e-mail on March, 5th<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor any further information, please download the attached files (2nd Call, registration form and preliminary program) and do not hesitate to contact us at the email address:\u00a03jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nWe are looking forward to your participation in this event in Tarragona in March 2017, and we are sure that your contributions will make for a successful meeting on African Prehistory.<\/p>\nThe Organizing Committee:<\/p>\nM. Gema Chac\u00f3n, Isabel C\u00e1ceres, Robert Sala<\/p>\nPD. If you think this call would be of interest to any of your colleagues or other parties, please do not hesitate to disseminate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n The Speciation of Human<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tOctober 25, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
Latifa Sari and Giuseppina Mutri.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tFebruary 9, 2017<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\nThe IPHES (Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci\u00f3 Social) organize the 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> in Tarragona, from Tuesday, March 28th, 2017<\/strong> and Wednesday, March 29th<\/strong>. The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the \u201cParaninfo Rectorado\u201d of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (L\u2019Escorxador Street, s\/n, ES43003 Tarragona).<\/p>\nThe 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> will provide an ideal forum to bring together Africanist researchers (archeologists, paleoanthropologists, paleontologists, geologists\u2026) in the aim of sharing and disseminating the results of their field and laboratory research, establishing contact networks between scientists and students; and creating venues for collaborative investigation amongst different researchers.<\/p>\nRegistration is open until March 15th, 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThe deadline for abstract submission have been extended until February, 26th<\/strong>. The abstract can be sent in Spanish, English or French, and must be submitted by e-mail to: 3jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nAcceptance of the submitted abstracts and the presentation type (oral presentation<\/strong> or poster<\/strong>) will be sent by e-mail on March, 5th<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor any further information, please download the attached files (2nd Call, registration form and preliminary program) and do not hesitate to contact us at the email address:\u00a03jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nWe are looking forward to your participation in this event in Tarragona in March 2017, and we are sure that your contributions will make for a successful meeting on African Prehistory.<\/p>\nThe Organizing Committee:<\/p>\nM. Gema Chac\u00f3n, Isabel C\u00e1ceres, Robert Sala<\/p>\nPD. If you think this call would be of interest to any of your colleagues or other parties, please do not hesitate to disseminate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n The Speciation of Human<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tOctober 25, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
The IPHES (Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci\u00f3 Social) organize the 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> in Tarragona, from Tuesday, March 28th, 2017<\/strong> and Wednesday, March 29th<\/strong>. The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the \u201cParaninfo Rectorado\u201d of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (L\u2019Escorxador Street, s\/n, ES43003 Tarragona).<\/p>\nThe 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> will provide an ideal forum to bring together Africanist researchers (archeologists, paleoanthropologists, paleontologists, geologists\u2026) in the aim of sharing and disseminating the results of their field and laboratory research, establishing contact networks between scientists and students; and creating venues for collaborative investigation amongst different researchers.<\/p>\nRegistration is open until March 15th, 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThe deadline for abstract submission have been extended until February, 26th<\/strong>. The abstract can be sent in Spanish, English or French, and must be submitted by e-mail to: 3jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nAcceptance of the submitted abstracts and the presentation type (oral presentation<\/strong> or poster<\/strong>) will be sent by e-mail on March, 5th<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor any further information, please download the attached files (2nd Call, registration form and preliminary program) and do not hesitate to contact us at the email address:\u00a03jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nWe are looking forward to your participation in this event in Tarragona in March 2017, and we are sure that your contributions will make for a successful meeting on African Prehistory.<\/p>\nThe Organizing Committee:<\/p>\nM. Gema Chac\u00f3n, Isabel C\u00e1ceres, Robert Sala<\/p>\nPD. If you think this call would be of interest to any of your colleagues or other parties, please do not hesitate to disseminate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n The Speciation of Human<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tOctober 25, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
The 3rd Meeting of African Prehistory<\/strong> will provide an ideal forum to bring together Africanist researchers (archeologists, paleoanthropologists, paleontologists, geologists\u2026) in the aim of sharing and disseminating the results of their field and laboratory research, establishing contact networks between scientists and students; and creating venues for collaborative investigation amongst different researchers.<\/p>\nRegistration is open until March 15th, 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThe deadline for abstract submission have been extended until February, 26th<\/strong>. The abstract can be sent in Spanish, English or French, and must be submitted by e-mail to: 3jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nAcceptance of the submitted abstracts and the presentation type (oral presentation<\/strong> or poster<\/strong>) will be sent by e-mail on March, 5th<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor any further information, please download the attached files (2nd Call, registration form and preliminary program) and do not hesitate to contact us at the email address:\u00a03jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nWe are looking forward to your participation in this event in Tarragona in March 2017, and we are sure that your contributions will make for a successful meeting on African Prehistory.<\/p>\nThe Organizing Committee:<\/p>\nM. Gema Chac\u00f3n, Isabel C\u00e1ceres, Robert Sala<\/p>\nPD. If you think this call would be of interest to any of your colleagues or other parties, please do not hesitate to disseminate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n The Speciation of Human<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tOctober 25, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
Registration is open until March 15th, 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThe deadline for abstract submission have been extended until February, 26th<\/strong>. The abstract can be sent in Spanish, English or French, and must be submitted by e-mail to: 3jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nAcceptance of the submitted abstracts and the presentation type (oral presentation<\/strong> or poster<\/strong>) will be sent by e-mail on March, 5th<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor any further information, please download the attached files (2nd Call, registration form and preliminary program) and do not hesitate to contact us at the email address:\u00a03jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nWe are looking forward to your participation in this event in Tarragona in March 2017, and we are sure that your contributions will make for a successful meeting on African Prehistory.<\/p>\nThe Organizing Committee:<\/p>\nM. Gema Chac\u00f3n, Isabel C\u00e1ceres, Robert Sala<\/p>\nPD. If you think this call would be of interest to any of your colleagues or other parties, please do not hesitate to disseminate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n The Speciation of Human<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tOctober 25, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
The deadline for abstract submission have been extended until February, 26th<\/strong>. The abstract can be sent in Spanish, English or French, and must be submitted by e-mail to: 3jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nAcceptance of the submitted abstracts and the presentation type (oral presentation<\/strong> or poster<\/strong>) will be sent by e-mail on March, 5th<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor any further information, please download the attached files (2nd Call, registration form and preliminary program) and do not hesitate to contact us at the email address:\u00a03jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nWe are looking forward to your participation in this event in Tarragona in March 2017, and we are sure that your contributions will make for a successful meeting on African Prehistory.<\/p>\nThe Organizing Committee:<\/p>\nM. Gema Chac\u00f3n, Isabel C\u00e1ceres, Robert Sala<\/p>\nPD. If you think this call would be of interest to any of your colleagues or other parties, please do not hesitate to disseminate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n The Speciation of Human<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tOctober 25, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
Acceptance of the submitted abstracts and the presentation type (oral presentation<\/strong> or poster<\/strong>) will be sent by e-mail on March, 5th<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor any further information, please download the attached files (2nd Call, registration form and preliminary program) and do not hesitate to contact us at the email address:\u00a03jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nWe are looking forward to your participation in this event in Tarragona in March 2017, and we are sure that your contributions will make for a successful meeting on African Prehistory.<\/p>\nThe Organizing Committee:<\/p>\nM. Gema Chac\u00f3n, Isabel C\u00e1ceres, Robert Sala<\/p>\nPD. If you think this call would be of interest to any of your colleagues or other parties, please do not hesitate to disseminate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n The Speciation of Human<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tOctober 25, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
For any further information, please download the attached files (2nd Call, registration form and preliminary program) and do not hesitate to contact us at the email address:\u00a03jornadasprehistoriaafricana@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nWe are looking forward to your participation in this event in Tarragona in March 2017, and we are sure that your contributions will make for a successful meeting on African Prehistory.<\/p>\nThe Organizing Committee:<\/p>\nM. Gema Chac\u00f3n, Isabel C\u00e1ceres, Robert Sala<\/p>\nPD. If you think this call would be of interest to any of your colleagues or other parties, please do not hesitate to disseminate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n The Speciation of Human<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tOctober 25, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
We are looking forward to your participation in this event in Tarragona in March 2017, and we are sure that your contributions will make for a successful meeting on African Prehistory.<\/p>\n
The Organizing Committee:<\/p>\n
M. Gema Chac\u00f3n, Isabel C\u00e1ceres, Robert Sala<\/p>\n
PD. If you think this call would be of interest to any of your colleagues or other parties, please do not hesitate to disseminate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t
\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
OKTAY KAYNAK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
18<\/strong>.November. 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Cumhuriyet University, Anthropology Department \u00a0Sivas\/TURKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n 3th Seferihisar Bio-Anthropology Workshop, 28 September- 2 October 2016, Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 27, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tDaily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Stone tools, diet and sociality at the dawn of humanity<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tSeptember 13, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
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Daily activity and mobility, human evolution<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t
$2.4 M SSHRC grant funds international team of experts led by University of Calgary archaeologist in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\nThe multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\nIndeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\nMore…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
Earlier this summer University of Calgary archaeologist Julio Mercader began working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to study ancient diets, stone tools and sociality in the face of environmental changes at several sites known to be some of the cradles of humanity, dating back 1.8 million years.<\/p>\n
The multi-ear excavations \u2013 made possible thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Grant for $2,461,839 over seven years \u2013 will mark the first time that a Canadian led team has ventured into the Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<\/p>\n
\u00a0“There has never been a partnership this wide and far-reaching at the Olduvai Gorge, with so many experts from different labs, institutions and countries,” says Mercader, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. “The mix of research topics is truly compelling, because we’re covering the technology, the climate, the diet, the plant life, the human realities. That mix is important. This is the sort of effort that no single team of researchers could achieve on its own.”<\/p>\n
Indeed, the team Mercader brings together will include 20 scholars from 10 organizations and four countries, including universities in the U.S., Spain, Tanzania and Canada. The partnership extends across disciplines to include archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, museologists, social and environmental scientists, geoscientists, biologists and conservationists.<\/p>\n
More…<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n ACLS African Humanities Program<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\nProposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
Source: Marketwired<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for Dissertation-completion fellowships and Early-career postdoctoral fellowships. All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.<\/p>\n
Proposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.acls.org\/programs\/ahp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Olduvai Bed II excavation campaign 2016<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tJuly 19, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
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The CENIEH team, led by Manuel Santonja, starts this summer its seventh season of excavations at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, with the aim of expanding the excavation area and start traceological analysis<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
In the so-called Bed II (1.7 to 1.3 million years), the team has focused on the site Thiongo Korongo (TK) with an age of 1.4 million years. There two stratigraphical levels of Acheulean technology are being excavated. Even though these levels are very closely situated they show very different activity, especially for the large tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
The excavation area will be expanded to work with a more representative area of the two different levels.<\/span> Excavations will start at the newly discovered DJK site, dated 1.7 to 1.6 million years. Oldowan lithics were found there, associated to hippopotamus remains.<\/span> Finally several surveys are to be conducted at FK, where a large concentration of small bifaces were found, \u00a0<\/span>relatively standardized.<\/p>\nThis excavation campaign forms part of The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n African Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMay 17, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\nStevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\nBritish Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n
4th-5th November 2016<\/p>\n
Stevenson Lecture Theatre<\/p>\n
British Museum <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFree entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
Free entrance<\/span><\/p>\nThe African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
The African Rock Art Image Project is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference \u201cAfrican Rock Art: research, digital outputs and heritage management<\/span><\/a><\/b>\u201d. The conference will address the application of new digital technologies to the recording, conservation and display of rock art across the continent, together with the issues of \u00a0the curatorship and management, either physically or digitally.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nSome topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
Some topics which could fit within the scope of the conference would be:<\/span><\/p>\n\nDigital documentation of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nDigital curatorship of African rock art images<\/span><\/li>\nDigital technologies for the recording and dissemination of African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nPublic awareness about African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nRock art Heritage management in Africa<\/span><\/li>\nLocal communities engagement and African rock art<\/span><\/li>\nAfrican rock art catalogues<\/span><\/li>\nRock art outreach strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
\u00a0The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th<\/sup> July 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
\u00a0For further information visit our website https:\/\/africanrockartconference.com<\/span><\/a> or contact jdetorres@britishmuseum.org<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n The evolution of tool technology. Results from FP7 project Gona<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tApril 26, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tAn EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
An EU initiative is studying the emergence and transition of prehistoric tool technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\nInvestigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
The earliest Oldowan stone tools were first produced 2.6 million years ago at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. These tools lasted for roughly 1 million years with little technological\/behavioural changes. Following the Oldowan, the Acheulian stone technology which employed large cutting tools, appeared at 1.75 Ma in East Africa.<\/p>\n
Investigating the timing and technological shift in uninterrupted archaeology-rich deposits is crucial and why the project “The Oldowan-Acheulian transition and the emergence of the Acheulian industry, field and laboratory investigations at the GonaPlio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, Ethiopia<\/em>” is studying this important behavioural issue in human evolution. The four-year project was funded by the FP7 program from the European Commission to Dr. Sileshi Semaw from CENIEH (Spain) and closed last March.<\/p>\nResults thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
Results thus far show that the Oldowan-Acheulian transition was both complex and rapid. The toolmakers at this time sought out for stone tools, with major emphasis laid on their heavy weight and large size, with minimum effort put in to standardising their shape.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/166713_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Abstract Submission Deadline April 29 – ESHE meeting Madrid<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\tMarch 4, 2016<\/time><\/a><\/span>\t\t <\/div>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\tThe deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
The deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 meeting organized by the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)<\/a> is Friday 29 April<\/strong>. Participants must first register for the meeting before submitting an abstract; registration is now open.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}
The 6th Annual ESHE meeting will take place at the Museo Arquel\u00f3gico Regional in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares in Madrid, Spain from 15-17th September, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\t\t