[Archport] [terraeantiqvae] Call for papers - TAG session

[Vítor Oliveira Jorge <vojorge@clix.pt>]

Please notice: this document is JUST a draft, which serves ONLY two
purposes: 
-to propose the session in general to TAG¹s organization, and
-to call for papers to be presented in it, in order to put the session into
practice.
It shall NOT be considered as definitive as long as the entire session, with
all its papers, is not accepted by TAG organization.
VOJ/JMC/GLV
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Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference
TAG 2005, 19-21 December
Univ. of Sheffield, UK
http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/tag2005/

Session proposal

Title:

APPROACHING PREHISTORIC ARCHITECTURES OF WESTERN EUROPE FROM A ³DWELLING²
PERSPECTIVE

Abstract: Far from being divided into natural (neutral objects) and built
(intentional, cultural) forms, the environment is a product of a continuous
evolution, or form-generation process (Ingold, 2000)*. Why did people in
certain phases of prehistory engage in particular modes of dwelling in an
environment which we call now ³architectures², devoting thereby a long
lasting effort and energy in the transformation of certain features of that
environment? In order to improve knowledge, from an archaeological point of
view, we need to connect a phenomenology of those ³architectonic devices²
made out of the landscape to an historic-sociological approach of the
communities that built them. Detailed analysis, as survey and excavation,
are much needed, but the very process of excavation is an interpretative
one. This means that a permanent hermeneutic spiral occurs in the process of
giving meaning to the materialities we uncover. We need  fresh ways of
looking into the so-called prehistoric architectures ­ and this session will
try to focus on these emerging approaches.

Organisers: Vítor Oliveira Jorge (University of Porto, Faculty of Arts,
Cultural Heritage Department, Portugal) **
http://architectures.home.sapo.pt/Vitor.htm
João Muralha Cardoso (Museum of the City of Lisbon, Portugal)
http://architectures.home.sapo.pt/Joao.htm
and
Gonçalo Leite Velho (Polytechnic Institute, Landscape Managment Department,
Tomar, Portugal)
http://architectures.home.sapo.pt/Goncalo.htm
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General proposed frame of the session:
 
Afternoon

1.40 Introduction
1.50 Copper Age ³monumentalized hills² of Iberia: the shift from
positivistic ideas to interpretive ones. New perspectives on old techniques
of transforming place and space from our experience in the NE of Portugal***
2.10
2.30
2.50
3.10
3.30 Coffee brake
4.00
4.20
4.40
5.00
5.20
5.40 Discussion/debate

Total of papers: 10 (20 minutes each), including the paper to be presented
by the organisers. So, we wellcome interesting proposals for 9 papers.
Please send them (titles and abstracts) until the end of June 2005 to the
email address: vojorge@clix.pt

If this session is aproved, as expected by us, and if TAG¹s organisation
allows us to do so, we guarantee the publication and its international
spread (on paper and in electronic format) of the session¹s results until
the end of 2006.

Sheffield TAG¹s paper titles and abstracts deadline:
30 September 2005
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* Ingold, Tim, The Perception of the Environment, London, Routledge, 2000,
pp.172-188.
** General Editor of the ³Journal of Iberian Archaeology²
   President of UISPP.

    About the XV UISPP Congress - Lisbon September 2006:
http://www.uispp.ipt.pt/en/enmain.html

  *** The order of presentation of this paper is provisional. The alignment
of the session as a whole will obviously be determined by the thematic logic
sequence of the 10 papers.
We are also open to the proposal of a British colleague as a final
discussant.

                    VOJ/JMC/GLV  7.5.2005

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Vítor Oliveira Jorge, Prof., Univ. of Porto
www.architectures.home.sapo.pt
http://configuracoes.planetaclix.pt
http://castanheiro.no.sapo.pt/








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