[Archport] CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS: SESSION 8: PRIMATE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HUMAN EVOLUTION

[Susana Carvalho <scr50@cam.ac.uk>]

JIA 2011, *4th Archaeological Meeting for Early Career Researchers:
*[IV Jornadas de Jovens em Investigação Arqueológica]

CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS FOR SESSION 8:
"FROM PRIMATE ARCHAEOLOGY TO HUMAN EVOLUTION"

The 4th Archaeological Meeting for Early Career Researchers will be held in 
Faro, in the South of Portugal on May 2011 (11th - 14th). This is a rare 
opportunity to be amongst early career researchers (participation 
restricted to non PhD´s), to discuss the latest state of the art of our 
fields of research, but also to initiate future collaborations or projects. 
We would like to invite early career researchers to submit oral or poster 
presentations in the broad topic of session 8.

Session Abstract: The prehistory of human origins and evolution can be 
portrayed as a shifting puzzle, remarkably fascinating, but far from 
completely solved. In the challenging goal of reconstructing our 
evolutionary past, recent fossil and archaeological discoveries, as well as 
the introduction of new tools of research, have played a major role. In the 
last decade, increasing interaction of inter-disciplinary studies has 
developed. The search for answers to some of the most complex questions 
concerning our evolution and material culture has been the main focus. 
Thus, Paleoanthropology, Genetics, Primatology, Archaeology, Ecology, 
Ethology, are linked and currently are being explored by young researchers, 
with innovative approaches. This session aims to promote the need for 
bridging different disciplines, in order to understand further Human 
Evolution, with a particular focus on the recent "Primate Archaeology" 
manifesto (Nature, 2009). Studies focusing on the elementary technology and 
material culture of non-human primates will serve as the bases to discuss 
the implications of using non-human primates as models to elucidate the 
earliest technologies in Africa.

Session Coordinator: Susana Carvalho (Leverhulme Centre for Human 
Evolutionary Studies, U. Cambridge, U.K; CIAS - Centre of Research in 
Anthropology and Health and GEEvH - Group of Studies in Human Evolution, U. 
Coimbra, Portugal).

Details for submission of presentations: (8-9) Oral and (3) poster 
presentations will be held in this session. Oral presentations are limited 
to 15 minutes (+ 5: discussion). If you wish to have either a poster or 
oral presentation considered for inclusion, you must submit an abstract to 
session8@jia2011.com (and to scr50@cam.ac.uk) before March 10th. Abstracts 
must not exceed 250 words of text, 4 key-words (max.) and should indicate 
the name, title, institutional affiliation, mailing and email address of 
all authors. Please consider the nature of the material you wish to present 
and on this basis decide whether a poster or oral presentation will be most 
effective.

Registration opens on Feb 1st; please go to www.jia2011.com for further 
information.

Many thanks,
Susana Carvalho








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Susana Carvalho
PhD Student
Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies
Department of Biological Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street
Cambridge CB2 1QH
United Kingdom

www.human-evol.cam.ac.uk/
www.greenpassage.org 


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Queen's College, Cambridge

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