Southern Deserts Conference: Call for Registration

[Mike Smith]

THIRD CIRCULAR: CALL FOR REGISTRATION

WAC Inter-Congress

15-18 January 2003, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia


23 DEGREES SOUTH:
The Archaeology and Environmental History of Southern Deserts

Some of the great deserts of the world lie in the Southern Hemisphere, astride the Tropic of Capricorn at 23oS:- the Atacama and Puna deserts in South America; the Australian deserts; and the Namib and Kalahari deserts in southern Africa.  The aim of this conference is to review and compare the archaeology and environmental history of these regions, identifying common themes in human responses to these environments, as well contrasts in their environmental records. 

The conference is an inter-congress of the World Archaeological Congress and the final symposium of the UNESCO sponsored IGCP 413 program "Understanding future dryland developments from past dynamics". It is also an important milestone in the development of desert research as it represents the first time that leading archaeologists and Quaternarists working in the deserts of southern Africa, Australia and South America will meet as a group.  

Venue and dates
The conference will be held from 15-18 January 2003, at the new National Museum of Australia complex in Canberra, overlooking Lake Burley Griffin and adjacent to the Australian National University. 

Registration
To register for the conference, please use the registration form attached (or download it from the conference website at www.nma.gov.au - under 'Exhibitions & Events') and send it with payment to 'Deserts Conference', National Museum of Australia, at (Fax) 61-2-62085014, (Email) Deserts at nma.gov.au or (post) GPO Box 1901, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia. 

The Registration fee is Aust$350.  Concessional registration ($300) is available to members of the World Archaeological Congress, IGCP413 program, Friends of the National Museum of Australia, or Full-time students.  

Please register early as numbers are limited to 100 participants.

Program
The conference will comprise interdisciplinary regional sessions - on southern African deserts, Australian deserts, and South American deserts - linked by forums on:  Colonising and recolonising arid lands; Interactions between hunter-gather societies and pastoralists in southern drylands; Environmental impacts and responses in desert environments, and Desert rock-art. A provisional program is attached (or can be downloaded from the conference website at www.nma.gov.au - under 'Exhibitions & Events')

Further details
Further details are available on the National Museum of Australia website: www.nma.gov.au 



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