[Aqualist] Call for Posters at AAA 2010

[Mirani Litster]

 Call for Posters at the Australian Archaeological Association Conference 2010
The Australian National University is pleased to be hosting the 2010 Australian Archaeological Association Conference. Please join us over four days from December 9-13 at the Coach House Marina Resort at Bateman’s Bay. The Conference Committee would like to invite submissions for the 2010 Poster Session. Posters relating to the conference theme are particularly encouraged.
Session Organisers: Mirani Litster (mirani.litster at anu.edu.au) and Christian Reepmeyer (christian.reepmeyer at anu.edu.au)
http://arts.anu.edu.au/AandA/archaeology/aaaconference/aaaposters.asp


Submission Details and Instructions
Please email the following information as an MSWord document to one of the session organisers:
·       Poster title
·       An abstract of 200 words
·       Author(s) affiliation (please indicate which authors are students)
·       Contact details for one author (including email address and phone number/s)
The deadline for submission of poster abstracts is 1 October 2010


Conference Theme: Challenges for archaeology in understanding cultural and natural landscapes: local, national and global perspectives
While landscape approaches are not new to archaeology, the ability for researchers to understand site variability and human dynamics at the landscape level has never been greater. Technological advances in geospatial mapping and digital storage have assisted in this new endeavour. There is also increasing attention in most regional syntheses to archaeological change at different scales of space and time - so that the human dynamics which are inferred are plausible and not an artefact of sampling or resolution. The term 'landscape' has also become shorthand for inscribed and modified cultural landscapes - which may reflect bundles of values embedded in studies of heritage, rock art graphics and managed land systems. The conference sessions aim to garner these different nodes of interest - ranging geographically from circumscribed islands in seascapes to vast 'blue-sky' transects of the interior; from monuments to modified landscapes; from forager to agricultural societies; and from the heritage of the individual to the community.