[Aqualist] AQUA & SHAPE Session at the 2014 Australian Archaeological Association Conference (December 1 to 3 Cairns)

[Patrick Moss]

Just letting everyone know that there is an AQUA and SHAPE session at the AAA conference in Cairns from December 1 to 3, 2014 - details are below and the details on the conference can be found at - http://australianarchaeology.com/conferences/aaa2014-conference/ and we will be looking to publish papers in a special volume if there is general interest for this.

Patrick

The Environmental Context for Human Settlement and Occupation of Australia

Convenors: Patrick Moss and Lynda Petherick

There are a number of debates associated with the settlement and subsequent occupation of Australia by people, including when people arrived, their colonisation and their subsequent impacts (i.e. role in megafaunal extinction, vegetation alterations associated with human burning and Holocene intensification), as well as how people adapted to the significant climatic alterations that occurred over the late Quaternary period. This session provides a forum for discussion of the environmental context in which these archaeological debates are nested and seeks presentations that provide insight into the physical setting (i.e. climate, vegetation, geomorphological, fluvial and coastal) of Australia over the last 60,000 years. We welcome presentations based on a range of 'proxy' data and archaeological information that enhances understanding of the environmental framework for human settlement and occupation, as well as presentations that examine human adaptation to the highly variable environments of the late Quaternary period.

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Dr Patrick Moss
School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Tel: +61 7 (07) 3365 6418
Fax: +61 7 (07) 3365 6899