Sessions/Themed Discussions
Proposed Conference Sessions
Note that there are lots of sessions. Please consider whether one of these sessions will provide a suitable venue for your presentation. Contact the chair of any session for further information.
1. Diverse cognitive interpretations of the MSA, chair Lyn Wadley
2. Zooarchaeology in African contexts, chair Genevieve Dewar
3. Northwest African prehistory: recent work, new results and interpretations, chair David Lubell
4. Post-Conflict Archaeology in Africa: Restrictions, Responsibilities and Responses, chair John Giblin
5. Cultural heritage management African in the next 15 years, chair Scott Maceachern
6. The Archaeology of the Iringa region, southern Tanzania, chair Pamela Willoughby
7. Science and Archaeology: Studies Presented in Honor of Nikolaas van der Merwe, chair David Killick
8. Making Meals, Producing Pots: Comparing Craft and Culinary Practice in Africa, chairs Cameron Gokee and Amanda Lee Logan
9. The archaeology of the Maloti-Drakensburg region, chair Peter Mitchell
10. Human bones and teeth in African Archaeological record, chairs Lesley Harrington and Wendy Black
11. Decoding the cultural and biological diversity of the peoples of Kenya, chair Chap Kusimba
12. Ceramic traditions from the Bend of the Niger to the Black Volta, chairs Barbara Frank, Nafogo Coulibaly and Daouda Keita
13. Imaginary Lines: Late Holocene Population Interactions Across Forest and Savanna Boundaries in West and Central Africa, chair Christoopher Kiahtipes
14. The African past 2.0: Approaches to digital Archaeology on the continent, chair Jeff Fleischer
15. GIS applications for Landscape archaeology in Africa, chair Adrianne Daggett
16. People, power, and prejudice in Nineteenth Century Southern Africa, chair Amanda Esterhuysen
17. The Archaeology of the Northern Cape, South Africa, chair David Morris
18. Experimental Archaeology, chair Justin Pargeter
19. The western stream of the Bantu expansion throughout Central Africa: from Brooks to major rivers, papers in honour of Michele Deineuf, chairs Bernard Clist and Pierre de Maret
20. Recent Archaeological Research and Findings in Uganda, chair Asmeret Ghebreigziabiher Mehari
21. Mobility and interactions in Africa's recent past, chairs Abigail Smith and Helina Solomon Woldekiros
Themed discussions
1. Nic David: Sub-Saharan iron smelting as Intangible Cultural Heritage and the question of recognition of past cultural achievements under the 2003 UNESCO convention
2. Pete Robertshaw: Teaching African Archaeology to undergraduates
3. Sarah Croucher: Women's and gender Africanist Archaeology Network:
