In the framework of the celebration of the 20 anniversary of the French-South African cooperation in archaeology, the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) in partnership with CNRS, the Institute for Research and Development (IRD), the University of the Witwatersrand and the French Embassy in South Africa are organising a week of cultural and scientific events dealing with archaeology.
This event is organised after the first celebration, « South Africa, Cradle of Humankind », held in France on the 7th of February 2015, at the French Senate.
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Venue: University of Pretoria: Sanlam Auditorium
08.00 - 08.30: Registraon
08.30 - 10.20: Welcoming and Opening
Chair: Francis Thackeray (Wits), José Braga (Univ. of Toulouse) & Lorna Holtman (UWC)
10.20-10.45 Break
10.45 - 13.00: MAEDI excava7ons in Southern Africa
Chair: Karim Sadr (Wits)
Early origins
Last ancestors
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 17.00: Panel of South-African and French collabora7ons
On the occasion of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Franco-South African cooperation in Archaeology, IFAS and the Evolutionary Studies Institute are organizing a round table on the history of Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology in South Africa. Following the transition to democracy in 1994, sciences and humanities have experienced significant transformations, and the Palaeosciences are no exception. These transformations influenced university curricula, the place of archaeology in political debate and public imagination, but also the very core of knowledge production. Still, this social and epistemic inscription of Archaeology in South Africa has a much longer history. Institutionalized Palaeoscientific research can be traced back to the first half of the twentieth century at least. Even before that, a variety of practices and discourses in the nineteenth century or even the eighteenth century directly recall archaeological and palaeontological activity in South Africa. We find here one of the longer traditions on Prehistory, Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology in the world. As such, we propose to provide an historical approach to the Palaeosciences.
Venue:Wits University: Humanities Graduate Centre, South West Engineering Building (tbc)
Organisers : Adrien Delmas (IFAS) & Paloma de la Peña (Wits)
08.30 - 09.00: Welcoming
09.00 - 09.30: Introduction: Paloma de la Peña (Wits) & Adrien Delmas (IFAS)
09.30 - 10.15: Keynote lecture: J. Deacon: The mulplier effect of familiar facts and fallacious assumpons in the history of Later Stone Age research
10.15 - 11.15: The Presence of the past
11.15 - 11.30: Break
11.30- 12.30: The inven7on of periods 1
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch
13.30 - 14.30: The invention of periods 2
14.30 - 16.00 History and archaeology : demarca7on lines
16.00 - 16.15: Break
16.15 – 17.00: Keynote lecture: A. Schnapp (Univ. Paris 1): Archaeology and the immaterial: how do societies without monuments manage their past?
17.00 - 17.30 Concluding remarks
Venue: Wits University: Origins Centre
Organisers: Laure Dayet (IFAS), Sam Challis (Wits) & Stéphane Hoerlé (Wits)
08.30 - 09.00: Welcoming
09.00 - 10.20: An overview of past and present rock art studies
Chair: Stéphane Hoerlé (Wits)
10.20 - 10.40: Break
10.40 - 12.30: Dealing with rock art interpretation and context
Chair: Sam Challis (Wits)
12.30 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 15.40: Using pigment, making pain7ngs
Chair: Laure Dayet (IFAS)
15.40 - 16.00: Break
16.00 - 17.30: What about the future?
Chair: David Pearce (Wits) & Benjamin Smith (Univ. of Western Australia)
17.30 - 17.45: Concluding remarks
18.30 Documentary screening & cocktail
La couleur des Ovahimba, by F. D’Errico and R RiFin - Venue: IFAS
The symposium aims at reviewing current lithic studies on the South African Stone Age, in terms of analytical frameworks and of research ques<ons. Lithic studies have a long tradition in South Africa, starting from the 1900's. But the last two decades represent a pivotal change characterized by the large contribution of and exposure to the international community. Most of these recent studies have focused on lithic technologies associated and/or depicting “early forms of behavioral modernity”. However, currently academics seem to pay increasing attention to earlier and later periods, with research questions being more inclusive and oriented toward clarifying the long history of South African hunters and gatherers. We are tempted to see this evolution as a new step in South African lithic studies, with new challenges that interrogate the nature and the particulars of the local heritage and traditions. This symposium is a platform from which to present the range of current projects in South Africa but it also presents an opportunity to newly confront our “eyes” to lithic collections that will be showed during the day.
Venue: Wits University: Kate Druce Lecture Hall, Paleosciences building
Organisers : Guillaume Porraz (CNRS/IFAS) & Sarah Wurz (Wits)
08.30 - 09.00: Welcoming
09.00 - 10.30: From Middle to Late Pleistocene technologies
10.30 - 11.00: Break
11.00 - 12.30: Late Pleistocene technologies
12.30 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 15.30: From Late Pleistocene to Holocene technologies
15.30 - 16.00: Break
16.00 - 17.30: Holocene technologies
* Talk followed by the viewing and discussion of lithic collections
Since the beginning of 2015, IFAS is coordinating a research programme on the Medieval History of Africa (11th–17th centuries) that aims at rethinking the relationship between Africa and the rest of the World prior to systematic European Imperialism (Globafrica). To go back to this precolonial world integration, the programme will address, in the coming years, four principal questions: 1. epidemics of foreign origin and their impact on the African continent, especially the Black Death; 2. the introduction of non-indigenous plants; 3. commercial links to the Indian Ocean and 4. appropriation processes of the Arabic alphabet. Fundamentally interdisciplinary in nature, the programme also carries an exploratory dimension that aims to foster new sites of research. One of the privileged fields with which we will engage concerns the relations between the East African coast and the continental hinterland, in particular following the Zambezi axis linking the Zimbabwe plateau to the Mozambican coast. To open this field, we are organising an interdisciplinary round table to address questions common to many different disciplines: rock art, archaeology (prehistory to the Middle Ages), oral history, history based on documentary sources (mainly Arabic and Portuguese evidences), but also the natural sciences (geology, botany and physics). Here are the three questions addressed to the participants: 1/ what can you tell us about the coastal–interior relationship? 2/ How to demonstrate and evaluate a connection more generally speaking? 3/ Where to seek for further research?
Venue: Wits University: Origins Centre (tbc)
Organisers: Adrien Delmas (IFAS) & Peter Delius (Wits)*
08.30 - 09.00: Welcoming
09.00 - 09.30: Introduction: Adrien Delmas (IFAS) & Peter Delius (Wits)
09.30 - 10.30: Oceans of Trade
P. Beaujard (CNRS): The East and Southeast African coast and the transoceanic trade networks (10th-15th centuries a.d.)
P. Harries (UCT): Atlantic contacts: Europeans on the south east African coast
10.30 - 10.45: Break
10.45 - 11.45: East Africa
11.45 - 12.45: Southern Africa
12.45 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 15.30: On the nature of connections
15.30 - 15.45: Break
15.45 - 17.15: Prospection and ways forward: Adrien Delmas (IFAS) & Peter Delius (Wits)
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