Is there palaeoart before modern humans ?
Did Neanderthals or other early humans create ‘art’ ? | 23-27/08/2018
First Announcement: International Conference under the aegis of UISPP (The International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences) and the auspicies of IFRAO (The International Federation of Rock Art Organisations) | This conference will be held by Centro Studi e Museo d’Arte Preistorica (CeSMAP)
Campus « Luigi Einaudi », University of Turin, Italy | From 22 to 267 August 2018
President of the Scientific Committee:
Prof. Dr. Henry de Lumley,
Director of the Institute of Human Palaeontology in Paris
Vice Presidents:
Luiz Oosterbeek, Secretary General of the UISPP
(International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences)
Giacomo Giacobini, Director of the Human Anatomy Museum,
Turin University
Robert Bednarik, Secretary General of the IFRAO
(International Federation of Rock Art Organizations)
« Neanderthal Man », Painting by Mauro Cutrona | Courtesy by Marco Peresani, Ferrara University
Juan Luis Arsuaga, Director of the Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, University of Madrid
Marta Arzarello, University of Ferrara
Hipolito Collado, Director of the Extremadura Archaeological Superintendency
Enrico Comba, University of Turin
Clive Finlayson, Museum of Gibraltar Director
David Frayer, University of Kansas
Jean-Marie Le Tensorer, University of Basel
Marcel Otte, University of Liege
Marco Peresani, University of Ferrara
Dario Seglie, CeSMAP Director,
IFRAO-UNESCO Liaison Officer
Mike Singleton, University of Louvain
Media:
Andrew Howley, National Geographic, Washington DC
Maurizio Menicucci, Rai-Tv, Turin
CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF PRELIMINARY PROPOSALS
Alternative suggestions are invited, as well as expressions of interest in organising specific sessions or symposia.
Further announcements will be made progressively.
Interested researchers are encouraged to submit preliminary proposals by e-mail to: dario.seglie@alice.it
FURTHER INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
Homo Neanderthalensis | Neanderart 2018
Session 1:
Changes in environment and human adaptations
Chairmen:
José Luis Arsuaga, Hipolito Collado, Luiz Oosterbeek, David Frayer
Session 2:
Changes in the utilitarian and non-utilitarian productions in two million years of human history
Chairmen:
Henry de Lumley, Giacomo Giacobini, Clive Finlayson, Jean-Marie Le Tensorer
Session 3:
The dawn of art-like productions and behaviours
Chairmen:
Robert Bednarik, Marco Peresani, Marcel Otte, Mike Singleton
Session 3a:
On colorful stones and animal bones: Human selection, collection and use of exceptional materials for tool making in the Palaeolithic
Chairpersons:
Ella Assaf, Francesca Romagnoli
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