First Circular - Preliminary Programme

Dear Collegues,

we cordially invite you to the ACACIA-Conference which will take place in Königswinter (near Cologne/Bonn) from October 1st –3rd , 2003. Attached you find the preliminary programme, which includes several main papers and short communications/discussions in parallel workshops.

Participants are kindly asked to return the following informations:

• Date/Time of Arrival
• Date/Time of Departure
• Accomodation at the Conference-Centre
       - single room
       - double room (to be shared with another participant)

The responses will help us to prepare the final programme and to plan
the necessary accommodations.

Deadline for the reply is July, 31st 2003 (by mail, fax or telephone)

Thanks for coming and for your help

Dr. Werner Schuck
(For the Organizing Committee)

Workshop 1 (O. Bubenzer / R. Kuper)
Reconstructing Holocene Land Use Potentials: Geomorphological and Archaeological Evidence

• Vegetation changes in desert areas of North Tropical Africa and Arabia during the Holocene
  A.-M. Lézine (Paris, France)
• Soil pattern, soil relicts and relicts and potential land use of central east Sahara (SW-Egypt)
  F. Alaily (Berlin, Germany)
• Remote Sensing in Egypt: Detecting Ancient Sites through Modern Vegetation
  S. Parcak (Cambridge, Great Britain)

Workshop 2 (M. Bechhaus-Gerst / J. Richter)
Archaeology, Landscape and Genetics: Pattern of Medium and Large Temporal Depth

• Introductory Paper
  M. Bechhaus-Gerst / J. Richter (Cologne/Germany)
• Early Khoe Economic History Revisted : Language and Archaeology in Southern Africa
  R. Voßen (Frankfurt, Germany)
• Ethnoarchaeological research amongst Khoekhoen descendants in South Africa
  L. Webley (Kimberley, South Africa)
• Linguistic Hypotheses on the Origin of Namibian Khoekhoe-Speakers
  W. Haacke (Windhuk, Namibia)
• The Study of the Crop History of Ensete
  G. Rossel (Kinshasa / Leiden, Netherlands)
• Putting together Archaeology and Historical Linguistics: The Case of Pottery
  F. Jesse / R. Klein-Arendt (Cologne, Germany)
• Meat or Milk? Archaeological and Linguistic Evidence for the peridynastic Use of Cattle in the Eastern Sahara
  M. Bechhaus-Gerst / B. Keding (Cologne, Germany)

Workshop 3 (S. Berzborn / B. Dieckmann)
Ethnicity and Land-Law-Conflicts in arid Africa

• Strategies of handling ethnic identiy in the Richtersveld land claim, South Africa: local and external perspectives
  S. Berzborn (Cologne, Germany)
• Continuities and Discontinuities of Warfare in Pastoral Societies: Militarisation and the Escalation of Violence in East and Northeast Africa
  M. Bollig / M. Oesterle (Cologne, Germany)
• Tajectories in Community Based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa: What Scope for Land Rights?
  M. Tayler (Gaborone, Botswana)
• Pastoralism, small arms and light weapons and Conflict in the North Rift of East Africa: The new factors exacerbating the pastoral conflict
  K. Mkutu (Bradford, UK)
  

Workshop 2 (M. Bechhaus-Gerst / J. Richter)
Archaeology, Landscape and Genetics: Pattern of Medium and Large Temporal Depth

Continued

Workshop 3 (S. Berzborn / B.Dieckmann)
Ethnicity and Land-Law-Conflicts in arid Africa

Continued

Workshop 4 (O. Bubenzer / R. Kuper / M. Herb)
Animals and Landuse: Evidence from the Lower Nile Valley and the Deserts

• Egyptian Scources. The historical evidence of textual and pictorial data: Basic factors of interpreting
  M. Fitzenreiter (Berlin, Germany)
• Egyptian Scources Desert as landscape
  H. Altenmüller (Hamburg, Germany)
• Egyptian Scources. Deserts - Animals - Corrals: The economic importants of desert animals in Egypt.
  M. Herb (Cologne, Germany)
• Animals and the Desert: Evidence from Egypt and Sudan
  N. Pöllath / H. Riemer (Munich/Cologne, Germany)

General Discussion of Workshops and Conference

All Participants of Workshops and Conference