Burial patterns and decoration motifs

GUSTAVO MARTÍNEZ

Santiago de Chile

Workshop; Second Meeeting of SPANning the Atlantic: Human Palaeodemography in Southern Hemisphere Drylands Santiago de Chile 2017; 2017

The Leverhume Tust

- Monday 16 October Universidad de Chile 10.00 a.m. Introduction and Welcome Evolution of Quaternary climates with respect to human occupation 10.15 a.m. David Thomas: Climate or environment: what mattered/matters for people? 11.15 a.m. Coffee Drylands and highlands 11.45 a.m. Ramiro Barberena, Brian Stewart and Peter Mitchell. The dryland-highland interface in human history: a comparative perspective for southern Africa and the southern Andes 1.00 p.m. LunchModelling radiocarbon dates as a guide to past demography in the drylands of southern Africa and South America 2.30 p.m. Adrian Timpson, Ramiro Barberena, César Méndez, Gustavo Martínez, M. Eugenia de Porras, Antonio Maldonado, Gustavo Flensborg and Katie Manning Modelling population dynamics as a function of climatic change: an exploration for South American deserts 3.00 p.m. César Mendez, Amalia Nuevo Delaunay et al.High-resolution chronology of the human occupation south of the Choapa Basin (31°34?-32°S), Chile 5.00 p.m. Break- Tuesday 17 October. Universidad de Chile. Archaeology of European contact on the Chilean and Namibian coasts10.00 a.m. Amalia Nuevo Delaunay. Incorporation of glass among local indigenous societies: Namibian coast and Patagonia 10.30 a.m. Jill Kinahan. The glass trade bead sequence on the Namib Coast and its use in mitigating the Suess Effect 11.00 a.m. CoffeeLong-term resilience of human populations 11.30 a.m. John Kinahan Holling´s Loop: a key to understanding Holocene human adaptation in the Namib Desert 12.00 a.m. Federico Scartascini and Genevieve Dewar. Human occupation of desert coastal areas in Patagonia and Namaqualand: some comparative ideas 1.00 p.m. LunchMaterial culture and information exchange 2.30 p.m. Guadalupe Romero. Human use of space and information exchange in northern Patagonia: an insight through visual communication and rock art. 3.00 p.m. Gustavo Martínez and Genevieve Dewar. Burial patterns and decoration motifs Introduction to sites to be visited later in the weekAfter 4.00 p.m. César Mendez. Wednesday 18 October. Universidad Alberto Hurtado. The expansion of pastoralism 10.00 a.m. Genevieve Dewar and Erik Marsh. The comings and goings of sheep and pottery in the coastal desert of Namaqualand, South Africa. 10.30 a.m. Peter Mitchell. Why the donkey didnt go south: and other thoughts on the spread of domestic animals 11.00 a.m. Coffee11.30 p.m. Erik Marsh. The emergence and expansion of agro-pastoralism in the southern Andes: a synthesis of regional trends from Lake Titicaca to Patagonia12.00 p.m. Boris Santander. Mammalian taphonomy in the Atacama Puna: the camelids of Tulan-54 1.00 p.m. LunchDiet and interaction: perspectives from fauna and stable isotopes. 2.30 p.m. Francisca Santana Sagredo New perspectives on diet and mobility patterns in the Atacama Desert 3.00 p.m. Ana Alcaráz Small vertebrates in archaeological contexts from arid/semi-arid zones. The lower basin of the Colorado River (Buenos Aires province, Argentina) as case study. 3.30 p.m. Carola Flores. Ancient fisher communities from the southern coast of the Atacama Desert. Preliminary results on palaeoceanographic conditions and technological changesEvening Lecture. 6.00 p.m.