[Bilimsel Haber] CONF./CFP- Black Sea-Mediterranean Corridor During the Last 30 ky, Aug. 2006, Odessa

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From: Olena Smyntyna <smyntyna@paco.net>

CONF./CFP- Black Sea-Mediterranean Corridor During the Last 30 ky, Aug. 2006

Call for Papers

The Second Plenary Meeting and Field Trip of IGCP 521 "Black 
Sea-Mediterranean
Corridor during the last 30 ky: sea level change and human adaptation"
August 20-28, 2006
Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University
Odessa, Ukraine.

The conference will provide a cross-disciplinary international forum for
academics, professionals and young scientists to correlate their discoveries
on influence of climatically/tectonically induced sea level changes and
coastline migration on humanity. It will be arranged in five dimensions:
anthropological, ethnological, archaeological, geological and mathematical.

Main topics to be discussed:

  - Rival scenarios of the Black Sea development
  - Paleoenvironment and paleoclimate of the "Corridor"
  - Controversy of the influence of sea level change on human migration,
    settlements and interaction of Late Paleolithic groups
  - Controversy of the influence of the Black Sea Late Pleistocene-Holocene
    sea level change on early farming communities and crisis of early
agriculture
  - Influence of the Black Sea Late Pleistocene-Holocene sea level 
change and
    coastline migration on Greek colonies
  - Archaeological, biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology of the
    "Corridor".
  - Black Sea-Mediterranean quantitative and computational archaeology
  - Ecological anthropology with an interdisciplinary focus on human
    interactions with the environment in the "Corridor".
  - The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human
    Settlement
  - Active tectonics and sea level changes in respect to human adaptation in
    the "Corridor".
  - Re-colonization of the Black Sea by Mediterranean organisms and
biodiversity.
  - Radiomentric dating and geochemical proxies.
  - GIS-added mathematical modelling.
  - Geoinformation system.

The conference will include 4 days of plenary sessions and 3 days of field
trips:

Day 1: ancient polices of Tyra and Nikoniy, medieval fortress of Belgorod;
        Dnister estuary and Dnister interspersion, sediments of Late 
Pleistocene
   and Holocene times,

Day 2: ancient police of Olbia Dnipro-Bug and Berezan` estuary accumulative
        wave terraces corresponding to the Kalamitian and Dzemetinain
        transgressional stages,

Day 3: ancient settlement of Koshary (Odessos), Berezan island, accumulative
        wave terraces corresponding to the Kalamitian and Dzemetinain
        transgressional stages (0.5-0.1 m above present sea level, 
3.9-4.5 ky
BP).

Deadline for extended abstracts submission: February 28, 2006.

Please find further information about the conference, registration form, and
abstract template at the official site of the IGCP 521:
www.avalon-institute.org/IGCP




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