AARD 2015 – 21 November 2015 – Programme
08:30-09:00 Registration – Pathfoot Building Crush Hall
09:00-09:05 Welcome
Session 1
09:05-09:25 ‘Multicultural trade at Somaliland and northern Mozambique: a comparative study’ – J. de Torres
09:25-09:45 ‘Origins of Scientific Forestry systems in Kenya – A historical approach’ – B. Fanstone
09:45-10:05 ‘Other Cargoes: British slave ships and the transportation of African flora, fauna and artefacts (c.1680-1807)’ – J. Webster
10:05-10:25 ‘Caves & Coastal Settlements of the East African Littoral (Zanzibar, East Kenya) in their landscape context: Geoarchaeology in the Sealinks Project’ – N. Kourampas
10.25 – 10.35 Discussion
15 Minute Break – Coffee and Biscuits
Session 2
10:50-11:10 ‘Making and re-making the past in Uganda’ – A. Reid
11:10-11:30 ‘The Shipwrecks of Kilwa, SE Tanzania’ – E. Pollard, R. Bates, E. Ichumbaki & C. Bita
11:30-11:50 ‘Encounters with stone buildings in the Sahara’ – S. Leman
11.50-12.10 ‘Cowrie Shell Trade around the Indian Ocean: Introducing the “Cowrie Shells: An Early Global Commodity” Project’ – A. Christie
12.10-12.20 Discussion
12:20-13:00 Keynote: ‘The history & archaeology of Atlantic trade in West Africa’ – R. Law
Buffet Lunch till 13:50
Book Stall by John Smiths’ Booksellers – http://www.johnsmith.co.uk/stir
Session 3
13:50-14:10 ‘The fifth year of the Crossroads of Empires project: New evidence from the eastern arc of the Niger river, 4th to 13th centuries AD’ – A. Haour
14:10-14:30 ‘Recent work linking climate and societal trajectories across the Mid-Holocene in the Tigray Plateau, Ethiopia’ V.J. Terwilliger and W. P. Adderley
14:30-14:50 ‘A different view on rock art: doing research in the African Rock Art Image Project’ – H. Anderson & J. de Torres
14:50-15.10 ‘Funerary Landscape of the Garamantes in Fazzan, Libya’ – M.G. Rodriguez
15.10-15.20 Discussion
20 Minute Break – Afternoon Tea
Session 4
15:40:-16:00 ‘Harlaa. A Cosmopolitan Trading Centre of Eastern Ethiopia’ – T. Insoll
16:00-16:20 ‘Archaeological Investigation in Northern Bauchi region, Northeast Nigeria’ – A.A. Giade
16:20-16:40 ‘Modelling the Engaruka system: Structure from Motion and high resolution mapping for archaeological analyses’ – T. Kabora
16:40-17.00 ‘Swahili harbour archaeology on a (kite)string’ – T. Fitton
17:00-17:20 ‘Archaeobotanical residues of resilience: new evidence for crop diversity at Engaruka, northern Tanzania’ – S. Thornton-Barnett
17.20 – 17.30 Discussion
17.40 Closing words
Dinner at 18:30 – The Meadowpark Inn (30 m from the entrance to the University)