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International Federation of Rock Art Organizations

IFRAO is the federation of national and regional
Organizations promoting the study of palaeoart and cognitive archaeology

(http://www.cesmap.it/ifrao/ifrao.html)

The IFRAO was formed in Darwin, Australia on 3 September 1988, during the first major international academic conference dedicated entirely to the study of prehistoric rock art. Nine rock art organizations formed this international federation of independent national or regional bodies. At the founding meeting it was decided that IFRAO should be a common forum and initiator of policies, projecting or representing the common interests of member organizations without interfering in their autonomy. It would operate as a democratic advisory body in which each member organization would hold one vote, exercised by an official representative. International meetings would be held by nominating suitable rock art conferences as official IFRAO congresses at regular intervals.

Over the subsequent twelve years, the number of affiliate members quadrupled to almost 40, and the current 43 members of IFRAO cover most of the world. The combined memberships of these organizations include about 7,000 rock art specialists, which is practically all such specialists in the world.

Until the late 1980s, individual rock art researchers as well as rock art organisations around the world operated largely without being aware of the work conducted in other parts of the world — sometimes even in their own country or region of activity. As a result, the discipline experienced a great diversity of research approaches and terminology, reflected in a multitude of idiosyncratic constructs, sequences, chronologies, names and definitions. Therefore one of IFRAO’s initial principal concerns was the standardization of those aspects of the discipline that are essential for effective communication and collaboration: methodology, terminology, ethics, and the technical standards used in analysis and recording. These subjects were addressed through extensive consultation of specialists and, where appropriate, the deliberations of appointed subcommittees.

Objectives

The IFRAO members produce about twenty specialist periodicals, whose flagship is Rock Art Research, the official organ of the federation. IFRAO has been particularly effective in the area of rock art protection and preservation, achieving sometimes spectacular successes, such as the electoral defeat of recalcitrant governments in 1995 and 2002. The federation has become the principal international body pursuing the conservation of prehistoric rock art effectively. Another of its greatest achievements to date has been its successful campaign of empowering traditional indigenous societies to secure the return of rock art sites into their care and possession.

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                    Member Addresses                                                                                                                               

                          IFRAO Constitution                                                                                                                              

                          IFRAO Reports                                                                                                                  

                           IFRAO Congress Bolivia 1997                                                                                      

                           IFRAO Congress Portugal 1998                                                                                    

IFRAO Congress Ripon 1999
IFRAO Congress Alice Springs-Australia2000                                                          

                           SIARB Symposium Tarija-Bolivia, 2000                                                                       

                           COURSE ON EUROPEAN PREHISTORIC ART                                                         

                          The IFRAO-Brepols series                                                                                                  

                          Publications                                                                                                                        

                          IFRAO Scale                                                                                                                                           

                          Discoveries                                                                                                                                             

Research results
News 95 proceedings                                                                                                                            

The Alqueva dam will destroy Rock Art in Portougal                                                                                    

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The IFRAO-Brepols series

The pre-Historic rock art of the world has been studied for centuries, but until very recently much of this endeavour has yielded little more than subjective contemporary re-interpretations of ancient symbolic systems. In recent years a specific research discipline has begun to emerge in this field, intended to examine the development of human cognition. The International Federation of Rock Art Organisations (IFRAO) is the main force behind the campaign of rendering rock art studies more rigorous, transforming the topic into a scientific pursuit. With the beginning of the 21st century Brepols, a major scholarly publishing house in Belgium, joined IFRAO in an effort to establish an imprint satisfying the aims of both these partners: to publish the world’s best academic work in the field of rock art research. The IFRAO-Brepols imprint is intended to set the standard for the international discipline in the new century. An editorial committee comprising some of the world’s foremost scholars in the field, representing all continents, safeguards the scientific calibre of the volumes published in this series. It is endeavoured to assemble with this collection a library of the most authoritative work available on pre-historic art.

Volume 3  Robert G. Bednarik ROCK ART AND EPISTEMOLOGY: courting sophistication

Report 10 Report 11 Report 12 Report 13 Report 14 Report 15 Report 16 Report 17 Report 18 Report 19 Report 20Report 21Report 22Report 23Report 27Report 27Report 28Report 29Report 30Report 31Report 32Report 33Report 34Report 33Report 35Report 36Report 37Report 38Report 39

Dear Colleagues,

We have the pleasure to send you some information on our forthcoming workshop on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites.  We would be happy if you could identify (and nominate) appropriate candidates from Asia and the Pacific.  In addition, kindly contact us if you would like to:
- send a representative of your organization as an expert/observer to the workshop;
- send some participants to the workshop covering their travel costs (subject to final selection to be made by UNITAR) - from Asia and the Pacific or elsewhere.

Also, kindly consider putting the information on your website.

Please find below a standard call for application letter, and feel free to forward it to any appropriate institutions or individuals.  Should you have any question, please feel free to contact us.  

With thanks in advance and kind regards,

Hiroko Nakayama

UNITAR Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites
19 - 24 April 2009
Hiroshima
Japan

The UNITAR Hiroshima Office Series on the Management and Conservation on World Heritage Sites aims to facilitate a better utilization of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention through providing support to national policy making and planning, and information exchange on best practices and case studies. Newly developed "values-based management" methodologies are applied in all the aspects of natural and cultural heritage management. Since 2008, "Conservation for Peace" has been adopted as an underlying principle of the Series.

The sixth workshop of the Series will be organized from 19 to 24 April 2009 in Hiroshima, Japan, focusing on issues surrounding the World Heritage Impact Assessment.  Study tours to two World Heritage sites in Hiroshima -the A-Bomb Dome and the Itsukushima Shinto Shrine - will provide additional case studies and learning opportunities.  

The specific objectives of the 2009 workshop will be to:

- Review the basics of the World Heritage regime and its implications for peace, incorporating available information, updates  and current trends;
- Elucidate the underlying principles of "values-based heritage management", with a particular focus on peace building or - nurturing;
- Introduce the basics of World Heritage impact assessment;
- Examine leading assessment policies and strategies, identifying best practices and lessons learned;
- Through reality-based practical exercises, extract key concepts and common issues while developing impact assessments for given sites;
- Contribute to the development of a manual for site managers on impact assessment in World Heritage management;
- Enhance long-term peer learning and exchange among the participants.

The participants will be selected from actual or potential heritage site managers; natural/cultural conservation specialists and trainers; and decision makers and government officials within national World Heritage administrations, such as Ministries of Environment, Culture, Forestry or Tourism. A few slots will be made available to representatives of national academic institutions, think-tanks and civil society. Priority will be given to official working on World Heritage nomination projects and/or tentatively-listed World Heritage sites.

We would like to ask you to submit the names of suitable candidates to participate in the training workshop for final selection by an ad hoc selection committee. UNITAR scholarships, given in priority to least developed country participants, will cover tuition fees, travel, accommodation and meals. Candidates from industrialized countries are welcome to apply - they are requested to obtain financial support from their own countries/organization but may be accorded an exemption of the tuition-fee. Number of places being limited, those wishing to be selected should send their application package as soon as possible and no later than 2 March 2009.  Please refer to the attached leaflet and our website www.unitar.org/hiroshima/unitar-activities/world-heritage-sites/2009 for more information. Should you have any questions, please contact Ms. Hiroko Nakayama at hiroko.nakayama@..., or Mr. Berin McKenzie at berin.mckenzie@....

We thank you in advance for your assistance in the nomination/information dissemination process.


With our kind regards,


Nassrine Azimi
Director
UNITAR Hiroshima Office



Dina HANGGRAINI

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and Research (UNITAR)

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> Redundancies at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of
> Archaeology and Anthropology
>> Dear Colleagues,
>> Some of you may be aware of the recent announcement of the
>> termination of eighteen research specialist positions at the
>> University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
>> the abolishing of those research positions, and the shutting down
>> of their associated laboratories and centers such as MASCA (the
>> Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology). MASCA is the
>> scientific division of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Its
>> research focuses on the application of modern scientific
>> techniques that will aid the interpretation of archaeological
>> contexts and the materials recovered from those contexts, during
>> both current excavations and past ones. Dr Kathleen Ryan leading
>> research scientist at MASCA, http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/
>> research/kenya.shtml , well-known to the Africanist archaeology
>> community, is one of those who will be affected, as will 17 other
>> research scientists who specialise in other fields.
>> The Museum's official website http://www.museum.upenn.edu/
>> index.php makes no mention of these recent events, even though the
>> announcement was made by the Museum's director Richard Hodges on
>> November 19th. As matters currently stand, the termination of
>> contracts will be effective from the end of May 2009.
>> Colleagues who wish to protest at this closure can do so by
>> signing an online petition:
>> http://www.petitiononline.com/Penn2009/petition.html
>> For reports in the media, see
>> http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/36286004.html
>> http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/
>> news/2008/11/26/News/Financial.Crisis.Forces.Firing.Of.
>> 18.Penn.Museum.Researchers-3562067.shtml
>> For comments posted on a blog (and associated links), see
>> http://pennmuseumpetition.wordpress.com/2009/01/
>> Please feel free to pass this information on to your membership if
>> you consider it appropriate to do so.
>> Paul Lane
>> President, SAfA
>> HEEAL Project Team Leader
>> http://www.heeal.eu/
>> http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/staff/Lane.htm
>> Department of Archaeology,
>> University of York
>> King's Manor
>> York YO1 7EP, UK
>>

As IVªs Jornadas de Arqueologia Iberoamericanas

  2009 MAÇÃO PORTUGAL 

A investigação arqueológica é hoje um instrumento essencial para a afirmação da diversidade das identidades culturais dos grupos humanos, na sua radical unidade enquanto espécie.  A compreensão da diversidade do comportamento humano passa hoje pelo resgate das evidências materiais, muitas vezes difusas e não monumentais, dos comportamentos de comunidades no passado mais ou menos remoto.

            O estudo proporcionado pela arqueologia não apenas contribui para o reconhecimento dessa diversidade e unidade, mas contribui igualmente para o crescimento do conhecimento na sociedade e, por essa via, para uma sociedade mais consciente e crítica.

            As vias de investigação arqueológica na Europa e na América Latina partem, dominantemente, de plataformas explicativas distintas. Enquanto que na Península Ibérica, como no resto da Europa, predominam os modelos explicativos de matriz histórica, que privilegiam a explicação dos processos de transformação no tempo, no Brasil e demais países Sul-Americanos dominam os modelos de matriz antropológica, concentrados primordialmente na explicação dos mecanismos adaptativos e sua complexidade no território. Estas abordagens são claramente complementares, mas a história das pesquisas tendeu a separar os circuitos académicos de investigação.

O projecto de organizar Jornadas de Arqueologia Ibero-Americana nasceu em 2007, na sequência de vários anos de cooperação entre o Instituto Politécnico de Tomar e diversas Universidades do Brasil. Esta cooperação foi alargada e reforçada a partir de 2004 com o programa de Mestrado IPT/UTAD em Arqueologia Pré-Histórica e Arte Rupestre (Master Erasmus Mundus em Quaternário e Pré-História), e a partir de 2006 com o Doutoramento da Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro em Quaternário, Materiais e Culturas.

As Jornadas anteriores tiveram lugar em Mação (2007, 2008) e Florianópolis (2007), e permitiram sobretudo uma articulação académica maior entre os pesquisadores portugueses e brasileiros, envolvidos em diversos projectos comuns.

As IVªs Jornadas decorrem integradas no projecto "Porto Seguro – representando diálogos culturais através do Atlântico", financiado pela Comissão Europeia e apoiado num partenariado que envolve, para além de diversos parceiros associados, o Instituto Politécnico de Mação (que coordena), a Câmara Municipal de Mação (cujo Museu é o centro organizador do projecto), a Universidade de Ferrara (Itália), o Instituto de Estudos Pré-Históricos ACINEP (Espanha), o Museu Nacional de História Natural de Paris (França) e quatro parceiros principais no Brasil: o Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da Universidade de S. Paulo (igualmente parceiro académico principal dos projectos de pós-graduação), o Núcleo de Estudos Negros (Santa Catarina), a Fundação Museu do Homem Americano (Piauí) e a Superintendência Regional de S.Paulo do Instituto do Património Histórico e Artístico Nacional.

National Park Serra da Capivara, Piauí, Brazil, 29 June - 3 July 2009

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ----- 26 sessions (see following list) ----  28^th February 2009

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If you wish to present a paper in one or more sessions please contact the session coordinator/s directly (see below). For other information about the sessions, contact the general coordinator of the sessions:

Mila Simões de Abreu (msabreu@... or mepsda2@...).

Contact the secretariat of the congress if you wish to attend and for general information about the congress, (how to arrive, where to stay etc., reservas@...) or visit the congress web page.

http://www.globalrockart2009.com/principal_eng.html

Exhibitions & shops. Workshops. Film & video shows. Book fair (new and second-hand). Excursions: Pre and Post Congress. Other activities: trails visits with guides.

IFRAO - Annual meeting of IFRAO (for member organizations) 

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LIST OF SESSION 

We hope to see you in São Raimundo Nonato, Parque Nacional da Serra da Capivara, Piauí - an extraordinary rock art area and an exceptional site for the study of the early occupation of the Americas.

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National Park Serra da Capivara, Piauí, Brazil, 29 June - 3 July 2009

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ----- 26 sessions (see following list) ----  28^th February 2009

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If you wish to present a paper in one or more sessions please contact the session coordinator/s directly (see below). For other information about the sessions, contact the general coordinator of the sessions:

Mila Simões de Abreu (msabreu@... or mepsda2@...).

Contact the secretariat of the congress if you wish to attend and for general information about the congress, (how to arrive, where to stay etc., reservas@...) or visit the congress web page.

http://www.globalrockart2009.com/principal_eng.html

Exhibitions & shops. Workshops. Film & video shows. Book fair (new and second-hand). Excursions: Pre and Post Congress. Other activities: trails visits with guides.

IFRAO - Annual meeting of IFRAO (for member organizations) 

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LIST OF SESSION 

We hope to see you in São Raimundo Nonato, Parque Nacional da Serra da Capivara, Piauí - an extraordinary rock art area and an exceptional site for the study of the early occupation of the Americas. 

Global Rock Art se realizará de 29 de junho a 3 de julho  no Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara, São Raimundo Nonato, Piaui, Brasil.

Global Rock Art  reunirá pesquisadores, estudantes  e outros interessados no  estudo, conservação e divulgação das manifestações rupestres, que apresentarão seus trabalhos e informações relacionadas com todos os continentes, mostrando assim que a arte rupestre é uma manifestação cultural mundial.

Os novos métodos de pesquisa, de interpretação, as novas descobertas, o desenvolvimento científico relacionado com seu estudo e a dinâmica da criação e difusão cultural poderão ser relacionados e comparados durante este encontro.

O Congresso procurará demonstrar que a globalização não é um fenômeno atual, ela começa quando o homem parte de seu berço na África e começa a ocupar todos os continentes. O congresso é mundial e tratará de uma prática global que, como todas as manifestações humanas, é a demonstração de que Homo sapiens leva em sua carga genética os modelos de respostas aos problemas originados pelo meio ambiente e os engendrados por sua psique. Por esta razão o congresso terá o nome de Global Rock Art.

8 - História de la investigación en arte rupestre: origen y debates.

Resulta sin duda fundamental invitar a los colegas a realizar una reflexión sobre los comienzos de los estudios de arte rupestre. Al confrontar las diversas formas históricas de expresar el sentido y función de las representaciones rupestre, es posible iniciar  el estudio de las tendencias y con ello, comprender el modo como cada uno de los equipos se ve influenciado por esta o aquella perspectiva.  Una reflexión en este sentido permite comprender con cierto detalle las peculiaridades de los trabajos de registro, y las relaciones que  desde su origen tuvo este tipo de objeto arqueológico. De otro lado, es esencial determinar con cierto detalle las distintas tensiones e influencias que ha sufrido este objeto de estudio. Una versión histórico-critica permite por lo tanto presentar una dinámica nueva  del a relación entre los documentos ,las teorías, las condiciones políticas, las discusiones de época , las influencias de las disciplinas, y con ello el contexto de las interpretaciones que paralelamente se han venido construyendo y que aún hoy se derivan de las más esenciales posturas del inicio de la disciplina: arqueología y arte rupestre.

8 - História da investigação em arte rupestre: origem e debates.

Sem dúvida é fundamental convidar os colegas a realizar uma reflexão sobre as origens do estudo da arte rupestre. Ao confrontar as diversas formas históricas de expressar o sentido e a função das representações rupestres, é possível iniciar o estudo das tendências e assim, compreender a forma como cada uma das equipes se vê influenciada por esta ou aquela perspectiva. Uma reflexão neste sentido permite compreender com certo detalhe as peculiaridades dos trabalhos de registro e as relações que, desde sua origem, teve este tipo de objeto arqueológico. Por outro lado, é essencial determinar, com a maior objetividade, as diferentes tensões e influências que este objeto de estudo tem sofrido.   Uma versão histórico-crítica permite, portanto, apresentar uma dinâmica nova da relação entre os documentos, as teorias, as condições políticas, as discussões de época, as influências das disciplinas e, assim, o contexto das interpretações que, paralelamente, vem se construindo e que ainda hoje derivam das mais essenciais posturas do momento inicial da disciplina: Arqueologia e arte rupestre.

-Guillermo Muñoz C.: Candidato a Doctor UTAD Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro; Investigador associado do "Instituto Terra e Memória – Grupo “Quaternário e Pré-História” do Centro de Geociências; Director GIPRI –Colombia- gipricolombia@...;    gipricolombia@....
-Ramon Viñes: Investigador IPHES Tarragona España-rupestrologia@... ramonvinyes@...;
-Fernando Coimbra: Grupo Quaternário e Prehistória, Centro de Geociencias FCT, Coimbra coimbra.rockart@...

Bienvenidos al 53° Congreso Internacional de Americanistas

El Comité Organizador del 53º Congreso Internacional de Americanistas saluda cordialmente a la comunidad académica nacional e internacional que estudia, desde perspectivas uni, inter y multidisciplinarias al Continente americano y los invita a participar del 53º ICA que se realizará en la Ciudad de México, durante los días  19 al 24 de julio de 2009.

El Congreso analizará el desarrollo de la investigación arqueológica, histórica, antropológica, etnohistórica, de la antropología física, la lingüística y la literatura, el patrimonio cultural, la museografía, los procesos rurales y urbanos, los derechos humanos, lingüísticos y étnicos, ciencia, técnica y medio ambiente, movimientos sociales y étnicos, estudios económicos, sociales, políticos y jurídicos, estudios culturales, pensamiento latinoamericano, filosofía y educación.

Fue precisamente en México (1895) donde se realizó el primer Congreso fuera del continente europeo y albergamos a otras ediciones del mismo en 1910, 1939, 1962 y 1974. Esta es la sexta edición en nuestro país. La 53 versión del Congreso pretende ser una innovación con respecto a los anteriores, al trabajo en los simposios, ya que agregamos la presentación de ponencias cartel que permiten el involucramiento de investigadores jóvenes.

Agregamos también un conjunto de actividades en el marco del Congreso que lo enriquecen y permiten un conjunto de relaciones horizontales y transversales, una sección de medios audiovisuales que se enriquece con un coloquio de radios universitarias y comunitarias, reuniones de redes de investigadores y asociaciones científicas, la realización de seminarios sobre la educación superior, licenciaturas y postgrados, de programas y centros de investigación, de gestión social y de los problemas de los trabajadores de la educación superior, la ciencia y la cultura. Asimismo flexibilizamos el programa con la introducción de mesas temáticas sobre problemas cuyo análisis el Comité Organizador considera prioritarios.

Los Congresos Internacionales de Americanistas representan un esfuerzo de la comunidad de estudios de los problemas de nuestro continente y convoca al apoyo de instituciones públicas y privadas de investigación y docencia universitaria.

El Comité Organizador agradece públicamente el generoso apoyo de la Universidad Iberoamericana, que aceptó nuestra convocatoria, convirtiéndose así en la Sede Académica de nuestro congreso.
Mas info vea aqui:

http://www.53ica.com/bienvenidos.html

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