CAA 2003 Proposed Sessions

If you wish to propose a new session, please contact the program coordinators at caa2003@mcmaster.ca.

If you wish to contribute to an existing session, please contact the session organizer at their contact below, or the program coordinators at caa2003@mcmaster.ca

Proposed Sessions	Organizers
Archaeology and Ecology: Managing both Priorities	ICAHM Christophe_Rivet@pch.gc.ca
The Historical Archaeology of Indigenous Peoples	Andrew Martindale martindale@stn.net
This is the Law: Archaeology and Aboriginal Rights Litigation	Kevin Leonard kleonard@mta.ca
Arctic Archaeology	Julie Ross jross@chass.utoronto.ca
The Application of Archaeological Data/Methods to Modern Environmental Problems	Jeannette Smith & Maribeth Murray ffmsm@uaf.edu
Gender and Agency in Hunter/Gatherer Archaeology	Sarah Bonesteel sarah.bonesteel@sympatico.ca
Archaeology at Port aux Choix	M.A.P. Renouf mapr@mun.ca
Archaeology of Health	Rhonda Bathurst rbathurst@cogeco.ca
Anthropological Archaeology of Mortuary Ritual	Mirjana Roksandic mroksand@utm.utoronto.ca Roger Lohmann rlohmann@utm.utoronto.ca
Paleoindian Occupation in North America	Chris Ellis (but please direct all inquiries to Andrew Martindale Martindale@stn.net)
Signs of Trouble: Indirect Indicators of Conflict in the Archaeological Record	Paul Prince pprince@trentu.ca
Archaeology in Forensic Anthropology	Tracy Rogers trogers@utm.utoronto.ca
The View from the Dark Side: Consultants and Government Archaeologists	Phil Woodley pwoodley@hwcn.org
Archaeological Activities at National Historic Sites in Canada	Jim Molnar Jim_Molnar@pch.gc.ca

Currently, the following symposia are being developed:

Voice and Multi-vocality in Archaeological Representation

First Nations Involvement in Archaeological Governance

Spatial Syntax in Archaeological Data

Public Outreach and Education in Archaeology

Rock Art and Beyond: Symbolism and Textuality in Material Culture

Anthropological Archaeology of Mortuary Ritual
Mortuary behaviour provides insight into the ritual and ideology of prehistoric societies and produces an essential record of non-utilitarian behaviour for groups with no written or oral traditions preserved. Skeletal disposition and taphonomy carry relevant information on several aspects of mortuary practices, including periburial activities, disposal, and rituals directed at ancestors. Traditionally, the archaeological study of burial has relied on the expertise of biological anthropologists and archaeologists, while the interpretation of mortuary sites to discern the deceased's social persona and the group's ideology has relied on grave goods and burial architecture, with little reliance on the position of the skeletal material within the burial, and the rich data available from cultural anthropology about alternative methods of disposal of the dead. The situation is changing and the relevance of skeletal disposition for understanding mortuary behaviours is being recognized. We would like to see increased systematization of these insights from dispositional taphonomy and cultural anthropology, to allow meaningful cross-cultural comparisons among mortuary sites. We invite both methodological papers and case studies on material and ideological aspects of mortuary practices by researchers from all subfields of anthropology.

Contacts:
Mirjana Roksandic mroksand@utm.utoronto.ca, http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/~mroksand/

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Conference Schedule:	Schedule Overview	Plenary Invitation	Proposed Sessions
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