Digging Deeper: Archaeological & Philosophical Perspectives
Miami Beach Urban Studios (MBUS) Florida International University
420 Lincoln Road
Miami Beach
United States
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- Allan Wesler, PhD
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This event brings together archaeologists and philosophers for an interdisciplinary symposium on art, communication, the mind, and the human past in general.
Conference Program
Thursday 30 Nov - Lido Lounge at The Standard (Belle Isle)
7-9pm Informal reception
Friday 1 Dec - Room 475, Miami Beach Urban Studios, FIU (Lincoln Road, Miami Beach)
8:45am Welcome from Associate Dean Anderson; Tea & Coffee
9:00-10:10 Colleen Manassa Darnell, Hartford: “Paleolithic rock art in Egypt: Function and landscape analysis”
10:15-11:25 John Darnell, Yale: “Homo pictus, painted humans, and zoomorphic syntax in the early rock art of Egypt and Nubia”
11:30-12:40 Sean Allen-Hermanson, FIU: “Mythology and shamanism in Upper Paleolithic art?”
Lunch Break
2:00-3:10 Elizabeth Scarbrough, FIU: “Reconstructions, restorations and ruins: Mỹ Sơn archaeological sanctuary”
3:15-4:25 Anton Killin, FIU/ANU: “Origins of music: Theory, evidence, prospects”
Tea & Coffee
4:50-6:00 Jesse Prinz, CUNY: “When did art start? Searching for art-making in the archaeological record”
8:00 Conference Dinner at Café Roval
Saturday 2 Dec - Room 475, Miami Beach Urban Studios, FIU (Lincoln Road, Miami Beach)
10:00 Tea & Coffee
10:15-11:25 Francesco d’Errico, Bordeaux: “In search of mechanisms at the origin of symbolic material cultures. An archaeological perspective”
11:30-12:40 Marilynn Johnson, FIU: “Philosophical perspectives on communication by prehistoric bodily adornment”
Lunch Break
2:00-3:10 Murray Clarke, Concordia: “Upper Paleolithic mind(s)”
3:15-4:25 Caleb Everett, Miami: “Numbers and the making of us: How the history of humankind was reshaped by a simple cognitive tool”
Tea & Coffee
4:50-6:00 Fred Adams, Delaware: “Consciousness: Why and where?”
Sunday 3 Dec - Conference Rooms at The Standard (Belle Isle)
10:00 Tea & Coffee
10:15-11:25 Edouard Machery, Pittsburgh: “Ethnic cognition and the Upper Paleolithic”
11:30-12:40 Adrian Currie, Cambridge: “Playing the prehistoric flute: Historical reconstruction, tracecentrism, and being human”
Lunch Break
2:00-3:10 Mary Stiner, Arizona: “Love and death in the Stone Age: What constitutes first evidence of mortuary treatment of the human body?”
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November 30, 2017, 4:00am EST
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