Presentations and Discussions
Caravan Archaeologies Workshop/Taller de Caravanas Arqueológicas
0900 Alcalde Pica or Sr. O’Ryan (Museo Pica): Welcome Opening
0915-0945 Persis Clarkson, Caravan Thinkscape: Caravans of the North
0945-1015 Frank Förster, Donkey caravans in pharaonic Egypt and beyond
1015-1045 Axel Nielsen, Caravan hubs and the reproduction of macro-regional pastoral collectives in the southern Andes
BREAK 1100-1115 hrs
1115-1145 Lautaro Núñez, Análisis Interdisciplinario del tráfico caravanero entre el oasis de Pica y la costa desértica durante el período Intermedio Tardio (900-1450 d.C) [Interdisciplinary analysis of caravan traffic between the Pica Oasis and the coastal desert during the Late Intermediate Period (900-1450 A.D.)]
1145-1215 Helina Woldekiros, The Afar salt caravan trail, north Ethiopia
1215-1245 Patrice Lecoq, La utilización de datos etnográficos y etnoarqueológicos para entender el funccionamiento de las antiguas caravanas de llamas, versus composición social y manifestaciones rituales [Using ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological data to understand the function and organization of old llama caravans, versus social composition and ritual manifestations]
Wednesday 3 May 1500-1800 hrs (Santa Rosa Resort)
1500-1530 Ximena Medinacelli, El manejo del territorio de los pastores y de los urus de carangas: una mirada de larga duración [Territory management by pastoralists and Urus of Carangas: a long-term view]
1530-1600 André Wink, Notes on the Powinda caravan trade of eastern Afghanistan
1600-1630 Tom Levy, Iron age nomads, copper production and caravans in southern Jordan
BREAK 1630-1645 hrs
1645-1715 Enelidolfo O’Ryan, Una visión empírica del oasis de Pica, la importancia del agua para las rutas caravaneras [An emprical view of the Pica Oasis: the importance of water for caravan routes]
1715-1745 Nicholas Tripcevich, Terrain effects and caravan mobility
0900-0930 Calogero Santoro, Pleistocene roots of the late prehistoric interregional traffic in the Atacama Desert, from the Pacific to the Tropical Forest
0930-1000 Tom Lynch, Thoughs on the origin of Andean caranning in Archaic transhumance
1000-1030 Heiko Riemer, Desert road archaeology in the eastern Sahara and the survey of ancient navigation
1030-1100 Gonzalo Pimentel, Estrategias de movilidad, intercambio y agenciamientos societales [Prehispanic mobility strategies, exchange, and human assemblages in the Atacama Desert pampa (ca. 7000-550 BP)]
BREAK 1100-1115 hrs
1115-1145 Vivien Standen, La mutilada de los Andes, nacida en la costa, trashumancia, extralocalidad? [A coastal female buried on the Andes with perimortem mutilations: transhumance or exogamous marriage?]
1145-1215 Anatoly Khazanov, Steppe nomads in the Eurasian trade
1215-1245 Michael Frachetti, Routing ‘grass-routes’ caravan routes: Simulation and actuality along Asia’s silk road.
1245-1315 Steve Rosen, Trade through the Desert: a long-term perspective on goods, animals, and polities
1500-1530 José Capriles, Mummified macaws and Amazon parrots in the Atacama Desert as evidence of long distance Exchange with the Tropical Lowlands
1530-1600 Daniela Valenzuela, Llamas and caravans in the lowlands of the Atacama Desert, ca. 1000-1400 AD: problems, models, and evidence
1600-1630 Luis Briones, Experiencia y percepción de un caravanero actual tras la huella de los geoglifos tarapaqueños (The experiences of a modern caravanero along the trail of Tarapaca geoglyphs)
BREAK 1630-1645
1645-1715 José Berenguer, Internodalidad y caravanero: Cuando la ‘aldea’ es el proprio recorrido [Internodality and caravanning: When the village is its own route]
PUBLIC TALK, Pica Municipal Museum 1930-2030 hrs
Patrice Lecoq (Université de Paris):
Pica: Un oasis en el desierto de Atacama en el cruce de las rutas de las caravanas de llamas andinas
Lautaro Núñez (Universidad Católica del Norte):
Doce mil años de domesticación inconclusa del Desierto de Atacama