Seminar "The interpretation of archaeological and landscape evidence" (22-24 abril, Siena)

MIND THE GAP --- Absence, invisibility and emptiness in the interpretation of archaeological and landscape evidence
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR AND DEBATE
22-24 APRIL 2013
CERTOSA DI PONTIGNANO, SIENA, ITALY

We are pleased to announce the final programme of sessions of the first international seminar on Absence, invisibility and emptiness in the interpretation of archaeological and landscape evidence organized from the UNIVERSITY OF SIENA, department of Historical Sciences and Cultural Heritage in collaboration with the Landscape Research Centre and the European Culture 2007 program ARCHAEOLOANDSCAPES EUROPE.

PROGRAMME OF SESSIONS

April 22

1415-1500 OPENING SESSION

Welcome by Rector of the University of Siena, Prof. Angelo Riccaboni

Brief introductions by Stefano Campana, Dominic Powlesland, Chris
Musson.

Domestic announcements.

1500-1615 STEFANO CAMPANA (University of Siena)

Invisibility and Emptiness in Landscape Archaeology: An Italian
Perspective

1615-1645 Break

1645-1800 DOMINIC POWLESLAND (Landscape Research Centre, UK)

Mind the Gap: emptiness and empty-heads in the study of past landscapes

April 23

0845-1000 DARJA GROSMAN (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Hidden in stone, mud and water

1000-1030 Coffee Break

1030-1245 ROG PALMER (freelance air-photo interpreter, UK)

Why are there holes in aerial data? And do we need a typology of gaps?

DAVE COWLEY (RCAHMS, UK)

How big a gap? Some thoughts on scale, emptiness and bias

1245-1415 Lunch

1415-1630 JAMES RACKHAM (Environmental archaeologist, University of
Nottingham, UK)

So few pieces of the jigsaw! Just how good can our landscape and
palaeoeconomic reconstructions be?

EZRA ZUBROW (University of Buffalo, USA)

Measuring Emptiness

1630-1700 Break

1700-1815 MARK EDMONDS (University of York, UK)

Necessary spaces: real and imagined emptiness in Later Prehistory

April 24

0845-1000 JOHN CASEY (Independent archaeologist and numismatist, UK)

When the money is missing: case studies in the constructive use of
numismatic evidence

1000-1030 Coffee Break

1030-1245 MICHAEL VINTER (Moesgaard Museum, Denmark)

Filling up emptiness: is everything lost and gone forever or can we
close the gaps?

MICHAEL TEICHMANN (German Archaeological Institute, Rome)

Landscape interpretation in Roman south-western Lazio, Italy

FRANK VERMUELEN (University of Ghent, Belgium)

Surveying an Adriatic valley: from meaningless dots to meaningful gaps

1245-1415 Lunch

1415-1630 WLODEK RĄCSKOWSKI (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań,
Poland)

The gap trap: stereotype and/or cognitive category

GIOVANNA PIZZIOLO, LUCIA SARTI, NICOLETTA VOLANTE (University of Siena,
Italy)

Reliable gaps in prehistoric landscapes: steps towards an encouraging
agenda?

ROSE FERRABY (University of Exeter, UK)

Drawing out the gaps: Using images to explore absence in the landscape

1630-1700 Break

1700-1800 CLOSING SESSION