Sep 27 - Calpe Conference Starts On Thursday
This year’s Calpe Conference – Past Worlds: Neanderthal and Modern Human Response to Climate and Environmental Change – will be officially launched this Thursday at 9am by Steven Linares, Minister for Heritage.
The conference, which will be held at the University of Gibraltar, brings together specialists from many fields of research. The Friday session will be dedicated to the Gibraltar Neanderthals and will summarise the research which contributed to our knowledge of its outstanding universal value and, ultimately, World Heritage Status.
Not all will be Neanderthals. The opening session on Thursday includes general issues, such as the impact of El Niño in Ancient Peru and a review of the archaeological record on fishing. This session will also include a specific paper on how people in Gibraltar coped with water shortages in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. The final day, Saturday, has more lectures on climate change impact in South America and this will be contrasted to southern Iberia. The closing lecture will be given by Professor Miguel Araujo, a leading biogeographer, who will ask the question “Does Biodiversity have a Future?”
Given the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, it promises to have something of interest to a wide audience, from ecologists to historians. Registration is now open at the Gibraltar Museum (Telephone 200 74289 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and is free for local residents.
A copy of the full programme is attached.
Programme
Past Worlds: Neanderthal and Modern Human Response to Climate and Environment Change
Thursday 29th September, 2016
0900 Official Opening
0930 Inaugural Lecture Arturo Morales
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Fish and the archaeological record: an overview of some persistent paradigms 1030 Coffee
1100 Lecture 1 Charly French
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Chronicling the resilience of alluviated valley systems in wet/dry transitions: Case studies from the Ica valley of Peru,
the Kerio valley of Tot in northern Kenya and Aksum/Konso in Ethiopia
1200 Lecture 2
Dan Sandweiss
University of Maine, United States
El Niño in Ancient Peru
1300 Lunch
1500 Lecture 3 Luis Borrero
IMHICIHU, CONICET, Argentina
Homo sapiens and the Holocene colonization of the Patagonian Andes
1600 Tea
1630 Lecture 4 Larry Sawchuk
University of Toronto, Canada
Water Harvesting and Adaptive Strategies for Coping with Climate Change: The Gibraltar Experience
1730 Lecture 5 Jacques Blondel
CNRS, France
Eco-cultural niche modelling: a Malthusian-Darwinian trajectory of civilization in the Mediterranean
1830 Discussion
Friday 30th September, 2016
Neanderthals in Pleistocene Europe
0930 Lecture 6 Joaquin Rodríguez Vidal
Universidad de Huelva, Spain
The Neanderthal occupation of Gibraltar: 1 - The temporal context
1030 Coffee
1100 Lecture 7 Richard Jennings
Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
The Neanderthal occupation of Gibraltar: 2 - The spatial context
1200 Lecture 8 Geraldine Finlayson, Stewart Finlayson, Francisco Giles Guzman
The Gibraltar Museum
University of Gibraltar, Gibraltar
Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom
Neanderthals in the landscape – ecological patterns in a Mediterranean Serengeti
1300 Lunch
1500 Lecture 9 Darren Fa
University of Gibraltar, Gibraltar
Did Neanderthals overexploit intertidal resources?
1600 Tea
1630 Lecture 10 Clive Finlayson, Stewart Finlayson, Francisco Giles Guzman
The Gibraltar Museum
The University of Gibraltar, Gibraltar
University of Toronto, Canada
Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom
Neanderthals in the cave – passive onlookers or agents of environmental change?
1730 Lecture 11 Jacques Jaubert
Université de Bordeaux, France
Neanderthals deep in the cave
1830 Discussion
Saturday 1st October, 2016
Modern Humans in Holocene South America and Southern Iberia
0930 Lecture 12 David Beresford-Jones
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lomas Fog Oasis as a Barometer of Past ENSO Changes
and their Role in Shaping Preceramic Hunter-Gatherer Ecology on the South Coast of Peru
1030 Coffee
1100 Lecture 13 Bertil Mächtle
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Human response to environmental change
In Andean South America - results from Peru: the joint projects "Nasca" and "ANDEAN transect"
1200 Lecture 14 Kevin Lane
CONICET, Instituto de Arqueología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Environment, Mobility and Herding:
A Political Ecology of South American camelid pastoralism
1300 Lunch
1500 Lecture 15 José María Gutiérrez-López
Museo histórico municipal de Villamartin, Spain
Medioambiente y recursos en las sociedades productoras del suroeste de Iberia (vi-iv mil. bc). modelos económicos complementarios
1600 Tea
1630 Discussion
1730 Closing Lecture Miguel Araujo
Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
Does Biodiversity Have a Future?
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