Monday, 28th August, 2000

 

Tuesday, 29th August, 2000
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Opening of the Symposium
– address by Lech Krzyzaniak and Michal Kobusiewicz
– address by Fred Wendorf
9.15 Hassan Hussein Idris (Director General of the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museum of the Sudan), “Current goals of the archaeological research in the Sudan”
Discussion
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Session I (Chairman: Hassan Hussein Idris)
– Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild and Katherina R. Nelson, “Al Jerar: a new Early Neolithic
entity in the Southwestern Desert of Egypt”
– Romuald Schild, Hanna Krolik, Fred Wendorf, “Microstratigraphy and features of site E-75-6
at Nabta Playa (Egypt)”
– Fred Wendorf, “Final Neolithic settlement in the Nabta-Kiseiba area (Southwestern Egypt)”
– Katherina R. Nelson, “Chronology and technology: the pottery of Nabta Playa (Egypt)”
– Michal Kobusiewicz, “Neolithic wells.from the Western Desert of Egypt”
12.30 Discussion
13.30 Lunch
15.00 Session II (part 1) (Chairman: Fred Wendorf)
– Rudolph Kuper, “Trough Abu Ballas to the back of the beyond: Pharaonic tracks in the Libyan
Desert”
– Karin Kindermann, “New investigations into the Neolithic settlement system of Djara (Aby
Muharik Plateau, Western Desert)”
– Heiko Riemer, “Abu Gerara: Neolithic camp sites between Djara and Dakhla Oasis”
– Jorg Linstaedter, “Middle and Late Neolithic in the Wadi Bakht (Gilf Kebir)”
16.30 Coffee
17.00 Session II (part 2)
– Lech Krzyzaniak, “Research on the petroglyphs in the Dakhla Oasis (Western Desert of Egypt)”
– Friederike Jesse, “Early ceramics in the Sahara and the Nile Valley”
– Pierre Vermeersch, “The mid-Holocene occupation of the tree-shelter, Red Sea Mountains (Egypt)”
18.00 Discussion
19.00 Dinner (with candles)

Wednesday, 30th August, 2000
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Session III (part l) (Chairman: Pierre Vermeersch)
– Juan J. Castillos, “Social development in Predynastic Egypt: a study of cemeteries in the Badari
area”
– Stan Hendrickx, “The Badarian living site Mahgar Dendera II and the distribution of the
Badarian in Upper Egypt”
– Urlich Hartung, “New investigations of the German Archaeological Institute in Buto and Maadi”
– Luc Watrin, “Five or six lost generations: what was going on in the Delta after Maadi and before
Naqada”
12.30 Discussion
13.30 Lunch
15.00 Session IV (Chairing Lady: Brigitte Gratien)
– Savino Di Lernia, Francesca Merighi and Mauro Cremaschi, “Early Holocene hunter-gatherers
of the Acacus Mountains (Libyan Sahara): a preliminary demographic approach”
– Gabriel Baldur, “Cultural relicts as Saharan landscape elements”
– Mark A. W. Milburn, “Some non-funerary Saharan structures”
– Thomas W. Wyrwoll, “The Khoisan element in the North African rock art”
16.30 Coffee
17.00 Discussion
17.30 Session V (Chairman: Rudolph Kuper)
– Birgit Keding, “Environmental change and cultural development in the Middle Wadi Howar
(Northwestern Sudan) ”
– Stefan Kroepelin, “Wadi Hariq (NW Sudan): geoarchaeological evidence from the core
of the Southeastern Sahara”
– Mathias Lange, “Finds of the A-Group from the Eastern Sahara and the chronological
development of the ceramic in the Laqiya Region (Northwestern Sudan)”
18.30 Discussion
19.00 Dinner

Thursday, 31st August, 2000
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Session VI (part 1) (Chairman: Hans-Ake Nordstroem)
– Philip Van Peer, “Survey for Palaeolithic sites on Sai Island (Northern Sudan)”
– Brigitte Gratien, “Paleogeomorphology and human occupation in the Northern Wadi el-Khouri
(Sudan)”
– Izumi H. Takamiya, “Egyptian pottery in A-Group cemeteries, Nubia: towards an understanding
of pottery production and distribution in Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt”
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Session VI (part 2)
– Matthieu Honegger, “Neolithic and Pre-Kerma occupation at Kerma”
– Louis Chaix and J. W. Hansen, “The ‘bent-horned’ cattle from Kerma (Sudan): a cultural marker?”
– Jacek Kabacinski, “Stone Age lithic industries in the Letti Bassin”
– Elene A. A. Garcea, “A review of the El Melek Group in the Dongola Reach (Sudan)”
12.30 Discussion
13.30 Lunch
15.00 Session VI (part 3) (Chairing Lady: Birgit Keding)
– Piotr Osypinski, “Palaeolithic sites from SDRS”
– Derek Welsby, “Survey in the fourth cataract region (Sudan)”
– Krzysztof Pluskota, “Petroglyphs oj the Eastern Desert (Sudan): new discoveries”
– Lech Krzyzaniak, “Excavation at Kadero: a summary of results”
16.30 Coffee
17.00 Session VI (part 4)
– Maria Kaczmarek, “Biological consequences of environmental change in the Post-Pleistocene
Nubia”
– Malgorzata Winiarska-Kabacinska, “Neolithic gouges from Kadero: what they were used for?”
18.00 Discussion
19.00 Dinner

Friday, 1st September, 2000
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Departure for Poznan
10.00 Visit to the exhibitions of the Poznan Archaeological Museum and to the nearby medieval Old Market Square
13.00 Lunch (buffet) in the Poznan Archaeological Museum
14.00 – 17.00 free time
17.00 Departure for the conference centre at Puszczykowo
19.00 Bonfire and dinner in the open

Saturday, 2nd August, 2000
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Session VII (Chairman: Fred Wendorf)
Current and planned projects of the Participants: their description, goals and problems.
General discussion and Symposium overview by Fred Wendorf
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Departure of Participants