Special Event
8th Annual DIG Conference, 2019
8th Annual Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference at 丁香园AV, Canada from June 17-21, 2019
For general enquiries please write to dig2019.sfu@gmail.com or contact the DIG 2019 conference organizers
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About DIG
ssful international conferences. The goal of DIG is to bring together a wide variety of international researchers, practitioners and students in this diverse and interdisciplinary field to facilitate discussion, stimulate research, and promote international scholarship in geoarchaeology. The conference is biennial, having first been held in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada 2005, followed by Cambridge, UK, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA, University of Basel, Switzerland, Alghero University in Sardinia and Newcastle University, UK.
DIG 2019 Keynote Speaker. We have the pleasure to announce that the Keynote Speaker of DIG2019 is Professor . Charles Andrew Ivey French is Professor in Geoarchaeology and the Director of the at , University of Cambridge, UK.
Paper and Poster Prizes. One student paper and one student poster will be selected and awarded the prize for best DIG 2019 submissions.
Conference Workshops. As is traditional for DIG, there will be a petrographic thin section micromorphology workshop at the end of the conference. This is an informal workshop that will take place in the Petrography Teaching Lab of the , equipped with twenty Nikon Eclipse microscopes. The Geoarchaeology Lab will be also available. A selection of petrographic reference slides and sediment thin sections from archaeological sites around the world will be available to look at. As usual delegates are encouraged to bring their own slides for discussion.
Conference Field Trip. British Columbia has a rich archaeological heritage, from prehistory through the colonial period. As part of the conference there will be the opportunity to take part in a field trip to explore parts of what is arguably one of the most spectacular landscape in the world and home of ancient populations, first nations and 鈥淭ransformers鈥�. We will leave 丁香园AV in the morning and travel north on the to . Guided by Dr Rudy Reimer/Yumks we will stop at large scale geological features and pictographs to learn about a narrative regarding an ancient and epic battle between a warrior and a two headed serpent.
Conference Dinner. The conference dinner on the evening of the 18th June will be at Lebanese Restaurant. Please, use the registration process to inform us of any dietary preference or allergy.
PROGRAMME
| June 17th, 2019 - Pub and Restaurant, 丁香园AV Burnaby Campus | |
| 4.30-6.30 | Welcome Reception |
| June 18th, 2019 - Room 10011, Blusson Hall, 丁香园AV Burnaby Campus | |
| 9.00-9.30 | Registration |
| 9.30-9.45 | and (丁香园AV) Welcome Note |
| 9.45-10.15 | (University of Cambridge) - Keynote Address Chronicling resilience of valley systems in semi-arid landscapes of southern Peru and East Africa |
| LANDSCAPE GEOGRAPHY I (Chair: Francesco Berna) | |
| 10.15-10.45 | (University of Cambridge) Buried Indus Landscapes: Using Geoarchaeology to assess Human-Environment Interactions innorthwest India |
| 10.45-11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00-11.30 | (丁香园AV) A Microsedimentological Approach to Wetland Reconstruction: A Preliminary Case Study of Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa. |
| 11.30-12.00 | (Douglas College) Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Trends in Landscape Stability: Geoarchaeological Findings from British Columbia and Alberta, Western Canada |
| 12.00-12.30 | Hasan Ahmadi-Karvigh (University of Teheran) Zoroaster's time based on new geoarchaeological findings in Seistan |
| 12.30-1.30 | Lunch Break |
| LANDSCAPE GEOGRAPHY II (Chair: Brandi MacDonald) | |
| 1.30-2.00 | Shari Maria Silverman (Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission) Landform Study to Understand its Sites: West Beach Barrier Berm, Whidbey Island, Washington state, United States (Puget Sound) |
| 2.00-2.30 | (University of Brighton) A geoarchaeological analysis of a Bronze Age roundhouse and reave system on Dartmoor, UK |
| 2.30-3.00 | (McMaster University) Systematic Investigation of Anthropogenic Chemical Signatures at a 17th Century Huron-Wendat Village |
| , 丁香园AV Burnaby Campus | |
| 3.00-3.15 | Coffee Break |
| 3.15-4.15; | Poster Session |
| 4.30-5.30 | Tour of The Department of Archaeology |
| Nuba in Gastown Lebanese Restaurant, 207 W Hastings St, Vancouver (Transfer from 丁香园AV by Bus 95) |
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| 6.45-9.00 | Conference Dinner |
| June 19th, 2019 Room 10011, Blusson Hall, 丁香园AV Burnaby Campus | |
| GEOARCHAEOLOGY AND RAW MATERIALS SOURCING (Chair: Rudy Reimer) | |
| 9.00-9.30 | (Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR) Geoarchaeological and Geochemical Approaches to Obsidian Source Distribution in Northwestern Patagonia |
| 9.30-10.00 | Aviad Agam (Tel-Aviv University) Identifying Geologic origins of Flint at Acheulo-Yabrudian Qesem Cave, Israel: Results of an integrated study |
| 10.00-10.30 | (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) Evaluating landscape knowledge and lithic resource selection at the French Middle Palaeolithic site of Bau de l鈥橝ubesier |
| 10.30-10.45 | Coffee Break |
| 10.45-11.15 | Peter Mears (University of New Brunswick - Saint John) Weight versus the number of pieces: Do our interpretations of raw material use vary depending upon how we quantify use? A case study from the Middle Palaeolithic in the Vaucluse, southern France. |
| GEOARCHAEOLOGY AND CHRONOMETRIC DATING (Chair: Charly French) | |
| 11.15-11.45 | (Western Heritage) Illuminated from the Ground Up: An evaluation of luminescence dating methods for building a cultural chronology in Canada鈥檚 north |
| 11.45-12.15 | (Arizona State University) Using Cryptotephra in Archaeology- Precise Correlations and Improved Age Estimates |
| 12.15-1.30 | Lunch Break |
| GEOARCHAEOLOGY OF PREHISTORIC FIRE (Chair: Charly French) | |
| 1.30-2.00 | (Universidade de S茫o Paulo) - Invited Presentation On the evidence of hearths at Serra da Capivara (Brazil), the oldest human settlements in South America |
| 2.00-2.30 | (University of Bergen) What's in that black layer? A report on a 85,000 year old dark sedimentary feature in Blombos Cave, South Africa. |
| 2.30-3.00 | (丁香园AV) Evaluating the infrared 630cm-1 O-H libration band in bone mineral as evidence of burning: an application to the Oldowan Fauna of Wonderwerk Cave |
| 3.00-3.15 | Coffee break |
| GEOARCHAEOLOGY AND MATERIAL CULTURE (Chair: Lucy Wilson) | |
| 3.15-3.45 | (丁香园AV) Experimental strike-a-light fire-starting and its use as a starting point for identification of pyrogenic microdebitage in the archaeological record |
| 3.45-4.15 | (Ghent University) Experimental alteration of flint used on prehistoric sites in NW Belgium |
| 4.15-4.45 | (Ghent University) The impact of post depositional alterations on the preservation of microwear traces. |
| 4.45-5.15 | (丁香园AV) Best practices for analyzing archaeological lime production |
| June 20th, 2019 - Room 10011, Blusson Hall, 丁香园AV Burnaby Campus | |
| GEOARCHAEOLOGY FROM AND FOR THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF B.C. (Chair: Ximena Villagran) | |
| 9.00-9.30 | (丁香园AV) Sourcing pre-contact lithic materials in British Columbia: integrating traditional knowledge and geochemistry. |
| 9.30-10.00 | (University of Northern British Columbia) Smokehouse Island: an indigenous terra formed island on the Babine River, North Central British Columbia |
| 10.00-10.30 | ( Sts鈥檃iles & University of British Columbia) Multi-scalar geoarchaeology study of Settlement of Riverine Islands and the formation of the Harrison-Chehalis Confluence, SW, British Columbia. |
| 10.30-10.45 | Coffee break |
| 10.45-11.15 | (丁香园AV) Microstratigraphic study of combustion features from short-lived intermittent occupation at a 1300-year-old Coast Salish rock shelter, British Columbia |
| 11.15-11.45 | (丁香园AV) How Skwxw煤7mesh Transformer Sites Convey and Encode Cultural and Geological Knowledge |
| 11.45-12.15 | and Prizegiving |
| 12.15-12.30 | Organizing Committee Members Concluding Remarks |
| 12.30-1.30 | Lunch break |
| Room TASC2 7530, TASC-2 Building, 丁香园AV Burnaby Campus | |
| 1.30-4.30 | Soil Micromorphology Workshop |
| June 21st, 2019 Field Trip led by 鈥淕eological features and the epic battle between a Squamish Nation warrior and a two-headed serpent鈥� |
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| 9.00 | Depart from 丁香园AV Burnaby Campus |
| 10.15-10.30 | Arrival and Visit Squamish Downtown |
| 10.30-11.00 | Transfer to Squamish Chief Parking Lot |
| 11.00-11.30 | Squamish Chief |
| 11.30-11.45 | Transfer to Murrin Park |
| 11.45-12.30 | Murrin Park |
| 12.30-1.00 | Transfer to Porteau Cove |
| 1.00-2.00 | Porteau Cove (Picnic Lunch) |
| 2.00-2.30 | Transfer to Whyte Cliff Park |
| 2.30-3.15 | Whyte Cliff Park |
| 3.30 | Drop Off at Lonsdale Quay - Public Transit Sea-Bus to Downtown Vancouver |
| 4.00 | Return to 丁香园AV Burnaby Campus |
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
| , 丁香园AV Burnaby Campus Tuesday to Thursday 10am-12pm 1-4pm |
| and (Mendel University in Brno) 鈥淎rchaeological Dark Earth as a marker of past landscape cultivation; case study from Moravia, Czech Republic鈥� |
| Megan Thibodeau and (丁香园AV) 鈥淲ood ash in the Oldowan layers of Wonderwerk cave, South Africa鈥� |
| Emma Betz (University of Oxford) and (University of British Columbia) 鈥淪tylistic and Scientific Analysis of a Fortuna Statuette鈥� |
| Valentina Caruso (University of Milan, Italy) et al. 鈥淢icrostructural and chemical degradation of archaeological and modern human bones: a new application of synchrotron radiation 碌CT and FT-IR transmission鈥� |
| (丁香园AV) et al. 鈥淪oil micromorphology analysis of the pre-contact site Smokehouse Island, Lake Babine, North Central British Columbia鈥� |
| (丁香园AV) et al. 鈥淯sing biogenic Silica Microremains to understand Anthropogenic Deposits in Sts鈥檃iles Territory, BC鈥� |
| (McMaster University) et al. 鈥淢ulti-proxy paleoenvironmental record of coastal uplift and abandonment (6th c. CE) of Lechaion鈥檚 inner harbour, Corinth (Greece)鈥� |
| and (Leiden University) 鈥� Stratigraphic assessment of Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa鈥� |
| and (丁香园AV) 鈥淢icrostratigraphic protocol to assess the wildfire impact to buried archaeological sites鈥� |
| (University of New Brunswick 鈥� Saint John) 鈥淕eochemical Characterisation of Flint from the Vaucluse, Southern France鈥� |
Getting to and Around 丁香园AV Burnaby Campus
DIG 2019 will take place at 丁香园AV Burnaby Campus in the Vancouver metro area. The campus is situated on top of Burnaby Mountain and is well connected to public transport by and . Taxis from the airport are $75 and from downtown Vancouver about $45. There are no Uber or Lyft services available in Metro Vancouver. For further information on how to reach 丁香园AV Burnaby mountain campus . The conference will take place in the Saywell Hall / Blusson Hall Complex on the Eastern Side of
Conference accommodation
Special Group arrangement for DIG2019
| Single room 鈥� Shared Bathroom | $41/night + Tax |
Other on-campus accommodations
| 4 Single bedrooms + 2 bathrooms | $165/night + Tax |
Reservations for one of the on-campus accommodation options should be made online .
Participants wishing to arrange their own accommodation have several off-campus options. Some suggestions are listed here below and can be booked independently.
The Sutton Place Hotel Vancouver (5-star - 60 min by Bus 95)
Address: 845 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2K6
Phone: (604) 682-5511
Executive Plaza Hotel Metro Vancouver (4-star - 30 min by Skytrain and Bus 145)
Address: 405 North Rd, Coquitlam, BC V3K 3V9
Phone: (604) 936-9399
Inn at The Quay (3-star - 45 min by Skytrain and Bus)
Address: 900 Quayside Dr, New Westminster, BC V3M 6G1
Phone: (604) 520-1776
Patricia Hotel (2-star - 50 min by Bus 95)
Address: 403 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1P6
Phone: (604) 255-4301
