Landscapes of Movement
Trails, Paths, and Roads in Anthropological Perspective
The Symposium will be held May 30 to June1, 2006, at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA. The meetings will be limited to invited participants and select local scholars who have a professional interest in the topic. The Symposium is organized by James Snead, J. Andrew Darling, and Clark Erickson.
The Symposium is modeled after the highly successful symposia at the School of American Research. All papers will be circulated to each participant many months bef
ore the conference (most of the participants have already distributed preliminary or near complete drafts from the cancelled American Anthropological Association symposium in 2004). Participants will not formally read their papers at the conference. Our primary goal is focused scholarly discussion and debate about the role of
landscape approaches in understanding the human past with particular emphasis on trails, facilities for movement, associated material culture, and the cultural and cognitive elements that cultures use to generate landscapes in environmental space. The first three days are dedicated to the detailed discussion of each participant’s paper. Each participant will be asked to revise their papers by incorporating critique and editorial comments provided during the discussions. On the 4th day, the symposium organizers will highlight the main themes raised in the papers and discussion and summarize the scholarly contributions of the symposium.
Participants & Areas of Research