Landscapes of Movement

Trails, Paths, and Roads in Anthropological Perspective

LANDSCAPES OF MOVEMENT:
TRAILS, PATHS, AND ROADS
IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

May 29-June 2, 2006

Preliminary Schedule – draft 3b

MONDAY MAY 29: DAY 1

[Travel day: participants arrive in Philadelphia, transfer to The Gables]

8:00 PM: Informal reception at The Gables

TUESDAY MAY 30: DAY 2

AM
[Breakfast at The Gables: transfer to Penn Museum, Classroom 2]

9:00 Introduction:

9:15 Opening Discussion
Participants will each have 10 minutes to briefly introduce their research and individual perspectives regarding the anthropology of trails, paths, and roads.

11:00 Break

11:15 Conceptual Issues
Conversation to focus on major interpretive issues regarding the study of trails, paths, and roads including definitions, chronology, and scale; the relationship of trails, paths, and roads to sites and landscapes, including issues of research design;; and the relevant theoretical frameworks within archaeology, anthropology, and social science (e.g., cultural evolution, practice theory, phenomenology, memory, semiotics, heterarchy-hierarchy, bottom up vs. top down approaches, historical ecology and other perspectives)

12:15 Lunch

1:30 Breakout Session 1: GIS and remote sensing in the archaeological study of trails, paths, and roads [Sheets, White, Ur. Walker]

2:30 Break

2:45 Material Issues
Discussion about labor, connectivity, energetics, engineering, management; maintenance, ownership, territoriality, boundaries, infrastructure, site formation processes, and physical signatures of trails, paths, and roads as anthropogenic features of landscapes and built environments.

4:00 Break

4:15 Discussion resumes

5:00 Discussant’s summary comments [Earle]

5:30 Discussion concluded: transfer to The Gables

7:00 Dinner: Dahlak

WEDNESDAY MAY 31: DAY 3

AM
[Breakfast at The Gables: transfer to Penn Museum, Classroom 2]

9:00 Discussion of Papers, I: group will provide detailed comments on papers from
Erickson
Erickson and Walker
Ferguson et al
Fowler
Keller

11:00 Break

11:15 Session resumes

12:15 Lunch

1:30 Discussion: Political Issues
Discussion of social organization, management, political economy, access, power, control, resistance, and monumentality in relation to trails, paths, and roads.

2:45 Break

3:00 Session resumes

5:00 Discussant’s summary comments [Preucel]

5:30 Discussion concluded: transfer to The Gables

7:00 Dinner (Leventhal/ Krasniewicz]

THURSDAY JUNE 1: DAY 4

AM
[Breakfast at The Gables]

9:00 Discussion of papers, II: group will provide detailed comments on papers from
Sheets
Snead
Ur
Zedeño
Darling
White

PM

12:00 Working Lunch: Breakout Session 2: applied roads/trails research and outreach [Erickson, Ferguson, Zedeño]

1:30 Ideological Issues
Discussion of indigenous knowledge systems, worldview, cosmology, symbolism, pilgrimage, procession, theater, experience, metaphor,, memory, axis mundi, body, movement, and aesthetics of trails, paths, and roads.

3:00 Break

3:15 Session resumes

5:00 Session Wrap up: summary remarks

5:30 Session ends

7:00 Dinner: Nan

FRIDAY JUNE 2: DAY 5

AM

For those with later flights, the morning will be devoted to data sharing: arrangements will be made for the projection of slides/images/maps, etc. In the afternoon Erickson and Snead will meet with Walda Metcalfe, of the Penn Museum Press, to discuss publication logistics.