From March March 12 to March 15, Emptyscapes project has been at Kirkwall, Orkney-UK.
LANDMARKS
Orkney, 12th-15th March 2016
Saturday 12th March: Papers, Orkney College
9.30 Assemble at College – Tea and coffee
10.00 Introduction
Dave Cowley, Mark Edmonds & Ingrid Mainland
10.30 An anthropology and archaeology of landscape futures
Jo Vergunst
11.30 From the Outside In or the Inside Out: eliminating the site in the search for past landscapes
Dominic Powlesland
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Pollen, scale, time and integration
Kevin J. Edwards
14.30 EMPTYSCAPES. Filling ‘empty’ Mediterranean Landscapes, Mapping the Archaeological continuum
Stefano Campana
15.30 Understanding archaeological landscapes through non-invasive approaches
M. Doneus, W. Neubauer, I. Trinks
16.30 End of day discussion
18.00 Reception/Dinner
Sunday 13th March:Field trip to West Mainland
9.15 Depart from the Pier head, opposite The Shore Hotel, Kirkwall. Site visits will include Maes Howe, Skara Brae, Ring of Brodgar, Broch of Gurness, Unstan
Packed lunches will be provided
18.00 Return to Kirkwall
Monday 14th March: Field trip to Rousay
7.30 Depart from the Pier head, opposite The Shore Hotel, Kirkwall. Ferry from Tingwall to Rousay. Visits to include Quandale, Midhowe, Westness and Rinyo
Packed lunches will be provided
18.30 Return to Kirkwall
Tuesday 15th March: Papers, Orkney College
9.30 Assemble at College – Tea and coffee
10.00 Map Orkney Month: Multi-vocal cartography and the collaborative re-imagining of place.
Dan Lee
11.00 Brú na Bóinne, Co. Meath, Ireland: the last five years and future
prospects
Steve Davis
12.00 Interface design, working across scales, and a why for 3D in archaeology.
Rachel Opitz
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Transition Zone Prehistory: the scale and techniques of research into landscape change around Orkney
Caroline Wickham-Jones
15.00 An archaeology of seaways and marine movement
Oscar Aldred
16.00 To see a world in a grain of sand
Dave Cowley
17.00 Concluding discussion
19.00 Dinner
