ASBC Victoria News

The 2008 Northwest Anthropological Conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Victoria, British Columbia. Sessions, posters, and workshops will be held in the conference facilities at the hotel. A reception will be held on the Thursday night of the conference in the galleries of the Royal British Columbia Museum. The conference will end with a banquet in the Pacific Ballroom at the Marriott Hotel.

NWAC includes anthropological research in northwestern North America, and the research of Pacific Northwest anthropologists working elsewhere in the world. A centrepiece of this year’s conference will be a special symposium based on the findings of researchers investigating Kwäday Dan Ts’ìnchi, the remains of a man preserved by glacial ice in northwestern British Columbia. Other session have been proposed and can be viewed in the list of proposed sessions.At the Gala Banquet the Keynote Speaker will Dr. Keith Thor Carlson speaking on the Sasquatch.

Topics for the conference should fall under the following general themes:

1. Cultural anthropology in the northwest
2. Archaeology in the northwest
3. Physical/biological anthropology
4. Indigenous anthropology
5. Indigenous archaeology
6. Cultural anthropology in other areas
7. Archaeology in other areas
8. Cultural resource management
9. Other(s)

For More information on the conference visit: http://nwac.2008.googlepages.com/

ASBC Victoria Meeting TUESDAY, April 15^th, 7:30 PM

The Archaeology of the Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia

Phil Czerwinski

The Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia is home to arguably the largest rock art province in the world, and is also the location of one of Australia’s largest resource development precincts. The question must be asked: can industry and cultural heritage coexist? This talk will provide an overview of the Burrup Peninsula rock art, provide information relating to development in the area and address some of the measures archaeologists have gone to both work with and against resource development companies for the goal of heritage management.

Phil Czerwinski has worked as an archaeologist in Australia for the past eight years; both as a consultant archaeologist and with State Government. His interests in archaeology include the technology of stone artifacts, rock art analysis and ethnography and Aboriginal mythology as these relates to archaeological sites. As a recent immigrant to Canada, he looks forward to learning more about the archaeology of his new adopted lands