Congresso Internacional Embarcações Primitivas

1º Congresso Internacional sobre Embarcações Primitivas

26-29 de Outubro 2023

Inscrições obrigatórias através: pedro.brochado@cm-viladoconde.pt | Attending is free, but inscription is mandatory: pedro.brochado@cm-viladoconde.pt

Localização: Cineteatro de Vila do Conde | Location: Cineteatro de Vila do Conde

Programa Final | Final Programme

THURSDAY 26th OCTOBER

Arrival and Coffee 10.00 h

11.00 Béat Arnold:

Speech in remembrance of Miran & keynote: “early watercraft vs. traditional watercraft”

11.30 Symbolic Award ceremony: Commemoration award of the pile-dwelling regattas

12.00- 14.00 Lunch

14.00 Part A : Logboats in Portugal – archaeology, conservation treatment, navigation

14.00 Filipe Castro & Miguel Costa: Dugouts in the Portuguese Underwater Cultural Heritage Database

14.30 Gonçalo C. Lopes, Pedro Caleja, Cristóvão Fonseca, Raquel Garrão: Crossing banks. The dugouts of the Lima river (NW Portugal), testimonies of a millenary use.

15.00 João Marrocano & José António Gonçalves: Displaying logboat canoes: the Lima River dugouts´ case studies, Portugal

15.30 Discussion and questions

16.00 Presentation of NELO kayak construction

18.00 Reception

FRIDAY 27th OCTOBER

Arrival and coffee 9.00

9.30 Part B European & non-European Logboats – archaeology, techniques, recording methodology

9.30 Karl Brady: Diving into the past: Archaeological Investigations of Ancient Logboats from Lough Corrib, Co. Galway

10.00 Niall Gregory: Sharing the same tide: the case for standardizing dugout boat recording to maximize interpretative values and progress typological understanding

10.30 Barbora Machová: From Pen to Device: Development of Activities Investigating River Archaeology in the Czech Republic

11.00 Discussion and questions

12.00- 14.00 Lunch

14.30 Visit of NELO Kayak Factory

16.30 Elena Saccone: Early watercraft in the Rio de la Plata basin: archaeological and ethnographic dugout canoes in museums of Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil

17.00 Peter H. Wood: Missing the Boat: Ancient Dugout Canoes in North America´s Mississippi-Missouri Watershed

17.30 Ronald Bockius: Some thoughts on exceptional woodworking patterns found with prehistoric logboats from Ireland and Britain

18.00 Discussion and questions

SATURDAY 28th OCTOBER

Arrival and coffee 9.00

9.30 Part C The spirit of dugout canoes – ethnological aspects, social perspectives & cultural heritage

9.30 Joana Baço & Gonçalo C. Lopes: The dugout canoe from São Tomé and Principe: the recording of a disappearing reality

10.00 Bob Holtzman: The Warrau Canoe in Guyana: Paddling between Tradition and Modernity

10.30 Sarah Ward & Lak Lo: Touk Khmer: an ethnoarchaeological study of a traditional Cambodian racing canoe

11.00 Cynthia Dunning Thierstein, Cyril Dworsky, Barbara Fath, Ludivine Marquis: How to build a prehistoric logboat and race through time

11.30 Discussion and questions

12.00- 14.00 Lunch

14.00 Ljoba Jenče: Drévak-expanded logboat, the intangible cultural heritage as a treasure chest of the protected area Notranjski park at Cernica Lake and Ljubljanica basin

14.30 Zdravka Georgieva: Current state of and future perspectives for Bulgarian primitive watercraft

15.00 Karl Brady: Turbulent Waters: Challenges in Managing and Protecting Ireland´s Ancient Watercraft

15.30 Discussion and questions

16.00 Coffee Break

16.30 Part D No need for logs – skin boats of the Northern Arc

16.30 Darina Tully

The Skin Boat Tradition in Ireland

17.00 Jenya Anichchenko: Open skin boats of the Aleutian chain (Alaska): mystery, archaeology, and community-based revitalization of boat building tradition

17.30 Mikael Fauvelle: Maritime Encounters in a comparative context: How sewn boats shaped the social trajectories of early chiefdoms in both Scandinavia and southern California

18.00 Discussion and questions

18.30 Final Apéro and Dinner

SUNDAY 29th OCTOBER

Morning visits (locations to be determined).

A importância das Embarcações Primitivas

A iniciativa Embarcações Primitivas (EW-Early Watercraft Initiative) foi fundada em 2015 em Vrhnica, Eslovénia. Após a descoberta do fogo e da tecnologia, as embarcações estão entre as mais antigas e mais importantes invenções humanas. Contudo, só podemos determinar a sua antiguidade (8200 BC) através de pesquisas arqueológicas (datações AMS, dendrocronologia). No entanto, existem outros fatores no âmbito da investigação das embarcações primitivas (EW-Early Watercraft Initiative) como os seus componentes serem imperecíveis, que levam a que não devam ser estudadas apenas através da investigação arqueológica, mas também através das tradições (antropologia, etnologia, experiências). Outro ponto importante é que as embarcações primitivas são a única invenção humana tangível nos tempos modernos, o que significa que devemos ter uma visão mais abrangente desta temática. EW teve uma influência direta e indireta em muitas outras invenções recentes da humanidade como a migração, mobilidade, ferramentas, velas, astronomia, bússola, entre muitas outras.

Basis of importance of Early Watercraft

The Early Watercraft Initiative (EW) was founded in 2015 in Vrhnika, Slovenia. After fire and tools, watercraft are among the oldest and most important human inventions. However, we can only determine how old logboats are (8200 BC) through archaeological research (AMS dating, dendrochronology). But there are other EW, which cannot be studied only through archaeological research because their components are imperishable and we can study them through traditions (anthropology, ethnology, experiments). Another important point is that the early watercraft is the only human invention that is tangible in modern times. This means that we should understand EW in a comprehensive picture. EW has direct and indirect influence on many other inventions of recent humanity such as migration, mobility, tools, sails, navigation, astronomy, compass and many others.

Definições de Embarcações Primitivas

Genericamente trata-se de canoas, barcos feitos em pele de animal, barcos em casca de madeira, jangadas, barcos a vapor, os quais podemos encontrar em todo o mundo, i.e. na América Central e América do Sul, no Médio e Extremo Oriente, Austrália, Europa, Eurásia, América do Norte e região do Pacífico.

What cover Early Watercraft

We are talking about logboats, bundle/steam boat, skin boat, bark boat, raft in all region around the world i.e South and Middle America, Middle and Far East Asia, Australia, Europe, Eurasia, North America, Pacific region.

Participantes do congresso

Este encontro proporcionará o debate entre investigadores de diversos campos de investigação que normalmente não se reúnem neste tipo de reuniões científicas.

Gostaríamos de convidar académicos das seguintes disciplinas: Antropologia, Etnologia, Arqueologia, História, Estudos Experimentais, Geologia, Hidrologia, Biologia, 3D Estudos de Modelagem, Documentação, Estudos do Património, Parques temáticos de Património, Preservação da Cultura Imaterial, Turismo do Património Ecológico e Sustentável.

Who should attend congress

The congress provided a setting to visit researchers from many fields who could not be adequately presented at their own congresses while they were on the sidelines. We would like to invite the disciplines: Anthropology, Ethnology, Archaeology, History, Experimental Studies, Geology, Hydrology, Biology, 3D Modelling Studies, Documentation, Heritage Studies, Heritage Parks, Intangible Culture Preservation, Eco Sustainable Heritage Tourism.

Nota sobre a língua oficial do congresso

Embora existam participantes de diferentes países, a língua oficial do congresso será o inglês por ser a língua internacional usada pelos investigadores. Esta é a razão para não separar os grupos de palestrantes pela sua língua de origem. O objetivo deste congresso é reunir investigadores de todo o mundo.

Special note about language

The decision on the English-speaking Congress was accepted, although there are many different languages and it is impossible to control them. This was also the reason for not separating the language groups of speakers. English is currently the most international language that can be used by researchers.

Our desire is to connect researchers all over the world.

Submissão de propostas de comunicação

(250 palavras em inglês)

Fim do prazo- 31 de agosto 2023

Link para submissão: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/4497/submitter

O congresso irá abordar temas de Antropologia, Etnologia, Arqueologia, História, Estudos Experimentais, Geologia, Hidrologia, Biologia, 3D Estudos de Modelagem, Documentação, Estudos do Património, Parques temáticos de Património, Preservação da Cultura Imaterial, Turismo de Património Ecológico e Sustentável ligado à temática das Embarcações Primitivas.

First International Early Watercraft Congress

Vila do Conde Municipality, Portugal

26-29 october 2023

Call for abstract

(250 words in English)

Deadline 31. august 2023

Submission link: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/4497/submitter

This meeting will provide researchers from many fields that are not traditionally represented together in other scientific reunions. We would like to invite scholars from disciplines like: Anthropology, Ethnology, Archaeology, History, Experimental Studies, Geology, Hydrology, Biology, 3D Modelling Studies, Documentation, Heritage Studies, Heritage Parks, Intangible Culture Preservation, Eco Sustainable Heritage Tourism connected to the Early Watercraft.