Atlantiar International Congress: contents

As mentioned earlier there will be a congress on the Paleolithic part of Basque origins (loosely) that will be in the Auditorio FICOBA, Irun, Gipuzkoa, on March 18th. The so-called Atlantiar International Congress has the following contents (my translated synthesis, as I could only find the schedule in Spanish and Basque languages):

• 9:00 Documentation distribution
• 9:30 Presentation
• 9:45 Introduction of the Atlantiar project by Xabi Otero
• 10:00 Stephen Oppenheimer: The origin of man: ancient and modern humans, the exit from Africa and recolonization of Western Europe
• 10:45 Jean Clottes: Shamanism in the Paleolithic caves
• 11:30 (break)
• 11:45 Aude Labarge and Joëlle Darricau: The diversity of cultures of Upper Paleolithic based on the example of Isturitz
• 12:30 Bruce Bradley: Solutrean Solution: Origin of the population of North America in the Pleistocene
• 13:15 (main meal break)
• 15:00 Dennis Standford and Margaret Jodry: Evidence of a maritime Atlantic tradition between Europe and North America
• 15:45 José Antonio Mujica and Andoni Tarriño: The Western Pyrenees: a crossroads of Magdalenian routes: indications of mobility
• 16:30 Xabier Peñalver Praileaitz I in the Lower Magdalenian
• 17:00 (break)
• 17:15 Theo Vennemann: The Basque language substrate in Central Europe: an argumentation synthesis
• 18:00 Round table with the participation of Peter Bakker (linguist from Arhus University, Denmark), Javier Goitia (geographer, "archaeology of language") and Kleptin Stephen Agustine (curator of the Hull-Ottawa Museum of Civilizations, Mi'kmaq hereditary chieftain)
• 19:30 Closure with txalaparta

Organizing committee: Stepehen Oppenheimer, Xabier Otero, J.A. Muxika and Dennis Standford.

Disclaimer: I strongly disagree with even the presence of the Clovis-Solutrean hypothesis (it's a total nonsense), much less in such a prominent place. I believe it really damages the congress, which otherwise looks at least somewhat interesting.

Reference and inscription: http://www.jauzarrea.net/