We announce a call for abstracts for the AGRI-DRY session, “Past Environments, Future Adaptation: Archaeology as a Tool for Policy Making”, at the ASAPA 2026 Conference organised by the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists.
Poster credit: Kayla Mac Conachie
🔗 Submissions: https://asapa2026.co.za/submissions.php
🗓 Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2026
📍 The conference will be held from 5–9 July 2026 at the University of Mpumalanga.
The session focuses on the real-world applications of African archaeology, demonstrating how archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data can inform:
• climate and ecosystem modelling
• environmental and land-use policy
• food security and dryland adaptation
• sustainable development strategies
We encourage submissions from archaeologists, environmental scientists, climate modellers, agronomists, and policy researchers.
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