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IFAS-Research and the Origins Center invite you to 3-day conference and workshop on experimental archaeology, rock painting recipes and painting processes, organised by Tammy Hodgskiss, Camille Bourdier and Takunda Welcome Chigwende, as part of the MATOBART project. The workshop aims to allow for the sharing of knowledge on paint making processes, pigment use for rock art, experiential use of pigments, and experimental archaeological research procedures. The workshop will foster scientific and academic understandings with cross-disciplinary links with experiential understanding, the humanities and the arts to create a fuller understanding paint-making processes in the past.

Who can attend?

The workshop aims to introduce students to experimental approaches in archaeology, with emphasis on Stone Age archaeology and rock paintings. All students and academics will be welcome, as well as interested members of the public, but spaces are limited, and preference will be given to postgraduate students.

Programme of the 3 days:

15th October, 8:30 for 9:00am – 3:00pm, at IFAS (French Institute, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein):
Lectures and discussions on experimental approaches in archaeology, focusing on rock art.
- Speakers: Stephen Townley Bassett (artist), Camille Bourdier (University Toulouse Jean Jaurès), Takunda Chigwende (University of the Witwatersrand), Tammy Hodgskiss (Origins Center, University of the Witwatersrand), David Pearce (Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand), Jerome Reynard (University of the Witwatersrand), Viola Schmid (Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences).
16th and 17th October, 9:00am – 4:00pm, at the Origins Centre (Wits Archaeology Department, Wits University): Experiments with ochre collection, ochre processing techniques and paint recipe manufacture.