IFRAO Report

IFRAO Report Number 15
THE CONSTITUTION OF IFRAO ARTICLE I: NAME The name of the entity shall be the International Federation of Rock Art Organisations (IFRAO). ARTICLE II: OBJECTIVES IFRAO shall: Section 1. Provide guide-lines for global standards of rock art study, conservation, recording and inventorying (documenting and assessing). Section 2. Serve as a clearing house for the dissemination of rock art data. Section 3. Encourage intellectual and monetary support of rock art projects endorsed by IFRAO. Section 4. Promote high scholarly standards of rock art research and publication. Section 5. Undertake educational programs with the public to help ensure maximal appreciation and protection of rock art resources; ARTICLE III: MEMBERSHIP Section 1. Members of IFRAO are organisations, not individuals. Application for membership will be by written request of the organisation's head to the IFRAO Convener. Section 2. Organisations applying for membership should have professional standing and be corporate entities or have official recognition of their country's cultural authority. Section 3. An organisation will be admitted into IFRAO by a majority vote of existing affiliated organisations conducted by the Convener. The vote may be cast at an authorised IFRAO meeting or by mail. ARTICLE IV: PUBLICATIONS Section 1. Exchange of information and copyright options of IFRAO periodicals shall be encouraged within an integrated network, subject to approvals by authors concerned. Section 2. Information about rock art-related subjects, such as deontology and rock art conservation, will be regularly issued. Section 3. Reports and bulletins announcing recent discoveries, current news and other developments of concern or interest to the discipline shall be released on a regular basis by IFRAO. ARTICLE V: OFFICERS Section 1. IFRAO shall be administered by a Convener or caretaker organiser elected by a majority of votes of the organisational representatives. Term of office is indefinite. Section 2. The Convener may recommend his/her successor, subject to a confirmation vote of two-thirds of the member organisations. Section 3. The business of IFRAO will be conducted at meet-ings presided over by the President. The President shall be the host organisation's representative at an authorised international meeting. Section 4. If the Convener cannot attend an authorised IFRAO meeting he/she may delegate the Chairperson to act on his/her behalf. Section 5. If the President cannot conduct a meeting he/she may delegate responsibilities to an official IFRAO Representative in attendance, subject to the approval of the delegates present. ARTICLE VI: MEETINGS Section 1. An authorised meeting of IFRAO representatives shall be convened no later than four years from the previous meeting. Section 2. A majority of votes of organisational Representatives of IFRAO is required to sanction an upcoming meeting. Section 3. A year's notice must be given to convene an authorised meeting. Section 4. Each organisation of IFRAO is allowed representation by one voting delegate. Section 5. A delegate may represent more than one IFRAO organisation and may cast votes for each organisation the delegate represents. Section 6. Each organisation may select a delegate to participate at an authorised IFRAO meeting by whatever internal process it chooses. The name of the delegate is then sent to the Chairperson with a copy to the Convener. If the organisation does not notify the Chairperson prior to the meeting of the identity of its authorised delegate, the head of that affiliated organisation may serve as its Representative. If the head is not present, the chief executive officer of the organisation may serve as its Representative. If neither are present, an officer of the organisation or a trustee of the organisation's board of directors may serve as the organisation's Representative. Section 7. Agenda items to be considered at an authorised IFRAO meeting are to be submitted to the President with a copy to the Convener. Section 8. The invitation of observers at an authorised IFRAO Business Meeting must be by prior mutual consent of official Representatives. Section 9. The preparation and distribution of the minutes of an authorised IFRAO meeting is the responsibility of the President. Minutes will be published no later than six months from termination of the meeting. Section 10. The quorum of a meeting shall be more than fifty per cent of membership. ARTICLE VII: PROCEDURES Any questions of procedure not covered within this constitution shall be controlled by the current edition of Robert's Rules of Order. ARTICLE VIII: OFFICE The central office of IFRAO shall be the current address of the Convener. ARTICLE IX: STATUS IFRAO shall be unincorporated. It is not a financial entity and shall not deal with corporate funds nor make a profit. ARTICLE X: AMENDMENTS This constitution may be amended, repealed or expanded by a quorum of representatives from constituent affili-ated organisations of IFRAO at an authorised meeting. Written proposals for such changes must be submit-ted by mail to all constituent organisations and must bear a postmark at least forty-five days prior to the first announced day of the meeting. Editorial revisions and clerical alterations of submitted proposed changes can be considered and approved at the meeting. * The IFRAO Draft Constitution, drawn up by Professor Ben Swartz in accordance with the decisions of the Cathedral Peak IFRAO Meeting in 1991 and gazetted in November 1992 (RAR 9: 160-1), was debated, amended and approved at the IFRAO Meeting of 1995, held at Turin on 1 September 1995. The above version has been adopted by IFRAO. The Turin IFRAO Business Meeting, chaired by Professor Dario Seglie, appears to have been the first IFRAO meeting that actually succeeded in dispatching all items on its agenda successfully. Congratulations to Dario Seglie and his team! Other important developments at the Turin IFRAO Business Meeting were the admissions of four new members to IFRAO: the Mid-America Geogra-phic Foundation, U.S.A.; the Moscow Centre of Rock Art and Bioindication Research, Russia; the Armenian Centre of Prehistoric Art Study, Armenia; and StoneWatch, the Society for Scientific Study of International Prehistoric Rock Paintings and Rock Engravings, Germany. The Turin meeting also resolved the sites of the follow-ing future IFRAO meetings: 1998: Guarda, Portugal (hosted by APAAR) 2000: Third AURA Congress, Australia (hosted by AURA) 2001: Skopje, Macedonia (hosted by Makedonija Centar) The complete Minutes of the Turin IFRAO Business Meeting will be published in the next IFRAO Report. That issue will also include the introductions of the four new members of IFRAO, and possibly those of another two organisations whose admission is currently being reviewed by IFRAO. Their admission would bring the number of members to thirty. We have received requests to provide an updated list of the official contact addresses of the current IFRAO members, which is provided below: Professor B. K. Swartz, Jr American Committee to Advance the Study of Petroglyphs and Pictographs (ACASPP) Dept of Anthropology Ball State University MUNCIE, IN 47306 U.S.A. William D. Hyder American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA) 166 Pryce Street SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060 U.S.A. Ara Demirkhanian Armenian Centre of Prehistoric Art Study National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Institute of Arts Marshal Bagramian Prosp. 24 G YEREVAN-19 375019 Armenia Dr Mila Simoes de Abreu Associacao Portuguesa de Arte e Arqueologia Rupestre (APAAR) Av. D. Jose I, n. 53 2780 Oeiras Portugal Alfred Muzzolini Association des Amis de l'Art Rupestre Saharien (AARS) 7, rue J. de Resseguier 31000 Toulouse France Dr Jean Clottes Association pour le Rayonnement de L'Art Parietal Europeen (ARAPE) 11, rue du Fourcat 09000 FOIX France Robert G. Bednarik Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA) P.O. Box 216 CAULFIELD SOUTH, Vic. 3162 Australia Professor Dusko Aleksovski Centar za Istrazuvanje na Karpestata umet nost i Praistorijata na Makedonija 91320 Kratovo Republic of Macedonia Mario Consens Centro de Investigaci¢n de Arte Rupestre del Uruguay (CIARU) C.C. 18.007 MONTEVIDEO Uruguay Professor Dario Seglie Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica (CeSMAP) Viale Giolitti, 1 10064 PINEROLO (TO) Italy Lic. Maria Mercedes Podesta Comite de Investigaci¢n del Arte Rupestre de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropolog¡a Av. Santa Fe 983, 4 piso A 1059 BUENOS AIRES Argentina Dr Fidelis T. Masao East African Rock Art Research Association (EARARA) Archaeology Unit University of Dar Es Salam P.O. Box 35050 DAR ES SALAM Tanzania Dr Lothar Wanke Gesellschaft fur Vergleichende Felsbildforschung (GE.FE. BI.) Geidorfgurtel 40 A-8010 GRAZ Austria Dr Michel Lorblanchet Groupe de reflexion sur les methodes d'etude de l'art parietal paleolithique Charge de recherches au CNRS Roc des Monges 46200 SAINT SOZY France Dr Shyam K. Pandey Indian Rock Art Research Association (IRA) C/79, Gaur Nagar University SAGAR (M.P.) 470 003 India Professor Herbert Nowak Institutum Canarium (IC) Postfach 48 A-5400 HALLEIN Austria Nobuhiro Yoshida Japan Petrograph Society (JPS) P.O. Box 11 Kokuranishi Post Office Kitakyusyu-city, Ñ803 Japan Professor Jack Steinbring Mid-America Geographic Foundation, Inc. Department of Anthropology Ripon College P.O. Box 248 RIPON, Wisconsin 54971 U.S.A. Arsen Faradjev Moscow Centre of Rock Art and Bioindication Research Ramenki, 11/1, 33 MOSCOW 117607 Russia M. P. Lanteigne Rock Art Association of Canada, Inc. (RAAC) 306-450 Talbot Avenue WINNIPEG, Manitoba R2L 0R3 Canada Professor Jack Steinbring Rock Art Association of Manitoba (RAAM) Dept of Anthropology University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Avenue WINNIPEG, Manitoba R3B 2E9 Canada Professor Chen Zhao Fu Rock Art Research Association of China (RARAC) Central Institute for Nationalities 100081 BEIJING P. R. China Dr Giriraj Kumar Rock Art Society of India (RASI) Faculty of Arts Dayalbagh Educational Institute DAYALBAGH, Agra 282 005 India Roy Querejazu Lewis Sociedad de Investigacion del Arte Rupestre de Bolivia (SIARB) Casilla 4243 COCHABAMBA Bolivia Dr Angelo Fossati Societa Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo Piazzale Donatori di Sangue, 1 25040 CERVENO (Brescia) Italy Dr Jean Clottes Societe Prehistorique Ariege-Pyrenees 11, rue du Fourcat 09000 FOIX France Shirley-Ann Pager Southern African Rock Art Research Association (SARARA) P.O. Box 81292 PARKHURST 2120 South Africa Professor Josef Otto StoneWatch Gartenstrasse 2a D-55442 WARMSROTH Germany Rock Art Research - Moving into the Twenty-first Century 11 to 18 August 1996, Swakopmund, Namibia International conference of the Southern African Rock Art Research Association (SARARA) with the participation of the East African Rock Art Research Association (EARARA) The objective of this conference will be to focus on new and innovative approaches to rock art studies and to assess the latest technologies that will carry our discipline decisively into the twenty-first century. Program 1. Recording methods: new and safer copying methods, advances in photographic techniques, digital recording. 2. Dating: latest methods, accuracy. 3. Meaning and motivation. 4. Environmental issues and site management: conservation and preservation, protection of the art, visitor control, the role of government in protection programs. 5. Education. 6. Aesthetic considerations. 7. Displays: will include posters, photographs, rock art copies, plans and models of conservation programs, publications display. 8. The conference will include the 1996 IFRAO Business Meeting. Presentation of papers Each presenter will be allowed thirty minutes. Twenty minutes will be allowed at the end of each session for questions and discussion. SARARA will have first publication rights on all papers unless special arrangements are made. Registration and accommodation The registration fees for members of SARARA and other IFRAO-affiliated rock art organisations are US$130, for non-members US$150. Membership with SARARA can be arranged on registration. A variety of accommodation is offered at approximately US$30, US$50 and US$85 per day sharing. Persons requiring special arrangements for dietary or any other reasons can be catered for. Tours and excursions Pre-conference tour to Brandberg. Visiting Amis Gorge and Hungorab Gorge with tour leader Dr Dan Craven, duration four days, 6-9 August 1996. There will be a small charge of US$30 per person for incidental expenses for the trip. Transport by hire car, which can be a micro-bus for cost sharing. Pre-conference safari to rock art sites in Namibia. Six days, 5-10 August 1996. Package cost of US$600 includes fully equipped safari vehicles, fuel, camping equipment, stretchers and blankets, catering requirements and all meals, camp personnel and guides. Excluded are alcoholic beverages and minerals, personal insurance, visa, laundry, items of personal nature, gratuities. The safari includes Erongo Mountains, Twyfelfontein, Brandberg sites. Post-conference safari to rock art sites in Namibia. Eleven days, 19-29 August 1996. Package cost of US$1200 covers details as above. The safari includes Erongo Mountains, Brandberg, Twyfelfontein, Etosha National Park, Waterberg Plateau Park. Post-conference field trip to Tanzania. Planned to be led by Tanzanian rock art specialists Mr Fosbrook and Mr Mutari. The five-day package is estimated to cost US$1000, but actual cost will be known after January 1996. Travel from Windhoek will be with South African Airways via Johannesburg. Travel arrangements should be made through SARARA who are handling all travel bookings for the conference and subsequent field trips. The trip will include Tarangire National Park, Kondoa rock painting sites, sites in Kolo and Thawi, and Olduvai Gorge. For further enquiries write to Dr Fidelis Masao, Chairman of EARARA, University of Dar-es-Salam, P.O. Box 35091, Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania. Swakopmund This town is situated on the Atlantic coast and is surroun-ded by the Namib Desert. The cultural heritage is from German colonial times and the German language is spoken by nearly everyone, as well as English and Afrikaans. Swakopmund has developed into a holiday resort and Namibians flock to its cool, refreshing air when the heat of the summer in the interior becomes unbearable. Throughout the year, the climate is temperate, early mornings often find the town shrouded in mist. Away from the coast, August in Namibia has generally warm to hot days with extremely cold nights. The 24-hour temperature range can be from -10°C or lower to 28°C or more in the interior. Keep this in mind when you pack for your visit! Registrations, accommodation and enquiries: SARARA, P.O. Box 81292, Parkhurst 2120, South Africa

IFRAO Report Number 15

THE CONSTITUTION OF IFRAO

ARTICLE I: NAME
The name of the entity shall be the International Federation of Rock Art
Organisations (IFRAO).

ARTICLE II: OBJECTIVES
IFRAO shall:
Section 1. Provide guide-lines for global standards of rock art
study, conservation, recording and inventorying (documenting and
assessing).
Section 2. Serve as a clearing house for the dissemination of rock
art data.
Section 3. Encourage intellectual and monetary support of rock art
projects endorsed by IFRAO.
Section 4. Promote high scholarly standards of rock art research
and publication.
Section 5. Undertake educational programs with the public to help
ensure maximal appreciation and protection of rock art resources;

ARTICLE III: MEMBERSHIP
Section 1. Members of IFRAO are organisations, not individuals.
Application for membership will be by written request of the
organisation's head to the IFRAO Convener.
Section 2. Organisations applying for membership should have
professional standing and be corporate entities or have official
recognition of their country's cultural authority.
Section 3. An organisation will be admitted into IFRAO by a
majority vote of existing affiliated organisations conducted by the
Convener. The vote may be cast at an authorised IFRAO meeting or by
mail.

ARTICLE IV: PUBLICATIONS
Section 1. Exchange of information and copyright options of IFRAO
periodicals shall be encouraged within an integrated network, subject to
approvals by authors concerned.
Section 2. Information about rock art-related subjects, such as
deontology and rock art conservation, will be regularly issued.
Section 3. Reports and bulletins announcing recent discoveries,
current news and other developments of concern or interest to the
discipline shall be released on a regular basis by IFRAO.

ARTICLE V: OFFICERS
Section 1. IFRAO shall be administered by a Convener or caretaker
organiser elected by a majority of votes of the organisational
representatives. Term of office is indefinite.
Section 2. The Convener may recommend his/her successor, subject to
a confirmation vote of two-thirds of the member organisations.
Section 3. The business of IFRAO will be conducted at meet-ings
presided over by the President. The President shall be the host
organisation's representative at an authorised international meeting.
Section 4. If the Convener cannot attend an authorised IFRAO
meeting he/she may delegate the Chairperson to act on his/her behalf.
Section 5. If the President cannot conduct a meeting he/she may
delegate responsibilities to an official IFRAO Representative in
attendance, subject to the approval of the delegates present.

ARTICLE VI: MEETINGS
Section 1. An authorised meeting of IFRAO representatives shall be
convened no later than four years from the previous meeting.
Section 2. A majority of votes of organisational Representatives of
IFRAO is required to sanction an upcoming meeting.
Section 3. A year's notice must be given to convene an authorised
meeting.
Section 4. Each organisation of IFRAO is allowed representation by
one voting delegate.
Section 5. A delegate may represent more than one IFRAO
organisation and may cast votes for each organisation the delegate
represents.
Section 6. Each organisation may select a delegate to participate
at an authorised IFRAO meeting by whatever internal process it chooses.
The name of the delegate is then sent to the Chairperson with a copy to
the Convener. If the organisation does not notify the Chairperson prior
to the meeting of the identity of its authorised delegate, the head of
that affiliated organisation may serve as its Representative. If the
head is not present, the chief executive officer of the organisation may
serve as its Representative. If neither are present, an officer of the
organisation or a trustee of the organisation's board of directors may
serve as the organisation's Representative.
Section 7. Agenda items to be considered at an authorised IFRAO
meeting are to be submitted to the President with a copy to the
Convener.
Section 8. The invitation of observers at an authorised IFRAO
Business Meeting must be by prior mutual consent of official
Representatives.
Section 9. The preparation and distribution of the minutes of an
authorised IFRAO meeting is the responsibility of the President. Minutes
will be published no later than six months from termination of the
meeting.
Section 10. The quorum of a meeting shall be more than fifty per cent of
membership.

ARTICLE VII: PROCEDURES
Any questions of procedure not covered within this constitution shall be
controlled by the current edition of Robert's Rules of Order.

ARTICLE VIII: OFFICE
The central office of IFRAO shall be the current address of the
Convener.

ARTICLE IX: STATUS
IFRAO shall be unincorporated. It is not a financial entity and shall
not deal with corporate funds nor make a profit.

ARTICLE X: AMENDMENTS
This constitution may be amended, repealed or expanded by a quorum of
representatives from constituent affili-ated organisations of IFRAO at
an authorised meeting. Written proposals for such changes must be
submit-ted by mail to all constituent organisations and must bear a
postmark at least forty-five days prior to the first announced day of
the meeting. Editorial revisions and clerical alterations of submitted
proposed changes can be considered and approved at the meeting.

*

The IFRAO Draft Constitution, drawn up by Professor Ben Swartz
in accordance with the decisions of the Cathedral Peak IFRAO Meeting in
1991 and gazetted in November 1992 (RAR 9: 160-1), was debated, amended
and approved at the IFRAO Meeting of 1995, held at Turin on 1 September
1995. The above version has been adopted by IFRAO.
The Turin IFRAO Business Meeting, chaired by Professor Dario
Seglie, appears to have been the first IFRAO meeting that actually
succeeded in dispatching all items on its agenda successfully.
Congratulations to Dario Seglie and his team! Other important
developments at the Turin IFRAO Business Meeting were the admissions of
four new members to IFRAO: the Mid-America Geogra-phic Foundation,
U.S.A.; the Moscow Centre of Rock Art and Bioindication Research,
Russia; the Armenian Centre of Prehistoric Art Study, Armenia; and
StoneWatch, the Society for Scientific Study of International
Prehistoric Rock Paintings and Rock Engravings, Germany.
The Turin meeting also resolved the sites of the follow-ing
future IFRAO meetings:

1998: Guarda, Portugal (hosted by APAAR)
2000: Third AURA Congress, Australia (hosted by AURA)
2001: Skopje, Macedonia (hosted by Makedonija Centar)

The complete Minutes of the Turin IFRAO Business Meeting will be
published in the next IFRAO Report. That issue will also include the
introductions of the four new members of IFRAO, and possibly those of
another two organisations whose admission is currently being reviewed by
IFRAO. Their admission would bring the number of members to thirty.
We have received requests to provide an updated list of the
official contact addresses of the current IFRAO members, which is
provided below:

Professor B. K. Swartz, Jr
American Committee to Advance the Study of Petroglyphs and Pictographs
(ACASPP)
Dept of Anthropology
Ball State University
MUNCIE, IN 47306
U.S.A.

William D. Hyder
American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA)
166 Pryce Street
SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060
U.S.A.

Ara Demirkhanian
Armenian Centre of Prehistoric Art Study
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Institute of Arts
Marshal Bagramian Prosp. 24 G
YEREVAN-19
375019 Armenia

Dr Mila Simoes de Abreu
Associacao Portuguesa de Arte e Arqueologia Rupestre (APAAR)
Av. D. Jose I, n. 53
2780 Oeiras
Portugal

Alfred Muzzolini
Association des Amis de l'Art Rupestre Saharien (AARS)
7, rue J. de Resseguier
31000 Toulouse
France

Dr Jean Clottes
Association pour le Rayonnement de L'Art Parietal Europeen (ARAPE)
11, rue du Fourcat
09000 FOIX
France

Robert G. Bednarik
Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA)
P.O. Box 216
CAULFIELD SOUTH, Vic. 3162
Australia

Professor Dusko Aleksovski
Centar za Istrazuvanje na Karpestata umet nost i Praistorijata na
Makedonija
91320 Kratovo
Republic of Macedonia

Mario Consens
Centro de Investigaci¢n de Arte Rupestre del Uruguay (CIARU)
C.C. 18.007
MONTEVIDEO
Uruguay

Professor Dario Seglie
Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica (CeSMAP)
Viale Giolitti, 1
10064 PINEROLO (TO)
Italy

Lic. Maria Mercedes Podesta
Comite de Investigaci¢n del Arte Rupestre de la Sociedad Argentina de
Antropolog¡a
Av. Santa Fe 983, 4 piso A
1059 BUENOS AIRES
Argentina

Dr Fidelis T. Masao
East African Rock Art Research Association (EARARA)
Archaeology Unit
University of Dar Es Salam
P.O. Box 35050
DAR ES SALAM
Tanzania

Dr Lothar Wanke
Gesellschaft fur Vergleichende Felsbildforschung (GE.FE. BI.)
Geidorfgurtel 40
A-8010 GRAZ
Austria

Dr Michel Lorblanchet
Groupe de reflexion sur les methodes d'etude de l'art parietal
paleolithique
Charge de recherches au CNRS
Roc des Monges
46200 SAINT SOZY
France

Dr Shyam K. Pandey
Indian Rock Art Research Association (IRA)
C/79, Gaur Nagar University
SAGAR (M.P.) 470 003
India

Professor Herbert Nowak
Institutum Canarium (IC)
Postfach 48
A-5400 HALLEIN
Austria

Nobuhiro Yoshida
Japan Petrograph Society (JPS)
P.O. Box 11
Kokuranishi Post Office
Kitakyusyu-city, Ñ803
Japan

Professor Jack Steinbring
Mid-America Geographic Foundation, Inc.
Department of Anthropology
Ripon College
P.O. Box 248
RIPON, Wisconsin 54971
U.S.A.

Arsen Faradjev
Moscow Centre of Rock Art and Bioindication Research
Ramenki, 11/1, 33
MOSCOW 117607
Russia

M. P. Lanteigne
Rock Art Association of Canada, Inc. (RAAC)
306-450 Talbot Avenue
WINNIPEG, Manitoba R2L 0R3
Canada

Professor Jack Steinbring
Rock Art Association of Manitoba (RAAM)
Dept of Anthropology
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
WINNIPEG, Manitoba R3B 2E9
Canada

Professor Chen Zhao Fu
Rock Art Research Association of China (RARAC)
Central Institute for Nationalities
100081 BEIJING
P. R. China

Dr Giriraj Kumar
Rock Art Society of India (RASI)
Faculty of Arts
Dayalbagh Educational Institute
DAYALBAGH, Agra 282 005
India

Roy Querejazu Lewis
Sociedad de Investigacion del Arte Rupestre de Bolivia (SIARB)
Casilla 4243
COCHABAMBA
Bolivia

Dr Angelo Fossati
Societa Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo
Piazzale Donatori di Sangue, 1
25040 CERVENO (Brescia)
Italy

Dr Jean Clottes
Societe Prehistorique Ariege-Pyrenees
11, rue du Fourcat
09000 FOIX
France

Shirley-Ann Pager
Southern African Rock Art Research Association (SARARA)
P.O. Box 81292
PARKHURST 2120
South Africa

Professor Josef Otto
StoneWatch
Gartenstrasse 2a
D-55442 WARMSROTH
Germany

Rock Art Research - Moving into the Twenty-first Century
11 to 18 August 1996, Swakopmund, Namibia
International conference of the Southern African Rock Art Research
Association (SARARA)
with the participation of the East African Rock Art Research Association
(EARARA)

The objective of this conference will be to focus on new and innovative
approaches to rock art studies and to assess the latest technologies
that will carry our discipline decisively into the twenty-first century.

Program
1. Recording methods: new and safer copying methods, advances in
photographic techniques, digital recording.
2. Dating: latest methods, accuracy.
3. Meaning and motivation.
4. Environmental issues and site management: conservation and
preservation, protection of the art, visitor control, the role of
government in protection programs.
5. Education.
6. Aesthetic considerations.
7. Displays: will include posters, photographs, rock art copies,
plans and models of conservation programs, publications display.
8. The conference will include the 1996 IFRAO Business Meeting.

Presentation of papers
Each presenter will be allowed thirty minutes. Twenty minutes
will be allowed at the end of each session for questions and discussion.
SARARA will have first publication rights on all papers unless special
arrangements are made.

Registration and accommodation
The registration fees for members of SARARA and other
IFRAO-affiliated rock art organisations are US$130, for non-members
US$150. Membership with SARARA can be arranged on registration.
A variety of accommodation is offered at approximately US$30,
US$50 and US$85 per day sharing. Persons requiring special arrangements
for dietary or any other reasons can be catered for.

Tours and excursions
Pre-conference tour to Brandberg. Visiting Amis Gorge and
Hungorab Gorge with tour leader Dr Dan Craven, duration four days, 6-9
August 1996. There will be a small charge of US$30 per person for
incidental expenses for the trip. Transport by hire car, which can be a
micro-bus for cost sharing.
Pre-conference safari to rock art sites in Namibia. Six days,
5-10 August 1996. Package cost of US$600 includes fully equipped safari
vehicles, fuel, camping equipment, stretchers and blankets, catering
requirements and all meals, camp personnel and guides. Excluded are
alcoholic beverages and minerals, personal insurance, visa, laundry,
items of personal nature, gratuities. The safari includes Erongo
Mountains, Twyfelfontein, Brandberg sites.
Post-conference safari to rock art sites in Namibia. Eleven
days, 19-29 August 1996. Package cost of US$1200 covers details as
above. The safari includes Erongo Mountains, Brandberg, Twyfelfontein,
Etosha National Park, Waterberg Plateau Park.
Post-conference field trip to Tanzania. Planned to be led by
Tanzanian rock art specialists Mr Fosbrook and Mr Mutari. The five-day
package is estimated to cost US$1000, but actual cost will be known
after January 1996. Travel from Windhoek will be with South African
Airways via Johannesburg. Travel arrangements should be made through
SARARA who are handling all travel bookings for the conference and
subsequent field trips. The trip will include Tarangire National Park,
Kondoa rock painting sites, sites in Kolo and Thawi, and Olduvai Gorge.
For further enquiries write to Dr Fidelis Masao, Chairman of EARARA,
University of Dar-es-Salam, P.O. Box 35091, Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania.

Swakopmund
This town is situated on the Atlantic coast and is surroun-ded
by the Namib Desert. The cultural heritage is from German colonial times
and the German language is spoken by nearly everyone, as well as English
and Afrikaans. Swakopmund has developed into a holiday resort and
Namibians flock to its cool, refreshing air when the heat of the summer
in the interior becomes unbearable. Throughout the year, the climate is
temperate, early mornings often find the town shrouded in mist. Away
from the coast, August in Namibia has generally warm to hot days with
extremely cold nights. The 24-hour temperature range can be from -10°C
or lower to 28°C or more in the interior. Keep this in mind when you
pack for your visit!

Registrations, accommodation and enquiries:
SARARA, P.O. Box 81292, Parkhurst 2120, South Africa

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