This will be our sixth (!) "Dymaczewo-type" Symposium. It will be composed of two parts. The first one will be devoted to the subject originally proposed by Dr Rudolph Kuper for his planned conference in the Dakhleh Oasis (Cultural Markers in the Later Prehistory of Northeastern Africa) which was to take place in November, 1999. However, due to unforeseen circumstances he was forced to cancel t his meeting and instead agreed to integrate this topic into our Symposium. The aim of the second part ot our Symposium will be the presentation and discussion of recent research (field-work and related investigations, theoretical work etc.) carried out since our last meeting in 1997 in Kiekrz near Poznan. While the chronological limits ot the first part of our symposium will be limited to the later prehistory of Northeastern Africa (Later Palaeolithic - Late Neolithic), it is intended in the second one to review the intormation from the Early Palaeolithic through Neolithic/Predynastic. The geographical scope of our symposium comprises such countries as Egypt, the Sudan, Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. However, it should be stressed that it is our tradition to allow researchers from the neighbouring parts of Africa and the Near East to participate and present the results ot their investigations. During the Symposium a short session on present and future projects and research is planned with the aim to provide help, and/or intormation it needed, to the organizers of the new projects.
Those who participated in the 1997 symposium and want their papers to be included in the Proceedings, should immediately send the manuscripts and discs to us. Manuscripts arriving after 1 September, 1999 cannot be included in these Proceedings.
Please distribute this Circular and Prelirninary Registration Form among all interested in the
subject of our next Symposium.
Our Symposium will be held in a conference centre at Puszczykowo, on the outskirts of Poznan, in a nice forest and close to the river Warta.