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ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY Saturday, 17th February 2007 "Environmental Archaeology in Ireland: new perspectives and recent research" For further information, please visit the meeting website: http://envarch.ucc.ie Final date for registration: 9th February 2007 Meeting organisers:
Following the highly successful DIG 2005 conference that was held in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, the University of Cambridge is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the second Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference in April, 2007. The Developing International Geoarchaeology Conferences are a forum for international communication on geoarchaeological topics. Their goal is to facilitate discussion and stimulate research in geoarchaeology within the framework of an organised international group. Any practitioners, researchers and students interested in this interdisciplinary field are welcome to attend. The conference will be preceded by a 2-day workshop of the Archaeological Soil Micromorphology Working Group, which involves practical microscopy work. Participants normally share their own thin sections, and have the opportunity to look at the thin sections brought by the other participants. Due to the offer of a number of excellent papers, the workshop will also include two short sessions of oral presentations and posters. DIG 2007 and the micromorphology workshop will be held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Oral and poster presentations have been accepted on all aspects of geoarchaeology, and have been grouped into thematic sessions. Conference delegates will have the opportunity to have their papers published in a peer-reviewed, edited volume Contact Information Conference Organizers: Dr. Charles French and Dr. Karen Milek
Food & Drink in Archaeology 2007: CALL FOR PAPERS Research on food and drink in history and prehistory has come to the forefront of modern archaeological, academic study. Whilst the importance of nutrition for survival has long been recognised, recent studies have increasingly stressed the cultural significance of the production, distribution and consumption of foodstuffs. An understanding of diet in past societies is therefore crucial to an understanding of daily life, and the relationships between different classes and societies. The first 'Food & Drink in Archaeology 2007' Postgraduate Conference is to be held on the 18 & 19 May 2007 at The University of Nottingham, Department of Archaeology. It seeks to expand and showcase the importance of current postgraduate research into the study of food and drink. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
Proposals from Masters and Doctoral students for papers are invited by email to: foodanddrink2007@hotmail.com. Research papers, short reports on recent or ongoing fieldwork, laboratory work, preliminary research findings, etc. are acceptable. Proposal outlines should include a 300 word abstract for a 20 minute paper and must be submitted by 1 March 2007. Please note that it is our intention to seek publication of papers presented at this conference. Individual poster proposals are also very much welcomed by 1 March 2007. Registration information is forthcoming. Refreshments, wine reception and conference dinner are planned for the Friday, 18 May 2007 and a light lunch on Saturday, 19 May 2007 will be provided. It is anticipated that a small registration fee will be necessary to cover costs, but this will be as little as possible. Please send any questions or queries to foodanddrink2007@hotmail.com. For further, up-to-date information on registration accommodation, amenities and travel, please consult The Food and Drink 2007 website to be posted shortly on The Department of Archaeology website
Living Landscapes: CALL FOR PAPERS Registration fee: £10 (students, unwaged/retired), £20 (waged) For the Neolithic of Ireland and Britain, the main focus for many years has been on the highly visible ritual monuments that in large part define the period. Far less is known concerning the domestic landscape, and people’s daily lives. This is in contrast to the Neolithic of continental Europe, where settlements have tended to receive more emphasis. However, over the last decade in Ireland in particular, the discovery of an ever-increasing number of apparently domestic structures has provided the opportunity to better situate the domestic landscape, and to learn something of its nature. While the houses themselves have been the subject of a number of studies, there is still little understanding of how the landscapes immediately surrounding them were utilised. Recently, stable isotope studies of human bone have been used to argue for an abrupt and more or less complete shift towards new domesticated plants and animals from the outset of the Neolithic, carrying with it the implication of a significant, though perhaps localised, impact on the environment. To what extent can this impact be traced, and can more detail be provided on the balance between cereals and domestic animals? How intensively were cereal plots maintained, and over what duration? What impact did the new domestic animals have on the environment – an especially germane question in the context of Ireland, with its apparent absence of large grazing mammals. How did these practices change over the duration of the Neolithic? What was the appearance of this landscape and how might it have been perceived? We seek papers which address these themes, including those that have an Irish emphasis, as well as those that seek to draw attention to the similarities or dissimilarities between Ireland, Britain and continental Europe. Deadline for submission of paper titles and abstracts (c. 300 words): 1st April 2007 Deadline for submission of poster titles and abstracts (c. 300 words): 1st April 2007 Proposed titles and abstracts should be sent to: Meriel McClatchie (m.mcclatchie@ucl.ac.uk). Seminar organisers:
4th Conference of the European Society for Environmental History - CALL FOR PAPERS The European Society for Environmental History invites proposals for panels and posters for its upcoming 4th conference. Theme of the meeting: "Environmental connections: Europe and the wider World". Proposals for panels, papers and posters are invited, in particular for the following strands: - history of exchange of biota, i.e. plants, animals and other organisms (both intentional and unintentional) - history of exchange of environmental techniques and practices (in particular regarding water, such as for flood control, drainage, irrigation, preparation of drinking water, cleaning of waste water) - history of climate change - history of environmental ideas, movements and organisations - history of monitoring the resources of the earth One strand remains open for other topics. Submission deadline: 1 June 2006. Proposals for panels, individual papers and posters should be submitted through the on-line registration facility provided by the conference website, see www.let.vu.nl/conference/eseh. Panel proposals should include a panel title, names of the participants (including chair), and individual paper titles; a session abstract of 250 words, three individual paper abstracts of 300 words and short biographies of the participants (150 words). Paper and poster proposals should consist of an abstract of 300 words and short biography of the participant (150 words). For information: ESEH2007secretary@let.vu.nl.
People/environment relationships from the Mesolithic to the Middle Ages:
recent geo-archaeological findings in Southern Italy . Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra of the Federico II University, Naples, Salerno (Italy) 4-7 September 2007 Aims As is well known, Southern Italy is very rich in well studied archaeological sites that cover from early Prehistory to Proto-history, the Greek–Roman period and the Middle Ages. These sites fall in an unusual variety of geomorphological contexts, offering great opportunities to observe situations where different natural phenomena have interacted with Man and precious archaeo-stratigraphical records have formed. The purpose of the meeting is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of the geo-archaeological results that have recently been obtained in this interesting region, focusing in particular on the two parallel - and often interacting - histories of human communities and of the host landscapes during the Holocene. In this respect the meeting intends to provide the convenors not only with an updated state of knowledge, but also with the opportunity to discuss about common scientific problems, approaches and methods. Hopefully, the discussions could also lead to single out new working hypotheses on which the mutually profitable collaboration between archaeologists and Earth scientists may continue in the future. Call for papers Earth scientists and archaeologists from all Countries who have recently developed studies of environmental geo-archaeology on sites and areas in Southern Italy are warmly invited to present communications. Particularly welcome are papers adopting a multidisciplinary approach and exploring/exploiting the interactions between geological and archaeological issues and data. A limited number of papers dealing with other Mediterranean areas could be also accepted, provided they are either of great comparative value or efficacious method-teaching cases. The congress covers areas such as: (a) -Geomorphological and pedological factors of ancient land use distributions and changes; (b) -Sea-level change and coastal settlements; (c) -Ancient communities and volcanic eruptions; (d) -Geo-archaeological evidence of ancient earthquakes and tsunamis; (e) -Climatic and anthropogenic causes of ancient vegetation changes; (f) –Caliches and calcareous tufas in the geo-archaeological record; (g) - The human role in landscape sensitivity : examples from the past; (h) -Forms of human reaction/adaptation to past environmental change; (l) -Ancient extreme events in the geo-archaeological record; (m) -Managing hillslope instability and soil erosion problems in the past; (n) -Floodplain agricolture and riverside settlements in relation to fluvial morphodynamics. Due to the multitude and variety of possible topics, the above list is only indicative of the themes of expected papers. Authors are encouraged to submit abstracts in all areas of environmental-geoarchaeology, with particular attention to integrated and interdisciplinary aspects. More informations is available at www.geoarcongress.unina.it
We are kindly inviting presentations (20-25 minutes) and posters from palaeoenvironmentalists and archaeologists working in Western and Eastern Europe , and northern Asia as areas of former Soviet Union , Mongolia , China or Japan . Provisional session titles:
The conference venue will be Gorka Palace – the seat of Archaeological Museum in Poznan with conference papers to be held September 12 th and 13th. The official conference language is English. The Conference will be followed by a two-day excursion (September 14 th and 15 th) to Wielkopolska (Great Poland). The main Slavic sites ( Poznan , Ostrow Lednicki, Gniezno and Kaldus) that date to the Early Medieval period and associated with the origins of Polish State will be visited. We will also travel to the fortified settlement in Biskupin, dating from the transitional period of the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, one of the best-known environmental archaeological reserves in central Europe . At the archaeological sites issues of environmental studies will be discussed. A guidebook will accompany the conference field trip. Deadline for Abstracts (Papers and Posters): 31 July 2007 Abstracts should be 1-4 pages in length, including figures and bibliography if appropriate. The abstracts will be included in a conference book. Please send them to the contact address below. Contact address: Miroslaw Makohonienko E-mail makoho@amu.edu.pl ( Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan , Institute of Palaeogeography and Geoecology UAM, Dziegielowa 27, 61-680 Poznan , Poland . Tel. +48-61-829 6215) Downloads
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13th EAA Annual Meeting, Croatia, Zarad -
Thematic Block: Archaeology and Material Culture - Interpreting the Archaeological Record Spondylus in European Prehistory: New Data and Approaches A Session on the Archaeology of Shell Technologies 18/23 September 2007 Organizers Fotis Ifantidis, MA Dr. Marianna Nikolaidou We invite posters and papers related, but not limited to the following topics [deadline 31 May]:
A Spondylus-related bibliography [1959-2007, concerning European, Balkan and Aegean contexts] is accessible in |
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