 Newsletters |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Newsletter of the Association for Environmental Archaeology Latest edition: Newsletter 84 May 2004 ISSN 1363-6553 EditorialNews from the Committee AEA Books Conferences & Meetings Events Calendar in brief International Jn. of Osteoarchaeology Bad Buchau Booking Form |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Edited by Wendy Carruthers and Vanessa Straker (e-mail addresses: wendy.carruthers@virgin.net; vanessa.straker@english-heritage.org.uk AEA Membership Secretary; Jane Richardson, Archaeological Services WYAS, PO Box 30, Nepshaw Lane
This edition of the Newsletter contains a final reminder that the deadline for registration and submission of abstracts for the AEA’s 25th Anniversary Conference in Bad Buchau is not far away, on 1st June 2004. Please see the website (details in the ‘Conferences & Meetings’ section) or the back of this newsletter for registration form. Please note that the AEA is offering a payment service for this conference for members in the UK, as outlined on page.4. Block bookings via the AEA must be received by 10th June.
NOMINATIONS TO THE AEA MANAGING COMMITTEE The AEA Managing Committee seeks nominations for three ordinary committee members and the position of Secretary (four vacancies altogether, each a three-year position). Elections will be held at the AEA AGM to be held at the annual conference in Bad Buchau, 2-5 September 2004. The AEA Managing Committee usually meets four times a year (usually in March, June, September and December). The main items of business discussed are the organisation of conferences and publication of conference proceedings, and publication of the journal, as well as issues relating to the Newsletter, Website maintenance, and membership. In addition to elected office of Secretary, we are also looking for candidates interested in taking on the roles of Publicity Officer and Conference Officer, each of which is performed by an ordinary committee member. We particularly encourage candidates who are prepared to take on one of these specific jobs of the AEA Managing Committee. Nominees must be current AEA members. The role of Secretary (elected officer) The role of the Secretary is to facilitate communication between members of the AEA Managing Committee and, with the AEA Chair, between the Committee and AEA members. The main practical duties involve the drawing up of agendas, keeping accurate minutes, and writing and encouraging notices for the Newsletter and Website. The Secretary works in close co-operation with the AEA Chair, but is also available to assist other Officers and committee members of the Association. To make your nomination Any AEA member can make a nomination, but this must be seconded. Please state whether you are nominating a candidate for one of the three ordinary positions or the position of Secretary. A brief personal statement from the nominee (which implicitly indicates the nominee’s willingness to stand) should accompany nominations. This can be received by e-mail or regular mail. This statement will be published in the August Newsletter or, if received afterwards, read at the AGM. Nominations can be received up to the time of the AGM, although the committee would like to encourage members to submit nominations before the August Newsletter deadline (20th July). Nominations and personal statements can be e-mailed or posted to: Carol Palmer, AEA Secretary, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West Street, Sheffield, S1 4ET, UK E-mail: c.palmer@sheffield.ac.uk Elections will be held at the annual conference in Bad Buchau – for more details see below.
Oxbow Books are offering the AEA a 50% discount on the following titles: published now: From the 2002 ICAZ Conference (available now, despite what it may say on Oxbow’s web pages!): Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas: A Zooarchaeological Approach The Future from the Past: Archaeozoology in Wildlife Conservation and Heritage Management Behaviour Behind Bones: The Zooarchaeology of Ritual, Religion, Status and Identity expected late summer 2004: From the 2001 AEA Conference Atlantic Connections and Adaptations: Economies, Environments and Subsistence in Lands Bordering the North Atlantic Please let me know as soon as possible if you would be interested in purchasing any of these and I will make up orders in due course. Anyone who has already contacted by e-mail should have received an acknowledgement of their message; please let me know if you have written but received no response. Sale of old stock I am offering the following titles at serious discounts to clear old stock which is gathering dust in my office: Bailey, G., Charles, R. and Winder, N. (eds.). 2000. Human ecodynamics. Symposia of the AEA 19. £ 12.50 (£25) Brothwell/Pollard: Handbook of Archaeological Science. Wiley £94.50 (list price £135) [one copy left] Dobney/O’Connor: Bones and Man (Festschrift for Don Brothwell). Oxbow. £15 (£30) Kenward H and Hall A 1995. Biological evidence from Anglo-Scandinavian Coppergate. Archaeology of York14/7. York: CBA. £7.50 (publisher’s price £32) Moe D, Dickson J H and Jorgensen P M (eds) 1994. Garden History... PACT. £15 (£38) Rackham: Ancient Woodland (new edition): £50 (£60) [one copy only] Please note that we no longer have any stock of the following: Dobney D, Jaques, S and Irving B [1996]. Of Butchers and Breeds. Lincoln. de Boe G and Verhaege F (eds.) 1997. Environment and subsistence in medieval Europe. Pre-printed papers of the 'Medieval Europe Brugge 1997 Conference', Vol. 9. IAP Rapporten 9. Zellik. Rowley-Conwy, P. (ed.) 2000. Animal bones, human societies. Oxford: Oxbow. Huntley, J.P. and Stallibrass, S. (eds.) 2000. Taphonomy and interpretation. Symposia of the AEA 14. Oxford: Oxbow. ... and a special offer from the publishers of World Archaeology, who have agreed to sell the WA volume on ‘Luxury Foods’, edited by Marijke van der Veen, at a special price of £15 to AEA members. Below is a list of the papers in the volume. Anybody interested can get a copy of the order form (as a PDF file) from Allan Hall (biol8@york.ac.uk). SPECIAL BOOK PRICE AVAILABLE TO AEA MEMBERS M. van der Veen (ed) LUXURY FOODS - WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY 34(3)2003 – Volume content: When is food a luxury? Beyond affluence: the zooarchaeology of luxury Did East Polynesians have a concept of luxury foods? Were luxury foods the first domesticates? Ethnoarchaeological perspectives from Southeast Asia Pre-Columbian Andean animal domesticates at the edge of empire New archaeological insights into food and status: a case study from pre-contact Hawaii The noble beast: status and differential access to animals in the Maya world Brewing beer: status, wealth and ceramic use alteration among the Gamo of south-western Ethiopia Pomegranates in eastern Mediterranean contexts during the Late Bronze Age Access to luxury foods in Central Europe during the Roman period: the archaeobotanical evidence Archaeology, luxury and the exotic: the examples of Islamic Gao (Mali) and Bahrain ‘ Luxury foods’ in medieval Islamic societies Allan Hall
AEA 25th Anniversary Symposium in Bad Buchau, Southern Germany, 2-5 September 2004. Economic and environmental changes during the 4th and 3rd millennium BC Organised by the Federseemuseum Bad Buchau, the Nationalmuseum of Denmark and the Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg Details of this conference have been advertised in previous newsletters and are available on-line at: www.federseemuseum.de where a registration form is available for downloading. If you require further information please contact: Deadline for abstracts and registration: 1st June 2004. Payment for registration, field trips and the conference dinner must be sent with the conference registration form (upper part of the registration form). Accommodation (lower part of the registration form) is being arranged separately by the tourist office in Bad Buchau and participants will pay this directly to the hotel, apartment owner, etc. *Important advance notice for UK members planning to attend the Bad Buchau conference* In view of the fact that the conference organisers cannot accept payment other than in Euros or by Giro, and that British Banks have a steep charge for individual money drafts/orders, the Association will offer a service to British attendees in relation to the direct conference costs. This does NOT include accommodation or food, these must be organised by the individual attendees themselves.
The administration fee will cover the cost of raising one banker’s draft and any variation in the exchange rates before the end of June. The 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) This will take place on 10th-11th September 2004 at the Comparative Morphology Centre, University of Bristol. Planned sessions include osteoarchaeology, evolutionary anthropology, biomechanics and human ecology. There will also be a poster session. For further details contact Kate Robson-Brown (Tel: 0117 9546060; email: kate.robson-brown@bristol.ac.uk
The following workshops, courses and meetings coming up in the next few months have been mentioned in International Workshop on Soil Micromorphology and Archaeology: Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Workshop : Wastes and wastelands: historical approaches to Identification of Wood, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY International Journal of Osteoarchaeology is available to all AEA members at the special annual subscription price of $145.00/£90.00. The journal provides six issues per year of peer-reviewed articles on human and animal bone research worldwide and is the ONLY journal to cover both human and nonhuman archaeology! Special Issue News A Special Double Issue,“Neanderthal Ecology” will be publishing at the end of May 2004 (Volume 15 Issues 3 / 4 and is edited by Terry O'Connor, UK and Ariane Burke, Canada. To see the table of contents and view free abstracts visit: www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/oa View detailed information on International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, including: Aims and Scope, Editorial Board and the Tables of Contents of all published issues at: www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/oa To take advantage of the special rate, please contact cs-journals@wiley.co.uk and mention your AEA membership number.
AEA - Association for Environmental Archaeology Economic and Environmental changes during the 4th and 3rd millennium B |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
