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Vanessa Straker, English Heritage SW, 29 Queen Square, Bristol BS1 4ND
AEA Membership Secretary; Dr Ralph Fyfe,
Room 211,
8 Kirkby Place,
Drake Circus,
Plymouth,
Devon,
PL4 8AA.
UK; e-mail: membership@envarch.net
EDITORIAL
As this is the first Newsletter of 2007, we would like to wish members a Happy New Year - and then ask you to
please check that you have paid the correct subscription rate (see ‘News From The Committee’ section). It is
particularly important that the correct payment is received by 1st March, since new rules now apply, as outlined
below. A membership form is provided at the back of the Newsletter.
The Newsletter provides further information about the Spring conference in Cork and the Autumn Conference in
Poland, and a call for papers.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Richard Thomas (AEA Publicity Officer) on the birth of his son, William James, who was born
on Thursday 4th January. Our best wishes go to Richard and his family.
NEWS FROM THE COMMITTEE
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
If you have not yet paid your AEA membership subscription for 2007, your payment is now overdue (payment
was due on 1st January 2007). A renewal form is printed at the back of this Newsletter. You do not need to
complete this form if you have arranged to pay your membership fee by standing order. There has been no change in the membership fee, which remains at £38 for waged and £28 for
students/unwaged. In addition, there is now no postage charge for overseas members.
Please note that a new system is in place for members that do not pay by 1st March. The publisher of
Environmental Archaeology requires a list of members’ addresses by 1st March each year in order to send out
the first issue of the journal. The journal is only sent out to fully paid-up members.
If you pay your membership subscription after this date, your membership will be registered and you will receive
Newsletters, JISCmail etc. You will not, however, receive issue 1 of the journal until issue 2 is published
(around October), when both issues will be sent together. It is therefore in your own interest to pay your
membership subscription on time.
The date for setting up a standing order has now passed (standing orders were due to be set up by 1st January
2007). Members can, however, pay by cheque for 2007 and set up a standing order at the end of the year for
2008 and beyond. Information on setting up a standing order for 2008 will be provided in the November
Newsletter later this year.
Members who have already set up standing orders are asked to ensure that they are paying at the correct
rate (£38 for waged and £28 for students/unwaged). Members who continue to underpay their membership
subscription will not receive the Journal.
Payment by Visa can be made by overseas members only. For reasons of security, the AEA do not hold
members’ Visa details. Members using this method of payment must therefore confirm payment each year,
providing their payment details each time.
Members are asked not to send their Visa details by email (including attachments) for security reasons. The
AEA will not accept responsibility for the security of Visa details sent by email. Visa details should instead be
sent by regular mail to the Membership Secretary at the address below.
Membership Secretary:
Dr Ralph Fyfe
Room 211
8 Kirkby Place
Drake Circus
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AA
UK
Email: membership@envarch.net
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL IN THE EUROZONE
If you are living in the Eurozone, you may be interested in paying AEA membership fees using the IBAN
(International Bank Account Number) electronic transfer system. With this system, an AEA member can go to
their local bank and transfer money to an AEA account for a small fee.
The AEA has set up a bank account in the Republic of Ireland to enable payment of membership fees using this
method. Your bank’s charge for payment will vary, depending on the bank and country, but the fee should be
low (for example, many banks in the Republic of Ireland charge around 50 cents – check your local bank for
their rates).
AEA membership fees for IBAN transfers are: €58 waged and €42 student/unwaged. Please also fill in the
renewal form at the back of the Newsletter and send it to the Membership Secretary at the address above
so that we know where to send the Journal issues and newsletters.
Your bank will require the following details relating to the AEA’s bank account. Please ensure that you use the
IBAN number and that your name is recorded on the transfer. If possible, please also ensure that the
transaction is marked as ‘AEA sub’.
Bank: Ulster Bank, High Street, Wilton, Cork, Republic of Ireland
Branch code: 98-54-88
Account code: 66252076
Account name: Association for Environmental Archaeology
Swift Code: ULSBIE2D
IBAN: IE55ULSB98548866252076
If you have any queries about using the IBAN system, please contact Meriel McClatchie
(m.mcclatchie@ucc.ie).
THE JOURNAL
If you have paid your 2006 subscription but did not yet receive your copy of 11.2, please contact the
Membership Secretary (membership@envarch.net) to check your current membership status.
The Journal’s editor, Ingrid Mainland, would particularly like to encourage AEA members to submit research
papers, review articles or short contributions on any aspect of environmental archaeology. Full details regarding
submission to the Journal can be found at the following website:
http://www.maney.co.uk/search?fwaction=show&fwid=671, or contact Ingrid Mainland for further information.
Journal Editor:
Dr Ingrid Mainland,
Co-ordinating Editor of Environmental Archaeology,
Department of Archaeological Sciences,
University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK.
Tel: +44 [0]1274 23 3541; Fax: +44 [0]1274 235190
E-mail: i.l.mainland@bradford.ac.uk
Online access for institutional subscribers
Members are reminded that Environmental Archaeology is available free online, via IngentaConnect, to
Institutional subscribers. Institutional subscription is only £90 and includes online access to the full text. If
your institution is not currently subscribing to the Journal, please encourage them to do so. Information on
institutional subscriptions to the Journal is available at:
http://www.maney.co.uk/search?fwaction=subscriptions&fwid=671
AEA SEMINARS
The AEA Seminar series continues during 2007:
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Location |
Time |
| 13 February 07 |
Dr. Füsun Ertug (Yeditepe
University, Istanbul, Turkey
and EARTH (Early
Agricultural Remnants and
Technical Heritage)) |
Ethnobotanical Investigations
in Anatolia |
Department of
Archaeological
Sciences, University of
Bradford |
5.15pm |
| 14 March 07 |
Dr Jacqui Mulville (Cardiff
University) |
From Llanmaes to Llangorse:
herding and hunting in early
Wales |
Department of
Archaeology &
Anthropology,
University of Lampeter |
4pm-5pm |
All seminars are free to members of the Association for Environmental Archaeology. For membership
information please check the AEA website: http://www.envarch.net. For further information regarding specific
events please contact the AEA Publicity Officer (rmt12@le.ac.uk).
AEA DISCUSSION LIST
The AEA Committee has decided to set up an Environmental Archaeology Discussion List, which will be
available to AEA members already on the JISCmail (email) system. AEA members currently receive an
information-only service via JISCmail (e.g. newsletters, conference information etc.). The new initiative will
complement this information-only list.
Many different disciplines come together under the ever-widening umbrella of 'Environmental Archaeology', and
it is hoped the new discussion list will encourage members from a variety of backgrounds to pose questions and
discuss their work in a wider forum. The list will initially be run for a six-month trial period, after which its success
or otherwise will be evaluated by the AEA Committee Members will receive an email when the list commences,
with the option of being removed at any time.
More information will be provided in the near future.
AEA CONFERENCES IN 2008
The AEA spring 2008 meeting will take place at the University of Cardiff.
The AEA annual symposium 2008 will take place at Arhus in Denmark.
Further details on both meetings will appear in future editions of the Newsletter
CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
AEA 2007 one-day spring meeting, Saturday, 17th February 2007, University College Cork, Republic of
Ireland
Environmental Archaeology in Ireland: new perspectives and recent research
The meeting is being organised by Meriel McClatchie and Mick Monk. Further information is available at the
meeting website: http://envarch.ucc.ie
The deadline for registration has been extended to Friday 9th February 2007 (a registration form has been
included at the end of this Newsletter).
The deadline for posters has also been extended to Friday 2nd February 2007.
The meeting organisers are very grateful to the following for sponsorship of the meeting:
Department of Archaeology, University College Cork; Department of Environment, Heritage and Local
Government; The Heritage Council.
The AEA has also agreed to sponsor a prize (EUR75) for the best student poster!
Please contact Meriel McClatchie (m.mcclatchie@ucc.ie) for any further information.
PROGRAMME
SESSION 1
Lorna O’Donnell & Dr Eoin Grogan (Margaret Gowen and Co. Ltd) The Bronze Age landscapes of the Gas
Pipeline to the West
Dr Lucy Verrill (University of Edinburgh) Recent research into settlement continuity and environmental
marginality at Belderg Beg, County Mayo
Fiona Grant (Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust) The impact of early ironworking in the west of Ireland: the
palaeoenvironmental evidence
SESSION 2
Dr Gill Plunkett1, Conor McDermott2, Graeme T. Swindles1 & David Brown1 (1School of Geography,
Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast; 2School of Archaeology, University College Dublin).
Wetland archaeology in Ireland and the "bigger picture": a critical assessment of the role of environment in
determining past wetland activity
Dr Nóra Bermingham & Dr Benjamin Gearey (University Of Birmingham) Raised mires: complexity, climate
change and bog bursts
Eileen Reilly (Botany Department, Trinity College Dublin) Lessons from Lemanaghan – insights into a dynamic
wetland landscape from insect remains analyses 1996-2001
Dr David Earle Robinson (English Heritage) Grauballe Man revisited – new analyses and reassessment of a
bog body from the Danish Iron Age
SESSION 3
Ellen O’Carroll (Consulting Archaeologist) Kilns, furnaces and pits – fuel for thought!
Penny Johnston & Mary Dillon (Eachtra Archaeological Projects) Charred environmental remains from three
Ringforts in Galway. Preliminary results and comparative studies
Dr Jacqui Mulville & Adrienne Powell (University of Cardiff) From Llanmaes to Llangorse: herding and
hunting in Early Wales
SESSION 4
Dr Scott Timpany (Headland Archaeology) Palaeoenvironmental assessment of a wetland site, Newrath,
Waterford
Dr Anthony Beese (Consulting Geologist, Carraigex Ltd, Cork) Land-claim using mud in the estuarine
environment of medieval Cork, Ireland: studies in stratigraphy and sedimentology
Dr Helen Lewis (School of Archaeology, University College Dublin) Soil micromorphological applications to
sites and landscapes
2007 AEA conference, Poland, 12-15 September 2007
Eurasian Perspectives on Environmental Archaeology
The Association for Environmental Archaeology in Poland (Stowarzyszenie Archeologii Srodowiskowej SAS)
along with Deutsches Archaeologisches Institute, Eurasien Abteilung in Berlin, Instititue for Polar and Marine
Research in Potsdam and International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan are organising a
two-day symposium “Eurasian Perspectives on Environmental Archaeology”. This AEA symposium, held for the
first time in Eastern Europe, is intended to provide a forum for discussion on recent research in environmental
Archaeology in the broad context of temperate areas of Eurasia.
The focus will be on cultural and environmental diversity, development of cultural landscapes of northern
Eurasia in long-time perspective, dynamics of climate and vegetation as a background for cultural processes. We would call for new research results from the area within geo- and bioarchaeological studies curried out on
archaeological sites and off-site studies.
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. Please send abstracts of both lectures and posters to the conference organisers
(below). Abstracts should be 1-4 pages in length, including figures and bibliography if appropriate.
Provisional session titles:
- Man and environment in monsoonal East Asia.
- Man and environment in dry and semi-dry areas of northern Eurasia.
- Human culture and environment in forest zone of central and Eastern Europe.
- Development of cultural landscape in Atlantic sphere of western and northern Europe.
- Progress in paleoenvironmental methods - laminated lake sediments and environmental archaeology of
northern Eurasia.
Session Organiser: Prof Yasuda
Fieldtrip:
The symposium will be followed by a two-day excursion in Wielkopolska (Great Poland). The main Slavic sites
in Poznan, Ostrow Lednicki, Gniezno and Kaldus will be presented as well as a visit to Biskupin. Biskupin is a
fortified settlement from the transitional period from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, one of the best-known
archaeological reserves in central Europe. At the archaeological site issues of environmental studies will be
discussed.
The official conference language is English. Full details will be provided soon on the AEA website.
Contact address: Miroslaw Makohonienko, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Institute of
Palaeogeography and Geoecology, Dziegielowa 27, 61-680 Poznan, Poland. Email: makoho@amu.edu.pl
HISTORY OF FRUITS
Toulouse (France) on the 29th-31st March, 2007.
An international symposium “The history of fruits: knowledge in practice and the practice of knowledge” will be
held in Toulouse (France) on 29th-31st March, 2007. Giving a description of knowledge on fruits and fruit
growing in the prehistoric and historical periods, it will bring together archaeologists, agronomists, historians and
ethnologists from France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland and the United States.
University of Toulouse Le Mirail (France). http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/agenda
The 2007 INQUA congress will take place in Cairns, Australia, from 28th July to 3rd August
information is available at the congress website: http://www.inqua2007.net.au/index.htm
37th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARCHAEOMETRY
SIENA, Italy May 12th - 16th, 2008
FIRST CIRCULAR: Call for Abstracts
Organized by:
Siena University: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Dipartimento di Archeologia e Storia delle Arti,
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Dipartimento di Chimica
Scope
The aim of the Symposium is to promote the development and use of scientific techniques in order to extract
archaeological and historical information from the cultural heritage and the paleoenvironment. It involves all
Natural Sciences and all types of objects and materials related with human activity. In general, papers should
deal with the development and/or application of scientific techniques for extracting information related to human
activities of the past, including the biological nature of man himself and the environment in which he lived. The
subjects covered by the Symposium are grouped into the following fields that form the sessions under which the
papers will be presented either as oral or poster.
Sessions
- Field Archaeology (Remote Sensing and Geophysical Prospecting, sampling and fieldwalking strategies, in
situ observations of preservation, site monitoring, etc).
- Archaeo-chronometry (New developments in dating techniques, novel applications, methods of combining
dating strategies, new interpretation strategies, synchronization of cultures, cultural phase analysis, etc.).
2.1. Recent Developments in Radiocarbon Dating (Special Sub-session).
- Human - Environment Interactions (Geoarchaeology, Palaeoclimate studies, Landscape Archaeology,
Environmental reconstructions, etc.).
- Bioarchaeology (DNA, Human Diet, health, mobility, demography, residues, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany,
etc.).
4.1. Food preparation and consumption in Antiquity (Special Sub-session).
- Stone, Plaster and Pigments (Technology and Provenance)
- Ceramics, Glazes, Glass and Vitreous Materials (Technology and Provenance)
- Metals and Metallurgical Ceramics (Technology and Provenance)
- Integrated Site Studies (they should combine: excavation procedure, scientific studies of materials and
environment, and archaeological interpretation).
Special Theme Session for Siena: Micro/nano diagnostic and ancient technology Venue
The Symposium will be held at the Complesso Didattico del Laterino, situated just out of the historic city walls,
very near to the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra and to the historic centre of the city. More information will
be published on the Conference's Website, which will work starting from January 15th 2007 at
http://www.unisi.it/eventi/isa2008/
The organizing committee will also provide information on possible travel arrangements and available
accommodation during the Symposium on the Conference Website.
Social Program
During the Symposium the organizing committee will take the participants on some tours of the city.
A symposium banquet will also be organized, at an additional cost, in a suitable place with live music and
dancing. The day after the symposium, a trip will be organized for interested participants (also at additional
cost). Further information will be included within the Website.
Language of the Symposium
The official language of the Symposium will be English.
Registration Fees
Registration fees including access to all sessions, coffee-breaks, welcome party, abstract volume, Conference
proceedings and tour of Siena are as follows:
Before March 1st, 2008:
- Symposium Participants: 200 €
- Students: 100 € (prove of student status is required)
On March 1st, 2008 or later:
- Symposium Participants: 250 €
- Students: 125 €
Key Dates
Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 1st, 2007
Notification of acceptance or rejection: January 30th, 2008
Deadline for registration and payment of regular registration fee: March 1st, 2008
Deadline for hotel reservations: March 1st, 2008
Martin Aitken Prizes for Best Student Posters
Financial Support
Financial support is expected from some private and public institutions for a limited number of students and
other participants with financial difficulties. This may cover their expenses in full (travel and accommodation), or
partly (e.g., travel, accommodation or registration fee). Applicants will have to send a brief curriculum
vitae and an application letter to the Fellowship Secretariat (listed below), within December 1st, 2007.
Further details on Prizes and Fellowships will be available in the Symposium Website.
Communication
Organizing Secretariat
University of Siena
Ufficio Congressi
Banchi di Sotto, 46
Phone: +39 0577 232131/2
Fax: +39 0577 232134
E-mail: corsir@unisi.it
Symposium Website: http://www.unisi.it/eventi/isa2008/
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