The Kom al-Ahmer – Kom Wasit Archaeological Project is planning its next excavation season between April and May 2017. The mission is based in the Western Delta of Egypt, 50 km SW of Alexandria, and is currently accepting applicants. Please find attached the flyer illustrating more details regarding the next excavation campaign. Archaeologists and young Egyptologists interested in participating and taking part in the project are encouraged to contact us (all contact information is listed on the flyer).
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EXTENDED DEADLINE – CALL FOR PAPERS – CAA NL/FL & CAA DE JOINT CHAPTER MEETING
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Dear all,
Herewith, we again would like to remind you about the 2016 Joint Chapter Meeting of CAA Netherlands/Flanders and CAA Germany that will be held in in Ghent, Belgium, November 24–25, 2016, in collaboration with the Department of Archaeology of Ghent University and the Flemish Heritage Agency.
We want to acknowledge the authors who have already submitted their paper proposals in advance of the September 1st, 2016 deadline. As we have received many requests to extend the deadline because of the summer holidays, the final deadline for submission is *Friday September 16th, 2016*.
We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers on any of the above topics. Abstract in English should be sent to mailto:meeting2016@caanlfl.nl. Abstracts will be considered by the committees of CAA NL/FL and CAA DE. Abstract should include name and surname, university, institute or company (if applicable), address and telephone number, e-mail, session for which is applied, and abstract text (max 500 words).
The aim of the CAA meetings is to bring together academic and commercial archaeologists with a particular interest in using mathematics and computer science for archaeological research. For the 2016 Joint Chapter Meeting of CAA, we kindly invite papers focussing on the following themes:
* Statistical Analysis / Network Analysis in Archaeology
* Remote Sensing and Landscape Archaeology
* Digital Archaeology and the Wider Public
* Archival and Management of (3D) Archaeological Data
The conference will be preceded by a LiDAR-workshop (November 23rd, 2016). During this workshop, participants will learn what LiDAR data is, how to effectively work with LiDAR (e.g. by building digital elevation and surface models and by looking into different LiDAR visualisation and analysis
techniques), and how to use it for archaeological research.
For further information, see the conference website (http://www.caanlfl.nl/?q=node/51) or contact the organising committee (mailto:meeting2016@caanlfl.nl).
We are very much looking forward to welcoming you in Ghent at the 2016 Joint Chapter Meeting of CAA Netherlands/Flanders and CAA Germany.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee;
Devi Taelman, Erwin Meylemans, Jitte Waagen, Ronald Visser
The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for a Teaching Fellow in Comparative Mediterranean Prehistory (Ref.:1567589). The deadline for applications is 8 September 2016.
A full-time Teaching Fellow is sought to contribute to teaching in comparative Mediterranean prehistory, with demonstrated expertise in Aegean and Central or West Mediterranean prehistory.
The post-holder will teach at all levels, from undergraduate and postgraduate to research degree level in their own area of expertise and will continue to the teaching at all levels beyond their own area of expertise, especially as part of the MA in Mediterranean Archaeology.
The post-holder will take an active role in the development and recruitment for the MA in Mediterranean Archaeology, and will contribute to administrative duties related to teaching and the running of the Institute.
The post is available for 5 years in the first instance.
See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/2015-16-news/20160824
for further details
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Contact: Timothy Ives, RIHPHC, 401-222-4139, timothy.ives@preservation.ri.gov
R.I. HISTORICAL PRESERVATION & HERITAGE COMMISSION TO HOLD PUBLIC STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS REGARDING COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES DAMAGED BY HURRICANE SANDY
The Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission (RIHPHC) will convene two public stakeholder meetings to discuss the nature, significance, and management of coastal archaeological sites damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
Native American settlement along Rhode Island’s coastlines over the past 5000 years has generated a rich and irreplaceable archaeological record. Unfortunately, much of this record may be destroyed in the coming decades by rising sea levels and coastal storms of increasing intensity and frequency. Following Hurricane Sandy, the RIHPHC noted extensive damage to archaeological sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NR) and many sites eligible for listing in the NR on Block Island and along the South Coast. Using Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Grant funds from the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, the RIHPHC designed and administered surveys to identify and evaluate these sites. The recently completed surveys identified and documented archaeological sites damaged by Hurricane Sandy, evaluated the significance of these sites, projected their susceptibility to future storm damage, and proposed management options.
The RIHPHC will hold two public meetings to present survey findings and solicit comments and suggestions regarding long-term site management. State Archaeologist Timothy Ives explained that “Local engagement is the foundation of both coastal resource management and historic preservation in Rhode Island.”
Information on the two meetings are as follows:
South Coast Archaeology Stakeholder Meeting
The Towers, 35 Ocean Road, Narragansett
Tuesday, September 13
7:00-9:00 PM
The Public Archaeology Laboratory Inc. will present the results of their survey of archaeological sites damaged by Hurricane Sandy on the South Coast of Rhode Island. Their study area consists of coastlines on the east side of Point Judith Neck (extending from Narragansett Pier southward to Point Judith) and along the southern shores of Narragansett, South Kingstown, Charlestown, and Westerly to Napatree Point. Archaeologists will discuss several Native American archaeological sites, in addition to Fort Mansfield, an Endicott Era coastal artillery installation. Public questions, comments, and discussion will follow.
Block Island Archaeology Stakeholder Meeting
Island Free Library, Dodge Street, Block Island (New Shoreham)
Tuesday, September 20
1:00-4:00 PM
This meeting will feature a presentation by the Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. on a seventeenth-century Native American site exposed by the washout of Corn Neck Road, the only land route between the northern and southern portions of Block Island. Next, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center will present an overview of archaeological sites along the island’s perimeter and low-lying salt ponds. Their findings show that Native American sites across the island are more diverse and widely distributed than previously thought, substantially recasting local research and preservation priorities. Public questions, comments, and discussion will follow.
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Theoretical Archeological Group—North America
The Medium is the Message: Media and Mediation in Archaeology
May 18-20, 2017
Our website is live at http://www.archaeology.utoronto.ca/tag-toronto-2017.html and accepting submissions.
Session proposal deadline: January 15, 2017
Paper abstract submission deadline (to session organizers): March 15, 2017
Completed session rosters due: March 15, 2017
Early bird AND participants registration deadline: March 15, 2017
You can also follow us for updates on twitter, at @TAG2017Toronto and on facebook, at TAG North America.
In recognition of the contributions of Toronto scholar Marshall McLuhan, the theme of the meeting is:
“The Medium is the Message: Media and Mediation in Archaeology.”
The theme is intentionally broad and highlights how existence is profoundly conditioned by the material world, an issue that has been of central concern to archaeologists as well as to posthumanists and new materialists in other disciplines. In the oft cited aphorism, “the medium is the message,” University of Toronto philosopher Marshall McLuhan (1964) intended to stress how technologies, especially print and later digital media, transformed human cognition and social organization. In a similar vein, archaeological publications commonly declare that social relations, political inequality, and structures of practice were “mediated” by landscapes, ecologies, and assemblages of things and technical orders. In a sense, mediation becomes synonymous with process itself. In a recent publication, Arjun Appadurai (2015) has critiqued Latour and other proponents of the material turn, and he proposes that a focus on “mediants” and “mediation” permits more historically sensitive analyses of the formation of diverse social collectives entangling people, places, and things. At the same time, archaeological research is an inherently mediated enterprise, for interpretation relies on the traces and material signs of past practices. As Zoë Crossland recently noted (2014: 3): “Archaeology is the exemplary discipline of signs, spinning narratives of past worlds around the material detritus left in the wake of human lives.” Thus a diverse number of sessions could be considered, ranging from the effects of new digital media on archaeological inference to the problems inherent in archaeological attempts to mediate or translate indigenous lifeways.
Session themes could also address: mediation and materiality; media and aesthetics; the politics of mediatization; mediation as semiosis, media of archaeological interpretation, trace as medium, media of religion and ideology; the present as medium of the past (space as medium of time and history)—and so forth.
In appreciation of the first President of the University of Toronto, Daniel Wilson (who is credited with coining the term “prehistory”), sessions exploring the history of archaeological thought would also be welcome, along with themes not directly related to media and mediation.
Works Cited
Appadurai, Arjun 2015. Mediants, Materiality, Normativity. Public Culture 27(2): 221-237.
Crossland, Zoë 2014 Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar: Material Signs and Traces of the Dead. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McLuhan, Marshall 1964. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw Hill.
Environment, Landscape and Society: Diachronic Perspectives on Settlement Patterns in Cyprus
Description: workshop and publication on diachronic landscape analyses in the eastern Mediterranean, organized by the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) and the Cyprus Institute.
Date: 17-19 February 2017, to be held at CAARI in Nicosia, Cyprus
How did people choose where to live? What environmental, social and economic factors went into the decisions to build a settlement, and why were settlements abandoned? The aim of this workshop is to investigate the changing patterns of human interaction with their physical environment from prehistory into historic periods (into the medieval period). It seeks to clarify the ways in which societies balanced landscape, natural resources, and the needs of social groups, and the impact these relationships had in shaping and reshaping settlement location and layout, economic development, ritual patterns, and was a key factor in establishing territoriality. We invite diachronic approaches to establish how and why communities chose to live in certain places and engage in certain economies at any given time. We aim to compare a range of settlements in their environmental and landscape (and seascape) contexts from Cyprus, test hypotheses about how and why humans chose to settle in particular places and demonstrate how this affected social change. The organizers are especially interested in studies that show explicit relationships between settlement patterns, uses of the landscape and environmental factors.
The diachronic nature of this conference means that papers will be accepted from a wide range of periods, from early prehistory to the medieval period, and we are particularly interested in a broad representation of disciplines.
A 300-word abstract should be sent to:
director@caari.org.cy and evimargaritis@gmail.com
before 1 October 2016 for consideration by the Steering Committee. Abstracts submitted after the deadline may be accepted or rejected at the discretion of the Committee.
Abstracts should include:
- the name and full contact details and affiliation of the contributor
- the title of the proposed paper
- what the proposed paper intends to cover
- an outline of the approach
Individual presentations will be limited to 20 minutes with additional time for questions.
We expect that some travel funding will be available to qualified participants and it is anticipated that the proceedings of this workshop will be published as part of the CAARI Monograph Series.
The final deadline for all submissions for the 2017 AIA Annual Meeting, which will be held in Toronto, Canada from January 5-8 is rapidly approaching. Submissions are still being accepted for workshops and open session paper or poster presentations. We would also like to encourage undergraduate students to submit to the undergraduate poster and paper sessions.
Deadline for Submissions – Sunday, August 7, 2016 and Sunday, August 21, 2016 (with $25 fee)
Full details on all submission types and requirements are available in the Annual Meeting section of our website. Questions about the online submission process may be directed to 2017annualmeeting@aia.bu.edu. All submitters are encouraged to review the Call for Papers (available at www.archaeological.org/meeting/CFP) prior to submitting. Submission forms can be accessed at www.archaeological.org/meeting/CFP/forms.
All submissions must be completed by August 21st and the administrative fee must be paid for any paper submitted after the August 7th deadline.
* View the 2017 Call for Papers: www.archaeological.org/meeting/CFP
* Online Submission Forms: www.archaeological.org/meeting/CFP/forms
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS
July 10-24, 2016
ACULONTRA (CORSICA)
Bronze Age settlement
The site of Aculontra is located in Gavignano, in Upper Corsica (Haute-Corse). It spreads over around 2000 m2. Three distinct archaeological entities have been identified: a medieval tower standing at its highest point, a cluster of 6 to 8 rectangular constructions thought to be protohistoric raised on the south slope of the massif and a statue-menhir that is no longer present.
The focus of the excavation is the protohistoric site which is situated on the southwest side, overlooking the Golu River. It includes at least six structures, of which four are lined up. Downhill and to the West, one or possibly two additional structures were almost entirely destroyed and reused during medieval or modern times. Constructions are of rectangular shape with right-angled quoins. A long side, which is regularised and cladded, always sits against the slope. Doors, even perhaps windows, are visible on the long sides. Walls are made with dry stone blocks of medium (30-50 cm) to very large size (up to 150 cm) with a random coursing. The angle stones are of parallelepiped shape. Elevations have been preserved up to a height of 3 m. The construction close to the summit is the only one to show double faced stone walls. In addition, the site includes several small rock shelters and some of them have revealed splinters of human skulls as surface finds.
The excavation will consist in archaeological surveys (planimetry, altimetry, sections) along with a limited stratigraphic exploration of one of the rectangular structures. The objective is to define the chronology and function of the site in a region (Castagniccia) where very little is known about the Bronze Age period.
Participation requirements:
Student in archaeology, 18 years old minimum, antitetaneous vaccination, 2 week participation minimum, accommodation (campsite and gite) and meals are covered by the excavation.
For further information, please contact the scientific leader of the excavation:
Kewin PECHE-QUILICHINI (baiucheddu@gmx.fr)
Summer 2016 is the final season of WARP, an interdisciplinary archaeological survey along the Inachos river, west of the city of Argos in southern Greece. This intensive pedestrian survey includes the known archaeological sites of the Classical polis of Orneai, Mycenaean chamber tombs, and fortifications of the Roman, Medieval, and Ottoman periods, as well as an extensive system of ancient roads and passes. Among the project’s aims are (a) to understand the settlement dynamics of Argos, an important center in virtually all periods of Greek history but whose hinterland is scarcely understood, and (b) to detect the networks that connected the micro-regions of the western Argolid to each other and to neighboring valleys in the northeastern Peloponnese. We seek undergraduate field walkers for this summer either as volunteers or as credit-earning field school students.
Participants stay on the beach in comfortable vacation apartments in the beautiful fishing village of Myloi on the Gulf of Argos. Saturday field trips include the major Bronze Age palace sites at Mycenae and Tiryns, the Classical sites of Nemea, Corinth, and Epidauros (where we also see a play in the ancient theater), and the Medieval fortress of Nauplio, as well as numerous local museums.
Dates: May 29 – July 10, 2016.
Deadline for Application: April 15, 2015 (This is a rolling deadline, which means that we process applications as we get them until the project fills and this may be before April 15, so apply early!).
Fee: $3750 (for volunteers); $4750 (in-state, CO)/$5750 (out-of-state) (for the six-credit field school). Fees include six-weeks of accommodation in Myloi, most meals and transportation during the project, and entrance to all sites and museums.
For further information, see https://www.archaeological.org/fieldwork/afob/13907 and https://studyabroad.colorado.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=899
Or email Dr. Dimitri Nakassis (d.nakassis@utoronto.ca) or Dr. Sarah James (sarah.a.james@colorado.edu)
Call for Papers and Panels – Critical Perspectives on Culture and Preservation: Precarity in our Past, Present, and Future Cultural Heritages
This year’s Critical Legal Conference will feature a stream on “Critical Perspectives on Culture and Preservation: Precarity in our Past, Present, and Future Cultural Heritages”, for which both paper and panel submissions are encouraged. The conference occurs between September 1st and 3rd, 2016 at Kent University.
The past few years have born witness to the destruction of places, spaces, and objects that carry unquantifiable historical, heritage, and cultural value. As the world gazes on, horrified, many critical questions arise in relation to preservation, protection, ownership, and intervention. What role can or does law have? And how is the view of law’s role shaped by critical legal and radical perspectives?
Atrocities committed against relics of the past are but one aspect of the greater question of the role of preservation and protection in our globalizing world. Just as the term “culture” can capture nearly endless possibilities, so too can the question of what should be protected and preserved as “culture”.
What about the destruction of that which exists intangibly within the boundaries of cultural spaces, and practices? As the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage enters its next decade, has it been successful in its goals and intentions? Questions of how to strengthen and better dedicate ourselves to the preservation of human culture go far beyond the physical and the physically destroyed. Much of what constitutes art and culture is intangible—yet these cultural aspects are as vital to human civilization as the towering ruins of the past.
Alongside the question of how law should (or should not) employ preservation strategies in areas of conflict and war, the question of how law should respond to the privatization and commodification of culture within neoliberal development initiatives also arises.
What about urban culture in our cities? As neighbourhoods face gentrifying forces and municipal redevelopment strategies, what important buildings and spaces should be preserved? How do we determine what to preserve? Can live music venues benefit from intangible cultural heritage protection? In the UK, can and should pubs receive protection through legal tools such as designation as an Asset of Community Value in the face of an owner’s development rights? Or, in New York City, does an otherwise unremarkable building, such as the Stonewall Inn, merit landmark designation based on past important events or the importance it carries to a community like the LGBT community?
Further, if we critically deconstruct existing decisions and paradigms to provide, or not to provide, legally enforceable protection to spaces, places, and objects, will we find a replication of the architectures of hegemony, unequal valuation, or even, recolonization? Or will we find something else? Is the notion of “culture” itself something hegemonic or colonial?
This stream seeks to engage the work of critical and radical scholars and perspectives working at the intersections of law, culture, preservation, and the governance of culture—municipally, domestically, and internationally—as well as those interested in tangible and intangible cultural heritage matters and our human right to culture in all of its varied forms. The goal is to create a lively critical dialogue surrounding how we will treat crucial issues in the preservation of our array of collective past, present, and future cultures moving forward.
Possible ideas for conference papers could include (but are absolutely not limited to):
– The destruction or theft of cultural heritage in conflict regions.
– The role of cultural preservation during periods of urbanization or urban redevelopment.
– International or domestic law and the rise of tangible and intangible cultural heritage protection.
– The interaction between governance and culture.
Paper Proposals should include an abstracts of no longer than 300 words and a brief author biography. Panel Proposals should include the panel title and rationale (of no more than 300 words) and abstracts and biographies for all participants in the panel. Please send your Paper and Panel Proposal to SaraRoss@osgoode.yorku.ca in a *.doc file. The Call Closes on 1 July 2016.
