Dear Zooarch
please can you post details of the Archaeological Science conference
2001 on the mailbase. Details and registration form can be found on
the web at
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/geography/conference/conference.html
Archaeological Science 2001
29th August- 1st September 2001
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
At the turn of a new millennium archaeological science appears to be
dis-tancing itself from other aspects of archaeology, as ever more
powerful ana-lytical tools are brought to bear on archaeological
questions. The increasing trend towards more powerful scientific
methods on the one hand and 'pure' archaeology on the other is also
reflected in the tensions between funding bodies and the creation of
new funding streams within both areas. This con-ference seeks both to
review the advances in archaeological science and try to place them
more firmly within the developments in theoretical and field
ar-chaeology.
The meeting is divided into five major themes, each of which will
consider the contributions and detractions of archaeological science.
Proceedings of the sessions will be published in Journal of
Archaeological Science and speakers who wish to contribute to the
publication are asked to bring manuscripts to the meeting.
Major Sessions Food and nutrition Mike Richards (Bradford)
Chronology Mike Baillie (Queens, Belfast) The life cycle of the
artefact Mike Tite (Oxford) Prospection and Geoarchaeology Martin
Bell (Reading) New Directions in Archaeological Science Martin Jones
(Cambridge) Funding of Archaeological Science Speakers from the key
funding bodies Closing Address: Archaeological Science: a
theoretician's view Mike Shanks (Stanford)
For further details please contact
Matthew Collins, FFEGI, Drummond Building, University of Newcastle
upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
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Jacqui Mulville,
EH Regional Science Advisor (E. Mids)
Oxford University Museum,
Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW
Tel: 01865-272996 Fax: 01865-272970
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