FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS
4th International Congress of Medieval and Modern Archaeology - Medieval
Europe Paris 2007
(4e Congrès International d’Archéologie Médiévale et Moderne)
3-8 September, 2007, l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Université
de Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
The following session has been accepted by the organising committee for
the environmental archaeology strand of the conference:
"Medieval Zooarchaeology and Archaeozoology in Europe: The State of
Research and Future Directions"
Keywords: archaeozoology, Europe, medieval, method, theory, zooarchaeology
Research on animal remains from medieval archaeological sites has
significantly advanced our understanding of human ecology in the past,
however there is an impression of an uneven balance in the quantity of
research on faunal material from one region of Europe to the next, and a
limited knowledge of what sorts of questions are being asked of the
material in different countries. This conference represents a rare
opportunity to bring together zooarchaeologists and archaeozoologists
working with medieval contexts from across Europe in order to gauge the
current state of the discipline, compare approaches, data sets and
future directions. Papers are invited from any archaeologist working
with faunal material at any level, from post-graduate to post-doctoral.
The aim is to construct a session with a broad diversity of approaches,
and to represent as many traditions of faunal analysis from across
Europe as possible. Within this open remit, the organisers particularly
welcome papers focusing on comparative approaches to urban and rural
contexts, diverse environmental contexts, similarities and differences
between research in Northern and Southern Europe, between Eastern and
Western Europe, new methodologies, research strategies and methods of
integrating data at the inter-regional level.
The hope of the organisers is that this session will consolidate and
stimulate interest in European medieval zooarchaeology/archaeozoology
for students and researchers well into the future.
Please email titles and abstracts of 200 words, by 15th May 2007, to one
of the organisers:
Aleks Pluskowski, (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge)
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Giovanni de Venuto (Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, University of Foggia)
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Antonietta Buglione (Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità Classica e
Cristiana, University of Foggia)
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Full details of the conference, including the various thematic strands,
are available at the website of the Sorbonne, which is still in the
process of construction, and can only be viewed at present with Internet
Explorer:
http://medieval-europe-paris-2007.univ-paris1.fr/MEP%202007_fichiers/frame.htm
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