Dear Zooarcher,

The 11^th ICAZ Conference will begin in 12 days!

We are regularly updating the 4^th circular 
(http://www2.mnhn.fr/archeozoo-archeobota/?-THIRD-CIRCULAR) where you 
will find all practical information.

Here are some important points, however.

1. Registration: it will be open between 3:00 and 6:00 pm on Monday 23 
August. Please, don’t come earlier to the venue of the conference, this 
would make things more complicated for us..

2. Opening session, 6:00 pm, Monday 23. *Only the delegates who are 
registered and bore the badge that will be given to them at the 
registration desk will be allowed to attend the conference.* You will 
find detailed information for going from Jussieu-UPMC campus (the place 
of registration) to the Cordeliers-campus (the place of the Opening 
Session) at: 
http://www2.mnhn.fr/archeozoo-archeobota/?How-to-reach-the-places-of-the

More information will be available at the registration desk. In 
addition, for those who are afraid to get lost, the ICAZ-2010 staff will 
lead them from the Jussieu-UPMC campus to the place of the Opening 
session. The rendezvous is at 5:00 pm in front of the registration desk.

3. Oral presentations. Recommendations for the preparation of the 
power-points are available at: 
http://www2.mnhn.fr/archeozoo-archeobota/?-RECOMMENDATIONS-FOR-THE-

Those of you who would not be able to send their ppt before the 
beginning of the conference, are invited to give their file in the 
“Media preview room” as soon as they arrive to the conference venue. 
However, in order to avoid overcrowding, the speakers of Friday and 
Saturday are invited to give their file only on Wednesday (but not 
later, please).

*Because it is absolutely necessary that all the parallel session begin 
and end exactly at the same time, the session organizers will strictly 
limit the presentations to 15 minutes plus 5 additional minutes for 
discussion *(except for session S7.3 Central and Eastern Europe, for 
which the presentations are 20 minutes)

4. Posters. Recommendations for the preparation of posters are available at:

http://www2.mnhn.fr/archeozoo-archeobota/?-RECOMMENDATIONS-FOR-THE,66-

*The delegates are requested to come to the conference with their poster 
already printed. The organizing committee will not be able to print any 
poster on the spot.*

Posters relating to sessions on 24 and 25 August will be displayed 
during the first two days. Posters relating to the 27 and 28 August 
sessions will be displayed during the last two days. *Posters from the 
first two days will consequently have to be removed at the end of the 
second day (25 August)* in order that the second wave of posters can be 
installed first thing on the morning of 27 August. Only the posters of 
session S5-3. Archaeozoology and palaeogenetics : Potentials and limits 
will be displayed during the full four days of the conference

5. Excursions. The booklets of the excursions of Thursday 26 and of the 
post-conference excursion are or will be available in the next days on 
the website at: 
http://www2.mnhn.fr/archeozoo-archeobota/?-EXCURSIONS-INFORMATION-AND-

Each excursion organizer will directly get (or has already got) in touch 
with the delegates who are registered for their excursion in order to 
provide practical information. Delegates will have to join by their own 
the meeting place of the excursion. However, for the excursions “Urban 
archaeology” and “Institut de Paléontologie humaine”, rendezvous will be 
organised with members of the staff who will lead the delegates who are 
afraid to get lost to the place of the visit.

We enjoy to see you soon,

All the best,

For the organizers

Jean-Denis Vigne, Marylène Patou-Mathis, Christine Lefèvre

-- 
Jean-Denis VIGNE
Dr HDR, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS
Directeur de l'UMR 7209
Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique :
Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnement

Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle - CNRS (InEE)
Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité
CP 56, 55 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris
tél.: 33 (0)1 40 79 33 10
fax: 33 (0)1 40 79 33 14