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Apologies for cross posting The 'Interpreting Stratigraphy Group' is pleased to announce our next conference, and the creation of the new website. CONFERENCE - Call for Papers The next conference of the Interpreting Stratigraphy Group will take place on SATURDAY, 7th SEPTEMBER 2002 in London at Mortimer Wheeler House, the building which now houses both the Museum of London Archaeology Service and the new London Archaeological Archive Research Centre. In line with this setting, we are inviting papers which consider the role of archaeological archives in general and, within this, questions concerning access to, and the manipulation of, stratigraphic and other site information. In addition, and especially since the implementation of PPG16, we are interested in the ‘grey literature' generated by commercial evaluation work. Papers which deal with its burgeoning volume would thus be welcome, especially if they have solutions which enhance the circulation of such evidence beyond curators and commercial sponsors. For example: - with the proliferation of small-scale evaluations, is there no longer a role for stratigraphic analysis? - how should the integration of stratigraphic and artefactual or ecofactual evidence be approached, and how can this work be resourced in a commercial environment? - can evaluation reports be made, or even allowed, to circulate more widely amongst other parties such as university departments or the local communities affected by development? In addition to the above issues, we are also happy to consider papers dealing with topics loosely related to any other aspects of stratigraphic interpretation. If you want to give a paper or to attend the conference, please contact me by email, via the website (see below) or by using the postal address given at the end of this email. NEW WEBSITE The group, with the help of English Heritage, has just launched its own website. This provides: - contact details for the organising committee - free soft copy of all out-of-print publications of conference proceedings • - abstracts, searchable by keyword, for the above publications and for more recent papers - joining instructions for our new email discussion group - notification of forthcoming events, such as the above conference • - links to related websites You can find the website at: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/strat/index.htm Please log on, take a look at what we have to offer, and perhaps join the discussion list if you think our interests coincide with your own. Steve Roskams Interpreting Stratigraphy Group Dept. of Archaeology University of York Kings Manor YORK YO1 7EP