Apologies for cross-posting. Please see the call for papers below.
Best regards,
Lee G. Broderick. BA (Hons), MSc, FZS
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From: Environmental Archaeology discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Danielle de Carle
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Subject: Call for Enviro/Paleoeconomic Papers for TAG 2010 Bristol
PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS WANTED: TAG 2010, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, 17th-19th December
Palaeoeconomy and Palaeoecology of South West Britain
Confirmed for TAG 2010, at the University of Bristol (17th-19th December), this session hopes to provide an
opportunity for an overview of recent research in environmental archaeology carried out in South West Britain,
as well as indicating the major changes in method and theory that have occurred in the area since the last such
meeting, and discussing future directions. It is the session organisers’ intent to publish the proceedings as an
edited volume and a publisher has already expressed an interest in this.
Several advances in methodology and techniques have occurred within the science based archaeological sub-disciplines
often collectively referred to as Environmental Archaeology, in the UK, since the Palaeoeconomy
and Environment in South West England Symposium, held at the University of Bristol in 1985. The South
West’s rich archaeological heritage and surprisingly varied environments provide exciting opportunities for these
new and improved approaches to understanding our past, just as they did 25 years ago.
Understanding the theory behind the application of science-based methodologies in archaeology is critical to
their effective use in the wider discipline – knowing their limits as well as their potential. Often such limits can
be overcome by combining several different datasets and methodologies from across the environmental sub-disciplines,
highlighting the theoretical virtues of interdisciplinarity within the sciences.
The human species has an unequalled ability for local and regional environmental adaptation and past
conditions continue to shape present and future re-workings, thus environmental archaeology is central to the
current climate change debate. Limits of adaptation by people and the environment in the past may highlight
future restrictions. Parts of the South West have reached and breached such limits in the past as sea-level
change and upland deterioration.
Papers are encouraged from researchers currently engaged in environmental archaeological research in South
West Britain, particularly from interdisciplinary projects and those which have an overt aim to place scientific
methodologies and datasets within a theoretical structure.
Papers can be submitted through the session page on the Bristol TAG website up to the 24th of September
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/tag/tag2010/panels.php5?PanelID=831
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/archanth/tag/index.html
Or to discuss a contribution you can contact the organisers:
Lee G. Broderick
Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield
Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter
Danielle de Carle
Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield
Matthew Law
School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University
Clare Randall
Department of Archaeology, Bournemouth University