Dear All,
I would like to draw your attention to next year’s AEA conference which will be held on the theme of “Environmental Archaeologies of Neolithisation”.
Please find below the first call for papers.
Best wishes,
Robin
Association for Environmental Archaeology
Autumn Conference 2012
Environmental Archaeologies of Neolithisation
University of Reading (UK), 10-12 November 2012
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The origins and spread of Neolithic life-ways represent a pivotal change in human ecology and society. Communities transformed their relationships with the world around them, shifting away from reliance upon hunted and collected wild resources,
to the management and domestication of plants and animals, alongside a pattern of increasing sedentism. These processes were played out at differing temporal and spatial scales; from the life-cycle of a single organism of a population on the path to domestication,
to the dissemination of ‘new’ farming economies around the world.
The varied fields within environmental archaeology are providing increasingly detailed understanding of the agencies, processes and pathways in these transformations. These include work in the established fields of geoarchaeology, archaeobotany
and zooarchaeology, alongside the major advances and exciting vistas opened in recent decades by techniques such as stable isotope analysis, geometric morphometrics and genetic studies, as well as interdisciplinary studies that integrate these approaches.
The organising committee invites oral and poster presentations that examine any aspect of Neolithisation at the varying scales of analysis that environmental archaeology can offer, from changes within a single site to those played out over
continents. We encourage interdisciplinary contributions, as well as those that integrate archaeological science and cultural interpretations.
Please send proposals for papers and posters to
[log in to unmask]. Abstracts should be sent as text documents (preferably in Word format) by 15 June 2012. Please include a title, complete name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s), and full postal and email addresses. Abstracts should be a maximum of 200
words and contain a clear description of the topic of the presentation.
The conference programme will devote two days to presentations and discussions and will offer a third day of optional field excursions. Further details will be posted on the websites of the Association for Environmental Archaeology and
the University of Reading, Department of Archaeology:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeology/
We will also be pleased to respond to informal enquiries (to be directed to the email address above).
Conference organisers: Robin Bendrey, Sarah Elliott, Wendy Matthews, Amy Richardson, and Jade Whitlam (Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Box 226, Reading, RG6 6AB, UK)
Robin Bendrey
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Department of Archaeology
University of Reading
Whiteknights Box 226
Reading, RG6 6AB
UK
Webpage:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeology/about/staff/r-bendrey.aspx
The Central Zagros Archaeological Project:
www.czap.org/