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Dear colleagues, Warm wishes for Christmas and the New Year 2020: may happiness and love fill your hearts. Best, Tania Quoting Dawn Elise Mooney <[log in to unmask]>: > Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting), > > > > We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper proposal for session > #108, ‘*Organic > networks: tracing the procurement, trade and exchange of plant and animal > resources in the archaeological record*’ at the 26th Annual Meeting of the > European Association of Archaeologists (Budapest, 26th-30th August 2020). > The session is organised in conjunction with the PlantWild Community for > the Archaeology of Wild Plants. If you are an EAA member and would like to > keep up to date with our activities, please log in > <https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Navigation_Membership/Sign_in_for_current_members.aspx?WebsiteKey=59c4f6fb-bee0-4278-9c2f-9529288deb09&LoginRedirect=true&returnurl=%2f> > and follow the link to the PlantWild Community > <https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Communities/Archaeology_of_Wild_Plants/EAA/Navigation_Communities/Archaeology_of_Wild_Plants.aspx> > ). > > > > Depending on the number of submissions, the session will be either a full- > or half-day with presentation of 15 minutes including discussion. > Guidelines for speakers can be found here > <https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2020/General_Info.aspx?WebsiteKey=4245c0d1-9c0e-4a58-bfa2-906885ad5f28&hkey=52ddea2f-26f0-4721-8e53-ad8ac2091286&New_ContentCollectionOrganizerCommon=4#speakers>. > The call for papers opens on *18th December 2019* and closes on *13rd > February 2020.* > > > > Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Dawn Elise Mooney > <[log in to unmask]> if you have any questions about the session, and > please circulate widely! :) > > > > Session #*108* > > *Title*: Organic networks: tracing the procurement, trade and exchange of > plant and animal resources in the archaeological record > > > > *Abstract*: The origin of raw materials is of fundamental importance in > many archaeological investigations, allowing us to investigate patterns in > exploitation of local resources along with regional, national and > international trade networks. Provenancing studies have been particularly > important in the case of inorganic raw materials which can only be found in > certain limited parts of the landscape, such as various types of stone, ore > and precious metals. These often form the basis of complex, long-distance > trade networks which can shape cultural as well as economic links between > distant communities. What is sometimes left out of the story is that the > same can often be true of resources derived from plants and animals such as > foodstuffs, timber, resin, fibres and cloth, horn, ivory, and pelts. The > availability of particular plants or animals in a region is entirely > dependent on local climate and environment, or on human agency. Such > materials may circulate on a relatively local scale due to specialisation > of production in certain areas, or local shortages or unsuitable growing > conditions (temporary or permanent) might necessitate the import of timber > and/or plant or animal foodstuffs. At the other end of the scale, plants > and animals or materials deriving from them may be traded, exchanged or > gifted over great distances as exotic or prestige items. This session > welcomes studies from all time periods which explore these and related > themes, especially those employing innovative scientific techniques. > > > > *Organisers*: > > > > Dawn Elise Mooney *Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger* > Lísabet Guðmundsdóttir *Department of Archaeology, University of Iceland* > > > Dr Dawn Elise Mooney > Associate professor > > Arkeologisk museum > Universitetet i Stavanger > 4036 Stavanger > Norway > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the ARCHAEOBOTANY list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ARCHAEOBOTANY&A=1 Soultana Maria Valamoti-Kapetanaki, Professor, Director, Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Research in Archaeology (LIRA/ΕΔΑΕ) Dept of Archaeology, School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece http://www.hist.auth.gr/en/content/valamoti-soultana-maria http://iwgp-2013.web.auth.gr/ http://auth.academia.edu/SoultanaValamoti ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ARCHAEOBOTANY list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ARCHAEOBOTANY&A=1