The 11th ASWA Meeting
Haifa, Israel, June 23-28 2013
First Announcement  

ARCHAEOZOOLOGY OF SOUTHWESTERN ASIA and Adjacent Areas

You are kindly invited to the coming ASWA meeting that will be held at the University of Haifa Mount Carmel Campus, from June 23rd to June 28th 2013. The campus is situated on the outskirts of the city of Haifa and the Carmel National Park and enjoys a magnificent view that combines sea, mountain and forest. The city of Haifa is connected with highways and a railway to the Ben Gurion International airport located about 100 km away. Haifa is unique in its diversity of faiths and cultures and is one of the few places where Christians, Moslems, Druze, Bahais and Jews cohabit peacefully as neighbours, giving a special atmosphere to the city. The city offers hotels of various classes with good transportation to the university campus.

The meeting will include a special symposium (Animal Bones and Cultural Diversity) and general presentations that will be organized according to preselected topics (oral and poster presentations), as will be detailed in the second announcement. Ideas for special sessions are welcome. In addition we are planning social events and two days of tours to nearby world heritage sites and visits to protected wildlife reserves. 

Please mail us to [log in to unmask] of your intention to participate and provisional title before January 01 2013.

A brief outline of the schedule:

1 January 2013: Deadline for provisional titles and sessions
31 March 2013: Deadline for abstracts and Conference Registration
23 June 2013: Delegates arrive and welcome reception
24-25 June 2013: General Sessions
26 June 2013: Excursion day
27 June 2013: Special symposium (Bones and Identity)
28 June 2013: excursion day and farewell party

Further information will follow in the meeting website that will be launched in a few weeks.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

The Organizing Committee
Guy Bar-Oz, Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, Nimrod Marom, Rivka Rabinovich, Nuha Said-Agha, Lidar Sapir-Hen, Lior Weissbrod, Irit Zohar