Dear colleagues,
Naomi Sykes and I are organising a session for the SAAs in Albuquerque, New Mexico 10-15 April 2019. We are hoping the session (abstract included below), will appeal to a wide group of archaeologists, but it clearly has scope for a lot of great zooarchaeological work.
The final deadline imposed by the SAA for abstract submission is 6 Sept 2018 by which point you will have to have registered and submitted your paper abstract online. If you're interested in joining this session, please contact me via email by 10 August 2018. We will then be able to submit your name to the SAA site and you will receive an invite allowing you to register and upload your 200 word abstract.
Please feel free to share this widely and pass the details on to anyone you know might be interested.
Best wishes,
Carly
Dr. Carly Ameen
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Archaeology
University of Exeter, UK
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Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology
University of Liverpool, UK
Our draft abstract is here:
HumAnE Archaeology
Archaeology is benefiting from an explosion of increasingly multidisciplinary research, specifically from projects which combine human-animal-environmental (HumAnE) approaches. These projects bring together researchers with access to large quantities of data that can be analysed using a variety of arts and science-based techniques to unpick and model long-term bio-cultural dynamics. In turn, these data can be used to address present-day issues which have implications for human-animal-environmental health and well-being.
Archaeologists are uniquely placed to contribute a deep-time perspective on contemporary humanitarian issues, like those identified in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, which are not exclusively modern phenomenon. Investigations into the impact of increasingly intensive husbandry regimes and associated environmental responses, including not only the intensification of food production, but effects from urbanisation, globalisation, climate change, disease transmission and inter-cultural conflict are as relevant today as they are to understanding the past.
This interdisciplinary, deep-time data can be collated, considered, and presented to help address these modern global challenges, and inform current policy and mitigation strategies using a suite of interrelated analytical approaches, such as traditional (zoo)archaeological methods, biomolecular analyses, and environmental studies. This session calls for papers that demonstrate how by studying the diverse inter-relationships between humans, animals and the environment it is possible to both obtain a more nuanced appreciation of past societies and also to inform on the lives and habitats of those in the present.
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