April 1 - 10, 1996
THE RUSSIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY WILL CELEBRATE ITS 150TH ANNIVERSARY BY
HOLDING A CONFERENCE entitled Ecological Crises and the Establishment of
Food-Production Economy in Europe. The conference will be held at the Moscow
Museum of Archaeology, and will include excursions to Stone Age and
chalcolithic sites in the southern Urals. The official languages for the
conference will be Russian and English. For additional information, please
contact RAS, Lengory, MGU, bild. L,a. 11, Moscow, 117234, Russia, tel/fax
07-095-939-05-76
April 10 - 14, 1996
THE 61ST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY will be held at
the Marriott Hotel in New Orleans.
April 15, 1996
HISTORY AND PREHISTORY OF CERAMIC KILNS SYMPOSIUM will be held in Indianapolis,
at the annual meeting of the American Ceramic Society, sponsored by the
Committee on Ceramic History. The focus will be on kiln and kiln-firing
technologies across a wide cultural area and span of time. For further
information, contact Prudence M. Rice, Department of Anthropology, Mailcode
4502, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, or W. David Kingery,
MSE-338E Mines Bldg, No. 12, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.
May 1 - 5, 1996
THE 29TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION will be
held at the Delta Barrington Hotel, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The theme will be
communication, including the dissemination of knowledge to the public and the
development of collaborative programs with the communities we serve. Papers
will be scheduled for May 2-4, with special events and workshops May 1 and 5.
For further information, contact Stephen Davis, Conference Coordinator,
Department of Anthropology, St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
B3H 3C3, (902) 420-5631, or Rob Ferguson, Program Coordinator, Parks Canada,
Historic Properties, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 1S9, (902) 426-9509,
email rob_ferguson@pch.gc.ca.
May 20 - 22, 1996
THE AMERICAN QUATERNARY ASSOCIATION (AMQUA) 14TH BIENNIAL MEETING will be held
in Flagstaff, Ariz. For more information, contact Jim I. Mead, Department of
Geology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-4099, fax (520)
523-9220, email jim@vishnu.glg.nau.edu.
May 20 - 24, 1996
THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARCHAEOMETRY will be held at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For further information, contact Sarah Wisseman,
ATAM Program, University of Illinois, 116 Observatory, 901 S. Mathews, Urbana,
IL 61801, (217) 333-6629, fax (217) 244-0466, email wisarc@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu.
May 24 - 26, 1996
THE 3RD EASTERN STATES ROCK ART CONFERENCE will be held at the University of
Maine at Machias. The conference will include participants from eastern and
central United States and from Canada. Guided tours of prehistoric Algonkian
petroglyph sites on Machias Bay are planned for Friday afternoon, May 24, and
for Sunday morning, May 26. Saturday, May 25, will be given to presentations on
rock art research with informal meetings and discussions Friday and Saturday
evenings. For further information, contact Mark Hedden, Maine Historic
Preservation Commission, 55 Capitol St., Augusta, ME 04333.
June 5 - 7, 1996
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND THE PHOEBE A. HEARST MUSEUM OF
ANTHROPOLOGY, UC-BERKELEY, ARE SPONSORING A CONFERENCE to provide a forum for
non-federal and federal participants to address major issues related to the
long-term management of federally associated collections. The goals of the
conference are to foster communication and cooperation, build new strategies of
action, create new and revive old partnerships, and improve technical expertise
related to managing federally associated collections of all kinds. For more
information, send your name, address, institutional affiliation, phone number,
FAX number, and e-mail address to Fritz Stern, University of California,
Berkeley, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 103 Kroeber Hall #3712,
Berkeley, CA 94720-3712, fax (510) 642-6271, email
fstern@uclink3.berkeley.edu.
June 12 - 15, 1996
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION OF HISTORIC AND
ARTISTIC WORKS will address the topic of "Collaboration in the Visual Arts" in
its general session. For information, contact Jay Krueger, AIC vice-president
and program chair, National Gallery of Art, DCL, 6th St. and Constitution Ave.
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005, (202) 452-9545, fax (202) 452-9545.
June 29 - 30, 1996
THE 17TH MEETING OF THE MID-SOUTH ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE will be held at
Ellis Auditorium, University of Memphis, Tenn. Program organizers and sponsors
are: Charles McNutt, Department of Anthropology, University of Memphis,
Memphis, TN 38152, (901) 678-2618, email mcnuttch@cc.memphis.edu; Mitchell
Childress, Garrow and Associates, 510 S. Main, Memphis, TN 38103, (901)
526-8008; and Rick Walling, Panamerican Consultants, 15 S. Idlewild, Memphis,
TN 38104, (901) 274-4244, email panamrcn@south.icerve.net. The theme of this
year's meeting is "Results of Recent Investigations in the Greater Mid-South."
Presentations will be limited to 20-30 minutes. Titles and abstracts must be
received by Rick Walling by May 15. Papers will be published if provided in
publication-ready form at meetings. For further information, contact any of the
above sponsors.
August 3 - 9, 1996
THE CULTURAL ASPECTS OF ASTRONOMY: AN INTERSECTION OF DISCIPLINES, an
international meeting to study the importance of astronomical phenomena in
human culture, will be held at St. John's College in Santa Fe, N.M. This will
be the fifth in a series of triennial "Oxford Conferences in Archaeoastronomy"
that have focused on the role that astronomical phenomena have played in human
societies. "Oxford V" will serve as a meetingplace for those working in a
number of disciplines who share a common interest in the reaction of
traditional societies of the past and present to these phenomena. For further
information, http://www.phys.unm.edu/~zeilik/oxfordV, or from Rolf Sinclair,
Program Director for Special Programs, Division of Physics, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230, (703) 306-1809, fax (703)
306-0566, email rsinclai@nsf.gov.
August 4 - 11, 1996
THE XXIV MEETING OF THE MEXICAN SOCIETY OF ANTHROPOLOGY will be held in Tepic,
Nayarit, Mexico. The theme will be "Anthropology and History of Western
Mexico." For further information, please contact Linda Manzanilla, Instituto
de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM-Ciudad Universitaria, 04510
Mexico D.F., Mexico, fax (525) 622-9651, email lmanza@servidor.unam.mx.
August 15 - 18, 1996
THE 69TH ANNIVERSARY PECOS CONFERENCE will be held in Flagstaff, Ariz. For more
information, please contact David R. Wilcox, Museum of Northern Arizona, Route
4, Box 720, 3001 Fort Valley Rd., Flagstaff, AZ 86001, (520) 774-5213. If you
plan to give a presentation at the Pecos Conference, send your abstract to
Wilcox, and after coordinating with him, send a copy of your informal
presentation, your formal abstract, or your paper to
<http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/swa/pecos.html>; for free Internet
publication of your paper prior to, or after the conference.
September 8 - 14, 1996
THE XIII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE UNION OF PREHISTORIC AND PROTOHISTORIC
SCIENCES will take place in Forli, Italy. For more information, please contact
Sarah Milliken, c/o Segreteria XIII Congresso U.I.S.P.P., Via Marchesi, 1,
47100 Forli, Italy, fax 39-543-35805.
October 18 - 19, 1996
GENDER AND ARCHAEOLOGY: DIVERSE APPROACHES will be held at Michigan State
University. For more information, or to discuss potential topics, please
contact Alison Rautman, Department of Antrhopology, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI 48824, (517) 351-4913, email rauk@pilot.msu.edu.
November 7 - 10, 1996
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ETHNOHISTORY WILL HOLD THE 1996 ANNUAL MEETING in
Portland, Ore. Abstracts for papers and preregistration fees are due by May 31,
1995. Write for submission forms and return to Jacqueline Peterson, ASE 1996
Meeting Chair, Department of History, Washington State University, 1812 E.
McLoughlin Blvd., Vancouver, WA 98663, (360) 737-2179.
November 14 - 17, 1996
THE 29TH ANNUAL CHACMOOL CONFERENCE has chosen as its theme "The Archaeology of
Innovation and Science," hoping to reveal how archaeologists identify
techniques, technologies, and sciences used by past cultures. Suggested topics
include communications systems, numerical systems and calendrics, public works,
health and healing, domestication, warfare, hydrology, transportation, and
pyrotechnology. Other ideas and suggestions are welcomed! Please send
suggestions, session abstracts, or paper abstracts to 1996 Conference
Committee, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada T2N 1N4, (403) 220-5227, fax (403) 282-9567, email
13042@ucdasvml.admin.ucalgary.ca.
June 4 - 7, 1997
A SYMPOSIUM ON BISON ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT IN NORTH AMERICA will be held at
the Holiday Inn in Bozeman, Montana. Its objective is to provide a forum for
information and discussion on utilizing various disciplines to understand and
manage bison in North America. Sessions will provide insight into how disease,
genetics, ecology, management, prehistory, and tribal concerns can affect
bison. For more information, contact Bison Symposium, Montana State University,
235 Linfield Hall, Bozeman, MT 59717, (406) 994-3414.