Oral and poster presentations dealing with all aspects of palaeontology, archaeozoology, taxonomy, biogeography and phylogeography of Mediterranean chelonians are welcomed. We strongly encourage presentations concerning remains coming from archaeological sites. Presentation The current distribution of the Mediterranean chelonians is the result of a long and complex evolutionary history. The circum-Mediterranean region comprises three continents and is characterized by a complex (...)

SECTIONS PLANNED Section 1: Archaeology of crop fields (terraces, wineyards, raised fields,...) and agricultural processing areas (thresing zones, ...). Section 2: Archaeology of gardens. Section 3: Archaeobotany of crop fields and gardens. Section 4: Archaeozoology of crop fields and gardens. Seccion 5: Other archaeometric analyses of crop fields and gardens. Section 6: Museology and interpretation of crop fields and gardens in archaeological sites. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (...)

The transhumance as movement of animals (above all sheep/goats) on short and long distance represented an important phenomenon and an economic and cultural model of Middle Age Europe (6th- 15th A.D.). Besides the historical approach meanly based on the analysis of written documents, we think that zooarchaeology can be a source of knowledge for an activity, like transhumance, that requires a close relationship between man and animal. The Middle Age knew also other movements of animals that (...)

Dear All, I hope this email finds you well. My co-organisers and I would like to draw your attention to the following Call for Papers (below and attached) for the forthcoming 12th EAA conference, held in Krakow, Poland. At present the session has been provisionally accepted, with final confirmation anticipated at the end of January. We are keen to have your suggested titles / abstracts to gauge interest in the session, which promises to be highly interesting and thought provoking. (...)

The proceedings of the ICAZ V Bird conference have been published by the "Verlag Marie Leidorf". The internet-address for the publisher to check the book is: http://www.vml.de/e/detail.php?ISBN.... The volume (400 pp., with numerous b/w and 25 colour pictures) can be purchased for 75 € (+ postage and bank costs). Please note that ICAZ-members get a 20 % discount, hence 60 € (+ postage and bank costs). The ICAZ Bird volume is No. 3 in the series Documenta Archaeobiologiae. (...)

Can I bring to your attention that the "Association for Environmental Archaeology" Conference will be held in Exeter (UK) in 28th - 30th March 2006 as it has session that will be of interest. The conference is entitled: "Novel Environmental Archaeology: Integrating New Lines of Evidence and Rethinking Established Techniques". The sessions will be: "Bones, seeds and biomolecules: integrating old and new lines of evidence" "Quantitative reconstruction of past landscapes from (...)

Dear Colleague I am organizing a session for the next ICAZ Meeting (México 2006). The Title is "Bone raw material exploitation in South America". The session is aimed to present a wide range of presentations about how bone raw material were exploited to produce bone tools or artifacts in different parts of South America, what were the environmental and cultural contexts and how this exploitation has changed spatially and temporally. Although bone technology was widely developed in Old (...)

Abstract Environmental evidence is now widely used by archaeologists to investigate and gain better understanding of the economic and subsistence strategies used by past societies. With the rise of post-processual theory and advances in methodologies, environmental data is now adding to the understanding of past societies’ socio-economic and ultural attributes. One aspect aiding this is the analysis of data from ritual deposits. To investigate such board concepts multiple lines of (...)

Abstract Archaeozoology includes most of the methods that archaeologists have at their disposal for determining the economic relationship between people and their environment. Increasingly, the analyses conducted by archaeozoologists are both broader in scope and finer in detail than simply sorting and identifying faunal assemblages and selecting a most plausible explanation from the resulting quantified ‘grocery list’. The aim of the session is to provide those working in the (...)

Overview Zooarchaeology, as a sub-discipline, has advanced a great deal in recent years by incorporating a multidisciplinary approach to the development of both its methodological and theoretical perspectives. This has significantly altered our understanding and interpretation of some of the most pertinent questions within Archaeology. Archaeogenetics, and its application to the study of faunal remains, has perhaps benefited most; recent research has had an incredible impact on our (...)