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St. Louis 2010-Minneapolis 2011 | ||
The meetings were held in St. Louis, April 13-14. You can still download the final meeting abstracts and the final program. Next year's meeting will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (dates to be announced). We will post a call for papers here sometime in September. The deadline will be early December. To receive news about the meeting and new publications in our journal, be sure to add your name to our mailing list. |
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PaleoAnthropology Journal |
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The journal PaleoAnthropology is published jointly by the Society and the University of
Pennsylvania Museum. The
journal is accessible free of charge to everyone, including
non-members of the Paleoanthropology Society. The journal can be
accessed here. In addition to the publication of articles, book reviews, and the abstracts of the annual meetings of the Society, the journal accepts commentaries on articles, summaries of current work in the various fields of paleoanthropology. Articles are fully peer-reviewed and may contain large data files, numerous illustrations and links to visualizations; manuscripts based on dissertation work, up to entire dissertations, may be submitted as appropriate. As always, the journal depends on the contributions of scholars within the field, and the editors would like to take this opportunity to encourage all of you to think of our journal as an outlet for the presentation of your research. Call for papers and Books to Review |
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Dissertations and Publications |
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The Society hosts doctoral dissertations (theses) in all areas relevant to our interests. The procedure is to send an abstract of the work and information about its source to the Society so that we may determine that its topic falls within the range of our coverage. A pdf file of the entire work may then be made available for download. To see what is already present or to submit an abstract for consideration, follow this link. The Society now also hosts additional publications in the field of PaleoAnthropology. These are not publications of the Society but are being made available to the community via our web site. Follow this link to view these publications. |
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Announcements, Jobs and PhDs |
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| Continental Scientific Drilling Workshop in Arlington, Virginia: An Opportunity too Good to Miss. Drilling uniquely provides samples of rock and fluid from the subsurface that are vital for addressing certain fundamental and exciting problems of science. A strong US-based continental scientific drilling (CSD) community and program is necessary to support both a national effort and the international scientific drilling program. A workshop in 2009 made programmatic recommendations for a strong US drilling effort (http://www2.ku.edu/~geology/csw/conference_report.pdf). A workshop on June 2 and 3, 2010, will discuss implementation of those recommendations. The 2010 meeting will include a conversation with representatives of the National Science Foundation, which is the chief funding agency for CSD projects. Members of parallel groups and overlapping communities are strongly urged to attend and explore opportunities for synergistic interaction. The objectives of the workshop are to nurture and strengthen the US CSD community, to lay out the framework for topical planning and for determining the necessary infrastructure and equipment for a successful drilling program, to develop ties with other relevant groups, and to engage in a discussion with funding sources about available resources. Organizing committee: Julie Brigham-Grette, Walt Snyder, John Shervais and Tony Walton. Location: Ballston Campus of Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia. Workshop will be held in conjunction with annual membership meeting of DOSECC, Inc., and sponsored by NSF and DOESCC. Details available from Tony Walton (twalton@ku.edu) or at http://www.geo.ku.edu/~geology/csw/index.shtml. |
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Ancient DNA Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University The appointment carries a twelve-month salary commensurate with the University Provost established minimum pay levels based on research experience. The appointment may be eligible for renewal based on satisfactory performance, the existence of funding, and programmatic need. Postdoctoral scholars are required to be in residence in the Stanford area during the term of the appointment from September 1, 2010 through September 1, 2011. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. no earlier than September 1, 2005, and have completed all degree requirements by the September 1, 2010. U.S. citizenship is not required. Application Postmark Deadline: May 15, 2010 Ancient DNA Postdoctoral Scholar |
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George Washington University: Postdoctoral Position in Hominin Functional Anatomy. The Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology at The George Washington University invites applications for a full-time, benefited position as a Research Associate in Hominin Functional Anatomy. The successful applicant will conduct collaborative research on hominin locomotor and feeding anatomy with Brian Richmond in the Human Evolutionary Anatomy laboratory, and may contribute to teaching human evolutionary biology (broadly defined) to graduate and/or undergraduate students. |
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| Re-open position. The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology seeks a Max Planck Research Group Leader who can design a novel and well structured 5-year research project to explore hominin subsistence strategies. The call for research proposals is intentionally broad. We seek a group leader with an expertise in one of the related areas of research but who is encouraged to take a multidisciplinary approach to addressing the research question that they propose. This may include, for example, methods such as zooarchaeology, isotopic studies, or modelling, as well as related disciplines. See here for more information. Applications are due May 15, 2010. |
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| The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary has recently been moved from ca 1.8 Ma to ca 2.6 Ma by action of the International Union of Geological Sciences. A group of paleoanthropologists is organizing an effort to resist this change, which was made without much input from our discipline. Follow this link to view several papers about this change and to sign an electronic petition. | ||
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New journal -
ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and
Experimental Studies welcomes submission of original manuscripts of no
more than 30 double spaced pages that advance aspects of
ethnoarchaeological and experimental research as well as furthering the
professional interests by showcasing our contribution to our discipline.
All manuscripts are subject to anonymous peer review by knowledgeable The first issue of this new peer-reviewed journal is in press and will be released April 2009 with articles by Michael B. Schiffer, Margaret Beck, James Skibo, and Hetty Jo Brumbach and Robert Jarvenpa. The website for the journal: This new journal, Ethnoarchaeology, a cross-cultural peer-reviewed
journal, will focus on the present position, impact of, and future
prospects of ethnoarchaeological and experimental studies approaches to
anthropological research. The primary goal of this journal is to provide
practitioners with an intellectual platform in which we may showcase and
appraise current research as well as foreground theoretical and
methodological directions for the 21st century. One need that
Ethnoarchaeology addresses is that there is little that unifies or defines
our subdiscipline, although there has been an exponential increase in
ethnoarchaeological and experimental research in the past thirty years. Correspondence concerning article submissions should be sent to: Suggestions for book and media reviews should be sent directly to: The Editors, |
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Other Meetings and Conferences |
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| Asian-Australasian Association of Palaeoanthropologists Inaugural Conference: 2011 We would like to extend a warm invitation to palaeoanthropologist's of all persuasion with an interest in Asia to attend AAAP's inaugural "Triennual Workshop and Conference."The meeting will be held on 13-15 November 2011, in Kunming (Yunnan Province, China). If you would like to organise a symposium or workshop please e-mail an expression of interest to Darren Curnoe (d.curnoe@unsw.edu.au) as soon as possible. Detailed information including a call for papers will be posted soon on AAAP's website (www.palaeoanthro.net). | ||
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