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Paleoanthropology Society
St. Louis 2010
The Paleoanthropology Society will hold its annual meeting in St. Louis on Tuesday, April 13 and Wednesday, April 14 (just prior to the SAA meetings). Note that the AAPA meetings are being held this same week in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Paper and poster abstracts are currently being reviewed. Normally a decision will be made by the end of January and a preliminary program will be posted here soon after.

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PaleoAnthropology Journal
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
 
Dissertations and Publications
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.

Announcements, Jobs and PhDs
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is seeking someone to lead an Independent Junior Research Group on the Origins of Human Subsistence. More information can be found here. The deadline is December 31, 2009.
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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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The New York University Department of Anthropology invites applications from outstanding scholars for a tenure-track position, rank open (with preference for junior or mid-career level), to start September 1, 2010, pending administrative and budgetary approval. The department is looking for scholars with exceptional records in teaching and research in biological anthropology specializing in evolutionary development, developmental biology, ontogeny or life history studies from a morphological, genetic or behavioral perspective. It is anticipated that the candidate will complement and strengthen departmental interests in evolutionary primatology, skeletal morphology, dental anthropology, human paleontology, molecular primatology, and primate behavioral ecology. The successful candidate will be affiliated with the Center for the Study of Human Origins and with the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology. Application deadline is November 15, 2009. Please send letter, curriculum vitae, and names of three referees to: Professor Terry Harrison, Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY, 10003. NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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Hunter College of CUNY, Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in physical anthropology, effective 01 September, 2010. We seek a scholar/teacher with commitment to teaching whose research program emphasizes hominid/hominin paleoanthropology.

Specialties of interest include, but are not limited to, morphology, development, and life history, from an explicitly evolutionary perspective. We seek a scholar/teacher with commitment to teaching and a strong and active research program and publication record, including field and/or laboratory components. The Ph.D. is required at the time of appointment.

Send 3 pdfs, your CV, a 1 page personal statement, and the names of 3 references to: bioanthrosearch@hunter.cuny.edu. Applications should be received by December 1, 2009 to receive full consideration. Please title your pdf documents to begin with your last name.

For more information, visit the department on the Web at http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/anthro/. Informal inquiries may be directed to Michael Steiper¨(msteiper@hunter.cuny.edu).

Hunter College is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity / Americans with Disabilities Act / Immigration Reform and Control Act employer. Women and members of traditionally disadvantaged populations are especially encouraged to apply.

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The Brooklyn College Department of Anthropology and Archaeology invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor position in physical anthropology beginning Fall, 2010. We are looking for a candidate with PhD by time of appointment, publications, a commitment to grant writing and a desire to teach in a four year undergraduate institution, with the possibility of teaching graduate students at the CUNY Graduate Center and the NYCEP collaborative. We seek a scholar/teacher with a research program in one of several areas: paleoanthropology, preferably emphasizing fieldwork and functional morphology; evolutionary genetics of humans and nonhuman primates; primate behavioral ecology with an emphasis on genetics and conservation.

Teaching duties will involve introductory, intermediate, and advanced undergraduate courses in physical anthropology to complement faculty interest in developing cross-curricular courses integrating physical anthropology with archaeology, zooarchaeology and forensic/medical anthropology. He/she will be expected to involve students in laboratory and/or field research, locally or abroad. Ability to partner with other departments and teach Core Curriculum courses linked with the Departments of Biology and Geology is a plus.

To apply, send (all preferably in pdf format): 1) a letter of application (up to 1000 words) outlining research interests, plans, and relevant experience as required; 2) a curriculum vitae; 3) one to three publications (you may include a grant proposal as well); and, 4) the names and e-mail contact information of three references to anthrosearch@brooklyn.cuny.edu. Preference will be given to applications arriving before December 1, 2009. Please title your pdf document(s) to begin with your last name. Brooklyn College is an EO/AA/IRCA/ADA Employer.

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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
scholars and, if accepted, may be subject to revision.

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:
http://www.lcoastpress.com/journal.php?id=9

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.
With such growth we must explore what distinguishes these approaches as a subdiscipline, what methods connect practitioners, and what unique suite of research attributes we contribute to the better understanding of the human condition. The journal should be of interest to archaeologists, other anthropologists, historians, and specialists in pre-modern and contemporary technologies. In addition to research articles, the journal
will contain book and other media reviews, periodic theme issues, and position statements by noted scholars.

Correspondence concerning article submissions should be sent to:
ethnoarchaeology@unlv.edu

Suggestions for book and media reviews should be sent directly to:
margaret-beck@uiowa.edu

The Editors,
Lisa Frink, Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
and
Kathryn Weedman Arthur, Assistant Professor at the University of South
Florida, St. Petersburg.

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A new palaeoanthropological association focusing on Asia has been started: the 'Asian-Australasian Association of Palaeoanthropologists'. New members welcome! More information at our website: www.palaeoanthro.net

 

Other Meetings and Conferences
The Toba Super-Eruption: A Critical Moment in Human Evolution? An interdisciplinary conference exploring the Toba volcanic super-eruption of 74,000 years ago, and its impact on ecosystems and hominin population history in the Indian subcontinent. Conference to be held at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, February 20 and 21. For further information, please follow this link.
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The Lithics and Technology Interest Group at the University of Toronto is hosting the first Lithics Symposium for graduate students in February 2010. Please see the Call for Papers. The event is intended to encourage dialogue and scientific collaboration between graduate students. Participants can present their innovative approaches to lithic analysis in an encouraging setting that will promote constructive criticism and thesis research development.