DSR 2009, International Workshop and Field Trip "The Dead Sea Rift as a natural laboratory for earthquake behavior: prehistorical, historical and recent seismicity"

Dates: 16th- 23rd February 2009

Location: In Israel and Jordan

Organized by the Geological Survey of Israel (Convener: Rivka Amit) and INQUA Paleoseismology Subcommission (Chairman: Alessandro M. Michetti)

In collaboration with:

UNESCO

IGCP 567 Earthquake Archaeology

Hebrew University in Jerusalem

The Israel Geological Society

Safed Scientific Workshop Program

Israel National Earthquake Preparedness Committee

For the DSR 2009 program, logistic details and registration forms please contact Rifka or Alessandro at the email addresses given below. Registration and payment should be completed by 5 January 2009.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: the Focus Group on Paleoseismology and Active Tectonics has received limited funding from INQUA in order to partially support the participation of young scientists (MSc, PhD); please kindly send via email to the Scientific Secretary of the Focus Group (inquascale@apat.it or luca.guerrieri@apat.it) a copy of your CV and a recommendation letter. DEADLINE: 25 December 2008.

Rivka Amit, Head of the Division of Engineering Geology and Geological Hazards, Geological Survey of Israel rivka@gsi.gov.il

Alessandro M. Michetti, University of Insubria, Como, Italy, Chairman of the INQUA Focus Group on Paleoseismology alessandro.michetti@uninsubria.it
Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (December 15-19, 2008) in San Francisco, CA,

session "B05: Peat Soils: Natural Archives of Information on Sea-level Rise, Landscape Evolution, and Anthropogenic Disturbance."

The full description is at:

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=162

To submit an abstract, please go to http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=program before 2359 UT, September 10, 2008. Be sure to select session B05.
QRA Annual Discussion Meeting: The Human Dimension in Rapid Environmental Change

Research Laboratory for Archaeology, University of Oxford, 5th - 7th January 2009

Abstracts for oral presentations and posters are now invited for this meeting. Any papers within the main theme of the conference are welcome. Some key themes include:

        the geographical backdrop to human colonisation and dispersal;

        the links between abrupt environmental change and 'step changes' in human adaptation and development;

        the need for high precision archives of environmental and human change;

        hominin evolution, interactions and extinctions;

        abrupt environmental influences on behavioural innovations, including the agricultural 'revolution';

        the biological (DNA) evidence for human dispersal and development.

There will be some specific sessions including:

        human interaction with abrupt Holocene climate change;

        Pleistocene Climate change and Human evolution and adaptation;

        abrupt environmental change in dry land regions and human impacts.

Other sessions will be dictated by the received papers.

Abstracts should be no more than 500 words in length and all authors should be listed below the title. The presenting author should be highlighted in bold. Please indicate ORAL or POSTER presentation preferences. These abstracts will be considered for acceptance by a science committee and should be sent to qra.conf@rlaha.ox.ac.uk .

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: MONDAY 20th October.

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: MONDAY 17th NOVEMBER

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY 28th NOVEMBER

The meeting will be multi-disciplinary in focus and scope. It will encourage interaction and debate between archaeologists, palaeobiologists, chronologists, Quaternary stratigraphers/ palaeoecologists, and anthropologists.

The conference will be based at St Anne's college ( http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk ), Oxford, where accommodation will be available.

Full details of the meeting, registration and accommodation will be available online shortly at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology Website ( http://www.rlaha.ox.ac.uk/ ) and also through the QRA website ( http://qra.org.uk ).

Contacts: Simon Blockley, and Christine Lane:

simon.blockley@rlaha.ox.ac.uk

christine.lane@rlaha.ox.ac.uk
74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in Atlanta Georgia from 22-26 April, 2009. The SAA Geoarchaeology Interest Group (GIG) is sponsoring a poster session " Geoarchaeology and Interpretation" where we hope researchers who specialize in geoarchaeology will show how their work addresses key archaeological questions. A brief abstract and further specifics are detailed below.

If you are interested in participating, please email a poster title, brief abstract (100 words) and contributors names directly to us by September 1st, 2008. We will then submit your abstract with the entire session and you will receive an invitation to participate from the SAA.

Further details of the conference including membership and registration information can be found at www.saa.org

mage@wsu.edu kellyderr@yahoo.com jpdolan@wsu.edu

GIG Poster session: Geoarchaeology and Interpretation, Abstract:

This poster session provides a forum to explore the explanative power of geoarchaeological approaches to archaeological interpretation. Geoarchaeologists provide alternative models for understanding the subtleties of the archaeological record and the processes that formed it. Our research often challenges field assumptions, provides spatial and temporal context to artifact specialists and addresses long-standing questions about site formation. We hope to attract posters that demonstrate the significant contributions earth science specialists make to understanding the past through field, lab and analytical methods.

The session aims to reach a wide archaeological audience by presenting both methodological as well as theoretical advancements provided by a geoarchaeological framework.

SAA Poster Abstract Format

An abstract is required from each presenter. Individuals may only submit one abstract for consideration. No abstract may list more than five authors. The author is responsible for clarity, content, spelling, and grammar. Titles of abstracts should be presented in lowercase letters with initial letters of key words in capitals.

Dr. Melissa Goodman-Elgar

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Washington State University, P.O. Box 644910

Pullman, WA 99164-4910

tel: 509.335.4807 fax: 509.335.3999 email: mage@wsu.edu