1) Neotaphonomic collections Program
hello
I am very pleased to send you the program of the Taphen working group meeting entitled: Neotaphonomic collections and associated data
: Definition, Management, Training, conservation
2) Session EAA on Percussive Osseous Industry a Human Revolution
between Pre-formation and Waste Selection, supported by TaphEN (IRN 0871)
deadline for the submission has been postponed to 14th February
flyer to see details
Organisers :Ursula Thun Hohenstein - University of Ferrara, Italy - ursula.thun@unife.it - Delphine Vettese - Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, France - delphine.vettese@mnhn.fr - Juan Marin Hernando - IPHES, Spain - jmarin@iphes.cat
3) 6th Taphonomy Working Group and TAPHOS Meeting - Madrid 2022
Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce that the Taphos’20 meeting
with the 6th Taphonomy Working Group ICAZ
conference, which had to be postponed due to the continuous COVID
pandemic episodes, will finally take place together in a joint meeting
in
Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) from 5th to 12th of June 2022.
Abstracts for your poster/oral presentations can be sent until the
20th of March, 2022. These short abstracts (400-500 words depending on whether or not it includes a figure or a table) will be published in the
Journal of Taphonomy. We are negotiating with a couple of indexed journals to publish the extended articles.
It is an extraordinary occasion, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Taphonomy
and Fossilization (TaFos).
In 1990, the first edition was devised by Sixto
Fernández López at the CSIC (Madrid). During the first Taphos, the
masterpiece “Owls, Caves and Fossils” by P. Andrews was presented, and
since then, this book has been a reference for any research
dealing with small mammal taphonomy. This TAPHOS meeting will be
dedicated to these two outstanding specialists in Taphonomy.
Besides, we will be honoured to have Dr A.K. Behrensmeyer giving the opening session conference.
IMPORTANT! We also have changed our email and website.
Best regards
Ana
4- The Past and Present Kingdom of Carnivores: Taphonomy, Eco-ethology, Biodiversity. Implications on the Human Behaviour
Natural History Museum, Toulouse, March 11-12th, 2021
Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, meeting has to be held online, May 26th
Call for contributions
The interaction between humans and carnivores have always been constant, complex and, sometimes difficult. In order to better understand the evolution of these relationships and improve the current ones, we would like to attract researchers in different fields of science related to this subject in order to share their vision and discuss current challenges, developments, case studies, practical and integrated solutions, as well as new findings and approaches. This roundtable wants to be an opportunity to share experiences, to discuss specific problems from multidisciplinary approaches and to introduce the latest methodologies. The meeting is aimed at all those professionals who can contribute with their studies and observations to this issue, and gather archaeologists, palaeontologists, taphonomists, biologists, ecologists, ethologists, sociologists, historians, etc.
5- 9th International Conference on Taphonomy and Fossilisation (Taphos) - 6th ICAZ Taphonomy Working Group (TWG‐ICAZ), Aug. 30 - sept. 6, 2020
We regret to announce that, under the health alert and the uncertain development of the COVID-19
pandemic, the Organizing Committee of Taphos/ICAZ-TWG’2020 has just decided to postpone the congress until late August-early September 2021.
The Organisers
On
behalf of the Organising Committee, we are pleased to invite you to
take part in the 9th International Conference on Taphonomy and
Fossilisation (Taphos) and the
6th ICAZ Taphonomy Working Group (TWG‐ICAZ),
which will take place in Alcalá de Henares
(Madrid, Spain). The Conference will be held between Sunday 30th August
and Sunday 6th September 2020, in the facilities of the Museo
Arqueológico Regional de Madrid. It is organised by members of several
Spanish institutions (CSIC, Universidad Complutense
de Madrid, Museo Geominero, Museo Arqueológico Regional, Dinopolis
Foundation, Universidad de Cantabria), and is supported by the Spanish
Paleontological Society, Transmitting Science, the International Council
for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) and the TaphEn European
network.
The year 2020 is a very special date for research in taphonomy, as it will be the 80th anniversary of
the Efremov’s Taphonomy proposal as a New Branch of Paleontology, and 30 years since the first meeting on Fossilisation and Taphonomy took place (Madrid, 1990).
For these reasons, in this meeting, we hope to gather specialists from
all over the
world, working on Taphonomy from different approaches. Thus, any
contribution dealing with Taphonomy will be welcome. We hope this will
be an excellent opportunity to facilitate interaction and communication
between specialists working in different fields
of Taphonomy.
We are honoured to have the participation of A.K. Behrensmeyer as keynote speaker of the inaugural
session at this special celebration.
Abstracts deadline: 1st May 2020. The best contribution will be awarded with a special
prize.
All relevant information concerning the venue, programme, accommodation and events will be available at
the Conference website: http://taphostwg2020.es/
6- Colloque en hommage à Emilie Campmas
2è circulaire
The "Human societies and environments in the circum-Mediterranean area from the Pleistocene to the early Holocene" congress, which will be held at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès on the 2nd and 3rd of June 2020, is organized as a tribute to Émilie Campmas....
Date of the congress : 2-3 juin 2020.
Congress venue : Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Maison de la Recherche.
deadline to submit abstract : 20 février 2020.
Dear colleagues,
Given the situation and the uncertainty for the coming weeks, we
regret to have to announce the postponement of the congress in tribute
to Emilie Campmas, initially scheduled on 2 and 3 June in Toulouse:
"Human societies and environments in the circum-Mediterranean
area from the Pleistocene to the early Holocene".
All those who have already paid for tickets or other expenses are invited to contact us as soon as possible.
We hope that most of the tickets are exchangeable or will be convert into assets.
Several other congresses are already scheduled at the end of this year, and thus, the new dates could be for
March 8 and 9, 2021. Would these new dates be convenient for you?
For the time being, we still have to wait to find out if all the
funding allocated this year can be carried forward to 2021 (almost all
of them are ok).
As soon as we have this information, we will confirm the new dates.
All our best regards,
The organizing commitee.
7- 6ème CONEXP Première circulaire
6th International Congress of Experimental Archaeology of the association EXPERIMENTA (EXARC member)
Dear colleagues,
We are glad to announce the 6th International Congress of Experimental Archaeology of the association EXPERIMENTA (EXARC member). It is organized in partnership with the UMR 7194 – HNHP and the UMR 7041 – ArScAn (ANTET team). The congress will be held for the first time out of Spain, in Pézenas (Hérault, France), between 20 and 22nd of October 2020.
The aim of the 6th CONEXP is to bring together researchers from diverse thematic backgrounds working on past societies, from Palaeolithic to historic periods (technologists, traceologists, zooarchaeologists, from environmental sciences etc.).
Dear colleagues,
Due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the deadline for submission of
abstracts (communications, posters or public demonstrations) was
extended to 26 June 2020. We are aware of the current difficulties of
many researchers. This report aims to enable as many people
as possible to participate in this important scientific meeting to
experimental archaeology.
Furthermore, this will allow us to better assess the evolution of the
health constraints linked to the epidemic and to decide on postponing or
maintaining this scientific meeting for the end of October. Decision
will be made before summer.
In case the congress is postponed in 2021, the already paid abstracts and registrations will obviously remain valid.
We hope that many of you will attend this congress.
Take care
The Organizing Committee
8- Special issue in Minerals (MDPI)
The number of journals to publish manuscripts dedicated to the first stages of diagenetic processes is small. So may be you are interested by the opportunity to submit a manuscript in the special issue entitled: Fake News in Paleoenvironmental and Paleophysiological Interpretations: Diagenetic Changes of Biominerals
Results about all stages of alterations and induced bias in palaeo-environmental reconstructions, from capture of a prey to fossil collection, are welcome.
About this issue: new deadline: September 20, 2020
Dear Colleagues,
Our knowledge of biodiversity of the past comes from the remains of living organisms: fossils. Unfortunately, most often, only originally mineralized parts of the organisms, such as bones, teeth, and "shells", are preserved in the fossil record. In contrast to synthetically or geologically formed minerals, those formed by organisms (biominerals) exhibit taxa-specific composite organic–mineral structures and heterogenous biogeochemical compositions, making biominerals prone to selective diagenetic alteration and/or dissolution. Consequently, at a given fossil locality, different preservation behaviors of biominerals can be a source of significant biases in paleoenvironmental and paleobiological interpretations, including past biodiversity.
This Special Issue is dedicated to papers dealing with fossilization mechanisms of biominerals, based on analyses of modern and fossil samples, and experimental data. New data on alterations of samples in collections are also welcome.
Dr. Yannicke Dauphin
Prof. Dr. Jaroslav Stolarski
Guest Editors
About the Journal:
Minerals
is open source, so there are fees. By contacting one of the guest
editors, you can have reduced fees. The impact factor is 2.25.
9- 3rd Annual Meeting – TaphEn Group, 26th November 2019 - Santander, Spain
10- Conference in Florence – Metrology 2019
Workshop about 3D and taphonomy (from
Francesco Boschin fboschin@hotmail.com and coll.)
organized for a conference in metrology, that will take place in Florence next 4 to 6 December 2019. It could be a first step toward the organization of a
TaphEN working group for the next year
web site of the conference:
http://www.metroarcheo.com
http://www.metroarcheo.com/special-sessions
11- Bone fracture and fragmentation workshop, 17th March 2019, 10 am - 5 pm
A new research centre here:
As part of that we are putting
together a series of free workshops open to academic and professional
archaeologists on specialist topics (GMM, fish remains, isotopes) and
I’m going to do one on fracture and fragmentation
analysis (see attached draft description). Some participants could potentially add to the event on the march 17th too (thus that workshop could also be regarded as a Taphen output).
12- Humans and Caprines: from mountain to steppe, from hunting to husbandry" • conference, 16 - 18 Oct. 2018, Antibes (France)
The 39th Rencontres Internationales d’Archéologie et d’Histoire d’Antibes, which will take place from 16th to 18th of October 2018, will focus on the topic of the Humans-Caprines relationship in prehistoric and historical times. Entitled “Humans and Caprines : from mountain to steppe, from hunting to husbandry”, this congress, with an international scope, will attempt to relate the history of this long and close relationship.
The aim of this congress ...
To see details: http://www.cepam.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article2528&lang=fr
13- Journée thématique dédiée à la taphonomie
Le DIM Matériaux anciens et patrimoniaux organise une journée thématique dédiée aux
« Développements méthodologiques en taphonomie ».
L’événement aura lieu le 10 octobre 2018 dans l’auditorium de la
Grande Galerie de l’Évolution, au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle
de Paris.
L’objectif de la journée sera d’amener la communauté francilienne
travaillant dans ces domaines à se rencontrer et à mener un dialogue
interdisciplinaire avec des responsables de plateformes et de grands
équipements afin de monter à terme des projets novateurs.
Deux axes seront abordés au cours de la journée :
- Nouveaux usages et nouvelles méthodes de la taphonomie ;
- Nécessité et développement des protocoles expérimentaux nouveaux à toutes les échelles.
http://www.dim-map.fr/journee-thematique-tapho
14- 25 et 26 octobre 2018 : meeting WG Shell Tools, Master Arts, Sociétés, Environnements de la Préhistoire et de la Protohistoire : Europe, Afrique
INR TaphEN (dir. J.P. Brugal, LAMPEA-UMR 7269 du CNRS)
Coordinateurs: E. Campmas, D. Cuenca-Solana, L. Manca, F. Romagnoli
La présence de coquilles dans les contextes archéologiques est généralement attribuée à des déchets alimentaires ou à des ornements. Par conséquent, leur utilisation en tant qu'outils a souvent été sous-estimée. Cependant, depuis une dizaine d’années, des études attestent de l'utilisation d'outils en coquille de mollusques et cela, depuis le Pléistocène et durant l’Holocène. Des données ethnographiques confirment l’utilisation de ces matériaux comme outils jusqu’à très récemment. Les analyses tracéologiques montrent qu’aussi bien des coquilles de bivalves que de gastéropodes ont été utilisées pour des activités de raclage et de découpe d’une grande variété de matériaux. Les analyses technologiques, elles, suggèrent que même si l’exploitation de ces matériaux peut correspondre à des comportements opportuns, elle peut aussi traduire une réelle recherche de cette matière et la production d’outils qui répondent à des utilisations planifiées. En parallèle à la multiplication des analyses archéologiques, taphonomiques et expérimentales des coquilles de mollusques, les moyens d’étude (chimiques, microscopiques ou technologiques) permettant d’identifier les outils en coquilles en contexte archéologique se sont affinés. Cependant, certains aspects nécessitent encore d’être précisés. Le working group « Shell tools » de l’INR-TaphEN a pour objectifs : 1) d’améliorer la compréhension des processus taphonomiques qui jouent sur la conservation des coquilles et des traces d’utilisation ; 2) d’affiner nos connaissances sur l’identification des zones d'approvisionnement, ainsi que sur les critères et procédures de collecte des coquilles ; 3) de préciser les stratégies techno-économiques mises en oeuvre. Ces travaux permettront ainsi de codifier des clefs d’interprétation des ressources malacologiques au-delà des stratégies de subsistance et d'améliorer la connaissance de la diversité comportementale humaine durant la Préhistoire. Dans ce cadre, ce groupe de recherche va élaborer des protocoles d’analyse et d’expérimentation pour combler des lacunes dans l’interprétation du matériel archéologique et présenter les résultats auprès des étudiants et de la communauté scientifique. Ce séminaire constitue donc la première rencontre (visant à présenter les personnes intéressées par le sujet et à identifier les besoins en termes de financements et des référentiels expérimentaux) réalisée dans le cadre ce groupe de travail.
15- TAPHOS - NOMOS - 2nd to 4th November 2018
An interdisciplinary symposium on taphonomic and post-mortem research in archaeology, forensic science and palaeontology
School of Forensic and Applied Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 2HE, UK
For further details please contact:
Dr Patrick Randolph‐Quinney
Tel: +44 (0)1772 895683
Email: PRandolph‐Quinney@uclan.ac.uk
