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Diet and Evolution of Quaternary Mammals in Eurasia and Africa

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the peer-reviewed open-access journal Quaternary (website : https://www.mdpi.com/journal/quaternary), I am pleased to announce a new Special issue entitled « Diet and Evolution of Quaternary Mammals in Eurasia and Africa ». Christine Steininger (COE, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Jean-Philip Brugal (CNRS, UMR7269 LAMPEA, Aix-Marseille University, France) and I (CNRS, UMR7269 LAMPEA, Aix-Marseille University, France) are serving as Guest Editors for this issue.

This Special Issue will be dedicated to papers dealing with approaches related to Paleontology, Paleoanthropology, Ecometry, Isotopic biochemistry, Paleogenetic, Paleoecology, Zooarcheology, and Taphonomy.

The submission deadline is 30th December 2020 and papers may be submitted immediately or at any point until this deadline, as papers will be published on an ongoing basis. For more information on this Special Issue and submission guidelines, please visit the following page

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/quaternary/special_issues/diet_evolution

Note that this open access journal asks for an Article Processing Charge (APC) of 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs), but there is the possibility to apply for significant discounts.
We sincerely hope that this Special Issue will receive your favorable consideration. We are happy to answer your questions, and we look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Jean-Baptiste Fourvel - Christine Steininger - Jean-Philip Brugal

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Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of Quaternary Vertebrates: Advances in Fossil and Experimental Studies






Dear colleagues,


On behalf of my co-editors, Drs. Janine Ochoa and Emmanuelle Stoetzel, and Quaternary Assistant Editor Daisy Du, we would like
 to invite you to contribute a scientific paper of your choice to the Quaternary Special Issue entitled "Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of Quaternary Vertebrates: Advances in Fossil and Experimental Studies".




All papers focusing on (but not restricted to) palaeontology, zooarchaeology, palaeoanthropology, palaeoclimatology
 and paleoenvironmental studies, as well as modern taphonomic referentials and experiments are welcome.



Note that this open access journal asks for an Article Processing Charge (APC) of 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs), but there is the possibility to apply for significant
 discounts.


Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2021.


Please, visit the SI website for details on the scope of the volume and information on manuscript submission.


https://www.mdpi.com/journal/quaternary/special_issues/quaternary_vertebrates  


Kindly confirm your participation (by emailing us) and do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or concerns.


Kind regards,









Juan ROFES











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Materials and Time: An Anthology







Scholars
 from a wide spectrum of research fields are exploring the temporalities
 of materials, each from their own disciplinary perspective.







We
 invite texts of no more than 1000 words discussing the topic of 
‘Materials and Time’ for a forthcoming transdisciplinary publication
 and workshop. How authors wish to interpret this topic is left open, 
but they should focus on a single material, however construed. We 
welcome contributions from any discipline. Aspects of time to consider 
might include:







o lifetimes, lifecycles, use, trajectories, persistence, endurance, ageing

o depletion, peak, criticality, erosion, alteration, degradation, 
conservation o re-use, remaining, recycling, returns, inheritances

o birthdays and anniversaries, death, decline, rebirth

o genealogies, time travel

o ephemerality, regimes of temporality, mimetism

o ages, epochs

o chronomarkers, signatures, records and measurements

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) – 
Loïc Bertrand (Université Paris-Saclay) – Michael Bycroft (University of
 Warwick)- John Christie (Oxford University) – Mat Paskins (London 
School of Economics) –Viviane Quirke (Oxford Brookes
 University) – Marie Thébaud-Sorger (Maison Française d’Oxford, 
CAK, CNRS) – Frédéric Thibault-Starzyk (Maison Française d’Oxford, CNRS)
 – Simon Werrett (UCL)







Selected
 texts will be included in an anthology publication on this broad topic 
and their authors may be invited to a one-day workshop
 to be held in 2021. The workshop will contribute to the development of 
an interdisciplinary network on materials.







The deadline for submitting texts is April 30, 2020. Texts should be submitted at the following web address: https://materialbiographies.typeform.com/to/kqrGV7







For more information or any queries please e-mail us at: materialbiographies@gmail.com