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Posted 11/11/2011:

CALL FOR PAPERS: 83rd ANNUAL MEETING of the SOCIETY FOR PENNSYLVANIA ARCHAEOLOGY

HOSTED BY THE NORTH FORK CHAPTER #29

At the HOLIDAY INN in CLARION, PA

on APRIL 13- 15, 2012

The theme of the 83rd annual meeting will be “From East to West, Over the Hills and Through the Dales: Sifting Through Pennsylvania’s Past”. There will be three open sessions, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.

Students are encouraged and welcome to present. All students presenting papers will have the meeting registration fee waived. We will also be sponsoring a Student Poster Session this year in the bookroom.

Anyone wishing to participate should send abstracts of 150 words or less for papers and posters to the Program Chair by March 23, 2012. Students please send a copy of your student idea when you submit your abstract.

For more information, please go to: www.PennsylvaniaArchaeology.com

Program Chairs: Amanda Valko & Brian Fritz

116 E. Englewood Avenue

New Castle, PA 16105

Phone: 724-654-2744 (H)

Phone: 724-495-4026 (W)

Fax: 724-495-4001 (W)

E-mail: avalko@mbakercorp.com

Posted 10/16/2011:

28th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference at the Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

This year’s conference, entitled ‘The Archaeology of Slavery: Toward a Comparative Global Framework,’ will be held March 30-31, 2012. The goals of the 2012 Visiting Scholar Conference are (1) to develop an interregional and cross-temporal framework of the archaeological interpretation of slavery and (2) to promote a diachronic approach to the topic, extending from before the moment of capture to beyond emancipation. Abstracts are due to llw3r@virginia.edu by December 5, 2011. More information on the conference and the call for papers can be found here: http://cai.siuc.edu/vspages/marshall/vsconf.html

Posted 9/9/2011:

Archaeology of Eastern North America now available on JSTOR!

The Eastern States Archaeological Federation is pleased to announce that Archaeology of Eastern North America is now available on JSTOR through participating libraries, institutions, and businesses. If you have access to JSTOR, and if your library subscribes to the appropriate JSTOR collection, you can now download scanned (PDF) images of individual articles from all issues of Archaeology of Eastern North America from Volume 1 through Volume 37 (2007).

In this day and age when students run first to their computers and the internet, Archaeology of Eastern North America will now be available to those who do their research without touching a piece of paper. Hyperbole aside, availability through JSTOR should increase tremendously the visibility and use of AENA back issues by students and researchers worldwide.

The ESAF Board approved the agreement with JSTOR in the fall of 2010. JSTOR has produced the scanned images from one set of clean copies of Archaeology of Eastern North America. They are of high quality and reproduce figures and graphics in gray scale with good resolution. (These are not the same as the lower resolution images on the AENA CD of volumes through the year 2000 that has been available through ESAF for the last decade.) The paper set of volumes are stored in a secure, climate controlled storage facility by JSTOR.

The ESAF agreement with JSTOR includes a “three year moving wall” for publication, meaning that issues that are three years old will be scanned and added to the JSTOR subscription. Thus, in 2012 the 2008 issue of Archaeology of Eastern North America (Volume 36) will be added. So, if you want to read the current issues of AENA, maintain your paper subscription.

A percentage of the income derived by JSTOR from institutional subscribers to their service will be paid to ESAF as a royalty. The income will be proportionate to the use of the journal (number of downloads), and will in effect augment our “back issue” sales, being a partial replacement for paper back issue sales.

For those who do not have access to libraries with JSTOR subscriptions, JSTOR could in the future make article PDF downloads available to individuals as a separate service, charging a per-download fee directly to the individual. Making AENA available to individuals requires a separate agreement between ESAF and JSTOR . The ESAF Board will be considering this option as our next step.

For those who don’t know: JSTOR is not-for-profit service dedicated to the use of “digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.” (From the JSTOR mission statement). JSTOR currently maintains on line access to approximately 1400 journals and 6,800,000 articles. Approximately 75 million articles were downloaded worldwide last year. Visit their web site http://www.jstor.org/

Posted 1/10/2011:

Student Paper Award for ESAF Annual Meeting

In an effort to encourage more student involvement in the Eastern States Archeological Federation, a new student paper award will be initiated beginning with the 2011 annual meeting. Please see the annual meeting page for more information, and encourage your students to attend and present their research at the next meeting!