THE 30th THEORETICAL ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP ANNUAL MEETING

THE The 30th Theoretical Archaeology Group annual meeting will be held at the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton between Monday December 15th and Wednesday December 17th 2008.

Member Ian Heath will be giving a paper entitled Grooved Ware: What has another decade bought us?

The Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) was founded as a national body in 1979 with the aim of promoting debate and discussion of issues in theoretical archaeology. Its principal activity is the promotion of an annual conference, traditionally held in December and organised so as to be accessible at low cost to research students and others.
TAG is managed and steered by a National Committee that meets annually and comprises a representative from each of the university departments that have hosted a TAG Conference.

Further information about TAG annual meeting and details of Ian’s session as well as all the others can be found here :

www.tagconference.org/2008

PETROGRAPHY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS

The meeting took place between 15-17 February at University of Sheffield Department of Archaeology. It was a great success and was attended by some 60 participants from Britain, Europe and North America.

Keynote lectures by leading scholars in the field of archaeological petrography were followed by some 18 oral presentations and 10 posters on ceramics, paster, paintings, mortar, mudbrick and metallurgical tools from prehistoric, classical and historic periods in the British Isles, mainland Europe, the Mediterannean, the Near East, Russia, India, Mesoameria and the United States.

The meeting also hosted a successful microscope workshop and an AGM of the Ceramic Petrology Group. Information on future activities of the CPG, starting in 2009 will be made available on this website soon.

A conference proceedings featuring papers presented at the weekend as well as other petrographic studies is planned. For more information contact the organiser.

Dr. Patrick Quinn, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield
email:patrick.quinn@sheffield.ac.uk

A copy of the abstracts booklet of the Sheffield meeting is available to download here:

Download Abstracts and Programme