Dalrymple’s International Workshop on Archaeological Soil Micromorphology & dig (Developing International Geoarchaeology) conference dig2015

Dalrymple’s International Workshop on Archaeological Soil Micromorphology
& DIG (Developing International Geoarchaeology) conference DIG2015

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to inform you that the deadlines for registration to the DIG2015 have been moved forward.

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  The new deadline for registration with abstract submission is 15 April
  
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  Later registrations will be accepted until 30 April, but we cannot guarantee that these later submissions will get space for a paper presentation.
  

Here are some details again:

5-8 June Micromorphology Workshop (Dept. of Chemical and Geological Sciences, Cagliari University

9-12 June DIG2015 (Sassari University at Alghero, Department of Architecture and Design).

DIG 2015 is a conference of the Developing International Geoarchaeology (DIG) (http://www.developinginternationalgeoarchaeology.org/first.html), the title of a series of very successful international conferences aiming at bringing together a wide variety of international researchers and students in this interdisciplinary field in order to facilitate discussion, stimulate research, and promote international scholarship.

Excursions

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  On 8 June, just before DIG2015, there will be a half day excursion to the site of Fordongianus (http://www.forumtraiani.it).
  
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  The DIG2015 conference will be followed by another excursion to the Phoenician-Punic-Roman site of Tharros (see http://www.tharros.info/ViewSites.php?cat=100&lng=it and http://www.sardegnacultura.it/j/v/253?s=21268&v=2&c=2489&c1=2125&t=1 ) and we will visit the field site of the finding of the “Giants of Mont’e Prama” (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/17/giants-of-monte-prama-sardinian-sculptures-display ), and the Giants themselves on display of Cabras Museum (http://www.comunedicabras.it/vivi-cabras/museo-e-area-archeologica-di-tharros/index.aspx?m=53&did=285 )
  

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DIG 2015 Presentations

Abstract submissions are still being accepted for oral and poster presentations. Submissions should include a title, name and affiliation of author(s), contact address of corresponding author, and an abstract of not more than 600 words length.  Please indicate whether you prefer an oral or a poster presentation.  We will try to respect your preference, but may not be able to do so; you will be informed at a future date of whether your presentation will be scheduled as oral or poster.  Presentations concerning any aspect of geoarchaeology are welcome.  Abstracts can be submitted to: [e-mail].

Provisional list of presentations

1. 
   Banerjea Rowena Y, Alex Brown, Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz, Aleks Pluskowski ^- ‘Geoarchaeological perspectives on societal change in the landscape in medieval Europe’
   
2. 
   Alvise Barbieri, , C.J. Kind, N. J. Conard and C.E. Miller - The impact of landscape changes on the site formation processes of the Hohlenstein Stadel cave.
   
3. 
   M. Mercè Bergadà, Tània Polonio and F.Xavier Oms ^- Cova Colomera (Southeastern Pre-Pyrenees) during the late Early Neolithic: pastoral practices and bat and bird occupation (Poster)
   
4. 
   Valentina Caruso^,, Luca Trombino, Giorgio Caudullo, Valentina Scarpulla, Annalisa Cappella, Emanuela Maderna, Nicoletta Marinoni, Debora Mazzarelli, Emanuela Sguazza^,, Cristina Cattaneo. - Bone tissue conservation in archaeological and contemporary human remains: the role of degradation of organic and mineral phases
   
5. 
   Matthias Czechowski, Susan Mentzer^,, Christopher Miller^{, -} A GIS-based method for determining heterogeneity of burnt-bone assemblages
   
6. 
   Giovanni De Giudici: title t.b.e. on organic minerals.
   
7. 
   Carlos Duarte, Eneko Iriarte & Pablo Arias - The Final (Asturian) Problem: reviewing the formation of the Mesolithic shell middens of northern Spain using micromorphology and other geoarchaeological approaches (Poster)
   
8. 
   Ariana Fernandez, Steve Victor, Reed Morgan, Thomas Fenn, Roderick McIntosh - A New Archaeomagnetic Dating Curve for Peru: Reconstructing the Secular Variation Curve for the Middle and Late Moche
   
9. 
   David E. Friesem - Site Formation Processes of Hunter-Gatherers in Tropical Environment: Ethnoarchaeological Case Study From South India
   
10. 
    Magnus M. Haaland, David Friesem, Christopher Miller, Christopher S. Henshilwood - Heat-induced alteration of glauconitic minerals in the Middle Stone Age levels of Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for evaluating site structure and burning events
    
11. 
    Katja Kothieringer, Karsten Lambers - “Archaeological, palaeoecological, and pedological evidence of Holocene human-environment interaction in the Silvretta Alps”
    
12. 
    Carol Lang and Daryl Stump - A Geoarchaeological Contribution to the Study of Archaeological Agricultural Resilience in Eastern Africa
    
13. 
    Lucia Leierer and David Friesem - Identifying char particles using FTIR
    
14. 
    Salvatore Madrau – Soils on the Tharros, S.Giovanni and Barumini archaeological sites
    
15. 
    H. B. Martinez-Dyrzo, S. M. Mentzer^,, C. E. Miller Variation in morphology and composition of wood-derived ashes—an experimental approach
    
16. 
    Susan M. Mentzer, Christopher E. Miller - Applications of micro-FTIR in the identification of phosphate minerals in micromorphology samples from archaeological sites
    
17. 
    Rita T. Melis, Federica Sulas - Upland environment and human occupation in Bronze Age Sardinia: Geomorphology and soil micromorphology at Nuraghe Ruinas
    
18. 
    Melis Uzdurum, Susan M. Mentzer, Jay Quade, Mihriban Özbaşaran - Geoarchaeological analyses of construction materials from the Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey
    
19. 
    Christopher E. Miller, Susan M. Mentzer, Ximena Villagran, David Friesem - Using Fourier-Transform infrared Microspectrometry (micro-FTIR) to assess heat-induced alteration of clays in thin sections from archaeological combustion features: promises and pitfalls
    
20. 
    Simone Moser, Barbara Brilmayer Bakti, Martin Kehl -Automated detection and quantification of features in thin sections from archaeological sites (poster)
    
21. 
    Daniel Vieira Sousa, Carlos, Ernesto Schaefer, Carlos Ker, João; Maria Jacqueline Rodet; André Prous, Teixeira, Geraldes Wenceslau; Renê Chagas Silva, - Geoarchaeology of the Bibocas quartzite rockshelter: the Late Pleistocene/Holocene scenario of central Brazil (Poster).
    
22. 
    Nina Helt Nielsen - Geoarchaeological investigations of the Danish Celtic fields at Øster Lem Hede, Western Jutland, Denmark
    
23. 
    Flora Schilt, Susan Mentzer, David Wright, Jessica Thompson, Christopher E. Miller, Elizabeth Gomani-Chindebvu - Reconstruction of the formation of iron-manganese nodule accumulations associated with Middle Stone Age artefacts in a lateritic profile in northern Malawi
    
24. 
    Erhard Schulz, Attila Bencsik and Horea Cacovean - Wildfire versus slash-and-burn and flaming and the fate of charcoals
    
25. 
    Mareike Stahlschmidt and David M. Carballo - A micro-contextual investigation of household activities at the Tlajinga district of Teotihuacan, Mexico: residential units, obsidian workshops and the Street of the Dead
    
26. 
    Maria-Raimonda Usai, Annika Burns, Sabina Ghislandi, Carol Lang, Brendan Keely, Don Brothwell– InterArChive round-up: Multi-site inference on micromorphological and chemical investigations of archaeological human burial soils
    
27. 
    Maria-Raimonda Usai, Angelo Aru, Sergio Vacca – Geomorphology, soil associations and Nuragic settlement distributions in the Marghine and marmilla areas, Sardinia
    
28. 
    Lucy Wilson, Aviad Agam, Ran Barkai, Avi Gopher - Sources of lithic raw materials at Qesem Cave, Israel: Analysis of a preliminary set of thin sections.
    

Registration

Please send the completed form at the last page of this document together with abstract and registration fee copy.

Information on venues, accommodation and travel is given in the attached document

See you in June,

The Conference Committee

Maria Raimonda Usai¹, Andrea Vacca², Sergio Vacca¹, Giovanni De Giudici², Salvatore Madrau³

(1: Department of Architecture and Design, University of Sassari; 2: Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Cagliari; 3: , Department of Agriculture, University of Sassari)

Registration form on next page/

REGISTRATION FORM DIG2015

(please return form via e-mail to [e-mail])

First name:___________ Family name: _______________________________
Position (student, researcher, lecturer), department (or unit), and institution:________________________________________________________________________________
Address: __________________________________________________________________________________

Contact e-mail:________________________________FAX:____________________Phone:______________

I wish to attend the following events (please tick or cross the box on column 2 next to the event you wish to attend):
Please tick adjacent box to the right of each event to confirm you wish to register for it	Tick box below to register	Costs
1^st half day excursion		30.00 EURO (including entrance to Fordongianus archaeological site and guided archeol. tour, packed lunch)
Registration DIG2015 Alghero (please feel free to register and pay, ther eis no need for confirmation, then send us the receipt together with your registration – if you want to give a presentation please register before )		Registration cost: 190 Euro (including Conference organization in Alghero; 2 buffet lunches, 6 coffee&food breaks, stationery, admin)
DIG2015 Conference Dinner (not to be paid for until arrivalat the Conference)		To be established, approx. 45 Euros not to be paid now. Payable by each participant upon arrival/check-in at the DIG2015 in Alghero
2^nd full day excursion		44 EURO (including entrance to Tharros Achaeologicla Site, Barumini Archaeological Site, with guided archeol. site tour, packed lunch)
TOTAL PAYMENT (please indicate total in box to the right)
Title of abstract
Authors:
Preferred as poster or talk?
Payments should be made by Bank Transfer to: DIG & WASM, IBAN: GB07NWBK60070540137414; BIC: NWBKGB2L; Bank: NatWest; Account name: DIG & WASM; Account number: 40137414; Sort Code: 600705; Branch address: 28 Market Place Driffield East Yorkshire YO25 6AL, United Kingdom. Participants will be responsible to pay any fees for electronic bank transfer. A copy of the bank transfer should be sent to [e-mail] Please, include in your transfer the following information: Name, Family Name, WASM/DIG2015 Please, send a copy of your bank transfer together with this form to [e-mail]