Many are working to understand the
organic residues
found, with a variety of techniques, in archaeological
artifacts.
After a successful symposium on 'Nomads in Archaeology',
during the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology
(Montreal, April 2004), it was decided to bring together a symposium on
this subject.
The purpose of this symposium, to be part of the 70th SAA meeting (Salt Lake City, 30 March - 3 April 2005), is to survey ways in which data on archaeological residues can be interpreted and what place the techniques collecting such data might have within archaeology and anthropology. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Given the limited time made available by
the SAA for presentations, and the lack of opportunity for discussion, all
contributors will be asked to produce a short article in which they are
invited to address the points that they had to leave out of their paper
for
lack of time. These proceedings will be published as soon as possible
after
the meeting.
Furthermore, the usual discussant at the end of the session will be asked to mediate a short debate between the audience and the speakers, rather than summarize the presentations. |
To provide a focus for the discussion
sherds will be circulated for analysis. The vessel that
is available for this experiment has been used for a single cooking
event, of a single food stuff, and should preserve a residue of lipids
as well as proteins.
The purpose of this exercise is not to
find the actual residue, or to establish the definitive method to do
so, but to learn how the same (simulated) archaeological artifact can
be approached. The results of this 'round robin' experiment will be an
important part of the publication on this symposium.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Your suggestions, additions, comments
and corrections are welcome and your participation even more so.
|
|
|||
Mobile People |
Ancient
Apprenticeship |
Eastern
Desert Ware |
Cotsen Institute |