Dear colleague,
We are pleased to announce that the deadline for submission for the
Student Award is extended to Friday August the 20th. For further
information please see the original call for submissions below.

Are you a student or do you know a student who intends to give a paper at
the EAA conference in The Hague, 1 - 5 September 2010? If so, please read
more about the EAA Student Award. All MA and Ph.D. students as well as
archaeologists working on a dissertation, who present a paper at the EAA
conference in The Hague are welcome to apply. Please submit your paper to
the Award Selection Committee before 20th August (please email a cover
letter, CV and text of the conference paper - please follow the notes for
contributors in the EJA - to the EAA Administrator Sylvie Kvetinová:
kvetinova@arup.cas.cz) for consideration by the selection committee. The
committee consists of representatives of the EAA Executive Board and the
papers will be evaluated for their academic merit and innovative ideas.
The Award consists of a diploma and a book voucher; the winner of the
award will be announced at the Annual Business Meeting on 3 September. The
winning paper will be considered for publication in the European Journal
of Archaeology (EJA).

Let me encourage you to participate!
 

May 2010

Dear EAA member,
Ghent University, Belgium, and the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation, Belgium, are working on a research project dealing with the potentials (and the threats) of the use of new information and communication technologies for the interpretation of heritage sites. More specifically, they want to examine how the 'ICOMOS Charter for the Interpretation of cultural heritage sites', aka 'Ename Charter', can be applied to off-site (technologically mediated) presentation and interpretation of heritage.

Results of this research will be presented at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the EAA in The Hague. Because the theme of the research is directly relevant to the European community of archaeologists the EAA invites its membership to participate at filling in the online survey, which can be accessed here: http://www.mict.be/onderzoek

A report of the results can be requested by leaving an e-mail address after filling in the survey.

Thanking you for your cooperation,
The research team and EAA Secretariat

Sylvie Kvetinova
EAA Administrator
 

January 2010

Dear colleagues,

The European Association of Archaeologists instituted the European Archaeological Heritage Prize in 1999 and has awarded it annually to a person, institution, or a (local or regional) government for an outstanding contribution to the protection and presentation of the European archaeological heritage. The nomination period is now open. I will be happy to assist you with any queries you may have.

Sylvie
 

December 2009
 

Dear EAA member,

those of you who have been long standing members of the EAA will have realized that the organization of the EAA membership year and format of the EAA Annual Meetings have remained unchanged over many years. The EAA Executive board has now undertaken the initiative to revitalize the EAA schedule; the main modifications affecting you as members (highlighted in red) concern earlier deadlines for session and paper / poster proposals. This step aims at offering you a better structured and more attractive conference. We believe that you will observe the new dates and will enjoy an even better Annual Meeting in The Hague, Netherlands. 
 

Since October 2009	Online registration and hotel booking form available at  http://www.eaa2010.nl/
31 December	End of the 2009 EAA membership (log in the members’ only section valid till the 31st January 2010)
1 January	Beginning of the 2010 EAA membership (log in the members’ only section valid since the 1st December 2009)
15 January	Deadline for session proposals for the 16th EAA conference
20 January	Paper and poster abstract submission will open
30 June	Deadline for paper / poster submissions for the 16th EAA conference
30 June	Deadline for Early Fee registration
1 - 5 September	16th EAA Annual Meeting in The Hague

Dear colleagues,

Thanks to your involvement the European Association of Archaeologists has completed its 15th year of existence with a very good outcomes and notable changes for the coming year. 

To name just a few:

- This and the next year will have seen major change-over in the composition and work of the EAA Executive and Editorial boards, from a new President, mr. Friedrich Lüth, through new EJA Editor and TEA Editor, to a newly defined function of the Editorial board.

- The on-line membership service continues to develop, and with the transfer of the EAA web page to a new server any difficulties you may have experienced this year will be over. You can access your personal entry at http://www.e-a-a.org/password.htm - if you need assistance with your login information, I will be happy to assist you. Please note that thanks to your prompt renewal, your EAA membership remains uninterrupted until the beginning of 2011.

- With volume 12, published recently as a single issue, the European Journal of Archaeology has caught up with the publication delay, for which we extend our thanks principally to the outgoing General Editor, mr. Alan Saville.

- The conference in Riva del Garda without doubt belonged among the best EAA meetings ever, and the next meeting in The Hague (1-5 September 2010; http://www.eaa2010.nl) will surely keep up with the high standard. Please note a new, earlier timetable of session proposals submission and registration, and enroll yourself now already!

We thank you for your involvement in EAA in 2009 and 2010 and appreciate your support. 
 

October 2009

Dear EAA Members,

Hello from the editor of TEA: The European Archaeologist! Yes, it's that time of the year again! Thank you to all who contributed to TEA 31, circulated to members in June 2009. TEA 32 will be circulated to members in November and I am contacting you all now to remind you that the deadline for contributions has been extended till Friday 23 October. Please forward items for inclusion to me via e-mail at michael@discoveryprogramme.ie.

TEA publishes short articles (in the region of 500 words) relating to current research projects and heritage issues in the various countries and regions across Europe. If you have something that you would like to include, please send me your report. Please include illustrations (about one for every 150-200 words or so), where appropriate, and where copyright allows! You may also use TEA to advertise or report on conferences, seminars, workshops or events that you believe are of interest to EAA members.

Session Organisers from the Riva Conference are encouraged to write a summary of their session(s) (c.300-word) for TEA 32. These summaries are of particular interest to those of our members who were not able to attend the conference or the specific sessions in question. Feedback from the summaries from the Malta conference, published in TEA 30, was very positive.

Similarly, could all Chairs of Working Parties, Round Tables and other Committees please e-mail me a report on their most recent meetings, discussions and developments. Such reports enable members to keep up-to-date with the work of these important groups, and to make useful and informed suggestions and contributions.

If you have any other comments or suggestions relating to this or any other issue of TEA, please do not hesitate to contact me.

With every best wish and many thanks to you all for your continued involvement,

Michael

Dr Michael Potterton
Editor, The European Archaeologist
michael@discoveryprogramme.ie
 

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Journal of European Archaeology - all articles and reviews that have appeared in the years 1993-1997 now fully accessible online to the EAA members. The abstracts are available also for non-members in the EJA section.

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