Elizabeth Jerem, Dorottya Domanovszky
Archaeolingua Foundation, Úri u. 49, H-1014 Budapest, Hungary, dd@archaeolingua.com

Archaeolingua was born in 1991 as a non-profit foundation established by distinguished scholars of the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Innsbruck University. The primary aims of Archaeolingua Foundation are the promotion of interdisciplinary research, the enhancement of the flow of information between archaeology, historical linguistics and the related fields, and the use of digital applications. By the publication and dissemination of scientific and educational material, Archaeolingua supports the preservation of cultural values and heritage. The more than one hundred publications the Foundation has produced represent a wide scope of academic interest.

In the past years, the Foundation has participated in several important international cooperations, such as "Excellence in Processing Open Cultural Heritage" (EPOCH) of the European Union, serving as the official publisher of EPOCH publications. During its life, EPOCH published twenty-four books comprising EU-wide reports on different aspects of IT applications to cultural heritage, such as training, the current situation in EU countries, the perspectives and risks, proceedings of workshops and symposia organized by EPOCH, manuals and handbooks. These publications are primarily concerned with the use of digital applications in the preservation of cultural heritage and innovative technologies applied in the field, in landscape archaeology and cultural heritage protection. 

The cooperation between Archaeolingua and the Oxford British Archaeological Reports is of outstanding importance, as a result of which the Archaeolingua - BAR Central European Series has yielded several titles. The most recent publication in this series is The True and Exact Dresses and Fashion - Archaeological Clothing Remains and their Social Contexts in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Hungary written by Dóra Mérai, whose main aim is to look at how and within what framework the elements of costume from Ottoman period burials in Hungary have been treated by previous research, and to suggest some new directions of interpretation. As a new branch of the joint publications, a new monograph series is being planned on medieval and post-medieval archaeology at Visegrád, treating the medieval royal palace, the medieval urban settlement, the early royal centre, the royal garden of the palace complex, the Franciscan friary, and crafts and medieval industrial production sites. 

Archaeolingua has also been working in collaboration with CAA, Computer Applications and 
Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. The annual conferences of CAA yield excellent opportunities for experts devoted to the preservation of human heritage, such as archaeologists, computer scientists, and those working in related fields, including architecture, history, education and others, who are among the recognized developers of computational methods and technologies. These experts work on the development of progressive, innovative solutions to the problems of cultural heritage. The Foundation published the proceedings of the 2004 and 2006 CAA conferences.  The Proceedings volume of the 2004 Prato conference, Beyond the Artifact - Digital Interpretation of the Past, collected papers under the headings: "Archaeological Theory", "The Archaeological Record", "Archaeological Landscapes and GIS Applications", "Underwater Archaeology", "Predictive Modelling", "Visualization, 3D and Virtual Reconstructions", "Quantitative Methods", "Geophysics and Survey", and "Cultural Heritage - Communication". 

The 2006 Fargo Conference Proceedings, entitled Digital Discovery - Exploring New Frontiers in Human Heritage, treats problems focusing on "Social Modeling and Simulation", "Network Analysis", "GIS-Based Regional Analysis", "Visibility and Viewshed Studies", "Intra-Site Spatial Technologies", "Remote Sensing", "Aerial Photography", "Cultural Heritage Databases and Web-based Resources", "Machine Learning and Classification", "Morphometric Analysis", "3D Modeling", "Virtual Reality Environments", "Field Applications", "Maritime Applications", and "Statistical Analysis". 

The proceedings of the 2008 Budapest conference is currently in press. The volume comprises 55 printed papers, while the attached CD contains all 85 contributions selected for publication, reflecting the present relationship between archaeology and computer sciences, its main tendencies and the surrounding difficulties, along with new possibilities and perspectives. 

Archaeolingua also publishes Praehistoria, the annual of the Prehistory Department of the Miskolc University. The editors of the series are Árpád Ringer, Zsolt Mester, and Erzsébet Jerem. The six volumes published in the series, two of which represent the results of two years, comprise papers in English, French and German. Volume 9 is going to be published shortly. The collected studies represent the wide spectrum of prehistoric research, reflecting the scope of the Miskolc University"s research program, from history of research through Quaternary geology, anthropology and Palaeolithic archaeology to Venus figurines. The series focuses on methodological papers as well.

Articles in the series give regional syntheses of Quaternary studies and Palaeolithic sites in 
Europe, also outlining the climatic changes that modified the settlement strategies of human groups in the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. Other papers illustrate the world-wide character of prehistory, such as the lithic technology of the early African Palaeolithic, which helps us understand early human technological behaviour, or the application of new approaches to the origin of languages. Several articles deal with the revision or reinterpretation of Hungarian Palaeolithic sites, representing new discoveries.

Studia Aegyptiaca, Series Major I-III, represents a very significant collaboration between the Egyptian Department of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and Archaeolingua Foundation. B'r Minayh - Report on the Survey 1998-2004 (ed. Ulrich Luft) is the latest volume of this series. This book offers insight to one particular site in the Eastern Desert, which is published in full detail. This approach of publishing full site details has been opted for in order to avoid the possibility of correlations going unrecognized, as might happen in publications divided into a range of separate studies, each focusing on one specific subject exclusively. The aim of this volume was to contribute to a better understanding of the complex archaeology of the Egyptian Eastern Desert. The joint expedition of the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics was a fieldwork project of interdisciplinary character, thus the multiplicity of approaches necessitated the restating of the expeditions main objectives and enabled the authors to provide supporting evidence from a number of different disciplinary perspectives. 

Some other titles of the series are: Hungarian Excavations in the Theban Necropolis - A Celebration of 102 Years of Fieldwork in Egypt, The Mortuary Monument of Djehutymes (TT 32) Vol. 1-2, The Mortuary Monument of Djehutymes II - Finds from the New Kingdom to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, Human and Faunal Remains from Theban Tomb 32, and The Intellectual Heritage of Egypt.

The Foundation enjoys the privilege of publishing books of the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as well, such as the Varia Archaeologica series. The latest titles published are: The Beginnings of the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin by Gabriella Kulcsár and Die Soziale Differenzierung im Spätneolithikum Südtransdanubiens by István Zalai-Gaál. The latest title from this collaboration, Varia XXV, Archaeological Investigations in County Békés 1986-1992, edited by Dénes Jankovich B., is currently in press. Another result of this collaboration is the Antaeus annual periodical, presenting Hungarian and international achievements of archaeology and of the related fields.

In 2009, a new collaboration was formed between Archaeolingua and Europae Archaeologiae Consilium (EAC). Accordingly, Archaeolingua Publishing House is responsible for the distribution of the EAC Occasional Papers series. The 4th volume of this series was published in December 2010, the 5th volume in March 2011. In the latter case, we were trusted with the whole publication process. 

EAC Occasional Paper No. 4: Heritage Management of Farmed and Forested Landscapes in Europe (eds. Stephen Trow, Vincent Holyoak and Emmet Byrnes), produced by the EAA and EAC Joint Working Group on Farming, Forestry and Rural Land Management, examines the challenges posed by agriculture, forestry and other rural land uses in terms of the long-term conservation of Europe"s archaeological sites and the management of its historic landscapes. Profusely illustrated and with contributions from no fewer than 13 different European countries, the volume will be essential reading for anyone concerned with contemporary heritage management, policy-making and legislation.

Archaeolingua regularly exhibits books at the Annual Meetings of the European Association of Archaeologists. In the past few years, it has become one of the most important goals of the Foundation to participate in the production and publication of the material of the EAA sessions (see the Books section in this TEA issue). These volumes collect the papers delivered at the conferences, complemented by invited contributions of experts in the given fields. Contribution to the Association's new monograph series is also among the plans of the Publishing House.

One of the most successful publications resulting from this collaboration is The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography (eds. Derek B. Counts and Bettina Arnold). The book assembles archaeological, iconographical, and literary evidence for the Master of Animals from a variety of cultural contexts and disparate chronological horizons throughout the Old World, with a particular focus on Europe and the Mediterranean basin, as well as the Indus Valley and Eurasia. The volume does not seek to demonstrate relatedness between different manifestations of this figure, even though some are clearly ontologically and geographically linked, but rather to interpret the role of this iconographic construct within each cultural context. In doing so, The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography provides an important resource for scholars confronting similar symbolic paradigms across the Old World landscape that promotes comparative interpretation in diverse ritual and socio-political environments.

The Master of Animals was published in the Main Series of Archaeolingua. Twenty-four volumes have been published in the series, including The Archaeology of People and Territoriality (eds. George Nash and Dragos Gheorghiu), Archaeobotany in Hungary by Ferenc Gyulai, and Anthropology of the Indo-European World and Material Culture - Proceedings of the 5th International Colloquium of Anthropology of the Indo-European World and Comparative Mythology (eds. Marco V. García Quintela, Francisco J. González García, Felipe Criado Boado).

Five of the EAA volumes have been published in Archaeolingua's Series Minor, namely: 
Landscape Ideologies (ed. Thomas Meier), The Geoarchaeology of River Valleys (eds. 
Halina Dobrzańska, Erzsébet Jerem and Tomasz Kalicki), The Archaeology of Fire - Understanding Fire as Material Culture (eds. Dragos Gheorghiu and George Nash), The Archaeology of Cult and 
Death (eds. Mercourios Georgiadis and Chrysanthi Gallou) and Situating Gender in European Archaeologies (eds. Liv Helga Dommasnes, Tove Hjoerungdal, Sandra Montón-Subías, Margarita Sánchez Romero and Nancy L. Wicker).

Archaeolingua aims to continue its close cooperation with session organizers and book editors, thus deepening the relationship between the Foundation and members of the EAA. 

For more information on our publications, please consult our website at: http://www.archaeolingua.hu.