[Bonetools] Re : Fwd: [ZOOARCH] proposed SAA interest group seeking signatures

Tue Jan 10 15:50:22 CET 2012

Hello everyone,

If I may share my point of view on this matter, I would like to underline the fact that most members of the WBRG are based in Europe, with meetings held in Europe. Unfortunately, many North American archaeologists sometimes have the tendency to look for collaboration with their North American collegues before looking at the international level, for various reasons (language, large basin of archaeologists in the USA, etc.). Thus, I think a working group among the Society for American Archaeology (SAA, perhaps the largest association of archaeologists in the world) cannot be a bad thing. The more working groups there are, the more worked bone studies will be known. It is not only a question of networking, but also a question of visibility and vitality. A multiplication of working groups would only mean that our field is alive and growing. 

Eva David mentions the 2004 symposium in Montreal, held during the annual SAA meeting. This is a symposium I organised with my collegue Renee Walker. At that time I was a postdoc fellow in the United States doing use wear analysis on bone tools. This was a new field to me (I have been trained as a ceramic specialist), and I had never met any other worked bone specialist before. It is only after this meeting that I joined the ICAZ and the WBRG. I'm saying this because I think it might happen again (with other young North American researchers especially). For example, If a worked bone working group in North America could do the same great work that is being done in Europe with the ICAZ-WBRG, I think that could only be a good thing. And I do not see these a "competing" working groups, but as different working groups on different continents working together, not against each other.

Accordingly, I hope that a new worked bone working group will appear among the various SAA working groups. This will show to North American students and professors that it is an active field of research, and a further step in promoting the inclusion of work bone studies in the university curricula and in promoting the training of MA and PhD students in this field of research. Perhaps this could be a first step in having as many worked bone specialists in North America as there are in Europe (please, let me dream!!).

I may be wrong, but this is how I see it. Sorry for this long message, and do not hesitate to share your comments on it.

Have a nice day!

Christian Gates St-Pierre

Invited researcher
Département d'anthropologie
Université de Montréal

Lecturer and posdoctoral research fellow
Département d'histoire
Université Laval

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Objet : Re: [Bonetools] Fwd: [ZOOARCH] proposed SAA interest group seeking signatures

Short Note :
WBRG Members have already participated to SAA (Montréal, 2004) for a special dedicated session on Bone technology, but of course, they 're not there representative of WBRG's then :
Ch. Gates St.-Pierre & R. Walker (Eds.), 2007, Bones as Tools; Current methods and interpretations in worked bone
studies. Oxford (BAR International
Series; 1622).
Best, éva

Le 9 janv. 2012 à 19:50, Alice Choyke a écrit :

Dear Jean-Marc,
>      I agree with you about possible duplication but it is also precisely the reason that WBRG must be truly international and not expect the world to come to us! I can perfectly understand that colleagues in the US, Asia and the Pacific feel frustrated that all our meetings have been uniformly in Europe. We should have pressed for more international venues much earlier than Salzburg but, frankly, it never occurred to me. 
> 
>Cheers,
>Alice
>
>
>On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Jean-Marc Petillon <petillon at univ-tlse2.fr> wrote:
>
>It's good news to see that interest for bone technology is on the rise in the SAA as well, but what will be the purpose of this group except duplicating what the WBRG is already doing?
>>
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>>Le 06/01/12 11:56, Christian Küchelmann a écrit :
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>>>Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
>>>
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>>>Von: Sarah Whitcher Kansa <skansa at ALEXANDRIAARCHIVE.ORG>
>>>>Datum: 5. Januar 2012 20:24:51 MEZ
>>>>An: ZOOARCH at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>>>Betreff: [ZOOARCH] proposed SAA interest group seeking signatures
>>>>Antwort an: Sarah Whitcher Kansa <skansa at ALEXANDRIAARCHIVE.ORG>
>>>>
>>>>Dear all,
>>>>
>>>>A zooarchaeologist colleague, Lisa Dugas, is putting together a
>>>>proposal for a new Zooarchaeology and Bone Technology Interest Group
>>>>(ZBTIG) for the Society for American Archaeology. She is soliciting
>>>>signatures from colleagues who are SAA members and who would be
>>>>interested in participating in this working group. It will be a free
>>>>group that will meet once a year at the SAA meeting to exchange
>>>>information about zooarchaeology and bone technology research and issues.
>>>>
>>>>Lisa has provided a simple form to sign that says you are an SAA
>>>>member and plan to participate in the group. I've put the form online
>>>>at the link below (Word doc) If you're at all interested, please sign
>>>>it and send it to Lisa.
>>>>http://alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/items/show/1819
>>>>
>>>
>>>(Zooarchaeology and Bone Technology Interest Group single signature
>>>>form.doc)
>>>>
>>>>If you'd like more information about the proposed group, please email
>>>>Lisa: l.dugas at gaiconsultants.com
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for your help!
>>>>Sarah
>>>>
>>>
>>>-- Sarah Whitcher Kansa Executive Director,
>>>>
>>>
>>>AAI Editor, Open Context www.alexandriaarchive.org www.opencontext.org
>>>>
>>>
>>>Tel: 1-415-425-7381 Fax: 1-866-505-8626
>>>>
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