Budapest meeting

[Choyke Alice]

Dear Members,

Having accomplished the 2nd meeting of the Worked Bone Research
Group, I would like to thank all the participants for their contributions
which were essential in making this an interesting and pleasant
conference. In the short Business Meeting after the event, the
following were decided:

PUBLICATION:

I would like to ask those whose articles will be published in the
proceedings to send me tha manuscripts as soon as possible in RTF
files, following the detailed guidelines of BAR-Tempus Reparatum as
circulated previously.

The main text should be no longer than 10 pages (double space, 12 pt
letters) with 10 pages of addenda (reference list, illustrations), including
a ten lines long abstract to be translated into German by Cornelia
Becker and 3-7 key words. References should be made in the
Harvard system.

The final deadline is the end of January 2000, however, please send
your manuscripts AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, so that we can start the
editing work continuously, since only Lyuba Smirnova and Mickle Zhilin 
arrived with completed articles and I will be swamped if all of you
send yours in at the last possible moment. The idea is that this volume 
should be out before the next meeting of the group in 1001.

GROUP STATUS

At the meeting it has been suggested that we seek affiliation as a
working group of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ), a 
20 year old organization devoted to the study of animal remains from
archaeological sites. This would have administrative advantages and
would improve our ability to publicize out work. Althogh ICAZ is just
being transformed into a pro forma association (with paid membership,
proper ballotting procedures etc.) non-ICAZ members will be most
welcome in future WBRG meetings (many archaeologists or historians
may have only a negligible interest in becoming full members of a major 
zooarchaeological organization).

An alternative affiliation with the European Association of
Archaeologists seemed to involve the risk of discouraging
non-European (esp. North American and Japanese) colleagues from
joining our group.

The first version (ICAZ membership) was unanimously accepted by
those present and will be formally proposed by Laszlo Bartosiewicz in a 
forthcoming Executive Committee meeting of ICAZ in New York to be
held this month.

FUTURE MEETING(S)

Jörg Schibler of the Archaeobiological Division of the Pre- and
Protohistoric Seminar at the University of Basel has kindly offered to 
host our next meeting in Switzerland in 2001. Large ICAZ conferences
are held every 4 years, (next time in 2002), it was decided therefore
that a emerging biannual scheme for the WBRG would complement
that major event at which the group could also organize its own
sessions, thereby maximizing the possibility of multidisciplinary
cooperation.

        Once again I would like to thank all of you for making this
meeting such a sucess. Let us keep up the contacts we have made
and try to make sure this working group continues as happily into the
future.

Alice
Dr. Alice M. Choyke
1124 Budapest
Korompai u. 21-23/D
Telephone: (36-1) 319 0846
E-mail: H13017cho at ella.hu