[Archport] Conflict Archaeology at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists

["Lucia Afonso" <lumapi@hotmail.com>]

With apologies for cross-posting.
A reminder of the session on Conflict Archaeology at the Annual Meeting of 
the European Association of Archaeologists to be held in Malta from 16th to 
21st Serptember (http://events.um.edu.mt/eaa2008/index.html). The session is 
organised by the ESTOC group (European Studies of Terrains of Conflict) and 
welcomes papers on any aspect of Conflict Archaeology in Europe, from 
prehistory to the present. Please send abstracts of 200 words or so to me at 
J.Carman@bham.ac.uk.
The session abstract is set out below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
John

Dr John Carman
Birmingham University Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Heritage 
Valuation
Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity
Arts Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7493
Fax: +44 (0)121 414 3595
Email: J.Carman@bham.ac.uk

TERRAINS OF CONFLICT:
APPROACHES TO WARFARE IN THE EUROPEAN PAST

Organisers:
The ESTOC group: European Studies of Terrains of Conflict
c/o Dr John Carman, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity
Arts Building, University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7493 Fax: +44 (0)121 414 3595
Email: J.Carman@bham.ac.uk

The ESTOC group - founded in March 2007 in Oudenaarde, Belgium - brings
together leading archaeologists, historians, architects and heritage 
professionals from
eight European countries to promote research into and the preservation of 
places of
conflict in the European past. Current members of the ESTOC group - and we 
seek
more from other parts of Europe - are representatives of the following 
organisations:

Åland Board of Antiquities, Finland
The Battlefields Trust, UK
University of Birmingham, UK
University of Bradford, UK
Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, University of Glasgow, UK
DIPATRI, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Interpretation, Belgium
HALBARDE (Histoire, Archéologie et Littérature des Batailles de l'Artois 
sous le
Règne De l'Espagne), France
University of Leeds, UK
University of Osnabrück, Germany
Riksantikvarieämbetet, Sweden
University College Cork, Ireland
Varusschlacht, Museum und Park Kalkriese, Germany.

Taking advantage of the opportunity presented by the EAA meeting to discuss 
issues
of conflict at the location of momentous past military activity, this 
session seeks to
promote the work of conflict archaeologists by providing an opportunity for
researchers into past European conflict to present their work to the 
European
archaeological community. We accordingly seek contributions from 
archaeologists -
members and non-members of the ESTOC group alike - that explore the wide 
range
of archaeological work on human conflict, relating to landscapes, artefacts 
and human
remains from all periods, from prehistory to the present.