[Sasnet] Ceramic Ecology Symposium (2007) is almost full

[James Burton]

Dear Colleagues --

Although it has been only a few weeks since the 20th annual Ceramic  
Ecology Symposium held in San José, it is already time to plan for  
the 21st  annual Ceramic Ecology Symposium (2007). The symposium will  
be submitted as a volunteered session to the program committee for  
the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association to be  
held in Washington, DC during the period November 28 - December 2,  
2007 with headquarters at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel,  
Washington, DC.  There is only one slot left in this 2007 program.   
If you wish to participate, please e-mail me ASAP.  AAA has not yet  
posted their registration and participation forms.

Dr. E. Christian Wells (University of South Florida, who works on  
ceramics from Mesoamerica and the American Southwest, and is editor  
of the Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin) has graciously  
agreed to be the discussant for this year's symposium.

If you intend to participate in Ceramic Ecology XXII, 2008 (San  
Francisco) or XIII 2009 (Philadelphia) please let me know.  .

Best wishes,


Charlie Kolb

ckolb at neh.gov

SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACT

The papers in this international and interdisciplinary symposium, the  
19th in the annual series, reflect a number of approaches within the  
framework of Matson's concept of Ceramic Ecology, set forth in his  
volume, Ceramics and Man record of limited worth." Ceramic Ecology as  
a methodological and theoretical approach has as its paramount goal a  
better understanding of the peoples who made and used pottery and  
seeks to redefine our comprehension about the significance of these  
materials in human societies.  The concept of Ceramic Ecology is  
contextual, multi  and interdisciplinary, and analytical.  On the one  
hand, it seeks to evaluate data derived from the application of  
physiochemical methods and techniques borrowed from the physical  
sciences within an ecological and sociocultural frame of reference.   
It relates environmental parameters, raw materials, technological  
choices and abilities, and sociocultural variables to the  
manufacture, distribution, and use of pottery and other ceramic  
artifacts. On the other hand, interpretation of these data and  
explanations of the ceramic materials utilize methods and paradigms  
derived from the social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The  
concept of Ceramic Ecology forms an implicit or explicit basis of the  
investigations reported by archaeologists, ethnographers, and others  
in this symposium in which emphasis is placed upon the technological  
and socioeconomic aspects of ceramic materials regardless of  
chronology or geography.  It also demonstrates the value of the cross  
fertilization which results when investigators ranging from art  
historians and professional potters to ethnoarchaeologists and  
archaeometricians come together in a forum devoted to a topical  
consideration: ceramics.  These papers continue a symposium series  
initiated at the 1986 AAA meeting by students of ceramic materials  
who are members of the informal "Ceramic Studies Interest Group," an  
organization formed at the suggestion of Matson.



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