Our hard-working and well-connected editor, Carmen Ting, has just released a new issue of the SAS Bulletin! This is Volume 44, Number 1, Spring 2021, and substantial timely content. Below is a screenshot of the table of contents, and you can see the full text of all the articles at http://socarchsci.blogspot.com/ To download a PDF of this issue, click here. Congratulations Carmen, and thank you for putting together this wonderful issue!
Our diligent and excellent editor, Carmen Ting, has just released a new issue of the SAS Bulletin! This is Volume 43, Number 3, Autumn 2020, and has lots of great content. Below is a screenshot of the table of contents, and you can see the full text of all the articles at http://socarchsci.blogspot.com/ To download a PDF of this issue, click here. Congratulations Carmen, and thank you for putting together this wonderful issue!
Dr. Chris Vyhnal sat down remotely with SAS associate editor Roxanne Radpour to discuss how archaeological science can play an important role in teaching chemistry and experimental science to high school students. Vyhnal, the Science Department Chair at the Thacher School in Ojai, California, designed a 4-day course titled “Chemical Synthesis of Color in Art” for his students when he and the rest of his colleagues at Thacher were tasked to produce an emergency last minute short course in the 2017-2018 academic school year.
We are very excited to announce that Dr Thibaut Devièse is joining the SAS blog/ bulletin, covering the topic of archaeological organic materials.
By Laerke Recht, associate editor in Zooarchaeology
As my first contribution to this newsletter, I want to highlight two new zooarchaeology-related things that I am excited about:
By Mark Golitko, Associate editor in lithic and network analysis
This is my first blog since being asked to serve as associate editor for lithic analysis and network analysis. It is somewhat delayed due to the global pandemic and the strange adjustments we have all had to make (teaching and conducting all business online in my case). The spread of Covid-19 itself, and the rapid dissemination of fake news and strange conspiracy theories surrounding the virus have served to highlight the complexity of the global human network to which we all belong, such that a virus that jumped to the human population somewhere in Wuhan, China, reached South Bend, Indiana (where I currently sit writing this) after only about two or three months.
📣 Today in the SAS Member #spotlight 📣 we are featuring Ruth Ann Armitage & her article "Characterizing the Dyes… https://t.co/BXpfZnvIJo
