Assemblage is currently accepting submissions for our next issue. We encourage postgraduates and early career researchers to email articles of between 3,000 and 5,000 words on any topic relating to archaeology to assemblage@sheffield.ac.uk.
See our Article Template or Reviews Template for formatting instructions, and our page on Submitting a Paper for more information
We look forward receiving your submission,
The Assemblage Team
Welcome to Issue 17 of Assemblage. The journal now has a new editorial team and a new format. We will introduce ourselves on the website soon, but in the meantime, we would like to thank Sarah Poniros and Izzy Cook for all their hard work running Assemblage for the last few years.
We have two articles in this issue, one about the application of analytical methods to problematic faunal remains, one which examines the relationship between biological stress and leprosy in medieval England, and a number of book reviews. We hope you enjoy it.
Contents (click to download pdf of the item)
Articles
A. Fitzpatrick. Fish Bones, Isotopes, and Microscopes: A Pilot Study in Applying Analytical Methods to Iron Age Faunal Remains pp. 1-10
S. Papadopoulou & J. Buckberry. The Relationship Between Vitamin D Deficiency And Leprosy In Two English Medieval Populations pp. 11-26
Book Reviews
Boivin, N., Crassard, R. & M. Petraglia, (eds) 2017. Human Dispersal and Species Movement: From Prehistory to the Present
Quinn, J. 2018. In search of the Phoenicians
Belford, P. 2018. Blood, Faith and Iron: A Dynasty of Catholic Industrialists in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
Crawford, S., Hadley, D. & Shepherd, G. 2018. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood
Veikou, M. 2012. Byzantine Epirus: A Topography of Transformation. Settlements of the Seventh-Twelfth Centuries in Southern Epirus and Aetoloacarnania, Greece
This year, the Postgraduate ZooArchaeology Forum (PZAF) will take place in Palermo, Sicily, the Italian Capital of Culture 2018.
PZAF is an ICAZ affiliated group run by and for postgraduate students and early-career professionals in the field of zooarchaeology, and provides the opportunity for young researchers to present their projects in an informal environment. Applications are welcome from students at any postgraduate level as well as from early-career professionals who already completed their studies. Abstracts from any field of zooarchaeology will be considered, and can be submitted through the PZAF 2018 website https://www.pzaf.org/.
Abstract submission deadline: 31st March 2018
Conference Dates: 27th-29th June 2018
If you have an income (funded research/job), or if you received a grant for participating in this conference: 25€
If you are unfunded/unwaged and did not receive any grant: 20€
The ticket will include the conference material, lunches and coffee breaks
Assemblage online journal is currently accepting submissions for our next issue, which is due to be published on 30 April 2018. We consider papers on the topic of archaeology and related sub-disciplines. We encourage postgraduate research students and early career researchers to email articles between 3,000 and 5,000 words to assemblage@sheffield.ac.uk by 28 February 2018.
This year, we are pleased to announce that Assemblage will be encouraging submissions detailing experiments with negative or no results. We firmly believe that all work, including failed methodologies, should be disseminated in order to advance knowledge in the fields of Archaeology and Biological Anthropology. We are particularly interested in papers that detail negative results in regards to destructive sampling methods, as there have recently been concerns about the ethics of destructive sampling. Despite this theme, we will still be accepting submissions on any topic within the field of Archaeology.
For more information on formatting and guidelines, please visit our website at https://assemblagejournal.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/submitting-a-paper. You can also browse our latest issue, number 16, for formatting examples at https://assemblagejournal.wordpress.com/issue-16/.
We look forward to your submissions,
The Assemblage Team
We are happy to consider contributions from anyone who has something to say, whether they are a graduate student or not. Just to start you thinking, here are some suggestions for the types of contributions we’re seeking:
Of course, we’re interested in thesis-derived work, provided that the length of the article does not exceed 5 000 words. All research articles submitted to assemblage are subject to a double-blind peer review.
Are you doing a TAG paper or other conference paper this summer? Why not write it up formally for us, too? The peer review process may give you valuable feedback on your work.
Do you disagree irreconcilably with someone in your department on an archaeological issue? Why not write together? Instead of pistols at 20 paces, try opposing essays of 2000 words each, and we’ll let the readers decide. (For that matter, if you would like to write together with someone with whom you agree, that’s fine too.)
We’ll happily take articles in the style of investigative journalism, on issues pertaining to archaeology and to graduate students. Political commentaries on archaeology- or education-related topics are welcome.
We accept reviews, not only of books, but also of museums and conferences – if it interests you enough to write a careful review of it, we’re interested too.
For formatting guidelines, see our Article Template or Reviews Template
Assemblage is a journal first and foremost for graduate students, intended to provide writers with experience in the process of publishing academic work, present readers with stimulating material to consider and debate, and forge stronger ties within an increasingly fragmented graduate population. However, we do not allow this to compromise the quality of the research articles published, which are always subject to a double-blind peer review.
Our primary mandate is to include a range of material written by graduate students, and articles from established researchers on topics of interest to graduates. We also aim to disseminate information of general relevance and interest to those making their way through graduate degrees in archaeology and related subjects (particularly anthropology, geography, folklore, classics, and history). We hope that the production of the journal will be a learning process for all concerned.
Assemblage is completely open access, and free for both authors submitting articles, and researchers accessing current and previous issues.
To be featured in our next issue of assemblage, submit conference reviews to assemblage@sheffield.ac.uk.
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The opportunity to submit a poster to the EAA conference 2017 opens on 31st January. The conference this year is held in Maastricht, Netherlands.
For more information on the conference, themes, and poster submission follow this link: http://www.eaa2017maastricht.nl/
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