2008 MEETING FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Presentation Information
Oral presentations will be strictly limited to 15 minutes and a powerpoint projector and computer will be provided. Participants should arrive before the start of their session to load their presentations.

The poster session will take place in Plaza B and C on Tuesday, 4:15 – 6:00 and presenters should set up their material on Tuesday before that time. Spaces may be selected by the participants and will not be assigned. The poster display area per poster is 4’ high x 8’ wide. Mounting supplies are not provided and presenters should bring their own pushpins or double-sided tape.. Electricity will not be available.

Both the program and poster and oral presentation abstracts will be available via this web site.

Conference Registration
The registration fee is $15 and annual membership in the Society is $20. Both are payable in three ways (We would be grateful if individuals would use options 1 and 2 to the maximum extent possible):

1. Preferred option: Electronically, via Paypal. Go to http://www.paleoanthro.org/membership.htm. It allows the establishment of new accounts and accepts all major credit cards.

2. By check, payable in US dollars to "Paleoanthropology Society." Send to:
John Yellen
810 E Street SE
Washington DC 20003

3. By check or US dollars at registration. Again, please only use this method if the others are not possible.

You may contact the Society directly by email at jyellen@nsf.gov.

Paleoanthropology Journal
The journal of the Society, PaleoAnthropology, has published a number of new articles and reviews this past year and we are hopeful that the number of high-quality published articles will continue to increase. Society members are encouraged to send original manuscripts, as well as Letters to the Editor (which can be comments to published articles), to either Karen Rosenberg (krr@udel.edu) or Harold Dibble (hdibble@sas.upenn.edu). For book reviews, please contact Deborah Olszewski (deboraho@sas.upenn.edu). In the future, email announcements of recent postings will be sent to all persons who are in the current contact mailing list.

Please distribute this information to colleagues and students who might wish to join the Society or participate in its activities.

The annual Paleoanthropology Society meeting will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 25 and 26, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The meeting is scheduled in conjunction with the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), which will meet in Vancouver on March 26 -30. Additional hotel information is available on the SAA web site.

Non-concurrent oral and poster sessions will be held with oral presentations limited to 15 minutes. If you wish to have either a poster or oral presentation considered for inclusion, you must submit an abstract via this link before December 6. Abstracts must not exceed 300 words of text (not counting address, title, acknowledgments, etc.), and those submitted by any other route will be declined. The web system will request the name, title, institutional affiliation, mailing and email address of all authors. Please consider the nature of the material you wish to present and on this basis decide whether a poster or oral presentation will be most effective: then click the appropriate box.

Partial travel support will be available for some individuals such as graduate students and other presenters who do not have “normal” access to travel funds. If you wish to apply for such funding please note this on the web form.

The registration fee is $15 and annual membership in the Society is $20. Both are payable in three ways (We would be grateful if individuals would use options 1 and 2 to the maximum extent possible):

1. Preferred option: Electronically, via Paypal. Follow this link. It allows the establishment of new accounts.

2. By check, payable in US dollars to "Paleoanthropology Society." Send to:
John Yellen
810 E Street SE
Washington DC 20003

3. By check or US dollars at registration.

Recall that access to our electronic journal PaleoAnthropology is now free to all, paid member or not, but your membership fees defray the cost of travel by students and international colleagues and other expenses, and they are much appreciated.

You may contact the Society directly by email to John Yellen.

Eric Delson, Paleoanthropology Society Secretary