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Paleoanthropology Meetings

The annual Paleoanthropology Society meeting were held in Vancouver, March 25 and 26. The Program and Meeting abstracts are still available. The official abstracts of the meeting will be published in our journal soon. Next year's meeting will be in Chicago in conjunction with the AAPA meetings. A call for papers will appear here in September.

PaleoAnthropology Journal

The journal PaleoAnthropology is published jointly by the Society and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The journal is accessible free of charge to everyone, including non-members of the Paleoanthropology Society. The journal can be accessed here.

In addition to the publication of articles, book reviews, and the abstracts of the annual meetings of the Society, the journal accepts commentaries on articles, summaries of current work in the various fields of paleoanthropology. Articles are fully peer-reviewed and may contain large data files, numerous illustrations and links to visualizations; manuscripts based on dissertation work, up to entire dissertations, may be submitted as appropriate. As always, the journal depends on the contributions of scholars within the field, and the editors would like to take this opportunity to encourage all of you to think of our journal as an outlet for the presentation of your research.

Call for papers and Books to Review

Dissertations and Publications

The Society hosts doctoral dissertations (theses) in all areas relevant to our interests. The procedure is to send an abstract of the work and information about its source to the Society so that we may determine that its topic falls within the range of our coverage. A pdf file of the entire work may then be made available for download. To see what is already present or to submit an abstract for consideration, follow this link.

The Society now also hosts additional publications in the field of PaleoAnthropology. These are not publications of the Society but are being made available to the community via our web site. Follow this link to view these publications.

Announcements and Jobs

University of Cambridge Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Applications are invited for a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellowship in Quaternary Geology and Environments. The prime criteria for the appointment will be excellence in research in Quaternary geology and environments, with particular emphasis on a record of field work and laboratory investigations. The University expects to appoint an individual who will strengthen the Leverhulme Centre's interdisciplinary research on the Palaeolithic of India and contribute to an understanding of the geological and palaeoenvironmental context of archaeological sites. The candidate will also contribute to the Centre's aims of fostering multi-disciplinary research in human evolutionary studies, and in particular hominins in palaeoenvironmental context. The Fellow will work in close collaboration with project members located in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Full Description Here.

Other Meetings and Conferences

Celebrating the International Year of Planet Earth

http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/

5-9 October 2008 • Houston, TexasGeorge R. Brown Convention Center
The 2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM. Hosted by the Houston Geological Society Registration deadline: Early Bird, 14 July 2008, Standard, 15 July thru 2 September 2008

Abstract deadline: 3 June 2008