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10th CAVEPS and Quaternary Extinction Symposium
March 29 - April 2, 2005
Naracoorte, SA, Australia

CANQUA June 5-8, 2005
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“The World of Elephants”
Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA September 22-25,  2005

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INQUA
The International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) has the following home page address: inqua.nlh.no The page includes a complete INQUA directory, with lists of Executive Committee, commissions, sub-commissions, work groups, national committees, congress news, INQUA statutes, etc. The page has links to many INQUA commission, sub-commission and work group home pages, as well as to the XV INQUA congress home page.

XV INQUA Congress
The South African National Committee for INQUA has pleasure in offering South Africa as the venue for the XV International Congress of INQUA in 1999 (August 4-12). The Congress will take place in the superb new International Convention Centre in Durban, a major port city with a well developed commercial and recreational infrastructure, situated on the southeastern coast of South Africa. Some fifteen pre- and post-congress excursions are expected to run in South Africa and the surrounding countries. Since the early years of this century, the study of the Quaternary in southern Africa has given results of major importance to the international scientific community. Some of these relate to the unique treasure-house of fossil remains, not only for our earliest hominid ancestors, but of some of the world's oldest representatives of anatomically modern man. Others document, in detail, changes in terrestrial paleoenvironments in the mid-latitudes of the southern hemisphere during the Middle and Upper Pleistocene and Holocene, and help to explain the mechanisms which underlie them.
The Congress President is: Prof. T.C. Partridge, Climatology Research Center, University of the Witwatersrand, 13 Cluny Road, Forest Town, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa; +27 11-646 -3324; fax: +27-11-486-1689; 141tcp@cosmos.wits.ac.za

QRA
The October 1996 Circular of the Quaternary Research Association is now at: www.tcd.ie/QRA. The site includes an extensive calendar of meetings in Britain.

CADINCUA
CADINCUA, the Argentine Committee for Quaternary Research, is a special commission of CONICET, the Argentine National Research Council, and AGA, the Argentine Geological Association. In 1996, CADINCUA held two main academic activities: (1) July; the CADINCUA Annual Field Meeting in Sierras de Cordoba, organized by Jorge Sanabria, Dept of Geology, Universidad de Cordoba, visited significant sites in the piedmont and loess areas around the city of Cordoba, with over 50 participants; (2) October; Symposium on Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology and Glaciology, within the framework of the XIII Argentine Geological Congress, Buenos Aires. Over 60 papers were presented and published in a dedicated volume (Volume IV of the Congress Proceedings).
In 1997, the CADINCUA Annual Field Meeting will take place in October, at the city of Olavarria, Province of Buenos Aires, organized by Gustavo Polits and collaborators at the Quaternary Sciences and Archeology Institute, Universidad del Centro de Buenos Aires, Olavarria. This field meeting will be dedicated to loess units and ancient archaeological sites. Contact: Paulina Nabel, CADINCUA President, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Av. Angel Gallardo 470, 1405 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Jorge Rabassa, CADIC-CONICET, CC 92, 9410 Ushuaia; +54-901-32948; labcuat@satlink.com, editor of "Quaternary of South America & Antarctic Peninsula", an international journal by A.A.Balkema, Rotterdam, announces the publication of Volume 10 of QSA&AP. Papers on Quaternary stratigraphy, chronology, palaeoecology and palaeogeography of South America, the Antarctic Peninsula and the surrounding seas are most welcome for Volume 11, presently under preparation, and forthcoming annual volumes. Detailed information and copies of the "Instructions for Contributors" may be requested from the Editor.


Society for American Archaeology
The AG Division and SAA jointly sponsored a symposium at the SAA meeting in New Orleans. The theme of the symposium was "Archaeological Geology of the Paleoindian Period." It was attended by over 100 people, despite the evening session. A formal Geoarchaeology Interest Group has been established within SAA. The group will get together at the Annual Meeting of SAA in Nashville, TN, April 2-6, 1997. For additional information, contact Rolfe Mandel (mandel@falcon.cc.ukans.edu) or Julie Stein (jkstein@u.washington.edu).

Society for Archaeological Sciences
The SAS exists to bring together those concerned with natural science applications in archaeology. Its principal role is fostering communication and interdisciplinary collaboration and cooperation. Regular membership in the SAS includes a subscription to the Journal of Archaeological Science (published by Academic Press) as well as subscription to the SAS Bulletin. Regular membership is now $75/yr. Information: SAS, Membership, Radiocarbon Laboratory, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521.