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Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA September 22-25,  2005

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JOURNALS

Assemblage
The new Sheffield Graduate Journal of Archaeology is at: www.shef.ac.uk/ uni/union/susoc/assem/index.html A few highlights from the table of contents:

Research Papers: Evan Peacock (Sheffield) describes new archaeological uses for the analysis of freshwater bivalves, while John Hawthorne (Southampton) argues that ceramic abundance and scarcity may be more closely correlated with changes in vessel size‹and dining habits‹than with macroeconomic trends

Features: Martin Evison gives a fully illustrated overview of the state of computerised forensic facial reconstruction, and discusses its potential for archaeology, while Rebecca Harrison discusses the intriguing parallels between Elvis worship and the Roman imperial cult.

Assemblage Fun Page: Anagrams, fashion advice, an archaeology phrasebook, archaeological urban myths, a centerfold, and the most excellent game of Fantasy Academic.

Assemblage Information Pages: Your gateway to the archaeological resources on the Web, including handy sites, lists of online bibliographies, conference listings, and information on funding sources, and a selection of press clippings.

International Journal
of Paleolimnology
IJP will be expanding its page budget once again. Starting in 1997, the journal will be expanded by an additional two issues each year, publishing two volumes of four issues each. For information contact John P. Smol., Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), Dept. Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Canada; 613-545-6147; fax: -6617; Smolj@ Biology.QueensU.Ca


Geomorphology
The AMQUA-member discount for 1997 subscription is $88 (up from $70 last year). The journal will include four issues, up from three issues in previous years.
Quaternary
Science Reviews
Members of AMQUA qualify for the special group rate of $99/yr (10 issues). The regular rate is $619/yr. The offer is for personal subscriptions only. Subscription orders with payment (and/or requests for free sample copy) can be sent directly to: Elsevier Science, PO Box 64245, Baltimore, Maryland 21264-4245. You may order by phone (credit card only) at 914-524-9200. Please identify yourself as a member of AMQUA.
Contents of QSR can be received through Elsevier's Content Direct. This free service provides a table of contents delivered by e-mail, two to four weeks prior to publication. To subscribe to this service, e-mail your name, full mailing address, e-mail address, and the title(s) to which you wish to subscribe to: CDsubs@elsevier.co.uk

NEW BOOKS

Archaeological Chemistry
Pollard, Mark and Heron, Carl, 1996, Archaeological Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry, 375p., paperback, U.S. $40.50 / U.K. #22.50

The development of archaeological chemistry, analytical techniques applied to archaeology, obsidian characterization in the eastern mediterranean, the geochemistry of clays and the provenance of ceramics, the chemistry and corrosion of archaeological glass, the chemical study of metals‹the European medieval and later brass industry, the chemistry and use of resinous substances, amino acid sterochemistry and the first Americans, lead isotope geochemistry and the trade in metals, whither archaeological chemistry (summary) and appendicies on atomic structure, the electromagnetic spectrum, isotopes, etc.

Dating Methods for Quaternary Deposits
Rutter, N.W. and Catto, N.R., Ed's; 1996, Dating Methods for Quaternary Deposits, GEOtext 2 308 pp., $99 CDN; $85 US

Dating Methods for Quaternary Deposits is intended to introduce new geochronological techniques and to serve as an update of progress for well-established methods. This volume is designed to be used by students, lecturers, scientists and researchers in any discipline which is interested in the applications of Quaternary geochronology.
American Beginnings
Frederick Hadleigh West, Ed., 1996, American Beginnings: The Prehistory of Palaeoecology of Beringia, Introduction by David M. Hopkins, ISBN: 0-226-89399-5, Cloth $75.00 approx.

During the last Ice Age, a thousand-mile wide land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska, creating a region known as Beringia. Sometime prior to twelve thousand years ago, a grand procession of large mammals and the humans who hunted them crossed this bridge to America. Hotly debated on both sides of the present-day Bering Strait, much of the archaeological evidence for this migration has until now remained unavailable outside Russia.
American Beginnings bridges this gap in knowledge, bringing together for the first time in one volume the most up-to date information from both Russia and America. Over the last twenty-five years, extensive research has been carried out in Siberia and Alaska, painting a vivid picture of the nature of Beringia, its peoples, and their movements. The more than fifty contributors to this volume, all preeminent scholars of Beringia, draw on this wealth of archaeological and palaeocological evidence to reconstruct the Beringian environment.
Profusely illustrated with photographs of the starkly beautiful lands forming the backdrop for this research, as well as numerous site maps and line drawings, this volume's near encyclopedic coverage of key archaeological discoveries in Siberia and Alaska will stand for years to come as the authoritative text on the peopling of the Americas. The Russian sites, in particular, have never been comprehensively published in English, making this volume essential for Beringian archaeologists and palaeoecologists outside Russia and an authoritative resource for anyone interested in Native American prehistory.

Game Drives of Rocky Mountain National Park
Benedict, James, B., 1996, The Game Drives of RMNP, Center for Mountain Archeology (Ward, CO), Research Report No. 7, xiii + 110 pp.

Formation
Processes of the Archaeological Record
Schiffer, Michael B., 1996, Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record, University of Utah Press (originally published by the University of New Mexico Press, 1987)