Alisdair and colleagues,
This is a very interesting workshop. Great initiative on the part of your Department at Leicester!
Anyone interested in this subject may want to check out the FOR-370: Invisible Archaeology: an SHA working session on collections, curation and stewardship at the upcoming SHA Conference in Austin, Texas.
http://www.sha.org/documents/SHA2011%20Preliminary%20Program.pdf
More information will be put out on the web in advance of the conference.
William Moss
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OK, I'll try a third time to get through, this time replying to the list, not one member (Sorry, Alasdair).
Meli
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Subject: Re: UK workshop announcement: Finding the Familiar II; Retention, Discard, and Sampling Policies for post-1750 Artifacts
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Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010, 10:06 AM
Charles Cheek,
I tried to send you a direct message about my interest in this topic, but my email was rejected as spam (!), so I'll try through HISTARCH.
For those of us who can't attend a workshop in England, can you provide any information on discard policies in the US?
Or please contact me off-list.
Meli
Melissa Diamanti
Archaeological & Historical Consultants, Inc.
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Subject: UK workshop announcement: Finding the Familiar II; Retention, Discard, and Sampling Policies for post-1750 Artifacts
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Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010, 6:42 AM
With the usual apologies for cross-posting - and a special HISTARCH-oriented apology for the UK spelling of 'artefact' ;)----------------------------------------------------FINDING THE FAMILIAR II: Retention, Discard, and Sampling Policies for post-1750 ArtefactsUniversity of LeicesterBennett Building Teaching Area 1 (BEN G85 - ground floor)26 March 201110:30am - 4:00pmSponsored by:The Centre for Historical Archaeology (University of Leicester) and The Finds Research GroupThe material culture of the industrial age (defined for this workshop as c.1750-c.1940) is increasingly of interest to British archaeologists, whether working in academia, museums, or commercial archaeology. Yet this increased interest comes at a time when hard-pressed local archives are increasingly reluctant - in some cases unable - to accept large collections of artefacts from the period of mass-production and mass-consumption. Finds from more recent sites (or more recent levels of multi-pe
riod sites) therefore often continue to be discarded or ignored despite the growing level of professional interest.This workshop addresses this paradox between the growing interest on the artefacts of the more recent past, and the reluctance of many archives to store them, by bringing together speakers representing academia, commercial archaeology, and local museums and archives from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Ireland in order to consider the desirability of developing retention, discard, and sampling policies for post-1750 artefacts, and how those policies should be formulated. A roundtable discussion open to all workshop participants will close the day.Confirmed speakers as of this writing include: Alasdair Brooks (University of Leicester) Charles Cheek (John Milner Associates, USA) Nigel Jeffries (Museum of London Archaeology) Quinton Carroll (Cambridgeshire County Council) Yolanda Courtney (Leicestershire Museums) Rosanne Meenan (free l ance archaeologist, Dublin, Ireland) Julie Franklin (Headland Archaeology, Edinburgh)The registration fee of £5 is payable on the day, but attendees are asked to register in advance as spaces are limited. To download a PDF of the registration form, please follow the link at: >;http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/research/events
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