Hi Folks,

First, this is a reminder that the Midwest Archaeological Conference 
will be held this year in beautiful downtown Champaign-Urbana, 
Illinois on the 12-15 October 2006.  Please check out the website for 
more details.

http://www.midwestarchaeology.org/

Second, as a member of one of the sponsoring agencies, I am hoping 
that Historical Archaeology will be well represented at this meeting. 
Therefore, I am sending out an informal advance invitation to 
HISTARCH members to take advantage of this opportunity.  I do not 
believe that a formal call for papers has been issued yet by the 
organizing committee, but the website should eventually provide 
appropriate links.

Finally, several months ago I sent out a prospectus to see if there 
was any interest in an SHA session regarding 19th century 
rural/agricultural/small town settlement in the Midwest and adjacent 
areas.  It was a pretty open topic and remains so ...  Since we are 
now closer to submission deadlines, I would be very interested in 
hearing from any of you that might want to put your paper into at 
least a moderately thematic/regional session.  Very open to 
suggestions, topics, etc.  Would also like to hear back from folks 
who contacted me initially.

Please contact me directly at  "[log in to unmask]".   Thanks in advance.

-- 

Mark C. Branstner

Illinois Transportation
Archaeological Research Program
209 Nuclear Physics Lab, MC-571
23 East Stadium Drive
Champaign, IL 61820

Phone: 217.244.0892
Fax: 217.244.7458
Cell: 517.927.4556
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