Greetings! 

The June 2006 Newsletter is now available online at: 
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html 

In June’s newsletter, we feature articles and essays by Jerome S. Handler, 
Frederick W. Lange, Kelly J. Dixon, Temesgen Burka, and Emily Yates, a 
compiled list of graduate programs for African diaspora archaeology, news 
reports, announcements, and book reviews. A table of contents is set out 
below.

Please contact me if you have essays, analysis papers, book reviews, 
project reports, announcements, or news updates that you'd like to 
contribute to the African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter.  
Our readership has grown to over 2,000 per issue.

Cheers,
Chris

June 2006 Newsletter

** Articles, Essays, and Reports **

On Interpreting Slave Status from Archaeological Remains, by Jerome S. 
Handler and Frederick W. Lange

Archaeology of the Boston Saloon, Virginia City, Nevada, by Kelly J. Dixon

Iron Smelting in Wollega, Ethiopia, by Temesgen Burka

Wealth in Ruins: The History and Archaeology of a Caribbean Plantation, by 
Emily Yates

** News and Announcements **

Graduate Programs in African Diaspora Archaeology, by Christopher Fennell

New Dissertation: "Medicating Slavery," by Ywone Edwards-Ingram

New Book: "Afro-Atlantic Dialogues"

Hotel Site Yields History, by Emily Battle

New Hampshire African Burial Ground Stirs Emotions, by Beverley Wang

** Conferences and Calls for Papers **

World Archaeological Congress, WAC-6

Race, Memory and Reclamation

Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807

Louisiana State University Press

** Book Reviews **

Review of "Inhuman Bondage"

Review of "Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paolo"

Review of "The Claims of Kinfolk"

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Christopher C. Fennell 
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
109 Davenport Hall, MC-148, 607 S. Mathews Ave.
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
phone: (217) 244-7309 fax: (217) 244-3490
http://www.anthro.uiuc.edu/faculty/cfennell