This was bound to happen.  Hold the phone, everyone, regarding this session.

First, the program committee for SHA 2011 is, indeed, aware of the session 
that Richard is planning and it sounds terrific.

However, as explained in the email that all symposium organizers receive 
automatically,  here is how it works. Once you enter in a symposium to the 
ConfTool system, you will get an email verifying your submission. This 
message will tell you what to do next.

All symposium organizers will receive ANOTHER message AFTER their session is 
OFFICIALLY approved. This is a matter of human beings going into the 
software and doing things for EACH SESSION.  It is NOT an automated 
process -- although it does enable us to approve sessions much, much earlier 
than "usual".

So, even if we have already given an organizer unofficial "preapproval", or 
positive feedback or whatever (as we did for Richard's session) until we 
have time to go into the software and "create" the session,  it will not 
appear in the list of sessions that one can submit to. Needless to say, 
unless we chain ourselves to a computer for 24 hours a day for the next 40 
days, we will need a day, or perhaps a few days, to do this for each session 
that is submitted.

So please hold off on any attempts to submit your individual submissions to 
this, or any, session until we have processed it and you have heard from 
your organizer that it has been approved.

There is a FAQ on the conference page, on the SHA web site, that attempts to 
describe the process. As other questions arise, we will add more information 
to this FAQ.

As you might imagine things are pretty busy at the moment.

thank you,

Carol

SHA 2011 Program Chair

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Carol McDavid, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Community Archaeology Research Institute, Inc. (CARI)
Director, Yates Community Archaeology Project
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Houston
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Rice University
1638 Branard
Houston, TX 77006
www.publicarchaeology.org


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Lundin" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:06 PM
Subject: Submittal of Abstracts for Presentations at the 2nd SHA "Recent, 
International Advances in the Use of pXRF and other portable, Field 
Technologies for Archaeological Studies of Historic and Classical Era Sites" 
Symposium Session for SHA 2011


>
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> 2nd SHA pXRF  Symposium Session Participants and other Interested Parties:
>
>
>
> Thank YOU, ALL for the flood of interest shown in the 2nd  SHA pXRF
> Symposium.  The response has been VERY GRATIFYING and SOMEWHAT 
> OVERWHELMING
> for Claudia, Myself and INNOV-X, the Symposium sponsor!
>
>
>
> The above entitled Session Proposal for the 2nd SHA pXRF Symposium at SHA
> 2010 Austin, Texas has been submitted and accepted as Session 107.
>
>
>
> You can now submit your presentations directly to the conference 
> submission
> website:  WWW.conftool.com/sha2011/index.php?page=index
>
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>
> Dr. Claudia Brackett and I will look forward to working with each of you
> over the coming months to make our session a truly rewarding one for all
> concerned and real contribution to the conference.
>
>
>
> We are still open to more participants and can easily more speakers IF we
> get other discussants. Claudia and I still open to suggestions on that
> score.
>
>
>
> Please remember that all submissions must be made by the JUNE 10 DEADLINE
> and there is NO CHARGE FOR SUBMISSIONS THIS YEAR !!!!!  We would like to
> have each of you who are presenting send us a copy of the abstract you are
> submitting to Dr. Brackett or myself by JUNE 5th so that we can see if we
> have enough Discussants organized.
>
>
>
> Please feel free to call Claudia or myself at WRI's Sonora California 
> Office
> number:  (209) 532-3873,  her cell number: (209-743-9397) or my Arizona 
> cell
> number: (928-274-6529) if you have any questions trouble with the 
> submission
> or just want to chat.
>
>
>
> Remember, as in past SHA Conferences,  Claudia and I will  presenting the
> 2-day SHA Archaeochemical Workshop at Austin including a day of field
> surveys.  More information on that will be sent out soon.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
> Richard J. Lundin BA, MA, RPA, ISAP
>
> Consulting Historical Archaeologist & Remote Sensing Specialist
> (Archaeogeophysics)
>
> Director, Wondjina Research Institute
>
> Co-Organizer & Co-Chair of the 1st SHA pXRF Symposium at SHA 2010 at 
> Amelia
> Island, Florida
>
> Co-Organizer & Co-Chair of the 2nd SHA Technology Symposium at SHA 2011 at
> Austin, Texas
>
> Co-Organizer & Co-Chair of the 2nd SHA pXRF Symposium at SHA 2011 at 
> Austin,
> Texas
>
> Co-Organizer & Co-Chair of the 1st SAA pXRF Symposium at SAA 2011 at
> Sacramento, California
>
> Member, SHA Technology Committee
>
> Liaison from the Society for Archaeological Science (SAS) and the
> International Society for Archaeometry (ISA) to SHA
>
>