Carol:  If I was not already doing a paper in the tobacco pipes symposium,
I would love to write one for your's!  I have been on the rch-L list since
the Sprin of 93 and the HistArch and Artifact lists within a week of when
they were created.  I have been to so many of Anita's SHA roundtable
luncheons that I she suckered me into subbing for her at the last one in
Quebec City.

I have numerous Biblios on the web and do the annual Direcory of
Archaeological Societies and Journals (normally in April-May but this year
in July due to workload).  Since the Forest Circus is stating up its
"Heritage Times" newsletter again, I will be writing a quarterly column on
the internet and archaeology for it.  The one I submitted today is on
Archaeological Ethics.

You may want to check out my paper:
http://www.mindspring.com/`larinc/ahapn/crm/internet/internet.htm
I orignally wrote it for Anita's internet symposium for the SHA in Atlanta
but the symposium never made it to the schedule.  I bagged it and asked Les
Ross to put it up on his website for the Association of Historical
Archaeologists of the Pacific Northwest.

Hope the tobacco pipe symposium does not confilict with yours,  I would
love to sit in!

Smoke.


Smoke (Michael A.) Pfeiffer, RPA
Ozark-St. Francis National Forests
605 West Main Street
Russellville, Arkansas 72801
(501) 968-2354  Ext. 233
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Due to recent cutbacks, the light at the
end of the tunnel has been turned off!




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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING -- FEEL FREE TO FORWARD

Following is a preliminary outline for a session to be proposed for the
Annual Meetings of the Society for Historical Archaeology, to be held in
Long Beach, California, January 10-13, 2001. If you think you would like to
participate, please respond to me off-list. The final abstract for the
session will be written after individual paper abstracts have been
received,
and will reflect the themes to be explored in individual papers. Therefore,
if you have an idea for a paper that addresses different aspects of the
overall topic than the preliminary ideas listed below, please let me know.

BEYOND THE BELLS AND WHISTLES: A CRITICAL LOOK AT CONTENT AND MEANING ON
ARCHAEOLOGICAL WEB SITES

This session will attempt to move past the usual discussions of
technological issues associated with Internet web sites to discuss how (or
whether) archaeologists can use the Internet to create new forms of
discourse with each other, and with our publics. Papers will explore issues
of content and meaning on a number of levels - some of professional concern
within the discipline, and some relating primarily to communication with
our
publics. Some possible topics might include:

What considerations apply as we choose content for the Net? How does using
a
multi-linear textual form change what we can say, and how we can say it?
Does it change how we communicate about this data with our publics, and
each
other? What are other challenges associated with presenting archaeological
arguments on web sites? Can the net's multi-linearity change our ways of
thinking about and interpreting our data? What level of understanding
should
we already have about our data before we present it in this sort of forum?
How "raw" can it, or should it, be? Can our content choices allow more
openness with each other, and the public? If so, what are the ramifications
of this openness? How do we decide, in this open-access environment, what
audiences we want to reach, and how to reach them? How do we deal with
issues like authorship and intellectual ownership? Are web site discussion
forums a productive way of discussing archaeological data on the Internet,
with each other or with our publics?

For more information on the meetings, go to the SHA web site at
http://www.sha.org, or write me off-list. The deadline for session
proposals
to SHA is May 31, so please let me know ASAP if you are interested, and we
will communicate further about submission details.

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Carol McDavid
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
1406 Sul Ross, Houston, Texas, 77006, USA
(713) 523-2649
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