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http://www.shef.ac.uk/st1ceb/ChronoBuild02/
Tools for Constructing Chronologies: crossing disciplinary boundaries (proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in December 2003 - further details and order form here)
Gregynog Hall, Newtown Powys, Wales, UK April 3-6 2002 An interdisciplinary workshop sponsored by: The Natural Environment Research Council, English Heritage and The Wenner-Gren Foundation. Basic Information This workshop will bring together researchers from a range of disciplines (such as archaeology, earth sciences, statistics, biosciences, chronometry and physics) all with a shared interest in using formal methods for constructing chronologies. Attendance is by invitation only, and each speaker will prepare a paper for circulation to the other delegates a month before the meeting takes place. At the workshop, the oral presentation of papers will be complemented by discussions led by appropriate specialist discussants. By meeting in this way, we hope to learn from each other's experiences and to facilitate the sharing of resources and the fostering of interdisciplinary collaboration. The meeting is sponsored by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council, English Heritage and The Wenner-Gren Foundation, and will lead to the publication of an edited volume of papers and discussions.
Organisers Dr Caitlin Buck Department of Probability and Statistics University of Sheffield Sheffield S3 7RH
Email: c.e.buck@sheffield.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)114 222 3715 Fax: +44 (0)114 222 3759 Dr Andrew Millard Department of Archaeology University of Durham Durham DH1 3LE
Email: a.r.millard@durham.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)191 374 4757 Fax: +44 (0)191 374 3619
Administrative details Publication of papers It is a condition of our funding that we produce an edited collection of papers from this meeting and it is our intention that all papers will be refereed. To facilitate refereeing, editing and completion of the final volume by the end of 2002, we will have to set a tight schedule of deadlines as follows. Date Deadline
22 February 2002 Submission of full text of papers for pre-workshop circulation 3 May 2002 Submission of full papers revised in the light of workshop discussion 12 July 2002 Deadline for referees reports 30 August 2002 Deadline for resubmission of papers in the light of referees' comments
Travel As a result of financial support from the Natural Environment Research Council (UK), English Heritage (UK) and the Wenner-Gren Foundation (USA), we are able to offer all delegates a contribution towards the cost of travel to the meeting. We ask that you book your travel as soon as possible and take advantage of any Apex or advance booking fare reductions. Most delegates will arrive by train (we do not have sufficient funds to pay the usual mileage rates for travel by car, but could cover petrol costs if necessary). The nearest station is at Newtown, Powys (see the Gregynog Hall WWW site for more information). If you let us know which train you will be on, we will arrange for you to be met at Newtown station. For those of you flying into the UK, the nearest international airport is Birmingham.
Reimbursement of travel costs Once you have a receipt for your travel, the University of Sheffield will reimburse costs in advance of making claims from NERC and EH. You will need a University of Sheffield expenses claim form. Just print off the page and complete it by hand, assuming that we will pay you by cheque (rather than direct to your account). We can accommodate claims in UK pounds, Euros and US dollars - other currencies incur overhead costs that we would like to try to avoid. Please be sure to send the originals of your receipts with the claim, but keep copies of everything you send to us in case of administrative problems. Send all claims to Caitlin Buck at the address above. Provisional Programme
Wednesday April 3 2002 Participants arrive early evening 19:00 Dinner
Thursday April 4 2002 Day One of papers 09:00 - 10:30 Papers x 2 (40 mins each), discussant x 1 (10 mins) Alex Bayliss and Chris Bronk Ramsey English Heritage and University of Oxford Pragmatic Bayesians: a decade of integrating radiocarbon dates into chronological models Caitlin Buck University of Sheffield Bayesian chronology building: where now? Tom Higham University of Oxford Discussant
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 - 12:30 Papers x 2 (40 mins each), discussant x 1 (10 mins) Andy Dugmore University of Edinburgh Tephrochronology in the North Atlantic region: a review of tephrochronological principles and their application in the reconstruction of Holocene terrestrial palaeoenvironments John Hunt University of Gloucestershire Tephrochronology: applications and problems in dating the palaeoenvironmental archive Tom Higham University of Oxford Discussant
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Papers x 2 (40 mins each), discussant x 1 (10 mins) Phillipe Lanos CNRS, Rennes Bayesian estimation of archaeomagnetic reference curves: applications to dating and chronological interpretation Sujit Sahu University of Southampton Applications of formal model choice to archaeological chronology building Tony O'Hagan University of Sheffield Discussant
15:00 - 15:30 Tea/Coffee
15:30 - 17:00 Papers x 2 (40 mins each), discussant x 1 (10 mins) Geoff Nicholls Auckland University, NZ Genealogies from time-stamped sequence data Rob Weiss UCLA A statistical framework for analyzing fossil record data Tony O'Hagan University of Sheffield Discussant
17:00 - 17:15 Planning meeting for discussion groups
18:00 - 19:00 Reception and discussion of posters 19:00 Dinner
Friday April 5 2002 Day Two of papers 09:00 - 10:30 Papers x 2 (40 mins each), discussant x 1 (10 mins) Wolfgang Mц╪ller Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna Archaeological methods of creating and documenting chronology: a critical approach Mads Holst University of Aarhus Complicated relations and blind dating: formal analysis of relative-chronological structures Steve Roskams University of York Discussant
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 - 12:30 Papers x 2 (40 mins each), discussant x 2 (5 mins each) Kris Lockyear UCL Dating coins, dating with coins: current methods and problems in archaeological numismatics Otto Cichocki Institute for Paleontology, Vienna The Synchronization of Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BC - natural science dating attempts Steve Roskams University of York Discussant Marian Scott University of Glasgow Discussant
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Papers x 2 (40 mins each), discussant x 1 (10 mins) Robin Edwards University of Durham Constructing chronologies of sea-level change from salt-marsh sediments Andrew Millard University of Durham Taking Bayes beyond radiocarbon: the potential and problems of Bayesian approaches to other chronometric methods Marian Scott University of Glasgow Discussant
15:30 - 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 - 17:30 Discussion groups to plan future collaboration
19:00 Dinner
Saturday April 6 2002 Participants disperse
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