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THE ARCHAEO+MALACOLOGY GROUP NEWSLETTER Issue Number 1, July 2001 Coordinator: Janet Ridout Sharpe, BSc ARCS 66
Radnor Road, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 0PH, UK email:
j.ridout-sharpe@cabi.org The
Malacoarchaeology Group has formed, in a roundabout way, as the result of a talk
(‘Shells from the ancient Aegean’) that I gave to fellow members of the
Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland at the Natural History Museum
in London in February 2000. Having worked in the field of malacoarchaeology/archaeomalacology,
albeit on a very part time basis, for over 20 years in almost total isolation,
it was a revelation to find that there were others with similar interests. To
encourage communication between malacoarchaeologists, I wrote a short note that
was published in The Conchologists’
Newsletter (No. 154: 385, September 2000) which has so far elicited
responses from more than 30 people. These
people are listed below, with their email addresses and (where available) some
indication of their interests and experience. If this ‘newsletter’
facilitates contacts between malacoarchaeologists, then it will have fulfilled
its purpose. However, if the material is forthcoming, it may be possible to
produce further issues with notices of meetings, short reports of work in
progress, abstracts of papers, etc – please send contributions to me at the
above email address. (JRS) Mike ALLEN: m.allen@wessexarch.co.uk Environmental
Manager, Wessex Archaeology, UK; land snail analysis from archaeological sites
in southern England; database of over 1800 analysed samples created over last 10
years; determination of changing land use patterns; taphonomy; modern ecological
studies of smaller species; use of species diversity in archaeological samples. Inbar BARUCH: rendur@netvision.net.il Graduate student at the University of Haifa, Israel;
has worked on several archaeological sites in Israel; special interest in
trumpet shells. Daniella BAR-YOSEF: debaryos@fas.harvard.edu Malacofauna
from archaeological sites in the Near East, mostly Israel (has studied about 65
assemblages to date); cultural use of shells; also shell middens and palaeo-environmental
research; has developed a systematic methodology for the analysis of shell
material; Mollusca consultant to Peabody Museum at Harvard University, and
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; also teaches courses in archaeology. Ferran BAYES: ferran.bayes@wanadoo.es Archaeologist
working on the malacofauna from Romano-Iberian sites in Catalonia, Spain. Deborah BRIAN: d.brian@mailbox.uq.edu.au Doctoral
student at the University of Queensland, Australia; working on quantitative
methodology and taphonomy in relation to cultural change; midden formation;
vertebrate and invertebrate remains including foraminifera and other microscopic
elements. Joao CABRAL: jpscabral@hotmail.com Associate
Professor, Department of Botany, University of Oporto, Portugal; teaches
environmental microbiology and mycology; has a keen interest in malacology and
has worked on an Iron Age shell midden in northern Portugal; interested in
limpets. Ruby CERON-CARRASCO: rceron@hsyl.ssc.ed.ac.uk Postgraduate
Research, Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, UK. Paul DANSEY: rosiepaul@waitrose.com Information
scientist; interested in archaeology and geology; special interest in razor
shells (Ensis). Catherine DUPONT: CatherineDupont@malix.univ-paris1.fr Student
at the University of Paris 1, France; preparing a thesis on the malacofauna of
Mesolithic/Neolithic sites along the French coastline. Kobie DU PREEZ: DuPreK@health.gov.za Amateur
conchologist from South Africa; mainly interested in micro-shells, Epitoniidae,
Columbellidae, Olividae, Nassariidae; land snails; man and molluscs. Sheila HAMILTON-DYER Studying
marine species at various Egyptian Red Sea sites. Mio KATAYAMA: miokat@SSCL.Berkeley.EDU Graduate
student at the University of California, Berkeley; Japanese archaeology,
especially Jomon culture and shell middens; primarily working on fish but
interested in other animal remains. Harry KENWARD: biol6@york.ac.uk Director,
Environmental Archaeology Unit, Department of Biology, University of York, UK;
primarily interested in insects in archaeology; also snails. Laura KOZUCH: lkozuch@excite.com Trade
of marine products by prehistoric cultures of North America; shark tooth trade
in Florida; long distance trade of marine shells for artefact manufacture;
sourcing marine goods to coast of origin; Mississippian shell working
techniques; use of fire in shell artefact manufacture. Jan LIGHT: jan@janthina.co.uk Long-standing
interest in malacology, specialising in present-day distribution of North East
Atlantic marine species; doctoral thesis on coldwater carbonates (sublittoral
shellsands of north Scottish continental shelf); mollusc specialist with county
and university archaeological units, working throughout UK; runs own consultancy
(Janthina Consultants) carrying out a wide range of contract work on marine and
nonmarine molluscs, also in association with Malacological Services. Chloe MARTIN: chloem@mnhn.fr Doctoral
student based at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France;
working in the Sultanate of Oman on Neolithic and Bronze Age sites (6000-2000
BC), studying food remains and environmental aspects. Henk MIENIS: mienis@netzer.org.il National
Mollusc Collection, Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel; has worked on the malacofauna from numerous
archaeological sites in the Near East, mostly Israel. Nicky MILNER: N.J.Milner@newcastle.ac.uk Sir
James Knott Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Newcastle,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. Greg MONKS: monks@cc.UManitoba.CA Malacoarchaeology
of the Northwest Coast of North America, mainly seasonality analyses of clams in
order to clarify aboriginal lifeways; also interested in mussels, gastropods,
barnacles and other marine invertebrates. Aydin ORSTAN: Aydin.Orstan@cfsan.fda.gov Independent
malacologist specialising in the land snails of the eastern USA and Turkey;
distribution patterns of land snails in Turkey in relation to the archaeology of
introduced species; also interested in bdelloid rotifers. Pietro PANETTA: panettapiero@libero.it Malacofauna
of a Bronze Age site in the Gulf of Taranto, southern Italy. Paulette PAUC: paulettepauc@yahoo.fr Zooarchaeology. Ana PORRAS: aipor@cica.es School
of Geography, University of Seville, Spain; lecturer in biogeography and
Quaternary studies; interested in molluscs in archaeology and Quaternary period;
land and freshwater snails as indicators of climatic and environmental change. Wietske PRUMMEL: W.Prummel@let.rug.nl Groningen
Institute of Archaeology, The Netherlands; malacoarchaeology in Greece. Janet RIDOUT SHARPE: j.ridout-sharpe.cabi.org Professional
editor and abstractor; freelance malacoarchaeologist specialising in the eastern
Mediterranean region and the UK; cultural and dietary implications of marine
shell assemblages; land and freshwater snails as environmental and land use
indicators; also interested in the malacofauna and precolumbian cultures of
South America. Nathalie SERRAND: serrand@cimrs1.mnhn.fr Doctoral
student based at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France;
working in the Caribbean on preceramic and ceramic sites (2000 BC to AD 1500),
studying food remains and shell tool and ornament production; has also worked on
Neolithic shell material from Corsica and Cyprus. Liz SOMERVILLE: lizsom@biols.sussex.ac.uk Sub-Dean
(Academic Affairs), School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex,
Brighton, UK; interested in maximising information which can be derived from
marine shells both in terms of the use of marine resources and the ecological
information that can be obtained from them, especially from epifauna;
southeastern UK, mainly on Roman and Medieval material but interested in all
periods. Charlie STOKES: cs169@york.ac.uk Masters
dissertation on material from Orkney, including shell; has also worked on shells
from Kush and Arabia. Katherine SZABO: katherine.szabo@anu.edu.au Doctoral
student based at the Australian National University, Canberra; working on shell
middens from Lapita-period Fiji and Solomon Islands, a 30,000 BP midden from
East Timor, and shell artefacts from Lapita and Neolithic Southeast Asian sites;
special interest in Mollusca of Pacific Islands. Tatiana THEODOROPOULOU: tatheod@hotmail.com Masters
student based at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France;
working on palaeoeconomic and palaeoenvironmental aspects of malacological
material from a Geometric-period site near Athens, Greece; hoping to continue as
a doctoral student working on material from a Bronze Age site on the island of
Limnos, Greece. Ken THOMAS: k.thomas@ucl.ac.uk Reader
in Human Palaeoecology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK;
interested in shell midden archaeology, palaeoecology, environmental
reconstruction and past human ecology, environmental and subsistence change;
currently working on Mesolithic palaeoecology in the coastal zone of southern
England, and environmental and economic contexts of Late Neolithic to Early Iron
Age societies in northern Pakistan. Jessica WINDER: jmwi@ceh.ac.uk Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK Natural Environment Research Council; malacological research mostly carried out in own time; edible marine molluscs from sites in UK and Europe over last 2000 years; morphological variation of Ostrea edulis as a tool for determining source and patterns of exploitation.
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