The call is now out to scholars interested in proposing a panel, a paper, or a poster session. The Fifth Annual Research Conference will meet in Washington DC July 23-25, 1997. The cenocatastrophists will be out in force, discussing global myths and symbols in relation to planetary upheaval, the roots of ritual sacrifice, new models of planetary history based on cross-cultural comparison. They will offer proposed reconstructions of Near Eastern chronologies based on simultaneously experience catastrophe. The program is ethnographic in nature, with instruction in ethnographic field study, research methods, local cultures and special topics, as well as intensive Spanish.
All college students are eligible to apply.
For more information, contact Dr. Michael Winkelman, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-2402. The University of York Castell Hennllys Archaeological Field School will run from July 5-August 16, 1997. The intensive field school is based at Castell Hennllys in the most extensively excavated Iron Age fort in Wales. Programs include excavation on the Iron Age fort, the nearby Roman period settlement, and an historic farm site. Two weeks will also be spent on survey in Ireland, concentrating on Clonmacnoise monastery.