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EAA Vice-President
MARGARET GOWEN
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Margaret Gowen (current Vice-President
of EAA) is Managing Director of Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, a professional
practice of over 40 archaeological and cultural heritage consultants, project
managers and surveyors. Margaret has twenty-five years of experience in
archaeological excavation (research and development-led) and in archaeological
and heritage-related consulting for planning purposes. She has acted as
a senior archaeological consultant and project manager on many large-scale
Irish urban and infrastructural projects including the Dublin Light Rail
Transport LUAS Project (1996-present); the urban redevelopment of the Temple
Bar sector in Dublin city (1992-2002); the Galmoy and Lisheen lead-zinc
mine developments; the Limerick Main Drainage Scheme (1997-2000); the River
Nore (Kilkenny City) Flood Alleviation Scheme (2000-present); and several
cross-country gas pipeline projects across Ireland, the most recent of
which is the 335km Gas Pipeline to the West (2001-2003). She has
chaired the ICOMOS Irish Committee and served on the Irish Heritage Council’s
Standing Committee on Archaeology and on the Directorate of the Discovery
Programme (both 2000 – 2005). A member of the board of the Institute of
Archaeologists of Ireland since 2002 responsible for the development of
a continuing professional development programme, she was recently elected
to the Vice chairmanship (2005). Her publications include Three Irish
Gas Pipelines: New Archaeological Evidence in Munster (1988) and, as project
manager and managing editor, The Lisheen Mine Archaeological Project 1996-8
(2005). She also oversaw the management of the Temple Bar urban excavation
projects through to a series of five Temple Bar Archaeological Reports.
Her particular interest
in EAA is to advocate far greater professional integration between the
work of archaeological research bodies, heritage management organisations
and the work of the commercial sector while promoting the highest standards
of professional practice and dissemination profession-wide to achieve that.
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Executive Board Member
GRAHAM FAIRCLOUGH
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Graham Fairclough works in
English Heritage. He has been a professional archaeologist for nearly 30
years, working mainly archaeological resource management, but has also
undertaken excavations mainly on medieval and later sites. His current
specialism is in historic landscape characterisation and the development
of new approaches to understanding and managing change in to the historic
environment. He is interested in inter-disciplinary work, for instance
through the European Landscape Convention and networks such LE:NOTRE and
COST A27. Recent co-authored/edited publications include ‘Europe’s
Cultural Landscape’ (EAC), “Pathways to the Cultural Landscape (EU/EPCL)
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Treasurer
CARSTEN PALUDAN-MULLER
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Carsten Paludan-Müller
(treasurer of the EAA 2004-2007) is General Director of the Norwegian Institute
for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), Oslo, Norway since 2002. He has
a varied career holding leading positions within Danish museums and within
the Danish central administration of monuments and museums. His authorship
is focused on the varying representations of the past through time and
on the development and role of museums and cultural heritage in contemporary
society.
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TEA Editor
MICHAEL POTTERTON
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Dr Michael Potterton is the
Senior Research Archaeologist with the Discovery Programme's Medieval Rural
Settlement Project. He was educated at University College Dublin, L’Université
de Lumière (Lyon) and at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
His primary academic interest is the middle ages; especially settlement,
society and daily life. Michael is the author of Medieval Trim: archaeology
and history (Dublin, 2005). He enjoys research and the opportunity
to convey his enthusiasm for his subject through teaching and conference
presentations. Over the years, Michael has lectured widely in Ireland and
abroad, at conferences, universities, local societies and schools. In 1996-7
he held a one-year lectureship in the Department of English at the Université
de Paris-IV (La Sorbonne); in 2003 he was Visiting Professor at the Department
of Celtic Studies, St Michael’s College, University of Toronto; and in
2005 he was a Guest Lecturer at Appalachian State University and East Carolina
University in the USA. Since 1998 he has been an Occasional Lecturer at
the Department of Modern History, NUI Maynooth, and he is currently fulfilling
a one-year lectureship at the Department of Archaeology at NUI Galway.
He will return to work at the Discovery Programme in June 2007.
Michael is the Reviews Editor
of Eolas: The Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies,
and a member of the editorial committee of the Journal of Irish Archaeology.
He became editor of The European Archaeologist in the spring 2005.
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EAA Administrator
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Sylvie Kvetinová (EAA
Administrator) studied Ethnology and Archaeology at the Charles University
in Prague and the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. She focuses
on Palaeolithic (especially Magdalenian), chipped stone industry, and on
Latin American Prehistory.
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Executive Board Member
NATHAN SCHLANGER
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Nathan Schlanger is now at
the Institut national de recherches
archéologiques préventives
- INRAP, where he is in charge of international
research and development.
He continues to be involved in the scientific
coordination of the AREA
project-an EC funded European-wide research network
on the archives and history
of archaeology. His doctoral research at the
University of Cambridge
was on early Palaeolithic lithic technology, and he
has subsequently worked
on technology and material culture studies in
archaeology and anthropology,
with for example a recently published
anthology, in English, of
Marcel Mauss's work on techniques, technology and
civilisation. More recently,
his main research and publications areas
concern the history and
politics of archaeology, both in broader theoretical
and methodological terms
and with specific reference to colonial archaeology
and to sub-Saharan Africa.
He has been teaching on these subjects at the
University of Paris 1 for
serval years, and lately also at the Ecole du Louvre.
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EJA General Editor
ALAN SAVILLE
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Alan Saville is a curator
in the Archaeology Department of the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh.
He specializes in early prehistory, particularly in the Mesolithic period
and in the study of lithic artefacts, but he also has responsibilities
for the operation of the Treasure Trove system in Scotland. Before moving
to Scotland in 1989 he worked as a field archaeologist in England, directing
projects which included the total excavation of a Neolithic long cairn
at Hazleton, Gloucestershire. Positions held include Conservation Co-Ordinator
for The Prehistoric Society, President of the Council for Scottish Archaeology,
Chairman of the Lithic Studies Society, and Vice-President of the Society
of Antiquaries of Scotland. He recently edited a major volume entitled
Mesolithic Scotland and its Neighbours: the Early Holocene Prehistory of
Scotland, its British and Irish Context, and some Northern European Perspectives
(Edinburgh 2004).
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Secretary
ESZTER BANFFY
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Eszter has been doing research
as a prehistorian, working with the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Central
and South East Europe for decades, with a stress on ritual find contexts.
More recently, she has been focusing to the Central European Neolithithic
transition, as well as involved in theoretic issues and matters of heritage
protection. Besides working as deputy director in the Archaeological Institute
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, she is a professor supervising PhD
students at two universities: Budapest and Szeged. The list of her books
and articles can be found on the webpage: http://www.archeo.mta.hu/
Eszter has been serving as
an executive board member since 2005, and was elected as secretary for
the 2008-2011 term.
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Executive Board Member
PETER F. BIEHL |
Peter Biehl is Associate
Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Institute
for European and Mediterranean Archaeology at the State University of New
York at Buffalo (USA). His interests include Neolithic and Copper Age Europe
and Near East, archaeological method and theory, cognitive archaeology
and the social meaning of visual imagery and representation, archaeology
of cult and religion, archaeological collections, and multimedia in archaeology.
He has field projects in Germany and Turkey, and is currently working at
the West Mound in Çatalhöyük. He has published widely
on the meaning and functions of Neolithic and Copper Age figurines, Neolithic
enclosures, the archaeology of cult and religion, and multimedia applications
in archaeology. He was the reviews editor of the EJA 1998-2005 and serves
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Executive Board Member
FRANCO NICOLIS |
Franco Nicolis studied Ancient
History and Prehistory at the University of Bologna. His PhD thesis at
the University of Pisa was focused on the Bell Beaker phenomenon in Nortern
Italy.
Since 1991 he is working
as archaeologist at the Archaeological Heritage Office of the Autonomous
Province of Trento, Italy. In this position, he directed many excavations
from the Mesolithic to the Roman period, organized several international
conferences on different topics, gave public lectures at different European
Universities and Institutions (University of Bristol; University College
London; University of Nottingham; College de France, Paris, ...),
He is in charge for the
relations with other institutions, e.g. the Italian School of Archaeology
in Athens and the Excavations Department del National Heritage Board of
Sweden.
He has been the coordinator
of the Organising Committee of the EAA 15th Annual Meeting which has been
held 15-20 September 2009 in Riva del Garda, Trento.
His interests include: Material
culture and society of Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age; Megalithic
monuments in the alpine region; Bell Beaker Phenomenon; Long-distance contacts
and connections in prehistory; Archaeology of funerary contexts; Archaeometallurgy;
History of Archaeology; Archaeology of Cultural landscapes; Archaeology
of I World War and forensic archaeology; Archaeology and communication;
Ice Archaeology: the archaeology of ice patches and glaciers in the Alps.
He has published widely on Bell Beaker phenomenon, Long distance cultural
links in prehistory, Alpine archaeology, Archaeology of death.
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