EAA Vice-President MARGARET GOWEN

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. 
 

Executive Board Member GRAHAM FAIRCLOUGH

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) and “Using HLC” (EH).

EAA President ANTHONY HARDING

Anthony Harding (President of the EAA 2003-2006) is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter, UK.  Until 2004 he was Professor at Durham University.  He is a specialist on the European Bronze Age and has written a number of monographs on topics in this area – e.g. European Societies in the Bronze Age (Cambridge University Press, 2000).  He has field projects in Britain, Poland and the Czech Republic, and is currently undertaking survey work in Poland and in Romania on a new project relating to ancient salt exploitation.  His excavation work in Poland was recently published as Sobiejuchy: a fortified site of the Early Iron Age in Poland (Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2004).
 

Treasurer CARSTEN PALUDAN-MULLER

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.
 

TEA Editor MICHAEL POTTERTON

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.
 

EAA Administrator

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.
 

Executive Board Member NATHAN SCHLANGER

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.

EJA General Editor ALAN SAVILLE

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).
 

Executive Board Member MARGARITA DÍAZ-ANDREU

Margarita Díaz-Andreu is an archaeologist interested in the prehistoric 
archaeology and art of Western Europe and the politics of identity in 
archaeology (nationalism and colonialism, ethnicity and gender). She has 
carried out fieldwork in Spain and Britain. She teaches on prehistoric 
art and archaeology, the history of archaeology and identity.

She has written several books and articles on the prehistory of the 
Iberian Peninsula and the United Kingdom and their prehistoric art. Her 
PhD (University Complutense of Madrid, 1990) was a study of the 
emergence of social complexity in Central Spain. It focused on the 
dynamics of long-term social change in settlement patterns, burial 
rituals, metallurgy and other types of material culture in the Cuenca 
region throughout the Bronze Age (c. 2250-1500 BC) (book published in 
1994, book on metallurgy in 1998). Projects on prehistoric art have 
discussed issues of interpretation (landscape, gender and religious 
beliefs) and recording techniques (mainly the application of new 3D 
imaging techniques for the recording of rock carvings). These have 
centred on case studies in Spain (Cuenca), and Britain (Cumbria, 
Northumberland and Yorkshire).

Díaz-Andreu has also published widely on a second major area of 
research, identity and the history of archaeology, with books such as 
The Archaeology of Identity (2005), Nationalism and Archaeology (1996, 
2001), Excavating Women. A History of Women in European Archaeology 
(1998), and A World History of Archaeology in the Nineteenth Century: 
Nationalism, Imperialism and the Past (forthcoming). Her research has 
focused on particular case studies in Spain and the United Kingdom, as 
well as wide-ranging overviews of gender, nationalism and imperialism. 
Her work has been published mainly in English and Spanish by publishing 
houses and journals in the US, Britain and Spain, as well as Brazil and 
Mexico, and has been translated into other languages.

Research Interests

     * History of Archaeology (19th and 20th centuries)
     * Iberian and Western Mediterranean later prehistoric archaeology
     * Identity: gender and ethnicity
     * Nationalism, Imperialism and Colonialism
     * Prehistoric post-palaeolithic art
 

Executive Board Member ESZTER BANFFY

Eszter Bánffy (1957), DSc, PhD 
archaeologist, scientific advisor, head of department
Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest I., Uri u. 49., 1014 Hungary

Assignment: 
2005: scientific advisor 
2001: head of the scientific department at the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 
1988-2001: principal contributor
1986-88: assistant contributor 

Postgradual: 
2005: Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2001: visiting professor at the Karl Ruprecht University of Heidelberg
1983-1986: Cand.Sc. (PhD) scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, at the Archaeological Institute (PhD dissertation presented in 1987, official defence in 1988)
1983: 10 months (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst scholarship) at the Karl Ruprecht University of Heidelberg, Germany - leading Professor: H. Hauptmann

University: 
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1977-1982: indology and comparative Indoeuropean linguistics - leading professor: J. Harmatta. (M.A. 1982)
1975-1980: prehistoric and medieval archaeology - leading professor: I. Bóna. (M.A. 1980)
1975-77: English philology (B.A. 1977)

Schools: 
1975: graduate, specialized on English and German 

Languages: 
English - fluent, German - fluent, Italian - fair, Russian - fair, French - reading. 
Reading ancient languages: Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Old Persian, Avestan

Interests:
neolithic and copper age archaeology, neolithic transition, archaeological sources of early religions (cult objects within their archaeological contexts), theoretical archaeology

Excavations:
contribution: Herpály (E-Hungary, neolithic); Öcsöd (E-Hungary, neolithic), Hídvégpuszta (SW-Hungary, chalcolithic), Lugo/Romagna (N-Italy, neolithic)
leader: Hahót (SW-Hungary, neolithic, chalcolithic), Zalaszentbalázs (SW-Hungary, chalcolithic), Szentgyörgyvölgy (SW-Hungary, early neolithic)
1995-1999: Slovenian-Austrian-Hungarian common project for SW-Hungary. Leader of the Hungarian team, including 7 archaeologists and several colleagues from the field of hard science. 
2000-2001: German-Hungarian project at the neolithic site Fajsz. Pilot project leader
2006-: "The beginnings and early stages of food production in southern Transdanubia, between Lake Balaton and the Danube Valley" 4-year-project, HSF, project leader
2007-: German-Hungarian project at the neolithic site Fajsz. Program leader

Lecturing: 

2006: founder member of the PhD school at the Geoarchaeological Department, Szeged University
2000: founder member of the PhD school at the Archaeological Department, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1992: Miskolc Private University of Art (Neolithic and Chalcolithic Archaeology; History of religions)
1988: one-term lecturing at the, ("Early non-written sources of the history of religions"); 
special lectures at  the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici/Italy (1986), the universities of Heidelberg (1989, 1994, 2007),  Ljubljana (1994, 2000), Vienna (1994), Prague (1996), Frankfurt/Main (1999). 

International congresses with papers presented (selection): 
1985. La Valletta (Malta) 
1988.  La Spezia/Pontremoli (I); Tolbuhin (BG) 
1989.  Dublin (Irl)
1993. Siegen (D);  Veszprém (H); Nyíregyháza (H)
1995. Santiago/Compostela (E), Vienna (A)
1996. Timisoara (Ro), Riga (Lv)
1997. Vienna (A) Karanovo (Bg)
1998. Göteborg (S)
1999. Heidelberg (D); Bournemouth (GB)
2000. Ljubljana (Sl); Lisbon (Pt)
2002. Thessaloniki (Gr)
2003. Cardiff (UK), St. Petersbourg (Ru)
2004. Lyon (Fr)
2005. Cork (Irl), Ljubljana (Sl)
2006. Cracow (Pl), Puerto Rico (USA)
2007. Herxheim (D), Zadar (Cro)

Membership:

European Association of Archaeologists, executive board member
European Academy of Sciences and Arts, member
Society for American Archaeology, member
Foundation "Pro Archaeologia Hungariae", curator
Archaeological Committee, HAS, member
"Bolyai"-Committee, HAS, member
Service for Preventive Archaeology in Hungary, Scientific Committee, member 

Awards:
1986: "Révay" prize of the Society for Ancient History, HAS, for the best book review
1998-1999: Soros "Open Society" scholarship
2007: "Kuzsinszky" prize of the Archaeological Society, Hungary

Executive Board Member KERSTIN CASSEL

Kerstin Cassel received her doctor’s degree in 1998 at Stockholm University, Sweden. Since 2001 she has basically been working as a lecturer in archaeology. Today she is employed at Södertörn University College, with previous experience from Stockholm University, Mid Sweden University and University of Gothenburg. Between 1999 and 2000 she became granted as guest researcher at University of Tromsø, Norway. She has also been employed within projects at the Central Board of National Antiquities in Sweden, and as a field archaeologist. Her research interest since the doctoral thesis has mainly been directed toward aspects on migrations and encounters in the past, which resulted in a monographic publication in 2008. Between 2001-2006 she was an editor for the Swedish publication Current Swedish Archaeology, published by the Swedish Archaeological Society.