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).

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 ALEXANDER GRAMSCH

Dr Alexander Gramsch is currently working for the State Heritage Office in Rhineland-Palatinate, southwestern Germany. He received degrees from Cambridge University, UK, and Leipzig University, Germany. His primary research interests are matters of theory and historiography. Moreover, he worked on agency in Bronze Age cremation burials, on the Bell Beaker phenomenon, and on the ritual practice of TRB barrowbuilding. He has edited “Vergleichen als archäologische Methode” and co-edited “Archaeologies of Europe. History, Methods and Theories”. He has worked for private archaeological companies, lectured at universities in Berlin, Freiburg and Leipzig, organised conferences for the German Theoretical Archaeology Group (T-AG), and was part of a research project on social interpretations in archaeology at Basel University, Switzerland. Currently he is also one of the editors of Archaeological Dialogues. He became editor of The European Archaeologist in 2010.
 

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).
 

Secretary ESZTER BANFFY

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.
 

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 on various national and international editorial boards and academic committees.