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European Association of Archaeologists (with SAfA-sponsored sessions) 10-14 September 2014, Istanbul, Turkey
Sudan Archaeological Society AGM and Kirwan Memorial Lecture, 29th September 2014, British Museum, London UK
Society of American Archaeology (with SAfA-sponsored sessions) 15-19 April 2015, San Francisco California
Islam in Africa: Historical and Contemporary Processes of Islamisation and Re-islamisations 24-25 April 2015, Bern Switzerland
African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability 15-16 May 2015
, University of Cambridge
8th International Workshop for African Archaeobotany (IWAA) 23-26 June 2015, Modena Italy
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SAFA Book Prize 2012
Anne Mayor 2011 Traditions céramiques dans la boucle du Niger. Ethnoarchéologie et histoire du peuplement au temps des empires précoloniaux. Africa Magna Verlag.
SAfA Student Paper Prizes 2012
Congratulations to these winning papers, which will be submitted for publication in Antiquity's online Gallery
Patrick Roberts, University of Oxford
"Stable carbon isotope measurements from Soil Organic Matter (SOM) as
proxy records of palaeotemperature in Lesotho".
Justin Bradfield, University of Johannesburg
"A macrofracture analysis of bone tipped hunting weapons".
Steven T. Goldstein, Washington University, St. Louis
“Only the mountains do not move”: Lithic reduction, mobility, and raw
material access among early pastoralists in SW Kenya.
Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, Rice University
"New perspectives on the archaeology of Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria".