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Volume 1: Issue 2/2 2018 CONTENTS Editor’s Note Dear ICA Members, Editor’s Note ............ 1 Happy New Year! We are pleased to announce the launch of the Island and Coastal Archaeology Interest Group e- Meetings, Communities webpage, which is automatically accessible to all Announcements & interest group members through the SAA’s newly updated Calls for Papers ........ 3 website. The e-Communities page is a venue to share and discuss new articles, workshops, grant opportunities, field methods, and laboratory analyses. It is also intended as a Research Highlight ... 6 venue to help coordinate events during annual meetings and to distribute interest group newsletters. When you have the Recent opportunity, please visit our e-Communities webpage and the Publications ............ 7 SAA e-Community Rules of Engagement. We hope the e- Communities platform will make it easier for ICA members to Submission communicate with one another and make us a tighter-knit and more engaged research community. Instructions ............ 57 The list of 550 recent publications demonstrates the breadth and depth of work taking place globally. Island and coastal archaeologists continue to be at forefront of knowledge concerning human-environment relationships in the past. However, there are also a number of publications highlighting aspects of ancient communities’ social and artistic lives. Especially notable is the amount of work coming from the underwater and maritime archaeology segment of our community. The word “shipwreck” alone occurs in the titles of thirteen publications from the list. If you have recent publications that have not appeared in one of our past issues, we encourage you to submit these for inclusion in our next issue. This is a great way to spread the word about your recent work. In addition to scholarly articles and books, we also 1 encourage you to share any writing about island and coastal archaeology for popular publications. It is important that such research continues both to expand our knowledge of human behavior in coastal settings and to find relevance for modern coastal communities. Scientific knowledge has both intrinsic and practical value, and the latter can follow from community-based participatory research. An October news feature in Nature highlights the value of co-produced research in a variety of disciplines and settings such as coastal archaeology in SW Madagascar. This news feature emphasizes the fact that investment in and dedication to community involvement significantly improves the quality and relevance of research. These improvements to archaeological research are significant, because local individuals often are aware of community problems that can help guide relevant research and are willing to share traditional knowledge that increases the rigor of the scientific endeavor. The outcomes of archaeological research often affect local communities, and this is particularly true during the current time of accelerating globalization and climate change. The fragmentary nature of the material record limits what questions we can answer about the past. However, what we can learn about the past may be highly relevant to present social and environmental concerns. As archaeologists balance research, teaching, heritage management and service, it is important to explore creative avenues for both disseminating research findings and promoting the exchange of ideas outside of professional discourse. The application of new methods to archaeological research further highlights the importance of community-based participatory research. For example, expanding applications of paleogenomics to the historical sciences provide archaeologists with more opportunities to engage the public. A recent New York Times article highlights the exciting possibilities and potential pitfalls of recent, high-profile paleogenomics research. Paleogenomics can meaningfully complement a vast array of other methods to help answer longstanding questions in archaeology, including questions regarding human migrations that are central to the field of island and coastal archaeology. As with the application of any method, it is important that archaeologists conscientiously apply paleogenomics by being good stewards of the material record and by respecting the rights of local peoples. Finally, we are issuing a call to those interested in serving as a co-editor of The Current, as Kristina Douglass will soon conclude her three years of service to the newsletter. Please contact any member of our editorial team to express your interest. As always, we welcome your research updates and announcements for conferences and symposia relevant to the ICA community for inclusion in the Newsletter! Kristina Douglass, Reecie Levin, and Sean Hixon Co-Editors, The Current 2 MEETINGS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, AND CALLS FOR PAPERS The Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA – April 10-14, 2019 For the first time in 50 years the SAA’s annual meeting returns to New Mexico! The SAA is honored to be holding its annual meeting on the ancestral homelands of many Native American communities and encourages attendees to visit the important cultural and archaeological sites in and around Albuquerque. The preliminary program is already available online and the full program will become available in March 2019. The Island and Coastal Archaeology Interest Group meeting will be held on Friday, April 12th from 3:30PM-4:30PM. We encourage all ICA members to attend the meeting! Please check the final program for the location of the interest group meeting. ICAZ 20th Meeting of the Fish Remains Working Group, Portland, OR, USA - August 26-30, 2019 Mark your calendars, for the 20th Meeting of the Fish Remains Working Group (FRWG) set for August 26-30, 2019 in Portland Oregon, USA, followed by a weekend field trip to the Oregon Coast. FRWG is a working group of the International Council for Archaeozoology. The group formed in 1980 at the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen and has met regularly since then. Its members are an interdisciplinary consortium of researchers (archaeozoologists, archaeologists, zoologists, ichthyologists, historians, and fishery biologists) interested not only in the study of fish remains retrieved in archaeological sites from around the world, but also on any matter dealing with fishing, the fish trade, and fish consumption. One of the main aims of the FRWG is to provide data of use in the management of fishery resources. The working group carries out this mandate by sponsoring biannual international conferences such as this one. More information about the FRWG is available at: https://www.alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/workfish. The FRWG is an outstanding way to meet with scholars from around the world in a small, supportive atmosphere. Portland, Oregon is a perfect place for such a gathering because fish were and continue to be of fundamental importance to indigenous people and the broader citizenry of the region. The local organizer and host will be Virginia Butler (Portland State University (U.S.A.), with help from a planning committee: Madonna Moss (University of Oregon, U.S.A.), Iain McKechnie 3 (University of Victoria, Canada), Elizabeth Reitz (University of Georgia, U.S.A.) and Jen Harland (University of the Highlands, Orkney). Please consider joining us in August 2019! Please visit our website (https://www.2019frwg.com/) to help plan your participation. Questions? contact [email protected] The Radiocarbon and Archaeology 9th International Symposium, Athens, GA, USA – May 20th- 24th, 2019 “The Radiocarbon & Archaeology 9th International Symposium will take place in Athens, Georgia, USA, at the Classic Center in downtown Athens from Monday, May 20 through Friday, May 24, 2019. The symposium will showcase current archaeological research that employs radiocarbon, as well as recent developments in the radiocarbon technique. Special thematic sessions will be held in honor of the 70th Anniversary of Libby’s publication of the application of 14C for age determination. The Symposium will include a full range of academic sessions, invited lectures, social events, and field trips within and beyond Athens.” More details can be found at https://www.radiocarbonandarchaeology2019.com/about/ Call for Papers for Special Issue on Island Colonization in Quaternary A Special Issue entitled "The Human Footprint on Islands—The Ecological Impact of Discovery and Colonization", is currently open for submissions in Quaternary (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/quaternary). Dr. Erik de Boer (ITJCA-CSIC), Dr. Lea de Nascimento (University of La Laguna), Dr. Jamie Wood (Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research), and Dr. Sandra Nogué (University of Southampton) are serving as Guest Editors for this issue. Abstract: The discovery and settlement of previously uninhabited land masses around the world have caused dramatic changes to local ecosystems and biotas. These changes are particularly evident on islands, where human settlement usually marked the beginning of a period of habitat destruction and extinctions of local flora and fauna. Although extinctions are perhaps the most widely known impact, they represent only part of the transformation that was set in motion after an island´s settlement. For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/quaternary/human_footprint_islands. The submission deadline is 28 February 2019. Research articles, review articles, and communications are welcome and can be submitted