CfAS at the SAAs
The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual meeting is loud, rambunctious, and invigorating. With more than 4,600 attendees, the New Orleans meeting did not disappoint. CfAS took advantage of the
May 1, 2024
CfAS BLOG
Experience and societal resilience
As extreme weather events become more prevalent due to human influence on the global climate system, an increasingly salient question involves factors that enhance societal resilience. In a new paper
May 1, 2024
Apply Now! Design Workshop on Urban Adaptation to Environmental Change
Applications are now being accepted from researchers and other professionals in archaeology and allied disciplines who interested in participating in a project focused on urban adaptation to environmental change. CfAS
May 1, 2024
Online Survey of Cultural Heritage Professionals
The Online Survey of Cultural Heritage Professionals is part of a 3-year project, Advancing FAIR+CARE Practices in Cultural Heritage, funded by an IMLS National Leadership Grant, that explores data practices
May 1, 2024
See you in New Orleans!
The Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis will be active at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in New Orleans next week. CfAS Open Meeting—Thursday, April 18, 2024, 10-12PM—We have reserved the
April 11, 2024
Synthesising stone tool data across national and research-historical boundaries
Stone tools – their design details and the way in which they are made – make up the core data through which we understand the deep past. True enough, the
April 11, 2024
Synthesis from the bottom up?
I seem to be telling grad students a lot lately that we bring ourselves with us everywhere we go, including into our archaeological work. What I mean by that is
April 10, 2024
What is Archaeological Synthesis?
Since CfAS was founded in 2017, the Coalition has sponsored 8 working groups. We have purposely not dictated either a definition or a single approach to archaeological synthesis. Three approaches
April 4, 2024
A New Discourse Regarding Heritage and Climate Change
The archaeological record enshrines millennia of human experience living on earth, while climate change presents a wide range of challenges to coupled natural and human systems extending into the future.
April 1, 2024
Call for Applications: Design Workshop on Urban Adaptation to Environmental Change
Applications are now being accepted from researchers and other professionals in archaeology and allied disciplines who interested in participating in a project focused on urban adaptation to environmental change. CfAS
March 29, 2024
City Size, Boundaries and Objects
Kenneth Vernon’s wonderful CfAS blog post on How Big is the Smallest City raised some provocative questions, and I found myself, well, provoked. Itself a response to Hagit Nol’s excellent
March 19, 2024
Human Bridges interview with Gary Feinman
Recently, Jan Ritch-Frel, Executive Director of the Independent Media Institute, interviewed Gary Feinman, MacArthur Curator of Mesoamerican, Central American, and East Asian Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History
March 11, 2024
NSF Convergence Research Webinar
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Growing Convergence Research (GCR) Program has announced a new solicitation (NSF 24-527). Convergence research, a growing interest at NSF, has two basic characteristics: (1) research
March 5, 2024
NSF proposing greater consideration be given to “Societal Benefits” in grant reviews
In a recent article in ScienceInsider, Jeffrey Mervis reports that the National Science Foundation’s Commission on Merit Review will likely recommend that one of the key criteria used to rate
March 4, 2024
War and Cultural Heritage
In a recent article in the Conversation, Ian Kuijt, Pavio Shydiovskyi, and William Donaruma document the on-going destruction of cultural heritage in Ukraine as the result of the Russian invasion.
February 26, 2024