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From the CAA 2010 website:

After our recent e-mail that reminded the deadline for extended abtracts,we have received a huge amount of e-mails requiring an extension of the deadline, due to the new format of submission (up to four pages instead of a short abstract) and all the burocratic issues in which researchers are involved during december.

The CAA2010 organizing commitee is aware of such difficulties, and in order to facilitate the participation of researchers and students via full papers presentations instead of just short papers (that cannot be selected for the journals that have offered to publish best full papers), we have agreed, as a very exceptional decission and assuming that it will cause us an enormous overload in the reviewing process and books formatting to:

The CAA UK chapter is intended as a forum for research in the area of archaeological computing and quantitative methods. The chapter meeting aims to facilitate exchange of ideas between researchers and cultural resource managers, and is particularly focussed on the presentation of new and innovative research areas. The meeting organisers are also particularly keen to encourage new researchers to present their work for the first time. We hope to be able to offer bursaries for student participants.More information and call for papers on http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/acrg/default.asp?D=4&SD=1

The aims of the AG CAA study group’s meetings: * to foster communication between archaeologists using quantitative methods or computer based methods of analysis * to develop links between archaeologists and mathematicians/statisticians. Further development is gained by seeking numerical approaches to complex historical problems To fullfil these aims the AG CAA study group meets at the archaeological congresses of the Deutschen Altertumsverbände as well as at the statistical congresses of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl). The AG CAA study group grew out of several independent traditions: In Western Germany prehistorians formed in 1981 a group called Quantitative Archäologie, while in the former GDR egyptologists and meriotisticians were especially active after 1982. The AG CAA recently changed its name from Arbeitsgemeinschaft Quantitative Methoden in der Archäologie bei den Altertumsverbänden / Arbeitsgemeinschaft Archäologie bei der GfKl to Arbeitsgemeinschaft Computeranwendungen und quantitative Methoden in der Archäologie (AG CAA).