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ARARA 2008 Conference
Best Western Motel, Farmington, New Mexico
May 23-26, 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts Due March 15, 2008
PRESENTERS MUST REGISTER FOR THE MEETING
The American Rock Art Research Association will hold its 35th Annual Meeting May 23 – 26, 2008, in Farmington, New Mexico. The meeting location is the Farmington Best Western Motel.
The following categories of presentations will be considered. ARARA reserves the option of requesting that a Contributed Paper submission be changed to a Report or Poster to accommodate as many presentations as possible during limited conference time. It is strongly recommended that PowerPoint be used instead of slides. PowerPoint is the only digital presentation program available at the conference. (In the future ARARA will be moving to requiring that all presentations be PowerPoint.) Instructions on how to submit your presentation will be provided when the presentation is accepted. Due to space limitations, presenters are limited to one senior authorship, but there is no limit on junior authorship.
1. Contributed Papers offer the results of field and/or laboratory research. These papers can include site descriptions, but they usually present a compilation of information into newly formulated ideas or conclusions. They may be historical in nature and present an overview of previous research, but usually they are more comparative in content (maximum of 15 minutes in length with 5 minutes for questions).
2. Reports are descriptive papers with information on newly discovered sites, new dates for sites or images, or new ideas for recording sites. They offer an opportunity to present new information on a rock art site or sites or a new way of thinking about rock art topics (maximum of 9 minutes in length with no time for questions).
3. Posters can be either descriptive or comparative. They are set up as a display with illustrations and text that describes and discusses the topic and/or the results of the research. Poster papers are the best way to engage in one-on-one discussions with viewers and exchange ideas (set up for half-day with scheduled times to be at your poster for contact with viewers)
You must designate your presentation category on your abstract submission. All abstracts will be reviewed by a program committee and accepted or rejected by April 1, 2008. Current ARARA members will be given preference.
E-mail Is the preferred method of submitting your abstract Information because this saves the program committee time by allowing your information to be pasted into the program with no retyping. Your submission will be confirmed by e-mail as soon as possible.
E-MAIL all required information. AN E-MAIL FRIENDLY VERSION OF THIS FORM is available at this link for use in sending the information. Copy and paste the form into the body of an e-mail, fill in required information, and send by March 15, 2008, to:
If it is not possible for you to submit your abstract by e-mail, a paper form will be provided in the Conference Information Packet to be mailed to members and posted on this web site in early 2008.
ARARA Program Committee
Ken Hedges and Daniel McCarthy