Non-for-profit Organizations of Archaeologists and Anthropologists
External link:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
[PREAMBLE] Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all
members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, more ...
Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Question: How am I secure being a member for instance of AIA? (internal link)
Article 7
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are
entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any
incitement to such discrimination.
Article 10.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the
determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Introduction
We are living in a changing world. In the 21st century the question of primary importance is how to advance
the humanity at all levels of our society and to keep the human rights. There are different approaches.
According to the first extreme approach, there are still people who believe that the only way to feel satisfied
and happy is if all members of the society are equal from the perspectives of the material subsistence. As the
human history has shown, such ideology has no soil in the advanced human society.
There is a second extreme approach, according to which the reproduction of society has been seen as a
reproduction of certain social structure and different types of layering. The social mobility has been frozen not
by institution but by people who has been seeing their social positions artificially to stratify and reproduce
such structures and relationship that would benefit in fact corruption. Such people transform through visible
and invisible power the social groupings in coalitions and usually despite titles and high social positions, the
respect to them is due to their power and not to their real social achievements. They have been fragmenting
and disintegrating society.
In the global society we have been developing the social idea of democracy as an invertible process.
Democracy does not mean either flat equality or frozen stratification as extremes. Effective democracy means
lawness, transparency and honestness.
The LTH society as a 21st century global model relies especially on the non-for-profit organizations. Those
are the ones, that should keep the mobile social structure and opportunity everybody to succeed if has the
ability and follow LTH principals.
There are two main types of non-for-profit organizations. The first type are the ones without membership and
the second types - with membership. The non-for-proft organizations should not have selective membership,
because it would create objective preconditions for corruption and using the organization by certain people for
practicing individual power.
Today one of the main functions of the non-for-profit organizations is stimulating development of effective
science. We do not have just science as a new knowledge, but effective scientific knowledge. Then, the non-
for-profit org's need to stimulate innovateness, active interpersonal academic contacts and ethics.
In this website we will try to gather more information about how the non-for-profit organization with
membership organize their annual meetings that should be the cornerstone of their activity.
I would like especially to thank Dr Carol McDavid, Dr Stephen Silliman, Dr Dr Lu Ann De Cunzo and Professor
Margaret Conkey for their responses and extremely important messages sent about AAA, SHA and SAA. Their
information make me believe that on the whole the non-for-profit organizations of archaeologists or that
include archaeologists are probably the leading in humanity. Accordingly, if there are problems in some
organizations that can be resolved based on the experience of our own organizations. Probably the leaders of
EAA and IAI need to study the structure and experience of the other non-for-profit organizations.
Non-for-profit organizations of archaeologists
(under construction)
Archaeological Institute of America
Website: How to change the image of archaeology?
Annual meetings: in January.
President: Professor Brian Rose.
External link to the homepage of the President of Archaeological Institute of America, Professor Brian C. Rose:
http://www.classics.upenn.edu/faculty/rose.html
Sessions and papers: Unclear selective principals or censorship. We have been still waiting for a response by
Professor Rose, but for the time being it can be concluded that it is missing effective transparency.
Archaeological Institute of America - The St. Louis Society. Founded in 1906 - 103 years old and going
strong! (external link)
European Association of Archaeologists
Website: http://www.e-a-a.org/
Annual meetings: within the third week of September.
President: Dr Friedrich Lüth.
Sessions and papers: They do have principals of selectivity, but in fact as the last meeting showed (9-09) this
organization needs to re-elaborate their structure of annual meetings and invent transparency, since in the
today's state it can be easily invaded by non-ethical decision makers who may use censorship for their
personal interests.
My personal experience is generally positive with the exception of this year, but hopefully the organization will
turn back to its initial period of flourishing humanity and making the meetings a place of reporting of new
approaches of all members who would like to participate.
Society for American Archaeology
Website: http://www.saa.org/
Annual meetings: in April.
President: Professor Margaret Conkey.
Sessions and papers: I have several participations and had never experienced any censorship.
Problem: The annual meeting almost overlaps with TAG USA and many archaeologists may prefer TAG as a
more specialized scholarly event.
Society for Historical Archaeology
Website: http://www.sha.org/research_resources/bibliographies/default.cfm
Very informative and nicely designed.
Annual Meeting: January
President: Dr Lu Ann De Cunzo.
Link to the Preliminary program of the 2010 Annual meeting
http://www.sha.org/documents/SHA2010PreliminaryProgramFINAL_003.pdf
Sessions and papers: According to the nice response of Dr Lu Ann De Cunzo, the President of SHA (e-mail, 9-
28-09), as " A registered U.S. non-profit organization, we meet each year, have approximately 400-600 papers
presented, and 850-1500 attendees. The Society has a formal policy regarding abstract review, acceptance,
and rejection; we review only to ensure that the presenter, the presenter’s host institution, and the content of
the proposed presentation itself are not in conflict with our Ethical Principles statement, posted at
http://www.sha.org/about/ethics.cfm."
Society for Historical Archaeology looks to be an excellent example of 21st century non-for-profit
organization. It was added to the list of favorites of IIA.
Internal link
How to change the image of archaeology?
External link to the Archaeological Institute of America:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
[PREAMBLE] Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all
members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, more ...
Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Question: How am I secure being a member for instance of AIA? (internal link)
Article 7
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are
entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any
incitement to such discrimination.
Article 10.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the
determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Introduction
We are living in a changing world. In the 21st century the question of primary importance is how to advance
the humanity at all levels of our society and to keep the human rights. There are different approaches.
According to the first extreme approach, there are still people who believe that the only way to feel satisfied
and happy is if all members of the society are equal from the perspectives of the material subsistence. As the
human history has shown, such ideology has no soil in the advanced human society.
There is a second extreme approach, according to which the reproduction of society has been seen as a
reproduction of certain social structure and different types of layering. The social mobility has been frozen not
by institution but by people who has been seeing their social positions artificially to stratify and reproduce
such structures and relationship that would benefit in fact corruption. Such people transform through visible
and invisible power the social groupings in coalitions and usually despite titles and high social positions, the
respect to them is due to their power and not to their real social achievements. They have been fragmenting
and disintegrating society.
In the global society we have been developing the social idea of democracy as an invertible process.
Democracy does not mean either flat equality or frozen stratification as extremes. Effective democracy means
lawness, transparency and honestness.
The LTH society as a 21st century global model relies especially on the non-for-profit organizations. Those
are the ones, that should keep the mobile social structure and opportunity everybody to succeed if has the
ability and follow LTH principals.
There are two main types of non-for-profit organizations. The first type are the ones without membership and
the second types - with membership. The non-for-proft organizations should not have selective membership,
because it would create objective preconditions for corruption and using the organization by certain people for
practicing individual power.
Today one of the main functions of the non-for-profit organizations is stimulating development of effective
science. We do not have just science as a new knowledge, but effective scientific knowledge. Then, the non-
for-profit org's need to stimulate innovateness, active interpersonal academic contacts and ethics.
In this website we will try to gather more information about how the non-for-profit organization with
membership organize their annual meetings that should be the cornerstone of their activity.
I would like especially to thank Dr Carol McDavid, Dr Stephen Silliman, Dr Dr Lu Ann De Cunzo and Professor
Margaret Conkey for their responses and extremely important messages sent about AAA, SHA and SAA. Their
information make me believe that on the whole the non-for-profit organizations of archaeologists or that
include archaeologists are probably the leading in humanity. Accordingly, if there are problems in some
organizations that can be resolved based on the experience of our own organizations. Probably the leaders of
EAA and IAI need to study the structure and experience of the other non-for-profit organizations.
Non-for-profit organizations of archaeologists
(under construction)
Archaeological Institute of America
Website: How to change the image of archaeology?
Annual meetings: in January.
President: Professor Brian Rose.
External link to the homepage of the President of Archaeological Institute of America, Professor Brian C. Rose:
http://www.classics.upenn.edu/faculty/rose.html
Sessions and papers: Unclear selective principals or censorship. We have been still waiting for a response by
Professor Rose, but for the time being it can be concluded that it is missing effective transparency.
Archaeological Institute of America - The St. Louis Society. Founded in 1906 - 103 years old and going
strong! (external link)
European Association of Archaeologists
Website: http://www.e-a-a.org/
Annual meetings: within the third week of September.
President: Dr Friedrich Lüth.
Sessions and papers: They do have principals of selectivity, but in fact as the last meeting showed (9-09) this
organization needs to re-elaborate their structure of annual meetings and invent transparency, since in the
today's state it can be easily invaded by non-ethical decision makers who may use censorship for their
personal interests.
My personal experience is generally positive with the exception of this year, but hopefully the organization will
turn back to its initial period of flourishing humanity and making the meetings a place of reporting of new
approaches of all members who would like to participate.
Society for American Archaeology
Website: http://www.saa.org/
Annual meetings: in April.
President: Professor Margaret Conkey.
Sessions and papers: I have several participations and had never experienced any censorship.
Problem: The annual meeting almost overlaps with TAG USA and many archaeologists may prefer TAG as a
more specialized scholarly event.
Society for Historical Archaeology
Website: http://www.sha.org/research_resources/bibliographies/default.cfm
Very informative and nicely designed.
Annual Meeting: January
President: Dr Lu Ann De Cunzo.
Link to the Preliminary program of the 2010 Annual meeting
http://www.sha.org/documents/SHA2010PreliminaryProgramFINAL_003.pdf
Sessions and papers: According to the nice response of Dr Lu Ann De Cunzo, the President of SHA (e-mail, 9-
28-09), as " A registered U.S. non-profit organization, we meet each year, have approximately 400-600 papers
presented, and 850-1500 attendees. The Society has a formal policy regarding abstract review, acceptance,
and rejection; we review only to ensure that the presenter, the presenter’s host institution, and the content of
the proposed presentation itself are not in conflict with our Ethical Principles statement, posted at
http://www.sha.org/about/ethics.cfm."
Society for Historical Archaeology looks to be an excellent example of 21st century non-for-profit
organization. It was added to the list of favorites of IIA.
Internal link
How to change the image of archaeology?
External link to the Archaeological Institute of America:
2009 © Lolita Nikolova, PhD
Created: 9-21-09.
Last updated: 9-28-09.
Created: 9-21-09.
Last updated: 9-28-09.
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