MINUTES OF THE COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ARCHAEOLOGY BUSINESS MEETING HELD ON 26th MARCH 1991, AT REWLEY HOUSE, OXFORD

The meeting started at 2.00pm with Clive Orton in the Chair. Over 50 members were present.

1 Minutes of 1990 Business Meeting

Treasurers report should read "a little over £500"

The minutes were approved.

2 Chairman's Report

Clive Orton reported that the committee had met on 27th April 1990 and 18th December 1990. The committee had consisted of Clive Orton (Chair), Ben Booth (Secretary), Nick Fieller (Treasurer), Stephen Stead (Co-opted for mailing list), Sebastian Rahtz (Organiser CAA90), Gary Lock and Jonathen Moffett (Organisers CAA91) and Torsten Madsen and Jens Anderson (Organisers CAA92).

He asked authors to pass their contributions to the organisers now or by the end of April.

The main work of the committee had been editing and producing the CAA90 Proceedings. This had been complicated by the death of one of the publishers but they were on sale today. Prices were :-

Purchased at conference £17

Purchased after conference £20

Authors at cost price £13

He thanked Kris Lockyear for his work on the Proceedings.

The major policy decision had been to put the annual levy up from £2 to £4 so that bursaries for cases of hardship could be provided.

He announced that there would be a Quantitative Methods session at IFA92 because CAA was in Denmark.

Finally he thanked the committee for all there help over the last four years.

3 Treasurer's Report

Nick Fieller thanked Clive Orton and Ben Booth as they were both retiring from the Committee.

Only provisional accounts as still awaiting some things from Southampton (CAA90). The balance was over £800. Major items had been the receipt of £300 from York (CAA89) and the payment of £120 to Southampton for proceedings that had moved to Sheffield.

The current Stocklist was presented.

Sebastian Rahtz asked if any bursaries had been given. The answer was that two had been given. There was then some discussion about the costs of going to Denmark. It was hoped to offer 5 bursaries for CAA92.

There was then some discussion of the format of the bursaries (few large Vs many small). They should be for everyone, especially people who cannot get other money as not speaking and speakers. It was felt that invited speakers from overseas should have larger bursaries. It was noted that AEA was very flexible.

It was felt that better and earlier publicity would be a good idea and that it would be useful if their existence was included in the Call for Papers. The matter was left in the hands of the new Committee.

There was then a discussion about CAA's commitments and how this affected the amount available for bursaries. It was decided to put the Annual Fee up £15 for professionals and £5 for students in order to offer more bursaries.

4 Election of Officers and Auditor

Ben Booth, Clive Orton and Sebastian Rahtz stood down as they have all completed their terms of office.

Paul Reilly was nominated as Chair and was duly elected.
Stephen Stead was nominated as Secretary and was duly elected.
John Wilcock joins the committee as representative for CAA93.
Gina Martlew was elected auditor

5 Future Venue

Glasgow was decided as the venue for CAA94. This was a joint venue between the University and the CTI (though it was noted that the CTI might be disbanded).

The current list of future venues is :-

CAA92 Aarhus
CAA93 Keele
CAA94 Glasgow

6 Other Business

The conference gave a vote of thanks to Clive Orton and Ben Booth for their long service on the Committee.

The meeting closed at 2.28pm