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The second congress of the EAA was organised in Brno by J. Jelinek (photo).
The congress was essentially dealing with human evolution as well as with secular
trends. From this moment on, the EAA was starting a more "regular life"
with:
Table 1: Historical overview of the Congresses of the European Anthropological Association
Number |
Year |
Country |
City |
Organizers |
1 |
1977 |
Croatia |
Zagreb |
H. Maver, P. Rudan |
2 |
1980 |
Czech Republic |
Brno |
J. Jelinek |
3 |
1982 |
Greece |
Petralona |
A. Poulianos |
4 |
1984 |
Italy |
Firenze |
B. Chiarelli |
5 |
1986 |
Portugal |
Lisbon |
M.E. Castro e Almeida |
6 |
1988 |
Hungary |
Budapest |
O. Eiben |
7 |
1990 |
Poland |
Wroclaw |
T. Bielicki, B. Hulanicka |
8 |
1992 |
Spain |
Madrid |
M.-D. Garralda |
9 |
1994 |
Denmark |
Copenhagen |
P. Bennike |
10 |
1996 |
Belgium |
Brussels |
C. Susanne, R. Hauspie |
11 |
1998 |
Germany |
Jena |
U. Jaeger |
12 |
2000 |
United Kingdom |
Cambridge |
N. Mascie-Taylor |
13 |
2002 |
Croatia |
Zagreb |
P. Rudan |
14 |
2004 |
Greece |
Komotini |
N. Xirotiris |
15 |
2006 |
Hungary |
Budapest |
E. Bodzsar |
Table 2: Historical backgrounds of the European Anthropological Association (EAA): Successive Boards.
Period |
Board |
1977 - 1979 |
G. Olivier (President), J. Huizinga (Vice-President), H. Maver, D. Roberts, N. Wolanski, B. Chiarelli (Secretary General), R. Knussmann (Adjunct-Secretary), C. Susanne (Adjunct-Secretary & Treasurer) |
1980 - 1981 |
J. Huizinga (President), G. Olivier (Vice-President), H. Walter, A. Poulianos, O. Eiben, B. Chiarelli (Secretary-General), P. Rudan and C. Susanne (Adjunct-Secretary), A. De Wilde (Treasurer) |
1982 - 1984 |
J. Jelinek (President), J. Huizinga (Vice-President), H. Walter, A. Poulianos, O. Eiben, B. Chiarelli (Secretary-General), G. Hauser and C. Susanne (Adjunct-Secretary), A. De Wilde (Treasurer) |
1985 - 1986 |
B. Chiarelli (President), J. Jelinek (Vice-President), D. Roberts, H. Walter, M.E. Castro e Almeida, C. Susanne (Secretary-General), M. Roede (Treasurer), G. Hauser (Adjunct-Treasurer) |
1987 - 1988 |
O. Eiben (President), B. Chiarelli (Vice-President), D. Roberts, H. Walter, G. Hauser, C. Susanne (Secretary-General), G.F. De Stefano (Adjunct-Secretary), M. Roede (Treasurer), M. Prokopec (Adjunct-Treasurer) |
1989 -1990 |
G. Hauser (President), O. Eiben (Vice-President), D. Roberts, T. Bielicki, M.D. Garralda, C. Susanne (Secretary-General), D.F. De Stefano (Adjunct-Secretary), M. Roede (Treasurer), M. Prokopec (Adjunct-Treasurer) |
1991 -1992 |
D. Roberts (President), G. Hauser (Vice-President), M.-D. Garralda, O. Eiben, T. Bielicki, C. Susanne (Secretary-General), G.F. De Stefano (Adjunct Secretary), M. Roede (Treasurer), M. Prokopec (Adjunct-Treasurer) |
1993 -1994 |
C. Susanne (President), P. Bennike (Vice-President), O. Eiben, M.D. Garralda, R. Jankauskas, D.F. Roberts, R. Hauspie (Secretary), A.M. Tillier (Adj. Secretary), H. Danker-Hopfe (Treasurer), E. Strouhal (Adjunct-Treasurer) |
1995 - 1996 |
C. Susanne (President), P. Bennike (Vice-President), O. Eiben, M.D. Garralda, R. Jankauskas, D.F. Roberts, R. Hauspie (Secretary), A.M. Tillier (Adjunct-Secretary), H. Danker (Treasurer), E. Strouhal (Adjunct-Treasurer) |
1997 - 1998 |
C. Susanne (President), P. Bennike (Vice-President), B. Chiarelli, E. Godina, E. Kobylianski, R. Hauspie (Secretary), R. Jankauskas (Adjunct-Secretary), H. Danker (Treasurer), B. Hulanicka (Adjunct-Treasurer) |
1999 - 2000 |
P. Rudan (President), P. Bennike (Vice-President), E. Bodzsar, F. Demoulin, R. Hauspie, C. Susanne (Secretary), H. Danker (Treasurer), U. Jaeger (Adj. Secretary), B. Hulanicka (Adjunct-Treasurer) |
2001 - 2002 |
Bennike (President), E. Bodzsar, R. Hauspie, N. Mascie-Taylor, P. Rudan (Vice-President), C. Susanne (Secretary), E. Rebato (Treasurer), U. Jaeger (Adjunct-Secretary), B. Hulanicka (Adjunct-Treasurer) |
2003 - 2004 |
P. Bennike (President), E. Bodzsar, R. Hauspie, N. Mascie-Taylor, E. Kobylianski (Vice-President), C. Susanne (Secretary), E. Rebato (Treasurer), U. Jaeger (Adjunct-Secretary), B. Hulanicka (Adj. Treasurer) |
2005 - 2006 |
C. Susanne (President), P. Bennike, P. Blaha, E. Bodzsar, R. Hauspie, (Vice-President), B. Hulanicka (Secretary), E. Rebato (Treasurer), F. Demoulin (Adjunct-Secretary), I. Mazura (Adjunct-Treasurer) |
Table 3: Honorary Members of the European Anthropological Association
Year |
Honorary Member |
1988 |
G. Olivier, J. Jelinek |
1990 |
D. Ferembach, J. Tanner |
1994 |
M. Prokopec |
1996 |
O. Eiben, D.F. Roberts |
In May 1985 the EAA started with an Award for the best paper presented by a student, and an Award for the best poster: these prizes were given for the first time at the the Lisbon Congress in 1986. Table 4 gives an overview of the subsequent winners of these EAA Awards.
Table 4: List of awards of best student papers and best posters
Awards for the best student papers | |
Lisbon 1986 | Galera V. (Madrid) Odontometry of a Spanish Neolithic-Bronze age sample - Comparison with other populations of the Iberian peninsula.I: Permanent teeth. Vercauteren M. (Brussels) Secular trend and age changes of head dimensions in Belgian adults. |
Madrid 1992 | Zavattaro M. (Brussels) International migration and biodemographic dynamics: fertility in a sample of Italian immigrants. |
Copenhagen 1994 | Friis H. (Charlottenlund, Denmark) The impact of zinc supplementation on growth and susceptibility to Schistosoma mansoni. |
Jena 1998 | Koziel S. (Wroclaw) Evaluation of the effect of social environment factors on statural and weight variation of boys and girls aged 12-15 years from province of Wroclaw. |
Awards for the best poster presentation | |
Lisbon 1986 | Orve, dela Rua (Bilbao) Paleoserological research on skeletal material in Bisacay (Basque country, Spain). Poissonnet, Burdi, Lavelle, Sabet (Paris) Heterogenous patterns of adipogenesis in human prenates: a morphometric analysis of buccal and gluteal fat depots. Puch, Jaworski and Aleksandrowicz (Poland) Paleopathology in Lubin cementary and ossuary 13th-18th A.D. |
Budapest 1988 | Collell M., Pavia C., Caballin R., and Sanz M.C. (Barcelona) Growth and nutritional conditions of diabetic children. Halasz Z., Blatniczsky L., Kovacs, Z., Muzsnai A., and Peter F. (Budapest) Anthropometric assessment of 6-14 year old Budapest children. |
Madrid 1992 | Bas M., Sevin A., Aluja M., Larrouy G., Nogues R.M., Maurières P. (Barcelona, Toulouse) Some demographical aspects of the Pyrenean populations from XVIIth century. Comparative analysis. |
Copenhagen 1994 | Rewekant A. (Poznan) Skull base height and pelvic inlet form in a Medieval population from Poland as a measure of growth deficiency. |
Brussels 1996 | Polet C., and Schutkowski H. (Brussels) Reconstruction of weaning patterns in two high medieval populations from Germany. Dios S., Mourelo S., Luis J.R., Caeiro B. (Santiago de Compostela) Assessment of the usefulness of four STRs in population profiling: initial data from populations in West Africa and the North West Spain. |
Jena 1998 | Qvist M. (Odense) Epidemiology of otitis media in medieval skeletal material from Danish rural parish cemeteries. |
Cambridge 2000 | Dios S., Luis, J.R., Carril J.C., and Caeiro B. (Santiago de Compostela) The genetic contribution of Black Africa in northern African populations. Ferrell R.J. and Poulsen L.W. (Aarhus) Fifth lumbar vertebra as a predictor of bone mineral density. Salces I., Rebato E., Susanne C., San Martin L., Rosique J., Vinagre A. (Bilbao) Family resemblance for anthropometric traits: assessment of occupational maternal effects. |
Zagreb 2002 | Ghiani M.E., and Vona G. (Italy) Y-chromosome-specific microsatellite variation in a population sample from Sardinia (Italy). Tambets K., Serk P., Villems R., Pliss L., Krumina A., Baumanis V., and Beckman L. (Estonia, Latvia, Sweden) MtDNA lineages in the Baltic Sea Region - Origins and temporal aspects. |
Komotini 2004 | Garcia-Obregon S., Sanchez A., M.A., Perez-Miranda A., Vidales C., Derroyo D., and Pena D. (Univ. Basque Country) Genetic structure of Valencia (Spain) according to Alu insertion polymorphisms. Sanitrikova Z., Petrasova D., and Bernasovska J. (Presov Univ.) Lipid profile screening in children's population at Romany minority. |
At anthropological level, we could organise
The link has always been kept through the newsletters which were edited by C. Susanne from 1975 till 1990, by R. Hauspie from 1991 till 1998, and by E. Bodzsar since then.
A useful tool of the EAA is of course the website, which was started up in 2002 (the database is in fact already of 1990) and is maintained by R. Hauspie since then. An important part of this website is the interactive list of our membership containing full information on our members affiliation, but also on their fields or research.
A goal of the EAA remains also the link with the different national organisations, and with daughter groups such as Global Bioethics (http://utopia.duth.gr/~xirot/BIOETHICS/), or the group GRANDI (groupement latin danthropologie didactique (www.didac.ehu.es/antropo)
We are confronted with a new Europe, and we have the responsibility to make the future EAA as successful as it has been in the past decades, such as shown in this short history.
This history is dedicated to two friends who passed away during the year 2004
(photo).