call for recommenders for PCI Archaeology

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Ben Marwick

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Nov 13, 2020, 4:11:40 PM11/13/20

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Hi everyone,

The founders of the PCI project (https://archaeo.peercommunityin.org/) are looking to expand and diversify their editorial board (" recommenders" in their system, more details below). If you would like to be part of this, let me know and I will recommend to them that you be a recommender :)

warmly,

Ben

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Dear colleagues,

let me share with you the repartition of the recommenders of PCI Archaeo so far, here attached. There are, as we say in French, "des trous dans la raquette" !

I think we could still find some colleagues to complete our community. If you know colleagues who would be interested, please talk with them, since it is very difficult to find recommenders only by emails with people who don't know me at all.

- What is the minimum in my views to become recommender :

1) having a certain experience in publishing as first author so that we can imagine that the researcher has an experience of peer-reviews

2) being able to read and write in English in a comprehensible way (like me: not Shakespeare but I think/guess/hope you understand when I write something)

- Who we are looking for :

1) non west-european preferably (see the map) NOT French (or not based in France) !

2) non palaeolithic preferably

3) if possible, women would be best, since we have presently only 44,2% of women in the pool of recommenders.

I contacted hundreds of people, including Africa, USA etc. and it is very difficult to have answers. 2 weeks ago I contacted 50 colleagues in some countries where we have few or no recommender (Turkey, Poland, Korea, Japan, Finland etc.) to receive 2 answers! But of course, if it the best researcher, in Europe, on recent chronologies, or, if it is a researcher of Prehistoric times but in an university of Africa, we are happy to accept the candidate!

Please send me the names and email of the people once you have good reasons to think that she/eh will be ok to join us.

All the best

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Alain Queffelec, Founder of PCI Archaeology
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