The Association began a Newsletter in 1976 with the intention of keeping the Membership appraised of relevant events on a regular basis. In 1979 the Newsletter was transformed into a journal, the Canadian Review of Physical Anthropology, which published four volumes. The journal ended in 1985 due to a combination of low circulation outside the Association membership and the costs involved in putting out a low circulation journal. Since the journal ceased publication, the Association continues to put out a Newsletter. In some years, topics typically published in the Newsletter were incorporated into volumes of the Canadian Journal of Anthropology to cut down on costs. In 2005 Dr. Jerry Cybulski sent his collection of the Canadian Review of Anthropology and CAPA/ACAP Newsletters to then-president Dr. Andrew Nelson who had the documents converted to PDF files with the ultimate goal of creating an internet archive. As can be seen in the Publications section of this website, this archive is nearly complete and continues to be updated with the most recent publications from the Association.

 

The Association has also been involved in three other publication ventures. First, in association with the 1976 Annual Meeting was an international symposium in honour of Davidson Black, the Canadian anatomist who named Sinanthropus pekinensis in 1927. The symposium drew speakers from the United States, Germany, France, Indonesia and China and produced a volume entitled “Homo Erectus: Papers in Honor of Davidson Black” edited by Sigmon and Cybulski (1981). Second, the XIth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, held in Vancouver in 1983, included two symposia partly sponsored by CAPA. These led to a second publication entitled “Out of Asia: Peopling of the Americas and the Pacific” edited by Kirk and Szathmáry (1985), which included contributors from Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Japan, Australia, and Brazil and generated significant revenue for the association. Finally, at the 1991 meeting in Hamilton, a symposium was organized to explore the results of the opening of the Iron Curtain, which resulted in a volume entitled “Before the Wall Fell: The Science of Man in Socialist Europe” edited by Sigmon (1993) with contributions from Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Poland and Albania.

 

For more information about the history of CABA-ACAB, please see the embedded videos at the bottom of this page.