European Journal of Archaeology

Review offer

From time to time we are offering to readers of this blog books for review in the European Journal of Archaeology. Here is another one:

Anybody interested in reviewing this title…

Sites of Memory. Between Scientific Research and Collective Representations. Edited by Jana Maříková-Kubková, Nathan Schlanger, Sonia Lévin (Castrum Pragense nr. 8, pbk, 2008, Archives of European Archaeology). Contributions in English, German and French. For a Table of Contents click here.

…should email me at as soon as possible with details of who you are and why you would like to review this book. We are especially (but not exclusively) interested in reviewers from France, the Mediterranean region and eastern Europe. Read the rest of this entry »

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CFP: 1st Landscape Archaeological Conference

A call for papers from the organizers of the 1st Landscape Archaeological Conference 26th to 28th January 2010:

We are pleased to announce the first Landscape Archaeological Conference that is organised by the Institute for Geo- and Bioarchaeology (IGBA), Research Institute for the Heritage and History of Cultural Landscape and Urban Environment (CLUE) and the Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE) of the Netherlands at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Landscape archaeology is the science of material traces of past peoples within the context of their interactions of the wider natural and social environment they inhabited. The mission of the congress is to have multiple sessions with papers that are as much complimentary to each other in terms of natural and cultural themes so that cultural and natural landscape archaeologists, as well as archaeologists, historical geographers, earth scientists and palaeoecologists can present and discuss. Below six congress themes are presented to invite scientists to submit their abstracts. Read the rest of this entry »

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EJA 11.1 is out!

The latest issue of the European Journal of Archaeology is now available online. It contains the following articles and reviews:

- Cornelius Holtorf: The Past is Now — an Interview With Anders Högberg

- Torben Sarauw: Danish Bell Beaker Pottery and Flint Daggers - the Display of Social Identities?

- Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury: Landscapes of the Body: Burials of the Middle Bronze Age in Hungary

- Konstantinos Chilidis: New Knowledge Versus Consensus — a Critical Note On Their Relationship Based On the Debate Concerning the Use of Barrel-Vaults in Macedonian Tombs

…as well as book review essays by Maria Raffaella Ciuccarelli and Franziska Lang, book reviews by Peter Bogucki, Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir, Manuel Calado, Hans Bolin, Andrew Shapland, Paul Barford, Ruthy Gertwagen, Neal Ascherson, James Doeser and Arlene K. Fleming. Enjoy!

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Review: Der Germanenmythos (Neal Ascherson)

Ingo Wiwjorra, Der Germanenmythos. Konstruktion einer Weltanschauung in der Altertumsforschung des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006, 408 pp., hbk, ISBN-13: 978-3-534-19016-4)

This review is the extended version of a review that appeared in European Journal of Archaeology 11 (1), 2008, 129-131.

Words are our babies. We create them, then watch helplessly as they learn to walk by themselves, paint their faces, use weapons and perhaps eventually destroy their parents. While this is true of all languages to a degree, words fathered by German thinkers and researchers have often proved particularly autonomous. There are certainly German abstract nouns which evoke contexts previously thought to be inexpressible. But others can resemble oubliette-dungeons, inaccessible to all save those trapped inside them. Read the rest of this entry »

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New journal: Ethnoarchaeology

Left Coast Press announces a new journal:

ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Experimental Studies welcomes submission of original manuscripts of no more than 30 double spaced pages that advance aspects of ethnoarchaeological and experimental research as well as furthering the professional interests by showcasing our contribution to our discipline. Read the rest of this entry »

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EAA 15th Annual Meeting: Riva del Garda

The website for the 15th EAA Annual Meeting at Riva del Garda, Italy, 15-20 September 2009, is now up! Do check out the guidelines for submitting session, paper and poster proposals.

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MLitt Studentship on the body in prehistoric Europe

The School of Historical Studies at Newcastle University is pleased to advertise between 4 and 6 Masters Studentship Awards for postgraduate study in Newcastle’s Wellcome Trust recognised MA programme in the History of Medicine during the academic year 2009-10. One award in this competition is open to applicants studying for an MLitt in The presentation of the body in prehistoric Europe in 2009-10. The closing date for applications is 30 April 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

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Amateur research and academic legitimacy

I received a CD the other day from Jack Dempsey, a writer in Massachussetts. His own homepage is called http://ancientgreece-earlyamerica.com/. He claims to have discovered an “Ancient Key to Western Time and Politics” in an astronomical re-interpretation of the Minoan bull-leaping fresco from the palace of Knossos. Read the rest of this entry »

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PhD Scholarships: Bronze Age Archaeology

A message from the Forging Identities project:

10 PhD positions now available in
Forging Identities: The Mobility of Culture in Bronze Age Europe

The EU project Forging Identities is looking for qualified candidates for 10 three-year PhD fully-funded PhD positions planned to begin as soon as possible and not later than October 2009. All positions are financed by the European Commission FP7 People Programme (Marie Curie actions http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/initial-training_en.html) that aims at combining cross-European research training with front-line research. Read the rest of this entry »

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CFP: International aerial archaeology conference

A call for papers from Stefano Campana:

International aerial archaeology conference
AARG 2009 Siena
Certosa di Pontignano, 25 - 27 September 2009

Organised by the University of Siena, Italy, and the Aerial Archaeology Research Group

** Proposals for sessions, papers and posters are invited**
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