October 7, 2010 – October 10, 2010
Venue: TOPOI. The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations, Exzellecezcluster of the Freie Universität Berlin, Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Contact: Dr. Susanne Moraw smo@dainst.de and Dr. Anna Kieburg a.kieburg@web.de
16th EAA Annual Meeting will be held in The Hague, Netherlands, September 1-5, 2010
Official Meeting Website: http://www.eaa2010.nl
An excellent venue for the meeting has been found in Leiden University Campus The Hague, in the building of the Royal Conservatoire, adjacent to the central railway station in the centre of town.
The meeting is organised by the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, the Department of Archaeology of the Municipality of The Hague and the Cultural Heritage Agency (Ministry of Education, Culture and Science), with financial support from the Minister of Culture. A broad advisory panel with representatives of all sectors of Dutch archaeology ensures participation and support from across Dutch archaeology.
The meeting will be preceded by a separate one-day conference on science-based archaeology. The pre-conference meeting will take place on Tuesday, 31st August 2010, at Delft University, and is organised by the Delft-Leiden Centre for Archaeology, Art history and Science (CAAS). Registered participants of the EAA annual meeting can attend free of charge. For more information please go to www.CAASonline.nl
Leiden, The Hague, Delft and Schiphol airport are all located close to one another, and all are connected by fast, frequent and generally reliable train services.
Welcome to European Journal of Archeology Blog.
This is first post after long silence. Let’s start again blogging!
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!
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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.
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. Continue reading
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:
Literacy and the State in the ancient Mediterranean
Edited by Kathryn Lomas, Ruth D. Whitehouse and John B. Wilkins
(Pbk, 2007, Accordia Research Institute, University of London)
should email me at cornelius.holtorf@hik.se 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 the Mediterranean region and eastern Europe. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
