Archive for June, 2006
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
A call for papers for the interdisciplinary conference "Cult in Context: Comparative approaches to prehistoric and ethnographic religious practices" at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, 7-9 December 2006 is available as a PDF here.
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
The European Archaeologist (TEA), the newsletter of the EAA, has just been published again. Issue 25 contains, among others, a short report by our President Anthony Harding about "That Bosnian Pyramid" and an obituary of Andrew Sherratt who died last year.
Once the webpage is updated, EAA members can access TEA ...
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
I wrote earlier that I was disappointed by the gold rush heritage that meets (or rather does not meet) the visitor in Skagway, Alaska. I was very impressed, on the other hand, by what I saw in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Here is the site of Canyon City.
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
A call for papers for the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) 2007 from Corisande Fenwick:
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Following a visit to Sarajevo by the President, Secretary and Administrator, the EAA affirms its support for the small community of professional archaeologists in Bosnia-Herzegovina and urges the authorities, both cantonal, federal and state, to uphold the standing of the profession by providing adequate resources for museums, rescue archaeology and ...
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Troels has fixed some statistics for this blog, thanks to Google Analytics. From time to time we will thus report about you!
I loved this map which shows the location of our blog readers:
It is the blog of the European Journal of Archaeology after all!
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
Brittany Gravely of Documentary Educational Resources in Watertown, Massachusetts, USA made me aware of a documentary film:
Qudad, Re-inventing a Tradition
by Caterina Borelli
Arabic with English subtitles
color, 58 min, 2004
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Thursday, June 15th, 2006
A call for papers from Rune Frederiksen for a conference at Oxford 24-26 September 2007.
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
An exhibition review by Mark Hall of Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland. Comments welcome!
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
I am back from North America visiting family and a few goldrush sites in Alaska and the Yukon (see my entry from 22 May).
To make it short, my visit to Skagway, Alaska was a disappointment -- despite (or maybe because of) my high expectations.
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