Archive for June, 2006

CFP: Cult in Context

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.

TEA published

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 ...

Gold rush in the Yukon

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.

CFP: TRAC 2007

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

A call for papers for the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) 2007 from Corisande Fenwick:

EAA supports professional archaeologists in Bosnia-Herzegovina

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 ...

Blog map

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!

Qudad, Re-inventing a Tradition

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

CFP: Plaster Casts: Making, Collecting, and Displaying from Classical Antiquity to the Present

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

A call for papers from Rune Frederiksen for a conference at Oxford 24-26 September 2007.

Constantine the Great - York’s Roman Emperor (31 March - 29 Oct 2006, Yorkshire Museum, York, UK)

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

An exhibition review by Mark Hall of Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland. Comments welcome!

Gold rush in Skagway

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.