EAA Annual Meeting Academic Programme
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006The academic programme for the 2006 EAA Annual Meeting in Krakow, Poland, is now available.
Archive for July, 2006
The academic programme for the 2006 EAA Annual Meeting in Krakow, Poland, is now available.
Announcing Intute
Monday, July 24th, 2006A message from Andrea Vianello announcing the launch of Intute:
Anglo-Saxon Apartheid?
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006The question of how a relatively small number of Anglo-Saxon immigrants came to control early Medieval Britain has received much attention. New interdisciplinary research, published by Mark G. Thomas, Michael P.H. Stumpf and Heinrich Härke, argues that their success was due to the implementation of an Apartheid-like social structure that ...
WAC 6 in Jamaica cancelled
Friday, July 21st, 2006Claire Smith, President of the World Archaeological Congress, announced that WAC 6 will not take place in Jamaica next year (as reported previously) but instead in 2008 at a location to be publicised soon.
Urgent CFP: The Common Agricultural Policy and Cultural Heritage - Threat or Opportunity?
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006An urgent call for papers for a session at the forthcoming EAA Annual Meeting in Krakow: Due to changed circumstances, we are now seeking up to three speakers from the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia (the recent European Union 'accession countries') for the ...
Collective memory and the uses of the past
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006Earlier this month, I went to a fascinating, interdisciplinary conference on "Collective memory and the uses of the past", organised by a team around Andy Wood at the School of History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. The full programme is available here (text file).
Archaeology of a van starts on Monday
Saturday, July 15th, 2006The fast emerging field of Contemporary Archaeologies appears to stop at nothing: a small research project will begin on Monday investigating the former archaeology unit van at Ironbridge. And this is precisely the point - anything could be studied archaeologically!
Otherness in the past and today
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006Kristian Kristiansen, former EAA President, recently sent me an offprint of a paper on "Who own the past? Reflections on roles and responsibilities" which he published in the 2004 book Archaeologist: Detective and Thinker (pp. 79-86) compiled in honour of Lev Klejn (University of St. Petersburg. ISBN 5-288-03491-5). As always, ...
Recently unearthed e-mail reveals what life was like in 1995
Saturday, July 8th, 2006A report in the Onion: "We're very excited by this find, because only by understanding our e-mail past can we hope to understand our e-mail present and future," said Northwestern University archaeology professor Lane Caspari, who has been leading the dig through the equipment storage area of a Knoxville-area credit union ...
New Books (not to be reviewed)
Thursday, July 6th, 2006The most important reason for commissioning a review in the European Journal of Archaeology is that the book is likely be of interest to a majority of archaeologists working in Europe. The following books have arrived on the Book Review Editor's desk but will, for one reason or another, not ...