Archive for September, 2006

CFP: Interdisciplinarity in Research of Culture Environment

Friday, September 15th, 2006

We have received the following call for papers from Ieva Pigozne: Dear colleagues, Research Centre of the Latvian Academy of Cultures is organizing the international research conference CULTURE INTERSECTIONS on the topic INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN RESEARCH OF CULTURE ENVIRONMENT. It will take place in Riga, at the Latvian Academy of Culture on ...

Report from UISPP

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

In response to our post yesterday, Andrea Vianello sends this personal report from the recent UISPP conference in Lisbon: I arrived in Lisbon on Sunday from the United Kingdom, and the first thing that I noticed was the temperature: 35 degrees Celsius, a lot more than what it was in ...

UISPP 2006 Lisbon

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Who has been to the UISPP conference last week in Lisbon and would like to report about it on this blog? Feel free to post short impressions as comments to this entry, or send longer reports to Troels (klatmk@hum.au.dk) for a feature entry on this blog.

The archaeological divide

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

Alan Saville, editor of the European Journal of Archaeology, writes in the Editorial of the new issue 8 (2): Delegate attendance at the 2006 conference of the Institute of Field Archaeologists speaks volumes for the divide that exists within archaeology between academia on one side and those working within the state, ...

EAA Elections 2006

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Please remember to vote in this year's EAA elections. Ballot forms and more information can be found on the EAA members' page.

New Books (not to be reviewed)

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

The following books have arrived on the Book Review Editor's desk but will, for one reason or another, not be reviewed in the journal. Foster, Sally M and Morag Cross Eds. (2005) Able Minds and Practised Hands: Scotland's Early Medieval Sculpture in the 21st Century. The Society for Medieval ...

European Journal of Archaeology 8(2) now out!

Monday, September 4th, 2006

EAA members have now received the new issue 8(2), 2005. For all others, here is what you are missing: Articles Stuart Needham & Sheridan Bowman: Flesh-hooks, technological complexity and the Atlantic Bronze Age feasting complex. Sue Colledge, James Conolly & Stephen Shennan: The evolution of Neolithic farming from SW Asian origins to NW ...

Digging for the TRUTH?

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Seen in SoHo, New York City, January 2006: