Archive for October, 2006
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
We have been made aware of the international conference "People/environment relationships from the Mesolithic to the Middle Ages: Recent geo-archaeological findings in Southern Italy", to be held 4-7 September 2007 in Salerno, Italy. More information is available here.
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
The first details of the 13th EAA Annual Meeting, to be held 18-23 September 2007 in Zadar, Croatia, have been gone up on the EAA website.
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
The British Museum is seeking a Keeper of Prehistory and Europe.
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
The fourth annual meeting of the CHAT conference group on contemporary and historical archaeology will take place at the University of Bristol between Friday 10 - Sunday 12 November 2006. The theme for CHAT 2006 is 'Method and Practice in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology'.
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Sunday, October 15th, 2006
The EAA has been involved in the efforts to save the Graeco-Roman thermal town of Allianoi in Turkey from flooding. Here is an update from The Guardian on Allianoi and other sites in Turkey that are under threat from the construction of irrigation dams.
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Oxbow has posted a list of the bestsellers at their book stand at the recent EAA Annual Meeting in Krakow. Visit their site to see which books the delegates chose to bring back home.
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
We have received the following invitation:
Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to invite you to the inter-disciplinary conference on human characteristics :
Human Mind - Human Kind
taking place on 15-18 August 2007 at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
For additional information and registration please see the conference website.
Please pass this invitation ...
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Monday, October 9th, 2006
We have received the following call for papers for a conference on "The Future of Heritage", to be held 21-24 March 2007 in Ghent, Belgium.
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Matthew Edgeworth published an essay, beautifully illustrated by Fotis Ifantidis, about "THE CLEARING: Heidegger and Excavation" on Stanford's Archaeolog.
He concludes:
The fact that Husserl and Heidegger - and later Merleau-Ponty - all employed archaeological metaphors to help elucidate the existential structure of human experience testifies to the unique and extraordinary character ...
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
The sessions for next year's Nordic TAG conference in Aarhus have now been finalized. Some sessions will be held in English, others in 'Scandinavian'.
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