Archive for October, 2006

People/environment relationships from the Mesolithic to the Middle Ages

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.

EAA 2007 Annual Meeting

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.

British Museum job search

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

The British Museum is seeking a Keeper of Prehistory and Europe.

CHAT 2006 programme

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'.

An Update on Allianoi

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.

Bestsellers in Krakow

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.

CFP: Human Mind, Human Kind

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 ...

CFP: The Future of Heritage

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.

Excavating Heidegger…

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 ...

Nordic TAG 2007 sessions

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'.