Archive for December, 2006

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

We wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a successful and prosperous New Year! We look forward to seeing you in Zadar in September! Anthony Harding, President of the European Association of Archaeologists Alan Saville, General Editor of the European Journal of Archaeology, on behalf of the entire Editorial Board Sylvie ...

Archaeology and Modernity

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

One of the ambitions of this blog is to publicize and further discuss the reviews published in the European Journal of Archaeology. In issue 8 (2), Bruno David of Monash University, Australia, reviewed this volume: Julian Thomas, Archaeology and Modernity. (London and New York: Routledge, 2004, 275 pp., pbk, ISBN 0 415 ...

Conference review: Capturing the Public Value of Heritage

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

George S. Smith reviews the conference 'Capturing the Public Value of Heritage', held 25-26 January 2006 at the Royal Geographic Society in London: The conference drew together a diverse audience of some 400 people to discuss the value of heritage around the concept of learned and shared public values. ...

Non-destructive archaeology

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

One of the ambitions of this blog is to publicize and further discuss the reviews published in the European Journal of Archaeology. In issue 8 (2) Mark Gillings of the University of Leicester, UK, reviewed this volume: Martin Gojda (ed.) Ancient Landscape, Settlement Dynamics and Non-Destructive Archaeology. (Prague: Academia, 2004, 484pp., hbk, ...

EAA statement on the recent destruction of an archaeological site in Bulgaria

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

The European Association of Archaeologists has issued the following statement on the recent destruction of an archaeological site in Bulgaria: The EAA has learnt with dismay of the destruction of the Late Neolithic pit sanctuary at Dana Bunar near Lyubimets, south-east Bulgaria, in advance of road-building. This was in breach ...

Teddybear Archaeology

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Christmas window display at Kaufhof Galeria, Cologne, Hohe Strasse. Photograph by Geoff Carver 2006. Has anybody seen anything like this elsewhere in the world? Please send an image!